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May 25, 2012 | | THE DONALD Forget George Clooney for President Obama. Team Romney now has a Trump fundraiser and a Trump super PAC. But is it a problem that Donald won't stop talking about where the president was born? Lloyd Grove reports. Cold Case The man arrested as a suspect in the killing of 6-year-old Etan Patz in 1979 will make his first court appearance Friday, 33 years to the day the boy disappeared in New York. Pedro Hernandez, a former Manhattan stock clerk who lived in the neighborhood, was arrested Thursday after allegedly confessing to luring the boy to a store, choked him, and putting his body in the trash about a block and a half away, Police Commissioner Ray Kelly said. Hernandez was 19 at the time, and is expected to be charged with second-degree murder. He is the father of a teenage girl. LEVESON Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair will testify Monday in Parliament’s Leveson Inquiry, the investigation into media ethics and standards at Rupert Murdoch’s News International. Blair will be joined by Britain’s culture minister Jeremy Hunt, who is fighting for his survival after email evidence submitted to the Leveson Inquiry suggested Hunt’s office had been in contact with a senior New Corp. lobbyist during the months that Hunt was deciding about News Corp.’s controversial bid to take over broadcaster BSkyB. While the Leveson Inquiry has focused the hacking allegations—and the suspected cover-up and alleged payments to police by News Corp. executives—the investigation has also zeroed in on the alleged cozy relationship between the government and News Corp. employees, which is what Blair is expected to be questioned about. Muslim Brotherhood Results of Egypt's presidential elections are trickling in on Friday. The final results will not be released until Tuesday, but Egyptian newspapers say the Muslim Brotherhood's Mohamad Morsi is emerging as the frontrunner, after the Islamist group said Morsi had won nationwide exit polls conducted by the organization. But there's also strong showings by three other candidates: Abdel Moneim Aboul Fotouh, a moderate Islamist, former prime minister Ahmed Shafiq, a secularist, and former foreign minister Amr Moussa, also a secularist. Star Trek The privately-owned Dragon capsule arrived at the International Space Station for a historic docking Friday. The unmanned craft, owned by the California-based SpaceX, was on track to deliver a half-ton of supplies. President Obama is pushing commercial companies to venture into space so that NASA can save money and focus on landing an astronaut on Mars. | | 
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