Hilary Duff Gets Multi-Book Deal
Actress Hilary Duff has inked a deal with Simon & Schuster to write a series of young-adult novels. The first, titled Elixir, will be published in October. The publisher says the book will combine a love triangle, mystery, and international adventure,...

Interim N.Y. State Police Chief Resigns
New York State Police First Deputy Superintendent and Interim Superintendent Pedro Perez has resigned in the wake of allegations swirling around Gov. David Paterson. Perez is the fourth official to call it quits after revelations of Paterson's...

America Still Loves Charlie Sheen
Despite his domestic-abuse woes and alleged alcoholism, at least 17.5 million Americans are still fans of watching Charlie Sheen on prime-time TV. The actor's show, Two and a Half Men, was the highest-rated show Monday night and scored its highest...

Pa. Woman Indicted on Terror Charges
Feds indicted Colleen R. LaRose, a Pennsylvania woman, for participating in a terrorist plot to kill a Swedish cartoonist, MSNBC reported Tuesday. LaRose-known as JihadJane and Fatima LaRosa-apparently began her involvement with terrorists in June...

Edwards Aide May Be Jailed for Sex-Tape Lie
Andrew Young, author of the John Edwards tell-all, and his wife, Cheri, could spend 75 days behind bars for contempt of court. A judge is considering throwing the couple in jail because the former Edwards aide lied about how many people he had shown a...

Sources: Massa Groped Male Staffers
Does this mean he won't be appearing on Glenn Beck on Tuesday? According to The Washington Post, former Rep. Eric Massa (D-NY) is under investigation for "allegations that he groped multiple male staffers working in his office." That's a lot different...

Grisly New Details on Waterboarding
A sometimes-heard defense of waterboarding is that American soldiers regularly undergo it as part of their training to resist enemy interrogations. But new details uncovered in government memos show that the "[CIA's] methods went far beyond anything...

Jennifer Aniston to Launch Fragrance
Given that J. Lo, Britney Spears, Sarah Jessica Parker, and even Kim Kardashian have their own fragrances, the only surprising news in Jennifer Aniston's decision to join the club is how long it took her. The former Friends sweetheart and current...

Limbaugh: I'll Leave U.S.
Can someone please hold him to this? Rush Limbaugh has announced he will leave the country if the health-care bill passes. "I'll just tell you this, if this passes and it's five years from now and all that stuff gets implemented-I am leaving the...

Letterman Suspect Pleads Guilty
No laughing matter: Robert Halderman, the television producer accused of attempting to extort David Letterman for $2 million, pleaded guilty to second-degree larceny on Tuesday afternoon. As part of the plea, he'll serve six months in prison,...

Runaway Prius Speeds to 90 mph
More bad news for Toyota, though, really, he should have tried pulling the e-brake sooner: A driver behind the wheel of one of the recalled models of Prius reached speeds of up to 90 miles per hour when his car was stuck accelerating for 20 minutes....

Palin's Father On Canada Trips
Sarah Palin found herself at the butt end of many jokes on Monday after she said that, as a child, she and her family used to travel across the border to Canada for socialized health care. Now, her father-who was last heard from explaining that his...

Toyota Recalls 2004-09 Priuses
Update: Toyota says reported recall is already months old.  At this point, Toyota should just start giving its customers Hondas: The auto company is recalling all 2004 through 2009-model Priuses, the day after a driver in California was stuck...

Palin Used Canadian Health Care
Despite months of beating the drum against President Obama's health-care plan-warning the country not to take that step into socialism-Sarah Palin admitted over the weekend that she's been on the receiving end of nationalized health care. After all,...

Dems Hit Back at Massa
Somehow, we think Glenn Beck won't believe him. House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer says that Rep. Eric Massa's charge that Democrats have pushed him out of the House because he opposed health-care reform is "absurd" and "absolutely untrue." Speaking to...

NYC Restaurant Serves Breast-Milk Cheese
There is officially a cheese grosser than casu marzu, otherwise known as "maggot cheese": Chef Daniel Angerer of Klee Brasserie in New York City is serving cheese made from his wife's breast milk. "It tastes like cow's-milk cheese, kind of sweet," he...

McQueen's Final Collection
When Alexander McQueen killed himself last month, he had not yet unveiled his final collection for Fall 2010. Those clothes will not be shown on the runway; instead, there will be a private memorial for McQueen during Paris Fashion Week. However,...

Sidibe Signs On to The Big C
Gabourey Sidibe missed winning the Oscar for Best Actress, but she's already moved on: The Precious star is set to guest star in Showtime's new series The Big C, the network announced Tuesday. The show is a "dark comedy" about an affluent suburb in...

Biden: U.S. Ties to Israel 'Unshakable'
Friends forever? Vice President Joe Biden opened talks with Israeli leaders on Tuesday by calling the United States' bond to the country "unshakable." Speaking with Israeli President Shimon Peres, Biden added, "There is absolutely no space between the...

7 Arrested in Plot to Kill Cartoonist
Four Muslim men and three Muslim women were arrested in Ireland on Tuesday for plotting to assassinate a Swedish cartoonist who drew the Prophet Mohammed with the body of a dog. Al Qaeda had put a $100,000 bounty on the head of the cartoonist, Lars...

First Gay Couple Marries in D.C.
Congratulations Sinjoyla Townsend and Angelisa Young: You are the first gay couple to marry in Washington, D.C. After being together for 12 years, the couple was the first in line to apply for a marriage license in Washington last week and became the...

Chile Quake Shifted City 10 Feet
It may not be enough to send cartographers scrambling, but in geological terms, the city of Concepcion, Chile, took a gigantic slip west during last month's 8.8-magnitude earthquake: It shifted by a full 10 feet. The fifth-largest earthquake ever...

Shooting at Ohio State Kills 1, Injures 2
One person was killed and two others were injured during a shooting on the campus of Ohio State University in Columbus early Tuesday morning, according to police. No students were involved and the victims have not yet been identified. One of the...

Google Phone a Flop?
Google was supposed to revolutionize the smart-phone market by selling its phone, the Nexus One, directly to consumers online. What, exactly, has gone wrong? Goldman Sachs has revised its estimate for Nexus One sales downward from 3.5 million phones...

Variety Lays Off Film Critic
In his first post-Oscars column, legendary film critic Roger Ebert uses his space in the Chicago Sun-Times to lambast Hollywood trade paper Variety for firing Todd McCarthy, a film critic there for the last 31 years. He was dismissed Monday as the...

GOP to Hang Crist Out to Dry?
The news just keeps getting worse for Florida Governor and Senate candidate Charlie Crist: Republican leaders who endorsed Crist months ago-when he was considered a lock to be the next senator from Florida-are now walking back their endorsements in...

Lindsay Lohan Sues E-Trade
Maybe she also deserves Lindsey Vonn's gold medal? Lindsay Lohan is suing the website E-Trade for $100 million because she says an ad featuring a baby named "Lindsay" who is a "milkaholic" and steals another baby's boyfriend must be based on her. "Many...

Jamaica: Visit Our Jews
Come for the beaches, stay for the Jews? Jamaica is embracing its Jewish history in hopes of attracting new tourists-this, in spite of the fact that the island currently has one synagogue, no rabbis, and only 200 or so Jews. Still, the island claims to...

Eric Massa: A New Republican Hero?
The Eric Massa show is quickly turning into a field day for Republicans, as the disgraced Democratic congressman continues to take pot shots at his own party. Over the weekend, he slammed House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Majority Leader Steny Hoyer, and...

Union Pension Sues Goldman Sachs
A large union pension fund has figured out a way to do more than just criticize investment banks for overpaying its executives. The International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers pension fund filed a lawsuit against Goldman Sachs Monday, trying to...