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According to Weekly Standard editor Bill Kristol, the Los Angeles Times’ Wednesday decision to run a series of photographs of U.S. troops posing with dead Afghan suicide bombers, after being asked by Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta not to run them, was “irresponsible” and “pure voyeurism.” On Wednesday’s “Special Report” on the Fox News Channel, Kristol took aim at the Times. (more)

A false internet report claiming that rock star Jon Bon Jovi died appears to have been copied from a 2009 Los Angeles Times story that announced the death of Michael Jackson. (more)

Huffington Post CEO Arianna Huffington counters claims that her online news website’s merger with AOL will cause AOL to shift left politically. (more)

Everybody can use a helping hand now and again, and the New York Jets are no exception. Neither are the Kansas City Chiefs and Philadelphia Eagles. (more)

Kobe. LeBron. (more)

No one is the same after encountering feisty, fearless and plain-spoken Mattie Ross, age 14, from near Dardanelle in Yell County, Ark. Not the other characters in the Charles Portis novel she dominates, and certainly not the filmmaking Coen brothers, Ethan and Joel. (more)

It’s a Friday afternoon and Jane Flotte is getting a little tired of spa treatments. “Today I’ve written a lot of salon deals,” the Groupon employee said. “And I’m getting kind of sick of talking about facials.” (more)

Martina Navratilova has reached the summit of her sport 59 times. That represents 18 Grand Slam event titles in singles, 31 in women’s doubles and 10 in mixed doubles. (more)

When Pete Sampras finished his legendary tennis career, he had enough hardware to open a store. Also, the perfect name: Aces. (more)

For a lot of people, “Boardwalk Empire” had to have a dynamite finale in order to have a successful first season. I would have been more forgiving of a finale that simply moved things forward an inch or two, given how much I’ve enjoyed much of the season, but even I was feeling deflated by the first third of “A Return to Normalcy.” There’s not a lot that happens, and while everything in that first third is beautifully written and acted, it’s hard not to fear that this is all going to end with a long, quiet exhale, rather than the bang the season’s been leading up to. It’s often realistic to end on a bit of anticlimax, honestly, but Nucky and his team had been tracking the D’Alessios for so long that the audience could be forgiven for just wanting to see a little violence. “Boardwalk Empire” has always been handsome, but it hasn’t often been visceral, and “Normalcy” was the season’s last, best shot at hitting the audience square in the gut. (more)

The rare, ribbon-shaped sea creature was far from home when it washed ashore in Malibu this week. (more)

Let’s be honest: This weekend is just killing time until next weekend, when a season’s field could get flipped at Tuscaloosa’s Iron Bowl and Reno’s “Biggest Little Football Game in the World,” Boise State at Nevada. (more)

Reporting from Denver — Kobe Bryant’s shot abandoned him. Pau Gasol no longer scored with ease. (more)

Texas country music firebrand Miranda Lambert won big at the 44th Country Music Assn. Awards ceremony on Wednesday in Nashville, taking home trophies for best album, top female vocalist and top video in connection with her album “Revolution.” Brad Paisley took the night’s top award as entertainer of the year, and Lady Antebellum’s chart-topping hit “Need You Now” was named the year’s best single. (more)

In “Morning Glory,” Rachel McAdams gives the kind of performance we go to the movies for. The rest of the film isn’t always up to her level, but it does provide genial entertainment until it runs out of steam. (more)

Conan O’Brien’s contractually mandated wandering in the wilderness that is Everything That Is Not Television came to an end Monday night with the premiere of his new TBS late-night show, ” Conan.” Technically, it came to an end the previous week with a three-minute walk-on to new late-night neighbor George Lopez’s “Lopez Tonight,” which “Conan” has bumped to midnight; a sexy mock-sexy promo involving a garden hose; and an impressive American Express commercial in which O’Brien travels to India to buy, weave and dye the silk for the curtain for his new show. But those were just appetizers: This remains, for the indefinite moment, the story of a talk-show host and his still unpredictable future. (more)

The horses will keep running, but for a while, the fans will stop caring as much. (more)

There should be something for everyone this weekend at the multiplex as a new family animated film, a male-targeted comedy and a female-targeted drama from director Tyler Perry all have big expectations. If the movie industry gets its wish, it could be the biggest opening weekend in the month of November ever. (more)

A week after media reports that Charlie Sheen was found half-naked in his trashed New York hotel suite, the actor is back at work on “Two and a Half Men,” a source close to the show has confirmed. Which means his network and studio bosses must be feeling a little jiggy inside. (more)

In a city that seems to have everything, it’s incredible to think Los Angeles has been lacking a National Football League franchise for the past 15 years. (more)