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LOS ANGELES — The Twilight story originally came to writer Stephenie Meyer in a dream. Bella, a human teenager, moves to the Pacific Northwest, and there, amid the rain, the ferns and the redwoods, she falls in with rival gangs of vampires and werewolves. Chaos (and romance), of course, ensues. (more)

LAHORE, Pakistan (AP) — Pakistanis lashed out Friday at the U.S., blaming its alliance with their government and its presence in Afghanistan for spurring two suicide bombers to kill 42 people at the country’s most important Sufi shrine. (more)

Wonder Woman has a new look, according to The New York Times. The superheroine is getting up there in age, so she will now wear a newly-designed (and less revealing) costume. (more)

In the August issue of Vanity Fair, Angelina Jolie shares her thoughts on marriage, Brad, having more kids, and her retirement.  The actress graces the magazine cover in an effort to promote her newest film, “Salt,” which hits theaters later this summer. (more)

TURLOCK, Calif. — Sarah Palin took aim at those who questioned her gala appearance at a cash-strapped California university Friday, telling hundreds of donors that her detractors wasted time picking through trash seeking details about how much she was paid to speak. (more)

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Time does not heal all wounds. (more)

NEW YORK (AP) — Pro football Hall of Famer Lawrence Taylor was indicted Wednesday by a suburban New York grand jury on charges of third-degree rape and patronizing a prostitute. (more)

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DENVER (AP) — An American on a solo mission to hunt down Osama bin Laden is headed back to the United States, ten days after authorities found him in the woods of northern Pakistan with a pistol, a sword and night-vision equipment. (more)

“Character is what you do when nobody’s watching.” (more)

Since President Barack Obama took office, the U.S.-U.K. “special relationship” has been in free fall. The first manifestation of this decline, shortly after the President’s inauguration, was Obama’s sudden return of the Winston Churchill bust from the Oval Office, loaned to the U.S. by the British people as a gesture of solidarity after 9/11. A series of incidents followed. Now, the British even see the Obama administration’s treatment of BP in the wake of the Gulf oil spill in this light. Rough periods in the relationship are nothing new, but this one is different and likely will prove very difficult to undo, if it isn’t already too late. (more)

“Lead, follow or get out of the way.” This quote by Thomas Paine is unfortunately starting to fit our current president and his administration all too well. Mr. Paine was an author, revolutionary and one of the Founding Fathers. The president might consider this famous quote in the coming weeks and months when it comes to the BP spill and how to handle the results and the future oil drilling in America in the aftermath of the April 20 explosion of the Deepwater Horizon rig. (more)

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Staring at extinction, the Big 12 is once again in play. (more)

Many of our fellow citizens are up in arms about the prospect of the United States becoming a European-style social democracy. Their stubborn and unreasonable resistance to the obvious advantages of the modern European state, though frustrating, is really not surprising. They’re the same right-wing dullards that always raise a stink when someone tries to improve America. Luckily for the rest of us, we live in a time when our government is chock full of really, really smart people. (Nearly every one an Ivy League grad.) And I hear that they’ve come up with a truly brilliant plan to circumvent this obstinate, brain-dead conservative mob and finally enable the rest us to enjoy the benefits of a more compassionate and humane form of government. (more)

I am not a man of science. Biology is as far as I got in high school. I passed by the grace of an aging professor who blessed me with a D. Physics was an academic horror I was asked by faculty not to undertake. (more)

We finally have an administration that believes that not being a citizen of this county should in no way preclude you from enjoying all the rights and privileges of an actual American citizen. (more)

NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) — Pope Benedict XVI appealed Saturday for support for embattled Christian communities in the Middle East, calling them a vital force for peace in the region. (more)

President Obama will dispatch an official to sit down with Jan Brewer in the next month but the Arizona governor said Thursday she got few other results from her meeting with the commander-in-chief, including any details about where 1,200 National Guard troops will be deployed along the U.S.-Mexico border. (more)

WASHINGTON – The Obama administration dangled the possibility of a government job for former Colorado House Speaker Andrew Romanoff last year in hopes he would forgo a challenge to Democratic Sen. Michael Bennet, officials said Wednesday, just days after the White House admitted orchestrating a job offer in the Pennsylvania Senate race. (more)