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daily dos
tue 5/12/2009

(image by MiKeARB via flickr)
- A spokesperson for Chris Brown denied rumors that Brown leaked nude pictures of ex-girlfriend Rihanna on the Internet.
- President Barack Obama roasts Michelle Obama, RNC Chairman Michael Steele, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and himself during a tongue-in-cheek speech at the White House Correspondents' Dinner. Comedian Wanda Sykes, who also performed at the event, drew criticism for joking that conservative radio host Rush Limbaugh was "20th highjacker on 9/11." Sykes also joked: "Rush Limbaugh, I hope the country fails; I hope his kidneys fail, how about that?"
- It's judgment day all over again in a new four-minute, Internet-only trailer for Terminator: Salvation.
- Days after being photographed with a woman on a Florida beach, Father Alberto Cutié admits he broke his vow of celibacy: "I'm not going to be sorry for being in love with a woman."
- Haiti has rejected 77 tons of food aid from México due to "swine flu fears," according to Mexican Ambassador Zadalinda Gonzalez y Reynero. Nearly one of four children in Haiti suffer from chronic malnutrition. (via Foreign Policy)
- Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez: "The rich are not human, they are animals in human form." (via Boing Boing)
- Forty people are confirmed dead and over 300,000 people were left homeless in Brazil following floods caused by two months of "unusually heavy" rains.
- The sun doesn't set in the North Pole.