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Leave it to gossip grand dame Nikki Finke to say what’s on much of Hollywood’s minds. (more)

The Huffington Post reported in 2009 that billionaire Mexican drug lord Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman Loera — kingpin of the Sinaloa Cartel, the world’s most powerful drug trafficking organization — officially thanked U.S. lawmakers for policies that have benefited his drug empire and fortune. (more)

This week a judge in New York ruled that one key claim in an ownership lawsuit from two former staffers for Democratic Sen. John Kerry’s 2004 presidential campaign could proceed against Arianna Huffington and the Huffington Post. (more)

The Huffington Post has become a de facto trendy blog haven for celebrities, but does that mean these famous folks can say whatever they want to about the site, its readers or the brand itself? (more)

The business editor at The Huffington Post wrote Monday that Republicans “are acting like terrorists” in the debt ceiling talks. (more)

Conservative commentator Andrew Breitbart has been blasted by many since breaking the story of New York Rep. Anthony Weiner’s erect Twitter picture nearly two weeks ago, but wasn’t offended when Hollywood funnyman Alec Baldwin insulted him via Twitter on Thursday. (more)

It takes a thick-skinned individual to be an opinion columnist. “30 Rock” star Alec Baldwin, a long-time writer for the Huffington Post, was apparently struck by some of the comments he received on his latest article. (more)

After much huffing and puffing, a group of unpaid Huffington Post contributors, led by blogger and union organizer Jonathan Tasini, is upping the ante and will bring a class-action lawsuit against Arianna Huffington, HuffPo and its new parent company AOL, according to Forbes blog Mixed Media. (more)

Let’s start with some disappointing news: Kevin Spacey and Alec Baldwin’s planned joint testimony before Congress was canceled this week! Boring old budget debates got in the way. Now how will we ever know whether or not these two famous actors are in favor of federal funding for the arts?! (more)

Explaining how Iowa voters fit in to the 2012 presidential Republican nomination process is sometimes explained like an alien culture by some of the so-called media elite – that these are different people with values south of normal. (more)

In an email to The Daily Caller on Monday morning, Huffington Post editor Roy Sekoff alleged that conservative publisher Andrew Breitbart is not telling the truth about discussions they had regarding HuffPo’s removal of his blog from its front page. (more)

Huffington Post spokesman Mario Ruiz accused The Daily Caller of asking a “silly and leading” question of him early Friday afternoon. “That’s a two-fer. Your question is both silly and leading,” Ruiz responded when TheDC asked if The Huffington Post will be removing all bloggers from its front page who have made ad hominem attacks against people — and if there was a different HuffPo policy for ad hominem attacks by conservatives and ones by liberals, given all the disparity surrounding conservative web publisher Andrew Breitbart’s blog being removed. (more)

Huffpocrisy Watch–The Breitbart Rule: So in order to appear on the Huffington Post front page, you not only have to avoid making “ad hominem” attacks (that violate their “tenets of debate and civil discourse”) in what you write for Huffington Post–a reasonable rule–but you have to avoid making ad hominem attacks in what you say and write anywhere else? … If this rule is applied honestly, I suspect a whole lot of people are now banned from HuffPo’s front page. … The first name there right now, for example, is HuffPo writer Jason Linkins. You think Linkins is never ad hominem? On his twitter feed too? … (more)

A strike called by unpaid Huffington Post contributors received a major boost Wednesday with a call to arms released by the national Newspaper Guild. (more)

Last week, as you might already know, AOL laid off over 200 U.S.-based employees, the vast majority of them from its Manhattan-based media operation. But that’s not the full tally of those who will lose their jobs as a result of the merger with the Huffington Post because that media operation, like an increasing number of media firms, also utilizes dozens of so-called permalancers — freelancers who function much as staffers but file Form 1099s rather than W-2s with the IRS. (more)

Bill Keller, executive editor of the venerable New York Times, and Arianna Huffington, founder of brash newcomer The Huffington Post, exchanged blows on Thursday in a highly public spat. (more)

AOL’s purchase of the Huffington Post closed Monday, and the same day, AOL’s stock sank to its lowest price ever. (more)

Arianna Huffington is being cast by some unpaid Huffington Post contributors as an unethical robber baron. With Huffington awash in funds from AOL’s $315 million purchase of the Huffington Post, contributors have called a strike to demand proper compensation. (more)

Who would have thought Arianna Huffington was capable of this? (more)

A beleaguered business deal in Taiwan has some financial analysts wondering whether bailed-out insurance giant American International Group (AIG) even cares about paying back the $20 billion it owes taxpayers. (more)