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Rodney King found dead in swimming pool

Rodney King, whose videotaped beating by police in 1991 sparked the L.A. riots , was found dead at his California home on Sunday. He was 47. Police said King's fiancée discovered him at the bottom of the swimming pool at their Rialto, Calif., home, about 55 miles east of Los Angeles. Police responded to a call at 5:25 a.m., pulled King out of the pool and attempted CPR, but could not revive him. King's representative Suzanne Wickman confirmed to his death to KABC-TV . According to TMZ, King's fiancée, Cynthia Kelley, told friends King spent the bulk of Saturday drinking and " smoked marijuana at some point ," before she went to went to bed at 2:00 a.m. The cause of death is unknown, but police are investigating it as a drowning. Rialto Police Capt. Randy DeAnda told CNN there were no preliminary signs of foul play. King was beaten by four white LAPD officers following a DUI stop on March 3, 1991. Footage captured by an amateur videographer showed ...
Charlize Theron has been keeping her head under wraps since stepping out of a hair salon last Wednesday, and now we know why! Turns out the actress has shaved off her blond locks for a movie role. Check out some other women in Hollywood who have shaved their heads for a part. Plus, David Arquette has a Bar Mitzvah while in Israel taping his new show, "Mile High," for the Travel Channel, and Stacy Keibler and George Clooney enjoy a romantic Italian getaway.

Apple’s WWDC 2012 keynote reveals iOS 6, all-new MacBook, and Siri for iPad

At  Apple's annual WorldWide Developers Conference keynote today, CEO Tim Cook took the stage to detail the company's plans for its upcoming hardware and software releases. He opened the show by telling everyone that the company had some "really cool stuff" to show off, and he certainly kept his word. Unfortunately, that cool stuff had nothing to do with the long-rumored iPhone 5. New MacBooks launching immediately First on the docket news on a revamped  notebook lineup , including an all-new revamp of the MacBook Air, updated with new 3rd generation Intel "Ivy Bridge" processors that are considerably faster than the previous version. The new Air will also offer up to 512GB of flash storage via a solid state hard drive, which means lightning-quick access to programs and other features. All-in-all, the new Air is twice as fast as the previous model. Apple's line of premium MacBook Pro notebook is also getting a refresh with the new In...

Newsweek cover: Obama ‘first gay president’

By Dylan Stableford | The Ticket It won't be nearly as controversial as Time magazine's breastfeeding cover , but Newsweek's May 21 issue declares Barack Obama the country's "first gay president." The accompanying cover story was written by Andrew Sullivan, the popular--and openly gay--political blogger. The magazine even gives the commander-in-chief a rainbow halo. Obama, Sullivan writes, "had to discover his black identity and then reconcile it with his white family, just as gays discover their homosexual identity and then have to reconcile it with their heterosexual family." The full cover story is not yet online, but in a blog post published earlier this week , Sullivan wrote that Obama's support of gay marriage brought him to tears: I do not know how orchestrated this was; and I do not know how calculated it is. What I know is that, absorbing the news, I was uncharacteristically at a loss for words for a while, didn'...

Facebook CEO turns 28, IPO could be $100B gift

By BARBARA ORTUTAY NEW YORK (AP) — He famously wears a hoodie, jeans and sneakers, and he was born the year Apple introduced the Macintosh. But Mark Zuckerberg is no boy-CEO. Facebook's chief executive turned 28 on Monday, setting in motion the social network's biggest week ever. The company is expected to start selling stock to the public for the first time and begin trading on the Nasdaq Stock Market on Friday. The IPO could value Facebook at nearly $100 billion, making it worth more than such iconic companies as Disney, Ford and Kraft Foods. At 28, Zuckerberg is exactly half the age of the average S&P 500 CEO, according to executive search firm Spencer Stuart. With eight years on the job, he's logged more time as leader than the average CEO, whose tenure is a little more than seven years, according to Spencer Stuart. Even so, the pressures of running a public company will undoubtedly take some getting used to. Once Facebook begins selling stock, ...

Facebook Co-Founder: America is OK. It’s the Rules That Are a Pain

By John D. McKinnon Eduardo Saverin, the Facebook co-founder who gave up his U.S. citizenship, has nothing against the U.S., just its complicated rules on U.S. citizens holding money overseas, a spokesman said. Mr. Saverin, who now lives in Singapore, decided last year to renounce his U.S. citizenship, a decision that was made public a few days ago. The move sparked an outcry among some tax experts who suspect he’s aiming to save on taxes. Although Mr. Saverin will have to pay a hefty exit tax for renouncing his citizenship, based on some calculation of his assets, Singapore is a relatively low-tax jurisdiction, particularly for foreign investors, and does not levy capital gains tax. Thus he could save in the longer term. [More from WSJ.com: How Facebook's Elite Skirt Estate Tax ] In a political environment that’s rife with talk of raising taxes on the wealthy, Mr. Saverin’s case could become another flash point. Saverin spokesman Tom Goodman said Sunday his renuncia...

'Supermoon' May Outshine Meteor Shower This Weekend

By Tariq Malik | SPACE.com   The biggest full moon of the year, a so-called "supermoon," will take center stage when it rises this weekend, and may interfere with the peak of an annual meteor shower created by the leftovers from Halley's comet. The supermoon of 2012 is the biggest full moon of the yearand will occur on Saturday (May 5) at 11:35 p.m. EDT (0335 May 6), though the moon may still appear full to skywatchers on the day before and after the actual event. At the same time, the annual Eta Aquarid meteor shower will be hitting its peak, NASA scientists say. "Its light will wash out the fainter Eta Aquarid meteors," NASA meteor expert Bill Cooke of the Marshall Space Flight Center told SPACE.com in an email. Still, Cooke said there's a chance that the brightest fireballs from the meteor display may still be visible. A supermoon occurs when the moon hits its full phase at the same time it makes closest approach to Earth for...

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