PM Steven Harper gains a parliamentary majority as Liberal party, separatists suffer shattering defeat

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A listserv for leaders in the "ex-gay" movement provides a revealing look at how anti-LGBT activists really talk

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A fight breaks out at a new Tony Kushner play as celebrity, political activism and the first lady collide at an antiwar benefit.

Clarkson spoke to Salon about "Last Weekend," playing mothers onscreen, and her relationship to her own mom

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Five years ago, the news that a beauty pageant participant had died in a car crash stunned her virtual world friends. But was it really an accident?

The dismal reality of layoffs can be just as hard on the person who wields the ax as it is on the employees who are fired.