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They're working hard to get ready. USA TODAY's Emily Bazar reports on the band's preparations just days before the big event.
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The latest weather report for D.C. predicts highs in the mid-30s and mostly cloudy skies.
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Tech spins on the presidential inauguration are rolling in. CNN's latest is an announcement with Microsoft to produce a cool, 3-D "synth"...
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Dallas pastor Bishop T.D. Jakes will preach at the private service for the president-elect.
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Probe takes on new urgency as officials confirm contamination at a Georgia facility that ships peanut products to 85 food companies.
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Apple said Friday that some 500 million applications for the iPhone and iPod Touch have been downloaded since July.
'Miracle on the Hudson'
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Family and friends talk about Chesley Burnett "Sully" Sullenberger III as having the 'the perfect personality to be a pilot.'
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Passengers on the US Airways flight echoed the same sentiment, amazed to be alive after their jet ditched into the Hudson River.
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ABC programming chief Steve McPherson says he's heard the complaints about this season's Grey's Anatomy episodes, but he says creator...
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Notorious looks good, and facets of it shine, but behind the facade, there's not much there.
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By Mario Perez, ABC
Viewers who wonder where the island went at the end of the last season will get immediate answers when the ABC show returns Wednesday.
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Same sport. Very different games. When it comes to comparing the pressure, magnitude and impact of this weekend's conference championship...
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The Lions didn't win a single game this season, so Jim Schwartz faces a challenge.
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Imagine how the standard rule in sports journalism - no cheering in the press box - affects Fitzgerald, journalist and papa of a player.
Money
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Thousands of jobs will be cut at Hertz, AMD, Pfizer and defunct retailer Circuit City.
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The average interest rate for a 30-year mortgage dipped below 5% this week, a level not seen since the Eisenhower administration.
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Actor has been released one week after checking himself in with pneumonia, his publicist said.
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Bloomberg reports that Apple exec is considering procedure because of complications from his bout with pancreatic cancer.
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Andrew Wyeth, arguably the most famous, most popular and most critically panned living artist in the USA, died in his sleep early Friday.
