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NYPD investigating actress Bynes allegations
5 hours 19 mins ago
Internal Affairs officers on Saturday were looking into allegations made by actress Amanda Bynes that New York Police Department officers sexually assaulted her when she was charged with heaving a marijuana bong out the window of her 36th-floor Manhattan apartment.
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Correction: France-Cannes Notebook story
6 hours 27 mins ago
In a May 24 Cannes Notebook item about jewelry at the Cannes Film Festival, The Associated Press reported erroneously that the Swavorski earrings Milla Jovovich wore cost $321,000. They cost $321.
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Bill Clinton, other celebs at Vienna AIDS charity
7 hours 32 mins ago
Cross-dressers, half-naked revelers, a famed fashion designer, entertainment icons and a former U.S. president shared the spotlight in the Austrian capital for the Life Ball, a night of hedonistic revelry for a good cause _ the funding of AIDS research.
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Cannes: 'The Immigrant' stirs emotional response
9 hours 7 mins ago
James Gray's sincere melodrama "The Immigrant" has divided the Cannes Film Festival not for its politics or its audaciousness, but for its sentimentality.
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Polanski laments leveling of sexes as 'idiotic'
9 hours 59 mins ago
Roman Polanski says the birth control pill has had a "masculinizing" effect on women and that the leveling of the sexes is "idiotic"
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Tilda Swinton brings erudite vampires to Cannes
10 hours 57 mins ago
Tilda Swinton injects her own brand of otherworldly-cool into Jim Jarmusch's latest movie "Only Lovers Left Alive," an unusual comedy that puts a spin on the age-old vampire genre.
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Cambodian film on Pol Pot rule wins Cannes prize
10 hours 58 mins ago
An autobiographical French-Cambodian film, "The Missing Picture," which explores the bloody history of Pol Pot's dictatorship in late 1970s Cambodia, has won the "Un Certain Regard" prize at the Cannes Film Festival.
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Katrina-damaged La. theater goes for 1927 glory
10 hours 59 mins ago
With its grand arches, intricate plaster moldings, faux facades suggesting a centuries-old European villa and blue domed ceiling dotted by pinpoint lights, the Saenger Theatre was typical of the opulent movie palaces and playhouses built around the nation in the 1920s.
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Crane accident cuts power to one-third of Vietnam
One mistake by a clumsy crane operator caused a 10-hour blackout over about a third of Vietnam, exposing the fragility of the nation's power grid.
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Finance
Metals and agricultural futures prices slip
Metals prices ended slightly lower Friday, as did agricultural futures.
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Science & Tech
US disasters by state for past 60 years
Since 1953, there have been 2,115 major disasters declared in the United States and U.S. territories. Disasters by state, including Monday's tornado in Oklahoma:
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