In a party-line vote, Democrats broke a Republican filibuster to pass an overhaul of the health care system. (Times)

Actress Brittany Murphy died yesterday of “natural causes” at the age of 32. (Post)

A cool time-lapse video of the snowfall in Brooklyn. (Gothamist)

Off-duty Washington D.C. cop has his Hummer pelted by snowballs, decides to wave his gun around. As if the Hummer wasn’t overcompensation enough. (Daily News)

James Cameron’s Avatar opened to $73 million and $159 million at the domestic and the international box offices respectively, despite the blizzard hitting ticket sales hard. (Box Office Guru)

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