The Las Conchas wildfire in New Mexico has grown to more than 61,000 acres and continues to threaten the Los Alamos nuclear lab in which the first atomic bomb was developed, prompting the Environmental Protection Agency to bring in air monitors and other equipment to check for a spike in radiation levels. So far nothing unusual has been reported. But while lab officials insist the nuclear material stored at the site is "protected and safe," some officials are not so sure. "It contains approximately 20,000 barrels of nuclear waste," former top security official Glen Walp told ABC News. "It's not contained within a concrete, brick and mortar-type building, but rather in a sort of fabric-type building that a fire could easily consume. Potential is high for a major calamity if the fire would reach these areas." The flames have come within 50 feet of the lab's grounds, ABC News reports, but so far firefighters have been able to stave it off.
"This is the first that I've seen much of that. It kind of takes you back. It makes you want to reach out to some of these folks and say, 'What's your problem?' And what was the problem? And what is the problem? What would make a celebrity, like you saw on screen, so hate someone that they'd seek their destruction, their death, the death of their children? What would make someone be so full of hate and, I guess, a sense of being threatened that they would want to see that person destroyed?"
-- Sarah Palin on the first 10 minutes of the new documentary about her, "The Undefeated," in which celebrities like Matt Damon, David Letterman, Bill Maher and Madonna call her nasty names like "slutty" (Letterman) and "dumb twat" (Maher). (The Hollywood Reporter)
-- Jennifer Aniston explaining that she got her first-ever tattoo – the word "Norman" written inside her right foot – in honor of her faithful pooch Norman, a Welsh corgi-terrier mix who died in May at age 15. (ET Canada via People)
-- Playboy founder Hugh Hefner revealing via Twitter that he's bounced back from being dumped at the altar by fiance Crystal Harris and now has a new girlfriend, Shera Bechard, 27, in whom he said he became interested "after the stunner from Crystal."