Cory Monteith meninggal dunia

Cory Monteith (reuters)

Aktor Cory Monteith ditemukan tewas di kamar hotel Vancouver, Sabtu waktu setempat dalam usia 31 tahun.

Jasad pemeran Finn Hudson dalam "Glee" itu ditemukan petugas hotel karena Monteith tidak kunjung keluar meskipun waktu check out telah berlalu.

Monteith yang check in di hotel 6 Juli lalu itu kedatangan berbagai tamu Jumat malam. Namun, menurut video dari kamera pengawas, Monteith kembali ke kamarnya sendirian.

Jessica Simpson Jalani Diet "Smoothie" 15 Hari

LOS ANGELES -- Jessica Simpson telah mulai menjalani program penurunan berat badan sesudah melahirkan. Ia mengawalinya dengan mengonsumsi smoothieselama 15 hari. 

Penyanyi dan aktris, yang pada Mei 2012 melahirkan putrinya yang bernama Maxwell Drew, kelebihan bobot tubuh kira-kira 27,21 kg. Untuk menguranginya, ia mengikuti program diet ketat mengonsumsi  smoothie yang sehat selama 15 hari, sebelum secara perlahan mulai mengonsumsi cemilan dan makanan pokok yang juga sehat. 

Selama lima hari pertama, setiap hari ia menyeruput tiga smoothie plus memakan dua cemilan sehat. Selama lima hari berikutnya, setiap hari ia mengonsumsi dua smoothie serta dua cemilan sehat dan makanan pokok satu kali. Lima hari terakhir, setiap hari ia menyeruput satu smoothiedengan dua cemilan sehat dan makanan pokok dua kali.

Program diet itu dimulai pada Juli 2012. Menunya dibikin oleh mantan juru masak pribadi Simpson. Itu merupakan bagian dari perusahaan diet Weight Watchers.

Simpson, yang kini telah kembali ke berat badannya sebelum hamil, menandatangani kontrak senilai empat juta dollar AS untuk menjadi juru bicara perusahaan diet tersebut dan mengikuti dengan sungguh-sungguh program pengurangan bobot tubuh dari mereka.

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Obama wins Florida by razor-thin margin

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. - President Barack Obama was declared the winner of Florida's 29 electoral votes Saturday, ending a four-day count with a razor-thin margin that narrowly avoided an automatic recount that would have brought back memories of 2000.

No matter the outcome, Obama had already clinched re-election and now has 332 electoral votes to Romney's 206.

The Florida Secretary of State's Office said that with almost 100 per cent of the vote counted, Obama led Republican challenger Mitt Romney 50 per cent to 49.1 per cent, a difference of about 74,000 votes. That was over the half-per cent margin where a computer recount would have been automatically ordered unless Romney had waived it.

There is a Nov. 16 deadline for overseas and military ballots, but under Florida law, recounts are based on Saturday's results. Only a handful of overseas and military ballots are believed to remain outstanding.

It's normal for election supervisors in Florida and other states to spend days after any election counting absentee, provisional, military and overseas ballots. Usually, though, the election has already been called on election night or soon after because the winner's margin is beyond reach.
But on election night this year, it was difficult for officials — and the media — to call the presidential race here, in part because the margin was so close and the voting stretched into the evening.

In Miami-Dade, for instance, so many people were in line at 7 p.m. in certain precincts that some people didn't vote until after midnight.

The hours-long wait at the polls in some areas, a lengthy ballot and the fact that Gov. Rick Scott refused to extend early voting hours has led some to criticize Florida's voting process. Some officials have vowed to investigate why there were problems at the polls and how that led to a lengthy vote count.

If there had been a recount, it would not be as difficult as the lengthy one in 2000. The state no longer uses punch-card ballots, which became known for their hanging chads. All 67 counties now use optical scan ballots where voters mark their selections manually.

Republican George W. Bush won the 2000 contest after the Supreme Court declared him the winner over Democrat Al Gore by a scant 537 votes.

The win gave Obama victories in eight of the nine swing states, losing only North Carolina. In addition to Florida, he won Ohio, Iowa, New Hampshire, Wisconsin, Virginia, Colorado and Nevada.

Barack Obama: 'I Think I Can Do' Gangnam Style

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The virus known as "Gangnam Style" has spread all the way to the Oval Office.

During an Election Day interview with New Hampshire radio station WZID-FM, Barack Obama was asked about the sensation sparked by K-Pop star Psy, whose "Gangnam Style" video is up to nearly 660 million views on YouTube as of today (the song itself has been perched at Number Two on Billboard's Hot 100 for weeks). 

"I just saw that video for the first time, and I think I can do that move," said Obama, referring to the horse-dance move that Psy performs throughout the clip. Asked whether he would do the "Gangnam Style" dance if he is reelected President, Obama said, "I'm not sure that the inauguration ball is the appropriate time to break that out," then suggested an alternative. "You know, maybe do it privately for Michelle."

Obama has been chiming in on pop culture hot topics – from Mariah Carey and Nicki Minaj'sAmerican Idol feud to his friendship with Jay-Z and Beyoncé – during radio interviews throughout the campaign.

President Obama election-night tweet retweeted more than Justin Bieber’s tweet

President Barack Obama shakes hands with Justin Bieber during Christmas in Washington, 2011. (Theo Wargo/Wire  …

A photo of President Barack Obama hugging first lady Michelle Obama tweeted by the Obama campaign on election night has been retweeted nearly half a million times, likely making it the most shared tweet of all time. The tweet--issued shortly before Obama was projected by several networks to be the winner of Ohio--included the image under the caption, "Four more years."

Obama tweet breaks record

According to AllTwitter.com, the most popular Twitter message before Tuesday was a tweet by Justin Bieber for Avalanna Routh, a six-year-old fan of the pop star who died of cancer.

"RIP Avalanna," Bieber wrote on Sept. 12."i love you."

While President Obama's Twitter feed technically now holds the most popular tweet of all-time, Obama himself does not. Personal tweets from the president are signed "-bo," like the tweet, published several minutes before the photo, thanking his supporters. It read: "We're all in this together. That's how we campaigned, and that's who we are. Thank you. -bo"

That tweet was retweeted more than 141,000 times.

Greeted like a rock star, Romney looks to transform momentum into votes

Romney at Red Rocks (Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)

MORRISON, Colo.—Mitt Romney isn't a rock star, but on Tuesday night, he was treated like one.
The Republican presidential nominee attracted nearly 12,000 people—easily one of his biggest crowds ever—at a rally held at one of the most famous concert venues in the country: the Red Rocks Amphitheater built into the Rocky Mountains outside Denver.
The historic open-air venue has hosted some of the more memorable performances in the annals of rock and roll, including a 1983 concert that marked the first time many Americans had heard of a then little-known Irish band called U2.
While Romney did not arrive on stage with the flash and showmanship of Bono, the GOP nominee, who was introduced by his running mate, Rep. Paul Ryan, elicited a reaction from the crowd that could have rivaled those received by any modern day pop star. Packed high into the nosebleed seats running high along the sandstone cliffs that were illuminated by blue lights and the now familiar "R" of the Romney campaign logo, people jumped to their feet and screamed at the sight of the GOP nominee.
"Wow," Romney said, pausing to bask in the glow of a crowd cheering so loud it made his words hard to hear. "What a place this is… This is a magnificent place. For a guy born in Detroit to come here and look at these extraordinary mountains… It's just overwhelming."
The rally capped off a day in which Romney sought to capitalize on what he repeatedly insisted was momentum coming off his three debates with President Barack Obama. Echoing remarks he made earlier Tuesday at a rally outside Las Vegas, Romney insisted his campaign was now "super charged" heading into the election's final two weeks.
"We're in the homestretch now, and I think the people of Colorado are going to get us all the way there," Romney said, imploring supporters in this key battleground state to vote early and to convince others to give his campaign a chance.
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Not unlike other recent speeches, the GOP nominee went out of his way to play up his history of working with Democrats as governor of Massachusetts and pledged that, if elected, he and Ryan would seek out "good Democrats and good Independents" willing to work to change Washington.
"We're going to have to have a real change. The president said he was a president of change," Romney said. "But in fact he's become a president of status quo. And the policies of the president are a continuation of what we have seen over the last four years."
But it's unclear how Romney's message of bipartisanship went down with the audience. Just before Romney took the stage, New Mexico Gov. Susana Martinez spoke about the need to turn the country around—and told supporters that the GOP's push to unseat Obama wasn't personal.
She praised Obama as a man who loves his family and his country—a comment that elicited loud boos from some in the crowd.
On Wednesday, Romney heads back to Nevada, where he'll hold a rally in Reno, before heading to Iowa and then to Ohio.