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Mary Cheney, the vice president's openly gay daughter, is pregnant. She and her partner of 15 years, Heather Poe, are "ecstatic" about the baby, due in late spring, said a source close to the couple. It's a baby boom for grandparents Dick and Lynne Cheney: Their older daughter, Elizabeth, went on leave as deputy assistant secretary of state before having her fifth child in July. "The vice president and Mrs. Cheney are looking forward with eager anticipation to the arrival of their sixth grandchild," spokesman Lea Anne McBride said last night. Cheney, 37, was a key aide to her father...

Tom Cruise will personally mingle with some of the firefighters who battled the horrific scene during 9/11 tonight. The actor and his fiance, Katie Holmes, host a fundraising benefit in New York City tonight, amid blistering criticism.  Cruise has been criticized by fire-fighters injured in the 9/ll attacks - for suggesting they use Scientology to heal themselves and abandon alternative methods.The actor has reportedly urged people suffering the effects of smoke inhalation from the terrorist attacks to quit using their medication and inhalers - and start drinking cooking oil.The 'purification' program also reportedly advises people to take large doses of...