One as garrulous as 'G-Mac' is never fully talked-out. Not when he has been exposed to such extremes around the turn of this punishing, 7.500-yard-plus course.

He could be amused by the freakish scenes at the ninth, where he discovered the ball he had just struck off the tee touching that of Louis Oosthuizen.

He could remain sanguine about the ultra-difficult 218-yard, par-three 10th, to whose green he had to "sizzle" a five-iron. But he could not hide his distress after hearing that fan, believed to be a 30 year-old man, had succumbed to a heart attack by the side of the 11th fairway.

“I’m fine, hon, don’t worry,” Stone told Spinner in a recent interview . “”I’m all good. People are crazy, but that’s OK. Hey, I’m carrying on: I paint my bathroom. I bake my cakes. All is well.”

The 24-year-old singer, who boasts a pair of platinum albums and a Best New Artist Grammy nomination, isn’t letting this week’s disturbing developments take her focus away from promoting her upcoming fifth studio set, ‘LP1.’ Due July 26, the album found her writing and co-producing with erstwhile Eurythmic Dave Stewart — and setting up her own label, distributed through Dave Kaplan’s Surfdog Records.

The two men (Kevin Liverpool, 33; and Junior Bradshaw, 30) accused in the plot appeared in court Thursday, where they were charged with conspiracy to commit grievous bodily harm and conspiracy to commit robbery....

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WASHINGTON — President Obama rejected the views of top lawyers at the Pentagon and the Justice Department when he decided that he had the legal authority to continue American military participation in the air war in Libya without Congressional authorization, according to officials familiar with internal administration deliberations.

Jeh C. Johnson, the Pentagon general counsel, and Caroline D. Krass, the acting head of the Justice Department’s Office of Legal Counsel, had told the White House that they believed that the United States military’s activities in the NATO-led air war amounted to “hostilities.” Under the War Powers Resolution, that would have required Mr. Obama to terminate or scale back the mission after May 20.

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