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Shaelyn Cado Killam has met her mother - and it's actress Cobie Smulders. Smulders, a star of CBS' How I Met Your Mother , gave birth to her daughter on May 16, People reports.

Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin surprised supporters today and announced she is resigning from office at the end of the month without explaining why she plans to step down a ' throwing into question whether she would seek a run for the White House in 2012.

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Celebrity birthdays for the week of July 5-11: July 5: Actress Katherine Helmond is 80.

Who lives in a pineapple under the sea? Shout it together, kids: "SpongeBob SquarePants." The cheerful cartoon character, more kitchen sponge than sea sponge in spirit and in shape, has been soaking up the spotlight for ten years.

Who knew what was in store for this duo when they appeared together on 'All My Children' in 2001? Josh Duhamel married Fergie, and Danielle Staub went on to reality TV infamy in 'The Real Housewives.' While her own life is enough of a soap opera, it turns out Danielle Staub took a stab at the daytime variety.

Susan Boyle returns to her home in Blackburn, West Lothian on April 21, 2009 in Blackburn, Scotland.

The honeymoon is apparently over for Gary Coleman . The wife of the diminutive one-time " Diff'rent Strokes " star was busted Wednesday night after smashing some of Coleman's property in their Utah home, TMZ.com reported.

After getting rave reviews as the master of ceremonies at last month's Tony Awards, How I Met Your Mother star Neil Patrick Harris is in negotiations with CBS to host this year's 61st annual Emmy Awards on Sept.

In this May 10, 2009 file photo, comedian Jay Leno performs during the Jay Leno Comedy Stimulus Plan show at the Roberts Centre in Wilmington, Ohio.

Angelina Jolie is Hollywood's top earning actress, banking $27 million in the past year to beat out her partner Brad Pitt's ex-wife Jennifer Aniston, who raked in $25 million, a Forbes.com study showed on Wednesday.

Now that Al Franken is headed for the Senate, which Franken will show up in Washington?Will it be the passionate, sometimes angry liberal who hurled playground insults at Rush Limbaugh as an author and radio host? Or will it be the cautious, serious Franken who buttoned himself down the minute he hit the campaign trail?Bet on the latter.Franken ...

Al Franken's torn over who he'd like to see turn the parody tables on him. As a former "Saturday Night Live" cast member headed to the U.S. Senate, he could be a prime spoof target for his former show.

By day, Lori Levine's all girl from Long Island, her head full of Ashlee Simpson-Wentz, Kim Kardashian and the Shiny Toy Guns as she holes up in her office with a smart young staff and a pooch named Sukie.

Summer may have just started, but it's never too soon to start thinking about the fall TV season if you're a network exec.

A spokesman for Ortiz says she and her husband, musician Noah Lebenzon , welcomed their first child, a girl, in New York on Saturday afternoon.

Chris Kattan has landed his first post-"Saturday Night Live" TV series. The 10-year "SNL" veteran has joined ABC's new comedy "The Middle" as a regular.

Sarah Jessica Parker and Matthew Broderick have released the first picture of their twin baby girls.

Next > MINNEAPOLIS a ' The Minnesota Supreme Court on Tuesday declared Democrat Al Franken the winner of a tight U.S. Senate race over Republican Norm Coleman, which should give Democrats the 60-seat majority they need to overcome procedural obstacles and push through their agenda.

She's a household name Stateside, so it should come as little surprise that Susan Boyle has been offered a role on one of America's top TV shows.