An adult film actress is accusing Richard Nanula — a former Miramax chairman, Walt Disney Co. CFO, and Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide chief executive — of pretending to be an amateur porn actor who booked her for an oral sex "scene" in order to circumvent prostitution accusations.

A transgender woman's death is now being investigated as a hate crime crime by the NYPD, after 21-year-old Islan Nettles was brutally attacked last week, before eventually succumbing to her injuries on Thursday.

I. High school went like this: "You Jewed me" and "Stop acting like a bagel." I tried desperately to hide the fact that I was offended.

Breaking Bad's Anna Gunn has taken to the New York Times op-ed page today to ask why everyone hates Skyler so much.

Note to criminals — when you're doing something illegal, it's probably not a good idea to wear a t-shirt explaining exactly what that illegal activity is and the degree of difficulty that you find practicing that illegal activity to be.

The lawsuit over the song of the summer just got a little hotter: Marvin Gaye's family reportedly turned down a six-figure settlement and have decided to continue with a planned lawsuit, believing that a court will find that "Blurred Lines" is a blatant ripoff of Gaye's "Got to Give It Up" (it kind of is).

A state of emergency has been declared in San Francisco as a wildfire 150 miles away threatens both power and water supplies to the city.

A federal judge ruled this week that the allegedly corrupt, cousin-dating, cocaine-smuggling, big-spending playboy son of the ruler of Equatorial Guinea may not have his Michael Jackson "Bad Tour" glove back from the US government just yet.

The family of Sharolyn Jackson was sure they had buried their loved one earlier this month. At the viewing, people thought her nose looked a little "thinner" than usual, but beyond that, everyone agreed they were burying the 50-year-old mother. Except that Jackson was found two weeks later, very much alive, in a Philadelphia hospital.

In a round of awful, more-depressing-as-new-details-emerge news, a three-year-old boy — who recently survived a debilitating dog attack — is in critical but stable condition after someone shot him in the head while he slept last night in Brooklyn.

Here's the confidential memo that helped rip apart global financial regulation.

A man contacted through a Craigslist-style website and asked to smuggle weapons-grade uranium to Iran was arrested in Kennedy Airport Wednesday, after claiming he had hidden samples in his shoes.

Linda Ronstadt revealed to AARP this month that she "can't sing a note" after a protracted battle with Parkinson's Disease. The 11-time Grammy winner also told the magazine that she uses poles to help her walk on uneven ground and travels with a wheelchair due to the degenerative disease.

Mei Xiang, a giant panda at the National Zoo, gave birth at 5:32 eastern time this evening to—a fat white worm? I thought baby pandas were supposed to be cute, even if they aren't Top 50 material. Anyway, you can watch Mei Xiang care for her newborn on the National Zoo's panda cam here. Don't get too attached: The last one didn't make it. Pandas!

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It's in the Internet's nature to rage.

Here are two ways to look at director Adam Wingard and writer Simon Barrett's new intensely bloody home-invasion horror flick You're Next:

The most surprising aspect of Forbes' list of the world's highest paid models is that the names here don't make more money. Considering that DJ Pauly D earned $13 million within the very same time frame, the $7.2 million second-highest-grossing figure Miranda Kerr brought in seems low. Also, no Kate Upton.