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EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. (AP) — Nearly 81,000 people sat in total darkness for a few seconds at the New Meadowlands Stadium during a power outage that brought Sunday’s game between the Dallas Cowboys and New York Giants to a halt. (more)

NEW YORK (AP) — He was a small man who dreamed big, hit the highest heights and failed like few others. (more)

The first BCS standings are out and Boise State is already chasing a couple of teams from the power conferences. (more)

This week in “Countdown” taught us that Keith Olbermann is brilliant and everyone else — women, religious people, Rupert Murdoch — is vile and/or stupid. (more)

Arthur Penn, the stage, television and motion picture director whose revolutionary treatment of sex and violence in the 1967 film “Bonnie and Clyde” transformed the American film industry, died Tuesday night, the day after he turned 88. (more)

NEW YORK (AP) — After a summer in the spotlight, the Jets are under scrutiny again. (more)

Andy Hayes kicks off his weekly column for TheDC with Week 1 picks.  Without further ado … (more)

A writer for a St. Louis alternative newsweekly tells The Daily Caller he does not regret speculating in a story that the suspect of an attempted arson of a Democratic congressman’s campaign office was a Tea Party activist. (more)

There was no doubt in Kenny Doyle’s mind about what should happen to Roger Clemens. (more)

Christopher Hitchens has discussed his cancer diagnosis across several platforms at this point, but Charlie Rose was the first to ask whether the writer had regrets about the less than healthy lifestyle he’s sustained over the past several decades. (more)

On Thursday night, writer Christopher Hitchens was interviewed about his cancer diagnosis on CNN by Anderson Cooper. The interview comes on the heels of his article in Vanity Fair this week that goes into extensive detail about his struggle with his diagnosis of esophageal cancer, which coincidentally also afflicted his father. (more)

SWAT VALLEY, Pakistan (AP) — The painting is disturbing: raindrops shaped like bullets and branches intended to look like blood-soaked necks. The artist was a boy recruited by the Taliban to help kill Pakistani soldiers. (more)

PARIS (AP) — The Tour de France ended in celebration, with winner Alberto Contador sipping champagne as he rode into the French capital and Mark Cavendish raising his hands in triumph as he once again claimed a stage victory on the Champs-Elysees. (more)

Prominent conservatives responded Tuesday to new reports of a 2008 discussion topic on Journolist, the now-defunct listserv of centrist and liberal journalists, that called for a smear campaign to paint Republicans as racists. (more)