Fresh off a real godforsaken run at foreign policy chops in the wake of deadly riots in Egypt and Libya, Mitt Romney has focused his attention back on making blundering statements about our very own U.S.A. This morning, during a Good Morning America interview, the ultra-wealthy businessman said that he plans on reducing taxes for "middle-income" Americans. But how does he define middle income?

Is Ryan Gosling thinking about maybe considering purchasing a wedding ring for Eva Mendes? Maybe but also maybe not.

The Ministry of Education in Malaysia has upset many by officially endorsing a set of "guidelines" meant to assist parents looking to curb homosexual tendencies in their children.

Village Voice editor-in-chief and anti-Scientology crusader Tony Ortega announced today that he's leaving the alt-weekly, which he'd edited for five years. What is he doing? What else: writing a proposal for a book about Scientology. As he writes,

Britney Spears' former duet partner is mad that The X Factor made him reveal that he's gay and mad it didn't air. What?

After 24 weeks at number one, Mark Owen's Bin Laden assassination tell-all No Easy Day has dethroned 50 Shades of Grey.

A Washington man was arrested this week after he allegedly pulled a handgun on a pregnant woman because he didn't approve of her smoking.

A man wanted in Maryland on unspecified sex offenses was arrested in Bluefield, Virginia, after his girlfriend "friended" the local sheriff's office on Facebook.

Mere hours after she was ordered by an L.A. Superior Court Judge to quit driving with a suspended license, actress Amanda Bynes was involved in yet another accident while driving around West Hollywood in her black BMW.

After teasing Lincoln lovers with a trailer teaser earlier this week, DreamWorks made good on its promise to release the first full trailer for Steven Spielberg's significantly less vampiric Lincoln biopic.

French magazine Closer just published some photos of Kate Middleton sunbathing topless while "staying at the French chateau of the Queen's nephew, Lord Linley — making it now two royal nudie picture scandals in three weeks. Click though for some NSFW scans.

Richard Cimino Jr. had quite the night last Friday. It's unclear how it started, but the night ended with him bloodied, naked, and gnawing on some poor woman's head.

Three months after Georgia rejected the Ku Klux Klan's application to participate in the state's Adopt-A-Highway program, the ACLU has filed a lawsuit on behalf of the hooded bigots, claiming Georgia's decision violates the KKK's right to free speech.

Scientists recently identified a new species of African monkey. The monkey, called a lesula, is notable not just for its coloring - "unlike anything I've ever seen, as one researcher put it – but also its unique backside. As the New York Times reports:

Sally Struthers was arrested and charged with DUI in Maine yesterday.

Dr. Richard Keller, a pediatric endocrinologist at Boston Children's Hospital, was arrested earlier today and charged with the receipt of child pornography. He also worked as a pediatrics instructor at Harvard Medical School and served as a medical director at Phillips Academy for 19 years until resigning last year.

Upon the release of a Hollywood film, the director typically gets the bulk of the media attention while the producer keeps a lower profile. In the case of the infamous Muslims Innocence viral video, which has sparked a wave of violent protests in the Middle East, this has been reversed: The film's producer has been exposed in the media as a liar and a fraud. But we still know next to nothing about the director, a man who goes by the name Alan Roberts.

Self-proclaimed "Artist of many things.. :)" Lindsay Lohan took to Twitter Thursday to send out an inspirational message to fans: you too can own a $30,000 handbag and a Macintosh personal computation device, provided you never stop fighting to live your dreams.

Jael Strauss' episode of Dr. Phil aired today, and it was basically just an extended version of what we saw in the 30-second promo that went viral earlier this week. When she finally calmed down after fighting with her family and fleeing Dr. Phil's studio before she could even step onstage, she expressed embarrassment that her current life as a meth-using stripper was being discussed in front of a room full of people. And then Dr. Phil revealed more secrets about her (without explicitly stating them) and she got embarrassed all over again.

Ivy League professor makes enragingly nonsensical argument for arresting the guy behind the Muhammed movie.