"The Cold War was a unique event that pitted two global ideologies, two global superpowers, each with globe-spanning nuclear arsenals... Indeed, the world was divided into a chessboard of red and black, and who controlled each square mattered." High school history paper, or Thomas Friedman column?

For his first official Lip-Sync Off as host of the Tonight Show, Jimmy Fallon picked a formidable opponent in Paul Rudd.

"In accordance with an order from the president of the Russian Federation, forces of the Western Military District were put on alert at 1400 (0500 ET)," a Russian defense minister said today. Nothing to do with Ukraine, just play drills! Say, did you see those Olympics?

With pressure mounting from major corporations, Republicans have suddenly become very critical of SB 1062, the Arizona bill passed last week that would allow businesses with "strongly held religious beliefs" to discriminate against LGBT customers. Arizona Governor Jan Brewer has until February 28 to veto the bill before it becomes law.

On Tuesday's Late Night with Seth Meyers, Kanye West truly cracked the Matrix. Without raising his voice or spiraling into narrative curlicues or providing any of the intensity necessary to render this 2+ minute verbal essay on his creative prowess a "rant," West lucidly explained what he's been saying for a while now: He feels stifled by powers that be who expect him to work in a certain way because of his established profile. He feels limited in his permitted expression, particularly when it comes to fashion.

New Jersey prosecutors abruptly dropped charges against a 30-year-old man facing years in prison after a previously undisclosed dash cam video surfaced depicting the responding police officers breaking several laws.

A Utah police chase ended with a Japanese family at gunpoint after they accidentally led highway police into a high-speed chase on an interstate near the Arizona border.

Vice President Joe Biden is ready to challenge everybody now.

Millions of dollars worth of cigarettes have already washed up on shore after hundreds of Maersk shipping containers fell off a ship during a particularly rough storm earlier this month.

A rare coin dealer says that a Northern California couple basically tripped over $10 million dollars last year when they discovered a can of old coins while out walking their dog.

Asiana Airlines was just fined $500,000 for failing to assist passengers and their families in the aftermath of last year's deadly San Francisco airport crash. Federal officials say the airline took as long as five days to notify family members and failed to provide other federally-required assistance.

Netflix's DVD division reminded the world it still exists by taking a shot at Amazon.com during its annual meeting, in a video spoof of the mega-retailer's infamous drone delivery publicity stunt.

The Nybro Action Team consists of Hjalmar Sveinbjőrnsson and Alex Bejerstrand, two under-employed friends and former Nybro residents now living in northern Sweden. Hjalmar is a student and a chef; Alex helps run his father's talent agency. They will be recapping Season 3 of HBO's Girls.

It was announced Tuesday that famous Dunham Lena Dunham will soon be portraying a character that is essentially herself on television once again, this time playing a version of Lena Dunham that is hosting Saturday Night Live on March 8. In honor of her hosting debut, let's crawl inside our dark, warm imaginariums and predict every single sketch in which Lena will participate.

In case you missed it, Anderson Cooper's evisceration of Arizona State Senator and gubernatorial candidate Al Melvin, a defender of the Arizona anti-gay "religious freedom" bill that is awaiting Governor Jan Brewer's signature, is pretty satisfying.

Peter Singer is a professor of bioethics at Princeton University and one of the world's most prominent—and controversial—moral philosophers. He's written influential works on poverty, charity, and euthanasia, and is considered a founder of the modern animal rights movement. He's here to speak to you.

The Times tells the gripping and unreal tale of David Bar Katz, who found Philip Seymour Hoffman's body, was quoted in the National Enquirer as the actor's lover and drug buddy, and will now start a playwrights' foundation with quick settlement money after the tabloid realized its source was an impostor.

An allegedly inebriated widow from a sleepy section of Florida's West Coast was arrested last Friday after calling 911 twice in search of a cop to do "extra duty" for her, then rubbing an officer who was dispatched to her house while telling him: "I am so horny."

Former CNN journalist Miles O'Brien's arm was amputated two weeks ago after a routine injury turned into Acute Compartment Syndrome. "Life is all about playing the hand that is dealt you," O'Brien wrote on his blog. "Actually, I would love somebody to deal me another hand right about now – in more ways than one"

Guns don't kill people; gun safety lessons kill people. On Sunday, a man fatally shot himself in the head while giving his girlfriend a lesson on how to "safely" use his handguns.