Yesterday Ellen Weiss, the NPR executive who called Juan Williams to fire him after the once-respected newsman spoke about his fear of airplane passengers in "Muslim garb," resigned. NPR's CEO's also being punished. Who comes out looking worst? Juan Williams.

The cast of Jersey Shore is back for another season of Oscar Award winning fist-pumps, hook-ups and fist-fights. Meet brand-new roommate Deena who, by the way, we've already seen naked.

This morning on the Today Show, Ted Williams and his mother Julia sat down with Meredith Vieira for a lengthy and in-depth conversation. They discussed their fractured relationship and hopes for the future after the events of this week.

Allen "Mini-Madoff" Stanford, the crooked Texas financier charged with ripping investors off for billions, already had his head smashed in jail; now, he's being sent to detox to come down from his 3 mg/ day klonopin prescription. That's a lot.

Can you guess what movie this image comes from? Check back for the answer at 4pm today.

Just three days ago the pride of the Emirates, the 160-floor Burj Khalifa hotel, celebrated its first birthday. The next day, a Chinese official announced plans to build a $1.3 billion knock off of the "seven star" hotel in Beijing.

A researcher in the German Foreign Office recently found documents concerning a Finnish dog named Jackie who, during WW2, was trained by its owner to give a Nazi salute on command. The Fuehrer-mocking dog made the Germans very angry.

Conservative deity Ronald Reagan would have turned 100 next month, so the entire Free World will celebrate with bronze statues, museum exhibits, a conservative retreat to the Reagan Library and even a "special tribute" at the Super Bowl. Get excited!

Andrew Cuomo doesn't care if you're comfortable at his events or not, okay?

[For this picture of spectators watching the Four Hill ski jumping tournament in Austria, AP photographer Kerstin Joensson exposed the film for a 10th of a second and rotated the camera during the exposure. Image via AP]

Margot Stevenson, the prolific stage actress, has died at age 98.

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The Man with the Golden Voice—formerly homeless voice prodigy Ted Williams—shot to superstardom in a way that most cannot even fathom. Williams is everywhere—tonight, for example, he made a cameo on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon. Watch inside.

The reviews are rolling in for Season of the Witch, Nicolas Cage's latest home movie. And, surprise! They are not very kind at all. This might be Nicolas Cage's worst movie, ever! Which would be a feat.

Well, whew. We were getting worried about Sammi Sweetheart, who seems to be straggling behind her Jersey Shore cohorts in lining up endorsement deals and other, general, empire-building activities.

On tonight's Late Show, David Letterman delivered a rare treat—the episode's "Top 10 List" was actually funny! The topic was "Little-Known Facts About John Boehner," though, so it was bound to be a stone groove smash hit wonder.

Dozens of residents of Vernon Township, Mich. have been evacuated after a train carrying 20,000 gallons of hydrochloric acid derailed and began to leak. No injuries have been reported, but still! Hydrochloric acid! Yikes!

According to a new Vanity Fair article, Wikileaks founder Julian Assange threatened to sue The Guardian when classified State Department cables obtained by Wikileaks were leaked to the paper without his consent. No fair, he got the stolen information first!

On Monday, news broke that Goldman Sachs had invested $500 million into Facebook, valuing Mark Zuckerberg's social network at $50 billion. Tonight, Jon Stewart laid bare the real—and hypocritical—reason for the investment: an avoidance of government-regulated transparency. Uh-oh.

Two Republican Congressmen, Pete Sessions of Texas and Mike Fitzpatrick of Pennsylvania, missed the House swearing-in ceremony today because they were at a party. But they decided to cast some votes anyway, even though that's against the Constitution.