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One year ago, a high-stakes blackjack player decided to use his skills in the casino to try and win a family out of debt. Now Las Vegas’ self-proclaimed Robin Hood is doing it again — and he’s searching for more people to bring back in the black. “I’m looking for …

Now some fresh pickings from the Political Grapevine: Complaint Department Michigan Democrat John Conyers appears to be on President Obama’s “naughty” list this year. The second longest-serving member of the House tells The Hill newspaper he received a call from the president several weeks ago expressing frustration with Conyers’ criticism: …

Washington, D.C. – Former President William Jefferson Blythe Clinton has now returned from Pyongyang with Al Gore’s employees, Laura Ling and Euna Lee. The two women, reporters for Mr. Gore’s Current TV operation, were seized by North Korean border guards on March 17 along the frozen Tumen River — the …

In the new “G.I. Joe” flick, the character is no longer a typical American soldier. Instead he’s part of some elite international force — kind of like a Benetton ad with grenades. On MSNBC, Donny Deutsch praised this change, saying that the shift from an iconic American character to a …

The latest from the Political Grapevine: Bush Gets Bad Press A new study by the Project for Excellence in Journalism shows that media coverage over the past 4 months has been substantially more focused on, and mostly negative toward, President Bush. The study shows that 56 percent of media coverage …

In New Jersey earlier this year, a police officer noticed a man who appeared to be of Middle Eastern descent dressed in business clothes near a vital bridge. The officer approached the man and found out he was wearing a wet suit under his business suit and carrying a knife …

‘Kill Bill’ |Elvis Costello Tarantino’s ‘Kill Bill’: A Pulp Fiction Sequel Success is a double-edged sword as we all know. Tomorrow, Miramax releases one of the worst films in its history, a misbegotten comedy called “Duplex”that stars Ben Stiller and Drew Barrymore in a pale rip-off of “Meet the Parents.” …

So Iranian President Ahmadinejad has a new blog and it works in that “senile grandma in the attic” sort of way. But other than realizing how much it sounds like Olbermann, it dawned on me that when the elderly, squirrels and crazed dictators start blogging, then blogging is dead. The …

‘Harry Potter’ | The Police | Warner Music Group | Madonna Harry Potter’ Is Running Out of Magic I don’t read the books, so I can’t tell you if the fifth installment of the series, “Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix,” is true to the book from which …

New images obtained by a sharp-eyed Martian satellite reveal that some Red Planet features once thought to have been carved by flowing water were in fact created by other processes. The images were taken during the first 100 days of the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) mission and are detailed in …