The Secret iPad List to Bring Down Boehener

When the failed House Republican revolution came, it came by iPad. Now that House Speaker John Boehner has survived the rebellion, all of D.C. now knows which conservative House members were conspiring to mount a challenge, thanks to a list that one of the coup’s leaders brandished on the House floor during the vote.RELATED: United Nation Fights the ‘Asshole Factor’A Politico photographer captured...

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Kim Kardashian's Pregnant New Year's Tops ET's Buzzmakers

What had ET readers buzzing this week?1. Exclusive: Kim Kardashian Opens up About Pregnancy Entertainment Tonight's Christina McLarty was the first to catch up with Kim Kardashian in Las Vegas at her first appearance since her boyfriend, rap star Kanye West, announced that they are expecting a child together.Kardashian tells ET that pregnancy is harder than she imagined and the changes to her body...

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Bernie Madoff's brother Peter sells Park Avenue apartment ahead of prison sentence

Prison-bound Peter Madoff — brother of famous ponzi schemer Bernie — sold his posh Park Avenue home for $4.6 million yesterday, sources said.Madoff, who is headed to federal prison in February, moved out of the luxury sixth-floor pad and into a smaller one-bedroom unit in Battery Park City with his wife.“Only now are they starting to feel the ramifications...

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Needle reaches the inner groove for Spec’s

In the end, even the almighty Adele and Taylor Swift could not hold back the inevitable.Spec’s, one of the last great record stores, will close its flagship location in Coral Gables on U.S.1, thus joining once-favored chains like Virgin, Tower and Peaches, locally and abroad, that have withered from Internet shopping. With the closing, sometime in January after the merchandise...

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Prosecutors: Miami Police sergeant on trial did “wrong instead of right’’

Miami Police Sgt. Raul Iglesias chose to do “wrong instead of right” in 2010 when he took over an undercover squad fighting drug dealing in the inner-city, a prosecutor said during opening statements of a federal trial Thursday. Iglesias planted cocaine on a suspect and stole drugs and money from street dealers, Assistant U.S. Attorney Ricardo Del Toro told a 12-person jury....

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Did Microsoft Just Announce the Next Xbox with a Countdown? Probably.

Go countdowns, saving marketing departments untold piles of cash! Microsoft’s Larry Hryb, colloquially known by his Xbox LIVE handle “Major Nelson,” just threw one up on his blog, and it’s causing precisely the sort of speculative stir the company doubtless intended.“And it’s on…” reads the ultra-austere post, followed by a simple Flash-based timer titled “Counting down to E3 2013″ (cribbed from a...

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Smash Season One Exclusive DVD Clip

The competition to be cast on NBC's Smash was just as cut-throat as the competition to be cast in Bombshell, the musical at the heart of NBC's Smash. VIDEO - First Trailer: Smash Season TwoFor producers, tapping Katharine McPhee to play Karen was a no-brainer once the triple-threat walked into the room. "Kat seems to be the beginning of a youthful star in the making," creator Theresa Rebeck says in...

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Drunk passenger taped to seat during JFK-bound flight after ranting plane was 'going to crash'

Andy Ellwood via TumblrPassenger Andy Ellwood was taped to his seat after ranting the Iceland-to-JFK flight was "going to crash."An unruly passenger who got drunk and belligerent on a Kennedy Airport-bound intercontinental flight yesterday was subdued by passengers and taped to his seat the rest of the way, according to witness reports.The passenger, who...

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New Florida bill would speed up the foreclosure process

TALLAHASSEE -- A “faster foreclosures” proposal that sparked consumer outcry and protest last year has resurfaced in a more moderate form, with a new bill filed this week by Rep. Kathleen Passidomo, R-Naples.The bill, HB 87, offers a slew of changes to the civil procedures governing foreclosures in Florida, where home repossessions are on the rise again.Most of the provisions...

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UM medical school names new COO

Amid roiling faculty anger, the University of Miami announced the number two executive at the Miller School of Medicine, Jack Lord, is “stepping down,” to be replaced temporarily by Joe Natoli, UM’s chief financial officer.The change, announced by Dean Pascal Goldschmidt, comes as a petition circulates among tenured medical school faculty expressing no confidence in both...

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