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Actor Alec Baldwin spoke publicly for the first time Saturday about the death of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins, who was killed by a bullet fired from a prop gun fired by Baldwin on the set of the movie "Rust." Tracked down by paparazzi on the side of a road in Vermont alongside his wife Hilaria, Baldwin said he couldn't comment on the investigation into the death, which occurred on Oct. 21 south of Santa Fe, New Mexico. "I've been ordered by the sheriff's department in Santa Fe (not to comment on the case).... It's an active investigation in terms of a...

Will and his partner are like a well-oiled machine when it comes to making their morning coffee. Will, wanted to donate blood: We never had a fight. Never had one fight. They have been in a monogamous relationship for five years and recently the couple was moved by the images of the devastation left behind by hurricane Katrina. Will: I went to donate blood, because I felt like I needed to do something for the hurricane victims. But before will could even roll up his sleeves, he was told his blood was unwanted. The reason - it wasn't because he...

Golan Cipel came out swinging yesterday, denying he had sex with a gay New Jersey doctor and claiming he is the victim of a "monstrous, well-oiled" smear machine backed by disgraced developer Charles Kushner on behalf of New Jersey Gov. Jim McGreevey. "I am a lone man who is struggling against a monstrous machine, well-oiled by lies and manipulations, which operated methodically in order to destroy me," said Cipel, the Israeli national at the center of the McGreevey gay-sex scandal. "I assume that every few days, a new lie will appear worse than the previous one," Cipel said in the...

<p>CRUDE-COLLECTION FACILITY: The St. James Terminal, a distribution point for crude oil near Baton Rouge, La., feeds a pipeline to underground storage in the Strategic Petroleum Reserve, which has a capacity of 700 million gallons.</p> <p>Those who oppose continued stockpiling say taking the oil out of the market causes prices to rise. Sen. Carl Levin, D-Mich., last year argued for halting the flow. "This administration's actions to fill the SPR regardless of the price of oil or the amount of oil available to the commercial sector is a major reason for these high (crude) prices," wrote Levin, senior Democrat on the Senate Governmental Affairs investigations subcommittee.</p>