Good Morning America anchor Robin Roberts announced this morning she expects to return to the show sometime in February. Roberts has not been on live television since August, when she began treatment for myelodysplastic syndrome (MDS), a rare blood disorder.

Britain's The Observer has just concluded a year-long investment challenge which sought to determine if decades of experience gave seasoned stock market professionals any stock-picking advantage over a common household cat.

I've never been a teacher. And thank god, because I can say with 98% certainty that the majority of my day would consist of me, standing in front of a room full of unruly "tweens" who Just Won't Listen, stroking a piece of cutlery and fantasizing aloud about plunging said cutlery into the bodies of those unruly students. Any teacher would. But apparently in "today's America," this behavior is frowned upon.

Miss Iowa Mariah Cary (yup) might have been taking some of her own confusing advice when she responded to a question about Marijuana legalization by saying the drug should only be used recreationally and medicinally.

YouTuber Rainykauke figured his parrot wasn't being annoying enough, so he taught Harvey how to sing dubstep by beatboxing around the house.

The countdown unveiled by Justin Timberlake on Friday lapsed last night, revealing that it was, as rumored, counting down to the release of the singer's first new single in six years: "Suit & Tie (feat. Jay-Z)."

In 2007, at a Women in Entertainment breakfast, Jodie Foster came out to the world by referring to her partner (or girlfriend or whatever, I don’t know what she prefers) of then 14 years, Cydney Bernard. During a seven-minute speech at tonight’s Golden Globe Awards, she also mentioned her producer ex, and people are considering it her coming out. Here’s gay authority Mike Signorile: [jump]

Welcome to America's annual salute to Tiggle Bitties: The Golden Globes.

Olivia Wilde just announced her engagement to Jason Sudeikis on Twitter.

Colin Powell wants the GOP to examine the "dark vein of intolerance" within the party and focus on winning elections.

In case you needed another reason not to shoot a police officer, the photo to the right should do it. That's a picture of 20-year-old Frank Emmitt Nance, or what's left of him, after he was arrested for allegedly shooting Officer Reggie Robinson, an Atlanta police recruit, during a drug investigation gone wrong.

This week saw not one but two announcements about the development of intentional living communities dedicated to the principles of libertarianism: one from Glenn Beck (Independence, USA, a "city-theme park hybrid" that will marry "media, live events, small business stores, educational projects, charity, entertainment, news, information, and technology R&D") and the other from a group of like-minded citizens looking to build a rifleman's paradise in the mountains of Idaho (The Citadel, which boasts "No credit check. No background check. Zero down payment. Zero interest. Zero property taxes.").

The best thing about the Hollywood Foreign Press Association is they'll nominate anyone just to get all the cool celebrities to come to their super-fun party, the Golden Globes. Plus, since it's not like a regular awards show, it's a cool awards show, they let you drink, as long as you do it in the house.

Heather Graham's apartment caught fire last night. She was uninjured, as was her sort-of-famous neighbor, Zach Braff.

Everyone could do with a little extra science today, if only to distract themselves from the blank and empty yawn that is a Sunday afternoon. To celebrate their 125th anniversary, National Geographic is hosting a free-for-all interview with James Cameron, Robert Ballard, Jane Goodall and "explorers in the field on every continent." You can join the conversation here; explorers will be taking questions for the next hour.

Brooklyn, a young, up-and-coming borough of New York City, truly has it all now: Last night, Mallory Hytes Hagan, a 23-year-old who lives in Park Slope, was crowned Miss America. Hagan, formerly Miss New York, beat out 52 other contestants (including one named Mariah Cary, aka Miss Iowa, who placed fifth) to win a $50,000 scholarship, which would afford her approximately 5/6ths of one year at NYU. Congratulations Mallory!

New Yorker staff writer Lawrence Wright's long-awaited Scientology book, Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood, and the Prison of Belief, will be released this Thursday, and the reviews are already coming in. Based in part on a 2011 profile of director and former Scientologist Paul Haggis, the book focuses primarily on the legacy of L. Ron Hubbard and his successor, David Miscavige. It contains over 200 interviews with both "current and former" Scientologists from all ranks within the organization.

Just one month after a similar attack ended in tragedy, police in India arrested six men after they allegedly gang-raped a woman aboard a bus in India. The attack occurred Friday night as the 29-year-old victim was traveling to her home village in the Gurdaspur district in Punjab.

Police in San Diego shot and critically injured an armed suspect during a screening of Les Misérables on Saturday night. The gunman, identified by police as 20-year-old Tom Billodeaux, reportedly fled to the theater after getting into a fight with his girlfriend; when witnesses intervened, Billodeaux threatened them with a handgun before escaping to a nearby shopping mall.

Put down your comically oversized bags with $$$ scrawled on the side, slip off your burglarin' shoes and drop the crowbar: the trillion-dollar coin is no more, and with it, your dreams of one last big heist just to see if the team still has some of the old magic. From the Washington Post: