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You can add two more items to NBC News Chief White House Correspondent Chuck Todd‘s resume´: karaoke singer and consummate good sport. Chuck’s former White House colleague Savannah Guthrie wrapped up a Today Show report on DC’s “Karaoke Cab” by picking Todd up for some fare-ly entertaining duets, and Chuck did not disappoint. Look out, Brett Baier, there’s a new singin’ sheriff in town!

Perhaps you have already read the article in the New York Times World section today about the enormous amount of violence in the Philippines that seems to be caused by karaoke renditions of Frank Sinatra‘s “My Way.” Things have apparently gotten so bad that the Filipino media records the crimes under the subcategory of “My Way Killings.” But the reporter on this story, Norimitsu Onishi, is notable himself, consistently getting American audiences interested in Asian news.