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Could Rush Limbaugh and Bill Maher unite? How about Rosie O'Donnell Elisabeth Hasselbeck? It would take a whole lot of strength to pull that off. Well, it just so happens Hulk Hogan might be up for the task. According to a New York Post report, Hogan wants to unite America by bringing together famous people who are feuding. The "Hulkster" has reportedly signed on to be the spokesperson for something called, "The Official Uniting Towel Wave of America," his agent Darren Prince, told the newspaper. Under the premise, Hogan will "pair up six personalities who have not seen eye-to-eye over...

China, wrestling to control pollution as its economy booms, shut more than 3,000 companies last year for environmental offenses,...

Archaeologists, scholars dispute Jesus documentary POSTED: 2151 GMT (0551 HKT), February 26, 2007Filmakers and researchers claim these stone boxes may have once contained the remains of Jesus and Mary Magdalene. JERUSALEM (AP) -- Filmmakers and researchers on Monday unveiled two ancient stone boxes they said may have once contained the remains of Jesus and Mary Magdalene, but several scholars derided the claims made in a new documentary as unfounded and contradictory to basic Christian beliefs. "The Lost Tomb of Jesus," produced by Oscar-winning director James Cameron and scheduled to air March 4 on the Discovery Channel, argues that 10 small...

SNIPOscar-winning doc filmmaker Barbara Kopple ("Harlan County USA," "American Dream") teamed up with collaborator Cecilia Peck to co-direct a behind the scenes look at the best-selling female group of all time, "The Dixie Chicks." The film, "Dixie Chicks: Shut Up and Sing" was initially envisioned as a much more modest project, according to the band's Natalie Maines who spoke at a press conference this week at the Toronto International Film Festival. "We originally thought of having a filmmaker [to capture footage] for ourselves or as a supplement to some concert DVD release," said Maines. But Maines' now famous off-handed comment...

NAIROBI, Kenya -- Sen. Barack Obama delivered a lecture on Monday against graft and patronage hiring, ethnic-bloc voting that does not yield the best and brightest government leaders, and political families who hoard the spoils of power. But his focus was not the scandals surrounding Chicago's City Hall or public corruption probes in Springfield. Or the political tribes of Madigan, Stroger, Hynes and Daley. Rather, at the University of Nairobi in a speech televised live, Obama used the platform he has as the wildly popular son of a Kenyan to tell this nation their freedom is jeopardized by public corruption....

NEW YORK — The Dixie Chicks' Natalie Maines apologized for disrespecting President George W. Bush during a London concert in 2003. But now, she's taking it back. "I don't feel that way anymore," she told Time magazine for its issue hitting newsstands Monday. "I don't feel he is owed any respect whatsoever."

LOS ANGELES - Paris Hilton's mother can only imagine what her celebrity daughter got her for Mother's Day. That's because thieves stole the gifts before Kathy Hilton received them. A gift bag containing nearly $10,000 worth of Christian Dior shoes, sunglasses, handbags and perfume was taken from outside the Hilton home, spokesman Elliot Mintz said Monday. The younger Hilton "spent three or four hours shopping to put together this wonderful collection of things for her mom," Mintz said. A delivery person set the package down outside the home's gate to ring the intercom when a passenger in a passing car...

Immigration March Draws 500,000 in L.A. By PETER PRENGAMAN LOS ANGELES (AP) - Thousands of immigration advocates marched though downtown Los Angeles in one of the largest demonstrations for any cause in recent U.S. history. More than 500,000 protesters - demanding that Congress abandon attempts to make illegal immigration a felony and to build more walls along the border - surprised police who estimated the crowd size using aerial photographs and other techniques, police Cmdr. Louis Gray Jr. said. Wearing white T-shirts to symbolize peace, the demonstrators chanted ``Mexico!'' ``USA!'' and ``Si se puede,'' an old Mexican-American civil rights shout...

NEW YORK — Kanye West, with a crown of thorns atop his head, poses as Jesus Christ on the cover of the upcoming issue of Rolling Stone. The outspoken rapper defends his brash attitude inside the magazine's pages, on newsstands Friday. He is also pictured posing as Muhammad Ali.snip "If I was more complacent and I let things slide, my life would be easier, but you all wouldn't be as entertained," he says. "My misery is your pleasure."

IT'S a bird, it's a plane — it's superbulge! "Superman Returns" star Brandon Routh is supposedly giving the suits at Warner Brothers fits because of his prodigious package of masculinity. The 26-year-old beefcake's extra-large endowment is said to be so distracting through his skin-tight costume that producers may have to shrink him during post-production. "It's a major issue for the studio," a "Superman Returns" production source fretted to the London Sun. "Brandon is extremely well-endowed and they don't want it up on the big screen. We may be forced to erase his package with digital effects."

NEW YORK - Janet Jackson has been exposed - and this time, Justin Timberlake is nowhere to be seen. A video clip showing Jackson sunbathing naked has been circulating on the Internet and was still playing on some Web sites Thursday. The 40-second paparazzi video was shot from bushes near the singer. Jackson's publicist didn't return a call Thursday from The Associated Press for comment. Her lawyers were reportedly attempting to have the video taken off the Web. On one site, a freeze-frame was still up Thursday, but the video link had been taken down - replaced with the message...

Woman gets pregnant after 'acrobatic joyride' From: From correspondents in Hassloch, Germany September 12, 2005 FERTILITY scientists will be pricking up their ears at the news that a woman who had been barren for several years has conceived thanks to a ride on a particularly fierce rollercoaster. Nayade Elbing, 28, and her husband Arnold had been trying to have children for several years and had consulted doctors in the hope of scientific help in their quest. But according to their doctor, Thomas Gent, it was G-force, rather than hitting the G-spot, that made the difference. After making love at home,...

Cher branded fellow pop divas J-Lo and Britney Spears "hos" during a concert, it was reported today. The singer launched an attack on her younger rivals before 20,000 fans in Auckland, New Zealand, according to the New York Post. "I'm not going to give up showbusiness but I'm going to give up touring because, you know, there are all of these young girls coming out like Britney (Spears) and J-Lo," she allegedly said. When booed, Cher is said to have smirked and added: "I know - they are hos, aren't they?" The 56-year-old singer is on the final leg of...

Inclusiveness has its limits. The Palm Beach County chapter of the gay Log Cabin Republicans learned that lesson this month when it was excommunicated by the national gay Republican organization. he local club's heresy? Endorsing the reelection of President Bush. The board of the national Log Cabin Republicans, displeased with Bush's support for a constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage, voted 22-2 last month to withhold its endorsement in the presidential race. But the head of the Palm Beach County chapter, Maurice Bonamigo, is a vocal Bush supporter who said he and his 17 club members would continue to back the...

<p>JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) -- Missouri Democrat Dick Gephardt, who declared after a visit to South Carolina that the Confederate flag shouldn't fly ``anytime, anywhere,'' wants the flag pulled from a publicly funded Confederate memorial in his home state, his spokesman said.</p>