Larry King speaks about the future of Harry Potter star, Daniel Radcliffe. King says a wedding maybe in his future.

King sits down with the cast of Harry Potter days before the  worldwide premiere of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2.  CNN special:  Harry Potter, The Next Chapter airs July 10th at 8pm and 11pm ET.

Tom Mesereau, former attorney for Michael Jackson, praises the jury and defense team in the Casey Anthony trial.

Rep. Jan Schakowsky (D-Ill.) will vote against Social Security cuts as part of a deal to raise the debt ceiling.

CNN's David Gergen discusses Pres. Obama's willingness to reform Social Security as part of a deal to raise the debt ceiling.

Larry King tells CNN how he felt about the coverage of the Casey Anthony trial and why it should have been different.

CNN's Richard Quest says the demise of Britain's News of the World won't be the final act of a phone hacking scandal.

Titusville, Florida, prepares to wave goodbye one last time. CNN's Tom Foreman and photojournalist Oliver Janney report.

London (CNN) - The embattled British tabloid News of the World, one of the oldest and best-selling newspapers in Britain, will shut down after Sunday's issue, its owner, News International, told CNN Thursday (watch extensive coverage of this story tonight "In The Arena" @ 8 p.m. ET).  FULL POST

Today’s Number of the Day is $36.7 million.

That’s at least what mortgage giant Fannie Mae has apparently paid to keep 75,000 lawns tidy on the foreclosed homes that it owns.

I say “apparently” because, as it is with so many numbers involving big money these days, no one really knows the final tally.  But NPR estimated that as of March 31, half of Fannie Mae’s 153,000 foreclosed homes must have lawns, and if mowers came twice a month during a six-month clipping season, and they were paid $40 a visit—that’s more than $36 million on lawn care alone.

Fannie Mae has explained that foreclosed properties must look nice to entice first-time homebuyers into signing. 

Fair enough.  But with many taxpayers cringing at their own financial straits, it may disturb some to know that since Sept. 2008, when Fannie Mae was taken into government conservatorship, Fannie Mae has cost U.S. taxpayers some $86 billion. 

I’m not sure if that includes edging or fertilizer, but it’s still a lot of money no matter how you cut it.  FULL POST

ONLY ON THE BLOG: Answering today’s OFF-SET questions is Glenn Carle, who retired from the CIA in March 2007 after 23 years of service.

In his new non-fiction memoir, "The Interrogator: An Education," Carle describes the inside story of a high-level interrogation of a suspected al Qaeda terrorist and his discovery that almost every CIA assessment and action about the case–and the War on Terror–was wrong.

You are sent to a country to help as a linguist during the interrogation of a detainee and end up taking over the questioning. How did you ascertain that the U.S. had captured the wrong person—that he wasn’t a high-level operative or jihadist or a member of al Qaeda?

CAPTUS—that is the code name I have had to invent for the detainee I interrogated—answered most of my questions in a reasonably straightforward way.  I was able to verify some of his answers; some of which he could not know I would know about. 

He was, on the whole, truthful.  His associations with al Qaeda were, in my view, showed him not to be a member, or even an ideological supporter, of al Qaeda.  More importantly, I was able to assess the man directly; that was my job for over two decades.  I assessed him, first-hand, not to be a jihadist, or supporter of jihad. FULL POST