Best in Blog: 22 June 2009

—By Laura McClure

| Mon Jun. 22, 2009 5:22 AM PDT

Was Sunday's calm the beginning of the end in Iran, or just the calm before the storm? This video of a teenage girl being gunned down suggests the latter. Meanwhile, the EPA declared an environmental emergency in Montana, there's beef in KFC chicken, and Tuesday's debut of the film New Muslim Cool shows how Bush-era Islamophobia affected one Latino family's daily life. Happy Monday!

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