After being found near a fire she started in someone's driveway, Amanda Bynes has been hospitalized on a 5150 hold. That's an involuntary admission for mental-health evaluation. Things are either looking up or way down for her, as usual.

A big new annual survey on how Americans pay for college is out today, and the trend lines are clear: families are finding ways to kick in less for school, and nobody's bearing the brunt of the trend more than black students.

That Miley Cyrus is going through a desperately provocative phase should be plainly obvious to anyone with a pair of eyes.

Nine people died during an overnight sit-in in Cairo that led to clashes between supporters and opponents of ousted President Mohamed Morsi. The pro-Morsi protestors say that the victims were shot by snipers on rooftops during the sit-in. The Muslim Brotherhood have organized street demonstrations almost every day to protest President Morsi's removal.

Is the universe made up not of particles or fields, but of "bundles of properties, such as color and shape?" Uh, maybe.

The highly anticipated Freddie Mercury biopic has lost its obvious star after Sacha Baron Cohen reportedly quit the film over a dispute with Queen's remaining band members.

There are some things that make you reminisce wistfully on your own childhood and realize, "yeah, things were better back then." Like today's so-called "music." Or today's so-called "fashion." Or when Taco Bell announces they're ending their kids meals.

It's been called "quite possibly the most embarrassing mistake in TV news history." So it's little wonder that KTVU wants it gone.

Where is the Royal Baby? The tiny heir to the British throne has been born (we're told!) but remains in the Lido Wing of St. Mary's Hospital with his parents—though he may make an appearance today.

An apology is in order: Kanye West's ill-fated Curb You Enthusiasm clone isn't horrible. Tonight the full, half-hour version, once feared lost to history, was screened before a small audience. It was one of the most batshit crazy, wonderful pieces of television you can't imagine.

Jay Z, Madonna, Kanye West, and Rod Stewart (?!) are reportedly joining Stevie Wonder's boycott of Florida in the wake of the Trayvon Martin verdict. Update: Nope! HuffPo had it wrong.

After announcing this June that it would begin supporting some rebel groups in Syria, the Obama administration will now move forward with handing out arms to groups, after reassuring members of congress that all precautions will be taken.

A Long Island woman is suing the NYPD after nude photos and videos that had been sent to her boyfriend were forwarded by an NYPD officer to himself after he confiscated her phone.

A Manhattan banker jumped from the seventh story of his Fifth Avenue apartment Sunday morning, after an argument with his co-op board over his beloved poodles.

Want to feel very, very small? Check out these pictures of Earth taken from NASA's Cassini spacecraft, which is currently orbiting Saturn.

You'd think that, with the recent rash of news stories covering fast food employees getting canned for posting photos of themselves mishandling food to their social media accounts, other restaurant industry workers would arrive at the conclusion that following in their footsteps would be a bad move on their part.

A very shiny lady in a thong bathing suit was arrested at a Manhattan public pool last week after getting into a tangle with police officers who asked her to stop sexy-dancing on a railing in the deep end, NYC Park Advocates reports. You can and should read a vividly rendered account of the debacle, which reportedly climaxed with her rolling around on the ground as officers slipped and slid off her heavily sunblocked body, here. (Scroll down to "Highbridge Pool".)

Bookmaking agency Paddy Power currently has "George" and "James" as the favorite bets for the royal baby's name. Meanwhile, "Wayne"—as in "King Wayne"—is trailing the pack at 250/1.

Laguardia Airport is closed to incoming planes, after a Southwest flight from Nashville had a malfunction with its front landing gear while landing. No one was immediately reported injured, and passengers have begun to exit the plane through its emergency chutes.

A middle-aged woman found naked outside her apartment with her head stuck in a staircase handrail told police she was having sex with her boyfriend in public in order to "spice things up."