Unbeaten, six-time champion Floyd Mayweather has apologized for his racially-charged video rant aimed at Filipino star and seven-time titlist Manny Pacquiao, using the same Ustream webcam format to do so on Friday, according to a report from Mark Vester at BoxingScene.com.

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Reese Witherspoon and her boyfriend, Hollywood agent Jim Toth, go for a run together on Friday morning (September 3) in Santa Monica, Calif.

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WASHINGTON – The security company Blackwater Worldwide formed a network of 30 shell companies and subsidiaries to try to get millions of dollars in government business after the company faced strong criticism for reckless conduct in Iraq, The New York Times reported Friday.

The newspaper said that it was unclear how many of the created companies got American contracts but that at least three of them obtained work with the U.S. military and the CIA.

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HARTFORD, Conn. — President Barack Obama plans to attend a fundraiser later this month to help Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal’s campaign for the U.S. Senate.

The Blumenthal campaign confirmed Friday that the president will appear at a Sept. 16 fundraising event in Stamford. The president also is scheduled to headline an event for the Democratic National Committee that day in Greenwich.

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PHOENIX — Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer said Friday she was wrong when she claimed that headless bodies were turning up in the Arizona desert as part of border-related violence.

“That was an error, if I said that,” Brewer said about beheadings occurring in Arizona.

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Check out these new True Blood figurines!

Collectible bust figurines of Sookie, Bill and Eric were based on photos of the characters and are now available at HBO’s online store!

“A double statue of Bill and Sookie is planned for next year!” an HBO rep told Life & Style, on newsstands nationwide this Friday.

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‘True Blood’ Characters Get Figurine Treatment

PHOENIX — Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer demanded Friday that a reference to the state’s controversial immigration law be removed from a State Department report to the United Nations’ human rights commissioner.

The U.S. included its legal challenge to the law on a list of ways the federal government is protecting human rights.

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ALBANY, N.Y. — New numbers confirm what the sweaty brows of Northeasterners have been saying for months: The summer of 2010 was a record-breaking scorcher.

Preliminary figures provided by the Northeast Regional Climate Center at Cornell University on Friday show 28 cities from Washington, D.C., to Caribou, Maine, set record highs for average temperature from March through August.

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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg says television has profoundly changed confirmation hearings but declined to say whether she’d oppose televising arguments.

Ginsburg told a Colorado judicial conference Friday that TV has made Supreme Court confirmation hearings much longer because senators posture for cameras.

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Paris Hilton was arrested for cocaine possession in Las Vegas late Friday night, and she got her third mugshot in the process.

She was first arrested in 2006, then pleaded no contest in 2007 to alcohol-related reckless driving and went to jail. Those two mugshots are below the blow up of the new one.

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