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Piers Morgan can finally talk — about talking on CNN. (more)

The Miss Universe 2010 competition will take place in Las Vegas on Aug. 23, 2010. Here are some photos leading up to the action. The show will be shown at 9 p.m. ET, Aug. 23, on NBC. (more)

When he worked on NBC’s pregame NFL show in the 1980s, the late Pete Axthelm coined a phrase – MOTO – for games that appeared to be impossibly one-sided. It stood for Master of the Obvious, meaning that it usually took just a second to pick the winner and place a bet accordingly. (more)

Former Mayor Rudy Giuliani spoke this morning in opposition to plans to build a mosque near the site of the World Trade Center terror attacks. (more)

While we’re still processing the notion that J. Lo and Steven Tyler might actually end replacing Ellen DeGeneres and Simon Cowell on American Idol, there’s another pending primetime switcheroo still unresolved: Who’s going to replace Steve Carell on The Office? Well, Vulture has learned that NBC and the show’s producers are giving serious thought to a potentially mind-blowing candidate: Ricky Gervais. The question now: Is Gervais ready to do any mind-blowing? (more)

Angela Bromstad, president of NBC prime-time entertainment, addressed the departure of Steve Carell from “The Office.” (more)

Thursday morning, Barack Obama decided to face the hard hitting, hyper critical, no-spin firing squad that is The View. (more)

LeBron James’ idol has joined the chorus of critics lambasting the NBA superstar’s decision to bolt Cleveland to form a super-team in Miami. (more)

Washington (CNN) — House Democratic leaders met with President Barack Obama on Wednesday night to discuss legislative priorities in the run-up to the November mid-term election, but one topic was bypassed — the weekend assessment by White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs that Republicans could win back the chamber. (more)

Piers Morgan will stay at Sharon and Howie’s table — and he looks poised to get his own desk on CNN as well. (more)

Recently, the G-20 met in Toronto to discuss the economy and when they’d finished, they announced an agreement to cut deficits in half by 2013. (more)

Tiki Barber is claiming he’s broke and unable to pay the divorce settlement demanded by the mother of his four children after he was axed from the “Today” show. (more)

An Arkansas coroner was investigating after a cargo shipment of 40 to 60 human heads was discovered by a Southwest Airlines employee, NBC DFW reported Thursday. (more)

During the federal response to Hurricane Katrina, FEMA Administrator Michael “Brownie” Brown got a lot of flak from the mainstream media for, well…everything. Some of it was deserved and some of it was little more than mendacious piling-on, but all of it was intense and it lead to Michael Brown’s resignation from FEMA mid-Katrina response. The media is extremely powerful in this country, and what the press coverage of the latest disaster to hit the United States—the BP oil spill—proves is that the media wields this power very selectively. (more)

The U.S. is experiencing the most catastrophic oil spill in our nation’s history, over-burdensome financial regulatory legislation is about to pass a bicameral legislative conference, and President Obama recently declared that he is cruising the playground for some “ass to kick”. Sure, there is a lot of noteworthy activity in Washington these days. But let’s take our minds off of that for just one moment to catch up on some good old-fashioned political scandal.
In a sideshow atmosphere that would make P.T. Barnum jealous, “Hot” Rod Blagojevich, the disgraced former Governor of Illinois, is currently being tried in a Chicago courtroom on 24 counts of racketeering, wire fraud, bribery and extortion. Corruption and Illinois politics is nothing new, of course. In fact, if convicted, Blagojevich will be the second consecutive sitting Illinois Governor to “wear the orange” And that doesn’t mean he made the University of Illinois’ football squad. (more)

He’s just so darn presidential. You better know who I’m talking about . . . because if you don’t, I know whose ass to kick. (more)

CNN is talking to snarky British journalist Piers Morgan about a potential slot in its troubled prime-time lineup, sources said. (more)

The greatest hockey game ever played has come to be known as the “Miracle on Ice.” It happened in the 1980 Winter Olympics when the United States with its team of amateurs took on and beat the Soviet Union, which had won the gold every year since 1964, and was considered invincible. I remember it like it was yesterday. (more)

Lindsay Lohan has been approached by Donald Trump to star in the next “Celebrity Apprentice” season. (more)

U.S. officials said Tuesday that BP PLC was collecting so much oil from its broken well a mile under the Gulf of Mexico that it didn’t have a big enough boat to hold it—the latest in a series of miscalculations stoking a political backlash against BP and the global oil industry. (more)