James Murdoch, whose claim to Parliament last week that he had no idea there was rampant phone hacking going on at News International when he approved a $1.1 million settlement for a phone hacking case has since been contradicted by two of his executives, will probably be called back to explain the discrepancy.

Casey Anthony, who legally did not kill her child but societally kinda did, has been offered $500,000 to pose nude for old rascal Larry Flynt's Hustler magazine.

Looking across the vast debt ceiling hellscape today, it appears that Speaker John Boehner will finally, finally get House Republicans to pass his two-tiered debt limit hike by tossing in modest balanced budget amendment to the United States Constitution. Let's just say that that doesn't improve the chances of getting out of this pickle with a bipartisan solution, with only four days remaining. What is to be done, instead? Just have Timmy Geithner mint a trillion dollar coin, obviously.

So then, did you all take the time to download the hot new mixtape by Pablo Dylan, Bob Dylan's 15 year-old rapping grandson?

Hollywood's secretest couple is not so secret anymore. Also today: Rachel Zoe is a tremendous idiot, Meatloaf passes out, and Paz de la Huerta lotions up.

At some point, maybe Speaker John Boehner will become good at his job and round up enough House Republicans to pass his go-nowhere debt ceiling bill. Maybe. Because Congress has other, much more important business to attend to this afternoon, like signing up for a football game.

New York City is overrun by cats. The city's launching a program to sterilize strays, just to avoid having to build more shelters to hold the teeming masses of fur and teeth. What do we do with all these cats?

This jobless recovery of ours is now officially just joblessness. According to new data from the Bureau of Economic Analysis, GDP grew by just 1.3% last quarter. Worse, the growth we thought we've been seeing since 2003 has been more anemic than we thought: According to the revised numbers, the economy grew a lousy .4 percent of the first quarter of 2011—or almost a fifth of what we thought it had grown.

Today we have a sad pair of actors who just don't even like each other anymore. Sigh. Also today: a paranoid TV personality and a gross celebrity restaurant.

It's pretty eerie how the media industry—which makes its money by selling advertising—is not capable of making a single decent ad for itself. The dying newspaper industry is now pinning its hopes on the classic lonely man's rationalization: "Smart is the New Sexy."

Cartoonishly simplistic rhyme reciter Soulja Boy has allegedly purchased himself a $55 million G5 jet as a 21st birthday present. Ohh... did somebody give Soulja Boy $55 million, by accident?

Jonathan May-Bowles—comedian and recipient of a Wendi Deng airborne beatdown—today pleaded guilty to assault and causing harassment, alarm or distress. Afterward, May-Bowles said "this has been the most humble day of my life."

A 38-year-old cop in Indiana, John Newcomb, was arrested Wednesday night after he side-swiped a parked car with his truck and then plowed into a tree, apparently while he was drunk. A woman who heard the crash and saw the immediate aftermath gave some details of the scene to local news channel WAVE 3. The best part of this otherwise average drunk driving-cop story is the trailer Newcomb was pulling :

When White House chief of staff Andy Card told President Bush about the September 11th attacks in a Florida elementary school classroom, many people thought he just looked confused and perhaps a little stupid. Wrong! Bush told the National Geographic Channel in an interview that's going to be endlessly dissected by Truthers during "Remembering 9/11" week that he "didn't want to rattle the kids" by standing up and doing his job, and that he'd "been in enough crises to know that the first thing a leader has to do is to project calm." So that's what he did. He collected his thoughts, spaced out for a bit, and projected confusion calm.

Venezuela's blowhard leader Hugo Chavez, fresh off cancer treatment in Cuba, celebrated his 57th birthday yesterday in Caracas by informing the masses that he's not going anywhere:

While Happy Meals are getting ever-so-slightly healthier with the token addition of apple slices and milk, over in France, McDonald's restaurants are operating on another culinary plane entirely.

Thanks to his quest to become the new Old Spice guy, Fabio has spent the past several days at America's pop culture forefront. And while all of the Old Spice talk is getting... well, old, a recent weather forecast he did for Portland, Oregon's CBS affiliate is strangely entertaining. Watch Fabio undress you with his eyes in the video above. [KOIN]

Short-fused Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel has formally decreed that all children below the age of 12 must be off the streets by 8:30 p.m. on school nights, and 9 p.m. on Fridays and Saturdays, saying, "It brings a level of responsibility and accountability to our streets and in our homes."

On Tuesday night, congressional Republicans were moved by a scene in the bank robber movie The Town to unite behind a single plan to solve the nation's debt ceiling crisis before next week's deadline. So long as they're turning to pop culture for inspiration, allow us to suggest that up next they consider some of the anti-big government statements of Parks & Recreation character Ron Swanson. A clip of Swanson's greatest bits of political wisdom is above.

Last Sunday, Sandy McMillin visited a Wal-Mart in Eugene, Oregon with her sister to buy chips, sour cream and coffee creamer. But since it was 90 degrees outside that day, McMillin traded her normal ensemble for a turquoise string bikini top and some red athletic shorts.