“I wasn’t actually sleeping,” Freeman jokingly told People.com Thursday. “I’m a beta tester for Google Eyelids. I was merely updating my Facebook page.”

Freeman, 75, and his 80-year-old co-star Michael Caine were promoting their new film “Now You See Me” when Freeman closed his eyes and bobbed his head while Caine was talking about midway through the on-air chat.

Mark Evans, a retired Air Force master sergeant and founder of nonprofit group Pizza 4 Patriots, said Guinness officials notified him that last summer’s massive pizza delivery to U.S. service members in Kandahar, Bagram and Camp Bastion was officially the world’s largest pizza delivery, ABC News reported Thursday.

Evans said he is “completely pleased and overwhelmed” by the record.

“The world record is secondary to taking care of our soldiers and sending them a slice of home,” Evans said.

The non-profit teamed with shipping company DHL for the feat.

“Feedback from U.S. troops who received the care packages has been heartwarming as they truly appreciate the recognition for their valuable service,” said DHL Chief Executive Officer Ian Clough.

Kelli Allman, who went to prom with Obama’s friend Greg Orme, released pictures of Obama and his date, Megan Hughes, posing with Allman and Orme before going to the Punahou School’s prom, Time magazine reported Thursday.

Allman said the pictures were taken at her home, where the couples sipped champagne before going to the dance.

“It was a really fun, happy time. We were all cracking up, and everyone was smiling,” Allman said. “It was pretty typical from there out as far as what happens at prom: the dinner and the dancing and the photos.”

BluePearl Veterinary animal hospital in Clearwater said the 18-year-old tiger, Ty, was brought in Monday by Vernon Yates, founder of Wildlife Rescue and Rehabilitation Inc., and Dr. Don Woodman, a veterinarian and owner of Animal Hospital of Northwood in Safety Harbor, Central Florida News 13 reported Thursday.

The men said they were concerned because the tiger had not eaten in two weeks.

“He’s sort of like my biggest baby. This is my kid. This tiger means more to me than any cat that I have,” Yates said.

BluePearl veterinarians said they used a scope with a camera and discovered a hairball so massive it had to be removed via surgery.

They said Ty is doing well after the procedure and is expected to be fully recovered within a couple weeks.

“There’s nothing else that we found. So, with domestic cats they bounce right back,” said Dr. Brian Luria, BluePearl internal medicine specialist. “So, hopefully he’s going to be feeling like a million bucks.”

Gulfport police said Lisa Buckley, 47, arrived home around 4:17 p.m. Sunday “and began yelling at the victim” to start an argument that soon turned physical, the Tampa Bay (Fla.) Times reported Thursday.

Buckley “threw items all around the residence and then picked up a New Orleans Saints garden gnome and struck [the victim] with it,” Officer Jennifer Crowson wrote in her report.

Crowson wrote she arrived at the scene to find Buckley gone and the alleged victim bleeding from his left ear and the side of his head. The man, whose relationship to Buckley was not specified,  declined medical attention.

Police said Buckley sent text messages to the man the following day asking him to drop his case against her.

Buckley was arrested Tuesday and charged with domestic battery and harassing a victim. She was released from the Pinellas County Jail after posting $5,000 bail.

Obama, speaking at the U.S. Defense Department’s National Defense University in Washington, referred to various terrorism threats and how some are fueled by extremists saying Islam is in conflict with the West.

“Most, though not all, of the terrorism we faced is fueled by a common ideology — a belief by some extremists that Islam is in conflict with the United States and the West, and that violence against Western targets, including civilians, is justified in pursuit of a larger cause,” the president said.

“Of course, this ideology is based on a lie, for the United States is not at war with Islam.  And this ideology is rejected by the vast majority of Muslims, who are the most frequent victims of terrorist attacks.”

However, Obama warned the extremist ideology persists and the U.S. response to terrorism cannot depend just on the military or law enforcement.

The president said the best way “to prevent violent extremism inspired by violent jihadists is to work with the Muslim-American community — which has consistently rejected terrorism — to identify signs of radicalization and partner with law enforcement when an individual is drifting towards violence.”

Obama said it must be recognized Muslims are a fundamental part of the American family.

“In fact, the success of American Muslims and our determination to guard against any encroachments on their civil liberties is the ultimate rebuke to those who say that we’re at war with Islam,” Obama said.

More than 1,400 voting members of the council voted on the issue at the council’s annual meeting in Grapevine, near the BSA national headquarters in suburban Dallas, USA Today reported.

Gay Scouts, Scout leaders and supporters held what they called an Equal Scouting Summit across the street from the Gaylord Texan Resort & Convention Center, where the BSA national council was meeting, the newspaper said.

Once the vote to overturn the ban is implemented, openly homosexual adults will still be barred from volunteer or paid positions in the BSA, The Dallas Morning News said.

No protests were reported at the convention center, but supporters of maintaining the ban — many of them carrying signs with slogans such as “Keep Scouts Morally Straight” — stood outside the facility Wednesday evening.

Barry Price, 68, of Grapevine, a businessman and former Boy Scout who joined Wednesday’s protest, told the Los Angeles Times ending the ban on gays would be the end of the Boy Scouts. But a petition to change the rules picked up 1.8 million signatures, far more than a petition to keep the ban.

Zach Wahls, 21, an Idaho Eagle Scout who has lesbian mothers and helped gather signatures for the first petition, said the organization is now in a “conversation” on gays in Scouting.

“That being said, we want full inclusion — ending the ban on gay youth and leaders,” he told the Times.

Lois Lerner, who was the IRS official who disclosed the targeting of conservative groups applying for tax-exempt status for closer scrutiny, invoked her right against self-incrimination in an appearance Wednesday before the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee.

Though she did not testify, she made a statement denying any wrongdoing — something Chairman Darrell Issa, R-Calif., said nullified her Fifth Amendment rights.

Her refusal to testify prompted Sens. Carl Levin, D-Mich., and John McCain, R-Ariz., to send a letter to Acting IRS Commissioner Danny Werfel requesting Lerner’s suspension for refusing to provide information to their Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, Roll Call reported.

“Given the serious failure by Ms. Lerner to disclose to this Subcommittee key information on topics that the Subcommittee was investigating, we have lost confidence in her ability to fulfill her duties as Director of Exempt Organizations at the IRS,” Levin and McCain wrote.

NBC quoted sources in reporting Lerner’s suspension.

Fort Hood officials said Wednesday Hasan told a court he wants “to waive his right to counsel and proceed pro se,” the Austin (Texas) American-Statesman reported. Col. Tara Osborn, a military judge, is expected to consider his request at a hearing next week.

Hasan’s trial is scheduled to begin July 1. The selection of a panel, the military equivalent of a jury, to hear the case, was postponed to June 5 because of his request to act as his own lawyer.

Hasan, 42, born in the United States in a Palestinian immigrant family, joined the Army after high school and received his medical degree from the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences. He was raised as a Muslim and relatives say he became more devout after his parents died.

Hasan, an Army psychiatrist, was about to be deployed to Afghanistan when he allegedly opened fire in 2009, killing 13 people at Fort Hood and wounding many more.

Jeff Addicott, a former Army lawyer who teaches at St. Mary’s University in San Antonio, said Hasan probably wants to represent himself to get his views across.

“He will use it as a platform for radical Islamic rhetoric,” Addicott said. “He views the trial process as a way to capture media attention and to advance jihad.”