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Hold on to your chestnuts folks, Kate Gosselin is looking to add “holiday crooner” to her resume! I’ve learned that the multi-talented reality star is itching to deliver a Christmas album chocked full of religious-y tunes. Let’s go ahead and rule out Jon as her backup singer, but you better believe a certain octet will be front and center. More on Kate’s holly-jolly career move, plus a look at a tennis ace’s hair-raising dilemma after the jump! (more)

A Travis County judge ruled today that Texas public schools are required to give students truthful grades on class assignments and on their report cards under a 2009 state law that 11 school districts were challenging in court. (more)

A French prison inmate called the “cannibal of Rouen” by the media and “completely crazy” by his own lawyer has been convicted of killing his cell mate and then dining on the man’s lung. (more)

Maybe greed isn’t so good after all. (more)

Kid Rock partied in New York on Tuesday and the city’s stripper economy is grateful. The performer showed up at Scores Gentlemen’s Club on W. 28th St. with a 20-person entourage. After dining at the club’s restaurant and racking up a $3,000 tab, Rock’s co-ed following dispersed into multiple private rooms for a different kind of economic stimulus. A club source says the group “ordered lap dances and partied until 2:30 a.m.” (more)

Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-Mo.) said Saturday she’s secured the votes to force a rules change ending the Senate’s practice of secret holds. (more)

They come at first light with shovels and sacks, hunched shadows praying for glimmers across a stingy land. These men with torn clothes and sandaled feet don’t ask for much, just enough gold to head home feeling blessed beneath the blazing sky of northern Sudan. (more)

Not all Republicans appear to be on the same page as Rep. Joe Barton (R-Tex.), who apologized to BP CEO Tony Hayward Thursday morning for the way his company has been treated by the White House. (more)

They are the city’s stewards of culture, overseeing intellectual pursuits from Mars to mollusks to Matisse. (more)

Smile! Your dimple's showing. And if it's not, a trendy cosmetic surgery procedure can put a perfectly cute dent in your cheek that will show up with every grin. (more)

From almost the time it opened in 1998, Shawano Gun and Loan has been in trouble with federal authorities. (more)

Ed O’Neill is no stranger to comedy controversy. Twenty years ago, critics assailed his show ‘Married… With Children’ for risqué content that supposedly went too far. Now, his hit show ‘Modern Family’ is the target of criticism that it doesn’t go far enough. (more)

When San Francisco adopted the nation's first ban on plastic grocery bags three years ago, euphoric supporters predicted that California's addiction to the flimsy throwaway carriers was finally coming to an end. (more)

Det. Raymond Clair and Det. Patrick LaScala are part of New York's elite bomb squad, a unit whose size is a closely guarded secret. (more)

Teen sensation Justin Bieber may not be such an angel after all. (more)

AUSTRALIAN security agencies use false passports issued by the Department of Foreign Affairs to allow covert operatives to function overseas, intelligence sources have admitted. (more)

Well, it could have been worse. It could have all been a dream. (more)

Kentucky Senate candidate Rand Paul is feeling what it is like to be Sarah Palin, the former Republican vice presidential candidate said Sunday, comparing the media’s preoccupation with Paul’s recent statements about the 1964 Civil Rights Act to her own treatment in the press. (more)

Just like Superman, he swore to use his powers to vanquish wrong-doing and benefit humanity. Yet when Antanas Mockus was elected mayor of Colombia’s crime-ridden capital, Bogota, he took the comparison literally — appearing in a spandex suit and cloak with his chest emblazoned with a giant “S” for Supercitizen. (more)

Having given up yachts for airplanes, Lindsay Lohan has finally made her way back to the U.S.A. today after a party-hearty sojourn in Cannes. (more)