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Former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said in a Wednesday interview that Russian President Vladimir Putin’s behavior is growing increasingly “desperate” as his war against Ukraine continues three years after Russia’s attempted takeover of its eastern European neighbor. “He seems to be more out of control than he used to be,” she told “Fox & Friends” host Brian Kilmeade. “He was always an imperialist, but there is something about him now that seems almost more desperate in wanting to extinguish Ukraine.” -snip- “It shows that the Ukrainians are very advanced in what they are doing in their defense industry with...

<p>June 4, 2003 -- Life without Martha Stewart is not a good thing.</p> <p>While Martha Stewart Omnimedia's brand will hold up for the short term, its long-term future is less secure, said retail consultants and analysts.</p> <p>"If she went to jail, then two years from now her retail venture would be in decline," said Fulton McDonald, President of International Business Development Corp, a venture company for retail and fashion industries. "But most consumers aren't that tuned into Wall Street. I think there's been a discounting affect already."</p>

<p>She and her attorney are expected to appear in federal court in Manhattan around noon today.</p> <p>Stewart, 61, is under investigation for selling 4,000 shares of biotechnology company ImClone shortly before the Food and Drug Administration rejected the company's application for approval for a drug for colon cancer, sending the company's stock plummeting.</p> <p>Federal prosecutors in Manhattan and investigators at the Securities and Exchange Commission have been looking into whether Stewart had advance word of the news. Stewart is friends with ImClone founder Samuel Waksal, who is expected to be sentenced for criminal fraud on Tuesday.</p>

The Feds are coming for her!!

Martha Stewart in criminal probe Indictment expected in the near future NEW YORK, June 3 — Domestic taste-maker Martha Stewart is the target of a federal criminal probe, her company, Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia Inc., said Tuesday. A FEDERAL PROSECUTOR intends to ask a grand jury to return an indictment against Stewart in the near future, the company said in a press release.

Published reports says key witnesses in her alledged insider trading case are re-interviewed.A published report Tuesday said federal investigators are again turning up the pressure on the possible insider trading case involving lifestyle diva Martha Stewart.The New York Daily News reported two sources familiar with the probe as saying several key witnesses have been asked to re-answer questions in recent days by investigators in Manhattan United States Attorney James Comey's office.That indicates that Comey is preparing to make up his mind whether he will file criminal charges against Ms. Stewart, sources told the paper.