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Megan Fox slammed "Transformers" director Michael Bay for focusing more on special effects than acting, but he doesn't mind. "Well, that's Megan Fox for you," Bay tell the Wall Street Journal. "She says some very ridiculous things because she's 23 years old and she still has a lot of growing to do. "You roll your eyes when you see statements like that and think, 'Okay Megan, you can do whatever you want. I got it,'" he goes on. Fox told Entertainment Weekly: "I mean, I can't s--- on this movie because it did give me a career and open all...

British calls for a mass walkout of European Union ambassadors from Tehran were shot down by more cautious nations led by Germany and Italy yesterday as the carefully constructed European consensus on responding to Iran came under intense strain. Britain, backed by the outgoing Czech presidency of the EU, had pushed for the dramatic step of a temporary withdrawal of ambassadors to pile pressure on Tehran to free local British Embassy staff from custody. With the release of all but two of the nine staff by yesterday afternoon, the incoming Swedish presidency of the EU, which took the reins on...

Jul-02-2009 20:51 Burma, North Korea Said To Expand Military Ties Kyaw Min Htun Special to Salem-News.com Exile Burmese media have voiced alarm in recent days at reports of growing ties between Burma and nuclear-armed North Korea. Salem-News.com On Nov. 26, Burmese Gen. Thura Shwe Mann and North Korean Gen. Kim Kyok Sik reportedly signed a Memorandum of Understanding expanding military ties. Photo: RFA (BANGKOK RFA) - A leaked report purportedly drafted by authorities in Burma’s military government describes a top-secret visit to North Korea late last year by Burma's top brass, during which the two sides pledged to significantly expand...

A 51-year-old St. Charles man was behind bars Thursday on charges he bit a woman during a custody dispute over a dog, police said. Donald C. Paul, of the 0-99 block of North 12th Street, was arrested about 6:15 p.m. Wednesday after an altercation in a minivan parked on the 1100 block of Dean Street in St. Charles. Police said Paul and the victim were arguing over which one of them would care for a dog when Paul bit the woman's wrist in an attempt to wrest the animal away from her. She was not seriously injured. Paul also smashed...

TOTUS is in critical condition. There is a program glitch causing a loop thus having Obama repeat the same words over and over again: July 2 - President Barack Obama said Thursday he was "deeply concerned" about unemployment... Jun 28 - WASHINGTON (AFP) – US President Barack Obama said Sunday he was "deeply concerned" by reports of the overthrow of Honduras President Manuel Zelaya, June 16 - President Barack Obama is "deeply concerned" over the Iranian elections. June 8 - President Barack Obama has said he is "deeply concerned" by North Korea's reported sentencing of two US journalists to 12...

Cops Make Out While Prisoner Sleeps in Back Seat News KBMT Bryan Rupp Story Created: Jul 2, 2009 at 12:19 PM CDT Timothy Escola's days as Perry Township, Ohio Police Chief are officially over. The veteran police officer with 36 years experience resigned abruptly on Monday, June 29, 2009. The resignation came shortly after a police dash cam video tape showed Escola getting intimate with a young female police officer in the front seat of a Perry Township police cruiser. "He's a moron," said Larry Merrill. "I'm a resident here and that just blows my mind that two police officers...

(Very odd video - anti Obama?)

... The assertion featured in the bitter presidential election campaign, when rival reformist candidate Mehdi Karroubi challenged Ahmadinejad in a live TV debate, reportedly stating: "My full name is Mehdi Karroubi. What is your full name?" Ahmadinejad gave his full name, according to an Al-Arabiya TV report, but left out one surname which is said to indicate Jewish ancestry.

Gary Coleman and his wife aren't seeing eye to eye. The ex-child star's bride - who is 5-feet-5 - was busted after trashing her 4-foot-8 husband's bedroom, police said. She allegedly greeted cops in her Utah driveway with a profane tirade. "F--- you and f--- him!" Shannon Price screamed before her arrest Wednesday night. "You deserve this after how you treated me!" she shouted at Coleman as the "Diff'rent Strokes" star stood amidst toppled furniture, scattered DVDs and strewn clothes. Price, 23, spent two hours in a county lockup before being released on $1,205 bond. Police in Santaquin, Utah, were...

Walter Pacheco Sentinel Staff Writer 11:39 AM EDT, July 2, 2009 The pit bull that was left alone with two unsupervised children in Orlando has been put to sleep. Vanessa Bouffard of Orange County Animal Services said officials euthanized the 2-year-old puppy named Scrappy on Tuesday because of his bad temperament. "It's unfortunate, but it's a hard decision we have to make when we don't have a good adoption candidate," Bouffard said. The dog's former owner, Mary Ann Ayala, remains in Orange County Jail without bond after Orlando police arrested her on June 25. Ayala faces two counts of child...

A possible bid for the 2010 Republican Senate nomination in Kentucky certainly won't enable eye surgeon Rand Paul to rake in the mega-millions in campaign donations procured by his much better-known father -- Texas Republican Rep. Ron Paul -- when he campaigned for the 2008 Republican presidential nomination on his strongly libertarian-tinged platform.

Running out of places to raise taxes, NC proposes tax hikes on Internet transactions that would require out of state retailers to collect taxes on NC consumers. Retailers are fighting back citing a Supreme Court ruling which states it violates the interstate commerce clause of the constitution.

A research team from UCLA, led by Prof. David Brooks has discovered the reason why the immune system can fight off some infections and surrenders to others. This discovery, say the scientists, may help them develop drugs that fight chronic infections such as Hepatitis C and AIDS.   T-cell (Credit: UC Berkeley Lab) T-cells play an important role in the human immune system as some of them stimulate the immune response to an infection. In the current experiment, the researchers investigated two types of T-cells : CD4 T-cells and CD8 T-cells. CD4 cells produce a substance called IL-21 as part...

They haven’t found the culprits yet who burned the U.S. and military flags of a former Marine in north Dallas this week. But support and offers to replace the flags have poured in. Avi Selk of the Dallas Morning News has the follow-up: Our little story about a few front-porch flags that got burned in Far North Dallas has sparked a firestorm of attention since it ran on Tuesday. The story, which my editor discovered from a single line in an obscure police report, (”UNK SUSP BURNED USA FLAG MOUNTED IN FRONT OF COMP RESIDENCE”) has also grabbed the attention...

‘Rogue broker’ blamed for oil spike By Javier Blas and Izabella Kaminska in London Published: July 2 2009 12:07 | Last updated: July 2 2009 20:26 The startling spike in oil prices to their highest level this year on Tuesday was caused by a rogue broker who placed a massive bet in the Brent oil market, triggering almost $10m (€7m) of losses for his company. PVM Oil Associates, the world’s largest over-the-counter oil brokerage, said on Thursday it had been the “victim of unauthorised trading”. The privately owned company said that as a result of the unauthorised trades it had...

Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman on Thursday belittled the global focus on the growth of Israeli communities in Judea and Samaria, and said there would be no more unilateral concessions to the Palestinian Authority. "It is not a coincidence that since [the] Oslo [Accords] we have not reached the end of the conflict," Lieberman said, addressing a gathering of Druze supporters in the Arab city of Shfaram. The meeting was held at the home of Hamad Amar, a Knesset Member representing Lieberman's Israel Beiteinu party. In the last Knesset elections, the mixed Druze, Christian and Muslim Shfaram gave Israel Beiteinu 14.4%...

The new president of the American Medical Association, which represents the interests of the nation's doctors, said Wednesday the group is open to a government-funded health insurance option for people without coverage. Dr. J. James Rohack told CNN the AMA supports an "American model" that includes both "a private system and a public system, working together." In May, the AMA told a Senate committee it did not support a government-sponsored public health insurance option. "The AMA does not believe that creating a public health insurance option ... is the best way to expand health insurance coverage and lower costs across...

On Jan. 20, 2007, five American soldiers were killed and three seriously wounded in Iraq. As Bill Roggio relates at the Long War Journal, it was a daring operation: a twelve-man terrorist team disguised as U.S. servicemen attacked our troops as they held a previously arranged meeting with local officials in Karbala. Four of the soldiers were alive when they were abducted from the scene. They were handcuffed and murdered in a remote location when the coalition forces attempting to rescue them closed in. ... That President Obama has exchanged a terrorist for hostages is now obvious, as should be...

Look folks. Are we kidding with Mark Sanford? Is this some sort of sick joke, keeping this cad around? We’ve already gone over this, days ago. We don’t care how much “love” this man got from his foreign woman or what his financial records look like. The man is scum and needs to leave the South Carolina governor’s mansion right now.

Hamas on Thursday criticized a report issued by global human rights group Amnesty International, which accuses both Israel and Hamas of committing war crimes in Gaza. Hamas said in response that the report was "imbalanced and unfair". In its first in-depth human rights report on the recent Israeli offensive in Gaza, Amnesty International accused both Israel and Hamas of committing war crimes during the fighting earlier this year. The group charged that the Israel Defense Forces killed hundreds of Palestinian civilians and destroyed thousands of Gaza Strip homes in attacks that amounted to war crimes, and denounced Hamas for firing...