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Most people watching ‘ESPN’s Sunday Night Baseball’ game between the Philadelphia Phillies and the New York Mets knew that the reason the crowd suddenly erupted into cheers was because they had just found out Osama Bin Laden had been shot dead by American special forces.

The players on the field, however, had no idea. “I really didn’t understand what was going on there for a minute,” said Phillies pitcher Cliff Lee, whose team wound up losing 2 to 1 in 14 innings.

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Newspapers across the country reacted to the demise of Osama bin Laden on Monday morning, with front page headlines from the triumphant (Newark's "Star-Ledger" quotes Obama's speech with "'Justice Has Been Done'") to the minimal ("Dead," the "Boston Herald" and many others plainly state) to the profane ("

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Now that Osama (Usama) bin Laden has been killed, the FBI has updated its Most Wanted Terrorists list, officially marking him as “DECEASED.”

Nine other terrorists remain on the list, including bin Laden’s deputy, Ayman Al-Zawahiri.

The FBI also updated its 10 Most Wanted Fugitives list to reflect yesterday’s news.

Check out a direct look at the FBI’s Most Wanted Terrorists list after the jump.

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Elmer McGirt, a homeless man living in Tampa, FL, pulled a Robin Hood Thursday when he robbed an area Wachovia bank, then distributed some of his ill-gotten gains to the passengers on a city bus.

Yes, that means the 27-year old also made the unconventional choice to use public transportation as his getaway vehicle.

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In the battle between Donald Trump and Barack Obama, it looks like our nation's President is having the last laugh.

Just days after he released his long form birth certificate to the public, Obama appeared at the 2011 White House Correspondents' Dinner, during which he saved time to pull a few jabs at the 'Celebrity Apprentice' host, who for weeks had demanded to see the certificate.

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There’s been a lot of debate about citizenship lately, but you probably didn’t see this one coming: Superman has renounced his U.S. Citizenship.

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Since 2007, astronomers at the SETI Institute in Northern California have been scanning the great beyond for signs of alien life.

However, due to a decrease in the funding the institute receives from NASA and other government sources, the institute will have to shut down the powerful bank of 42 radio dishes that it uses to target unexplored planets.

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No matter how many times I wash my car I always see a layer of yellow dust on my hood as I drive. That yellow annoyance is pollen. It will turn a red vehicle orange. You really can't prevent pollen from getting on your car unless you just keep it in the garage all day

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Despite economic situations, you have to love 2011.  Technology has allowed us to do so many things we wouldn't even imagine doing 20, 10, even 5 years ago.  Whether it's the iphone, video games, robots, computers, all of these are allowing us to not only enhance our lifestyle, but to go places a normal person will never see.

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It looks like vacuum maker Hoover is about to play dirty.

According to the Hollywood Reporter, Hoover plans to pull its ads from ABC following the network's decision to cancel two of its soap operas -- 'All My Children' and 'One Life to Live' -- last week.

VP of marketing Brian Kirkendall claims they will stop advertising on the network effective Friday, and that they're "making every attempt" to pull their spots from the soaps sooner.

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Yep, China is calling out the United States on Human Rights.  There has been quite a few cases the past years when it comes to officers shooting unarmed victims.   Did you know that 1 in 100 people here in the USA are in jail, compared to 1 out of every 400 back in 1970

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The home that inspired F. Scott Fitzgerald to write eternal high school English class assignment 'The Great Gatsby' has been torn down, according to reports.

'Lands End' was a grand mansion on Long Island's North Shore, which was built by a newspaper publisher in 1902.

For a period of time during the '20s, Fitzgerald lived across the bay from Lands End, and would watch the lavish, celebrity-filled parties which took place within its confines. He later incorporated many of these observation into 'The Great Gatsby.'

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