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Singer Katy Perry holds up her special achievement award, which she received for being the first female pop artist with five number one hits from one album, at the 2011 American Music Awards in Los Angeles

Katy Perry exits show after split from Brand

Pop singer Katy Perry on Monday pulled out of this week's People's Choice Awards show and what would have been her first major public appearance since her split with husband Russell Brand.
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Tony Blankley Dies at 62: Gingrich Remembers Former Press Secretary [VIDEO]

Tony Blankley Dies at 63: Gingrich Remembers Former Press Secretary [VIDEO]

Blankley, who earned the name The Speaker's Speaker while working with Newt Gingrich in the 1990s, has died at age 62 of stomach cancer. Blankley served in the Reagan administration, and was a noted author, conservative columnist and editor at The Washington Times. Watch Gingrich remember his ally and friend, and read others' remembrances of the conservative wunderkind.
Harry Burkhart, 24, is detained by the Los Angeles county sheriff's department on suspicion of setting dozens of fires across Los Angeles, in this file photo taken in West Hollywood

Rage against Americans cited in L.A. arson case

A German citizen was charged on Wednesday with setting dozens of fires across Los Angeles over the New Year's weekend in a spree an arson investigator said was motivated by a rage against Americans.
A boat that contained smuggled bales of marijuana is seen washed ashore on a beach in Ventura County, California north of Los Angeles in this handout photograph taken and released to Reuters on January 4, 2012. Police seized a Mexican motorboat loaded wit

Police nab Mexican drug boat north of LA, arrest 10

Police seized a Mexican motorboat loaded with more than a ton of marijuana north of Los Angeles early on Wednesday and arrested 10 people, the latest in a growing number of seizures as smugglers seek to ferry drugs north to market by sea, authorities said.
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Singer Etta James leaves hospital

Soul singer Etta James, who is terminally ill and suffering from leukemia, was released from a California hospital on Thursday and is at home resting, her business manager said.
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SAG-AFTRA merger team readies for 9 days talks

Members of the Screen Actors Guild and the American Federation of Television and Radio Arts and Sciences merger committee will meet in Los Angeles for nine days beginning Saturday to iron out details of how to combine the unions.
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SAG-AFTRA merger team readies for 9 days of talks

Members of the Screen Actors Guild and the American Federation of Television and Radio Arts and Sciences merger committee will meet in Los Angeles for nine days beginning Saturday to iron out details of how to combine the unions.
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Bridesmaids in, War Horse out of writers awards

Bridesmaids, The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo and The Help were among the film nominees chosen on Thursday for annual Writers Guild Awards, but the screenwriters behind War Horse failed to make the cut in Hollywood's race toward Oscars.
Justin Bieber

Justin Bieber Shows Off New Tattoo of Jesus’ Face

How does Canadian pop singer Justin Bieber flaunt his new tattoo? Well... by going to the beach and having fun. Bieber was seen at a beach in Los Angeles on Friday, with his father, a friend and a new tattoo... that of Jesus Christ!
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AT&T 4G LTE Up and Running in NYC and San Francisco

Only a few weeks after their target date of the end of 2011, AT&T has switched on their 4G LTE network in NYC and San Francisco among other places. Eleven cities got their new systems turned on Jan. 5, and that brings the total number of U.S. cities under the AT&T 4G network to 26.

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