Political asylum is a weird idea: One country gets to tell another country: We think your criminal is actually a hero and he can come live here, so buzz off. Pretty annoying if you're the country trying to get the criminal, and the U.S. is really pissed that some countries and human rights groups are helping out NSA whistleblower Ed Snowden, currently holed up in Moscow's airport, in his quest for asylum. After all, the U.S. would never think of shielding someone accused of illegally leaking another country's classified information, right?

Terry Ragland's doctor says he was just trying to dumb down her back pain diagnosis when he told her she suffers from "ghetto booty."

Through a collaboration with fashion label APC, rapper Kanye West is selling a $120 white t-shirt dubbed simply the "hip hop t-shirt." It's a nice slap in the face for anyone who doesn't already think hip hop is being slowly choked to death by millionaires.

After Philip Caputo received a stare down from Shia LaBeouf at a random traffic light in Burbank last week, many demanded to know what the biker, who uploaded headcam footage of the startling encounter, might have done to earn the actor's ire.

A mere two days after finding George Zimmerman innocent of the murder of Trayvon Martin, juror B37 in the case has signed on with a prominent literary agent, as a prelude to a book deal. This juror is a woman who hates the media and went into the trial mistakenly believing there were "riots" over the case.

Mariah Carey wore a hilarious series of bedazzled slings at her Central Park show on Saturday. We saw this coming.

Over the weekend, local partygirl Kate Middleton shocked a nation by not giving birth. This is crazy to everyone because we know she is pregnant because we seen it. Many people are now asking "What time is the royal birth happening?" and "When will the royal baby be born?" and "Should I expect the royal baby for dinner or just leave a plate in the oven?"

The verdict's in on the season two premiere of HBO's The Newsroom, and if it isn't unanimous it ought to be. It was good, very good, if not downright terrific (which I personally think it was). Most early reviews seem to say so, one way or another—some more straight out than others. These include the reviews of some writers who last season were either picky, or even dismissive of, a show that started out strong and got better as it went along and was, by any objective analysis, one of the best dramas on television—if not the best of the lot, cable or standard broadcast.

If you thought Kris Jenner wouldn't stoop to using baby North West as a prop to promote her new talk show, you must have just been born. Happy Birthday! It's all downhill from here.

It's that time of the year again, the time in which Insane Clown Posse have released their homespun infomercial for the horrorcore duo's annual Gathering of the Juggalos, held this year from August 7 through the 11.

ABC will pep up the strife-chat of The View by bringing in dimwitted anti-vaccination fanatic Jenny McCarthy as it loses the Fox News-bound weepy Republican Elisabeth Hasselbeck. Hope you don't catch the shingles from Barbara, Jenny!

Gertie Cleary compared the experience to a child with a splinter. "[W]hen you pull a splinter out, they holler and screech and pull their hand away," she told CTV News.

Consensus regarding last night's premiere of The Newsroom seemed to be that the only thing worse than the episode was the Will McAvoy as Christ figure trailer than preceded it. The second season debut appeared to elicit a collective groan from everyone on Twitter except a certain subset of journalists. Which ones? The ones who just happen to be paid by HBO.

Citigroup today became the third major bank to post huge profits this quarter, as finance once again becomes the most profitable industry in America. We are definitely in for some bad shit soon.

A former China Southern Airlines flight attendant who was electrocuted in her northwest China home last week was reportedly talking on a charging iPhone 5 at the time of her death.

Emily Kraus and her boyfriend were on their way to Hershey, Pennsylvania, to see Dave Matthews perform, and were running late as it was.

A Redditor who happened by the Children’s Hospital in Los Angeles snapped a photo of one patient's amusing SOS: "SEND PIZZA RM 4112."

America's Part-Time Recovery, in which the regular jobs that were vaporized in the Great Recession are replaced with shitty part-time jobs, is working out beautifully for the noble job creators. Thanks to a combination of high unemployment, the looming Obamacare law, and greed, it appears that for many workers, part-time status is the new normal.

A 5-year-old Pennsylvania girl who was abducted Thursday in Lancaster Township was rescued and returned safely to her mother thanks a pair of teens who located the kidnapper and chased him down on their bikes.

Legendary musician and future R&B Hall of Fame inductee Lester Chambers suffered injuries Saturday after he was attacked on stage for dedicating a song to Trayvon Martin.