I'm not sure when the MTV Movie Awards started creating new categories each year but this year's award for New Cult Film (that didn't even have nominees) was clearly just an excuse to give Charlie Sheen something to do. Why he had to be involved remains a mystery to me.

Kardashian joke? Check. Hunger Games and Twilight? Check? Michael Fassbender's Penis? Check.

On Tuesday, Californians will vote on a ballot initiative for a $1-a-pack cigarette tax. While raising cigarette taxes does discourage smoking, especially among teenagers, support for Proposition 29 has waned.

The spell of The Avengers has been broken.

The Whitewater-Baldy Complex fire has burned 241,701 acres of the Gila National Forest, making it the largest fire in New Mexico history. It's also been incredibly difficult to fight against, but firefighters are now reporting that it is 17 percent contained.

Did you know that in addition to hosting Family Feud and starring in shows like Hogan's Heroes and movies like The Running Man, the late Richard Dawson released a 1967 psychedelic single?

The Obama campaign is not mincing words: the Republicans want the economy to fail.

Aside from the Queen's Diamond Jubilee, there is not much going on today. Luckily, the U.S. has its own important ceremony on the horizon — the MTV Movie Awards. And E! Online is ready to answer your most burning question: where is everyone sitting?

A charred SUV with five bodies burned beyond recognition was found in Arizona's Vekol Valley. The deaths are thought to be a result of drug cartel violence, though investigators could not immediately determine the ethnicities or genders of the victims.

Before Louie Anderson and Steve Harvey, there was Richard Dawson, a man who hosted Family Feud with charm, good cheer, and a predilection for kissing contestants. "The Kissing Bandit," who hosted from 1976 to 1985, has died at 79.

As long as local papers have grumpy older columnists, we will continue to get inane opinion pieces on the horror of tattoos and body piercing. There's actually something charming about Lehigh Valley News writer Paul Carpenter's column "Dorney Park is right to ban tattoos" — it's nonsense, but it comes from a proud tradition of nonsense.

Florida governor Rick Scott is concerned about non-citizens voting in the upcoming presidential election. At least, that's his excuse for singling out 182,000 registered voters suspected of not being U.S. citizens. That number has since been whittled down to 2,600, but the Department of Justice would like Florida to call off the purge entirely.

You might not know the name "Kathryn Joosten," but there's a good chance you'd recognize her face.

You know a news story is going to be good when it begins with, "It will be an explosive-free weekend for the northeast Georgia college student..."

Those who thought Queen Latifah's appearance at Long Beach Gay Pride signaled a move toward coming out will be disappointed. Today, she told Entertainment Weekly that her performance had nothing to do with her still very private sexuality: "That definitely wasn't the case."

It's not every day you get a chance to see President Obama speak — and it's even rarer to watch him get introduced by your dad. That's why fifth grader Tyler Sullivan made the wise choice to skip school and head to the Honeywell factory where his dad, Ryan Sullivan, works.

Have you heard that video is a big thing over at Gawker Media? It's true, we watch and post a lot of videos each week. Here are some of the best videos of week, culled from an array of Gawker Media sites.

It's been a little over a month since George Zimmerman got released from jail on an $150,000 bond. And just slightly less than that long since we learned he raised a lot of money on his website. Now the discrepancy between how much Zimmerman had, and how much he disclosed to the court, is being addressed.

We all held our breath on Wednesday when an anti-freckle cream jar was discovered on Nikumaroro Island in the Pacific. This seemed to support the leading theory by The International Group for Historic Aircraft Recovery (TIGHAR) that Amelia Earhart landed on a coral atoll near the island, and survived — at least for a bit.

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