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  Tuning in to TV

  Cable network TBS said Wednesday it has extended the late-night series "Conan," hosted by Conan O'Brien, through April 2014.

• Quinn says he's sorry for Tebow comments

  Brady Quinn is apologizing to Tim Tebow for unflattering comments Quinn made about the Denver Broncos' starting quarterback in a GQ article.

• Year after trade, Melo's time as Knick falls short

  Carmelo Anthony briefly had what now belongs to Jeremy Lin.

• Russian search engine Yandex teams up with Twitter

  Russia's top search engine Yandex said Tuesday it has teamed up with Twitter to allow the Russian firm to show the full feed of all public Twitter posts.

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  Syrian opposition says 16 die in intense shelling

  Syrian government troops heavily shelled rebellious districts in the resistance stronghold of Homs Tuesday, killing at least 16 people and compounding fears of a new round of bloody urban combat in a country careening toward all-out civil war.

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  DALY: Lin's story gets better by the chapter

  This Jeremy Lin craze has begun to feel like the movie "Twister." Any second now, I expect to see a cow go flying past my windshield — a cow being ridden by Marv Albert.

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  Harper aims to be on Nats' Opening Day roster

  For months, Bryce Harper waited for this day. The disappointment over being cut from major league spring training in 2011 stayed with him so long that in his first comments to the media in 2012, he mentioned it. It's not something he'd like to experience again.

• Youth shaping future of online TV, movies, music

  Young people want their music, TV and movies now _ even if it means they get these things illegally.

• Eastern Europeans fuel fight for Internet freedoms

  Eastern Europe's tradition of political revolt has met the digital age. This time it's not communists or food shortages fueling fury, but an international copyright treaty that opponents say threatens freedom on the Internet.

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  New York Times correspondent Anthony Shadid dies in Syria

  New York Times correspondent Anthony Shadid, a two-time Pulitzer Prize winner whose dispatches captured untold stories from Baghdad under "shock and awe" bombing to Libya wracked by civil war, died Thursday of an apparent asthma attack in Syria.

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  Obama raises $29 million for campaign, Dem Party

  President Obama raised $29.1 million for his campaign and for the Democratic Party in January, a strong fundraising month that put him ahead of the pace he set in the last quarter of 2011.

• Canadiens send Gill to Predators for Geoffrion

  The Montreal Canadiens made it official Friday that they will be sellers leading up to the NHL trade deadline, dealing defenseman Hal Gill to the Nashville Predators for a draft pick and a piece of their history in the grandson of late Hall of Famer Bernie "Boom Boom" Geoffrion.

• Twitter unveils self-service advertising system

  Buying ads on Twitter is about to get easier for small businesses as the online messaging service adds a key piece to its moneymaking model.

• Lin added to All-Star weekend event

  Jeremy Lin will play in the Rising Stars Challenge after all.

• Knicks sign J.R. Smith, waive Balkman

  The New York Knicks signed J.R. Smith on Friday, hoping his 3-point shooting can improve one of their biggest weaknesses.

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