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As a shallow actress, Moore a hit in Cannes 05/21/2014 08:14pm • JAKE COYLE AP Film Writer CANNES, France (AP) -- One of the great pleasures of this year's Cannes Film Festival has been a momentary close-up on Julianne Moore's face in David Cronenberg's "Maps to the Stars."It comes when her character, a desperate and superficial actress, learns that the role she Guide to US allegations of China cyberspying 05/21/2014 12:52pm • EILEEN SULLIVAN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Obama administration has brought unprecedented criminal charges against five officials in the Chinese military for hacking into private U.S. companies' systems and stealing trade secrets. It was the first time the U.S. has revealed any evidence US hacking victims fell prey to mundane ruses 05/21/2014 07:06am • JACK GILLUM Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) -- The victims were their own worst enemies.The hacking techniques the U.S. government says China used against American companies turned out to be disappointingly mundane, tricking employees into opening email attachments or clicking on innocent-looking w Sante Kimes, convicted in NY widow's murder, dies 05/21/2014 12:38am • DEEPTI HAJELA Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) -- Sante Kimes, who along with her son made up a notorious grifter team convicted of the murders of a wealthy widow in New York and a businessman in Los Angeles, has died in her prison cell at age 79.Kimes, who was portrayed by Mary Tyler Moore in a TV mo Beyonce, Jay Z release starry fake movie trailer 05/20/2014 08:16am • LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Beyonce and Jay Z released a trailer for a fake movie online with guns blazing, and now fans want to see the film actually made.Fans launched a petition Monday on Change.org to support a feature-length version of "Run." The trailer that debuted Sunday stars the superstar couple a Florida pastor gets jail in fake Hirst art case 05/19/2014 07:10pm • JENNIFER PELTZ Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) -- A Miami pastor was sentenced Monday to six months in jail for peddling bogus examples of some of British artist Damien Hirst's signature paintings.Kevin Sutherland had faced a possible seven years in prison in the attempted grand larceny case, which a Austrian drag queen wows 10,000 fans 05/18/2014 01:56pm • VIENNA (AP) -- So -- who was the real Conchita Wurst?The one on stage, of course. But with some of the fans gathered Sunday to fete the hirsute Austrian drag queen wearing fake beards, it was a justified question.State broadcaster ORF estimated that 10,000 people celebrated Wurst's win of the Eurovi Cheating, lying, double standards pervade football 05/16/2014 04:56pm • KARL RITTER Associated Press Cheating. It's an ugly side of the beautiful game and it involves just about every aspect of it: diving in the penalty area, pretending to be mortally injured by a harmless tackle or stealing a few meters (yards) at a throw-in.Count on seeing it all at the World Cup in B Officials: Woman, 34, enrolled in school as teen 05/15/2014 08:18pm • LONGVIEW, Texas (AP) -- A 34-year-old woman posed as a teenager to enroll as a sophomore at a small private high school in East Texas, officials said Wednesday. Longview police said Charity Johnson was arrested early Tuesday morning after telling officers she was "Charite Stevens" and was born in Rush Limbaugh wins children's book award 05/15/2014 07:57pm • HILLEL ITALIE AP National Writer NEW YORK (AP) -- Rush Limbaugh has won a children's book prize designed to be chosen by kids themselves.But that doesn't mean all of his voters were young people.On Wednesday night, Limbaugh received the Children's Choice Book Award for author of the year, defeating Attacks around Iraq's capital kill 29 people 05/15/2014 04:14pm • SAMEER N. YACOUB Associated Press BAGHDAD (AP) -- Bombings and shootings around Iraq's capital, including an attack involving militants using a fake checkpoint to kill army officers, killed at least 29 people and wounded dozens Thursday, officials said.Police said gunmen shot dead the five off-duty Sudanese woman sentenced to death for apostasy 05/15/2014 03:58pm • MOHAMMED SAEED Associated Press KHARTOUM, Sudan (AP) -- A pregnant Sudanese woman who married a Christian man was sentenced to death Thursday after she refused to recant her Christian faith, her lawyer said.Meriam Ibrahim, whose father was Muslim but mother was an Orthodox Christian from Ethiopia, w Cops: Con man faked blindness to steal $9,000 ring 05/15/2014 03:38pm • PITTSBURGH (AP) -- A suspected con man who allegedly uses fake cashier's checks to buy vehicles, electronics and jewelry has been charged with stealing a $9,000 diamond ring from a Pittsburgh jewelry store the same way --while also pretending to be blind.The Pittsburgh Tribune-Review (http://bit.ly/ Deficit hawks press ahead despite obstacles 05/15/2014 02:42am • WASHINGTON (AP) -- Washington's outgunned deficit hawks huddled Wednesday for their annual pep rally, but this year's gathering came as lawmakers and the White House have given up any pretense of tackling the country's budget woes in the run-up to November's midterm elections.The annual "fiscal summ Bill Clinton vouches for Hillary's health 05/14/2014 03:20pm • WASHINGTON (AP) -- Former President Bill Clinton said Wednesday his wife Hillary took six months to recover from a 2012 concussion, adding she is now "stronger than I am" as he dismissed GOP strategist Karl Rove's comments about her health."I got to give him credit, you know, that embodies that old