Rachelle Friedman's bridesmaids pushed her into a pool's shallow end, breaking her neck and leaving her paralyzed from the chest down. Now she can't marry her fiance because their combined income would cause her to lose her Medicaid benefits.

House Republicans will indeed force a vote to defund NPR over the Juan Williams firing.

Last night we learned that Willow Palin, daughter of Sarah, has a very active Facebook life! This prompted your usual short, pithy Palin-related comments, though it inspired one commenter to compose a full-length original(ish) song/poem about the Alaskan archangel.

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Watch as young boy attending an Australian Football League game gets an unexpected visit from a football right to his face in slow motion.

Brandy and her dancing partner Maxim Chmerskovskiy seemed a bit dejected when they appeared on Jimmy Kimmel Live last night. Despite perfect scores, they still lost! To cheer them up, Kimmel tried to stir some anti-Palin rage. Video inside:

In our little list about how to breeze through airport security we forgot to include one very important point: Do not punch a TSA officer in the chest, even as a joke. Damn—we're too late.

The gay conservative group GOProud, fresh off of warning Republicans to avoid playing up social issues in the next election cycle, has now come to the support of 16-year-old Willow Palin for calling someone a "faggot" on Facebook.

Watch this video to learn about seventy-seven cat pure-breeds in four and a half minutes. Persians, Sphinxes, and Shorthairs OH MY!

A Russian woman lied to police, claiming her daughter was a suicide bomber in order to prevent her from eloping to Morocco. After being questioned, the daughter was released and permitted to continue on her way. The mother was arrested.

Have you ever witnessed something that's too weird to be described? Something so scarring that you remember, forever, where you were when you saw it? Something so unbelievable it must be shared? Behold the epic "20 Minutes To Go".

That's sure what it looks like! Here's the cover for the new book by Glenn Beck and conservative psychiatrist Keith Ablow, The 7: Seven Wonders That Will Change Your Life. It's a very interesting book cover, don't you agree?

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Rocco DiSpirito gets his own Bravo show, Bristol Palin's dancing causes a man to shoot his television, bad news for Walking Dead fnas, Abed's period-charts from last week's Community, and GQ names Stephen Colbert the "Patriot of the Year".

After a morning of denials, Eva Longoria filed for divorce today.

[Pam Anderson wears a sari and tight smile on the set of "Big Boss," India's version of "Big Brother." She is guest starring on the show for three days. Image via INF.]

Chris DeWolfe's divorce is getting ugly. The MySpace co-founder and former CEO now has a restraining order barring contact with his wife and four-year-old daughter. There's also a gag order, reportedly, on unspecified allegations against him involving a minor.

Poor Jonathan Lipnicki. He only talk about his new film in hopes of leaving his child-actor past behind him, but all Billy Bush and Kit wanted to do was talk about Jerry Macguire. With a split-screen. Cue the cringe-worthy insults!

The Way We Live Now: with full faith in the greed of the American consumer. It is, indeed, the only thing that will pull us through. Flock to new casinos, despite all sense and reason! Flock to stores! Spend, live!

On last night's Report, Stephen came to many realizations after watching Sarah Palin's Alaska. First, that "George W. Bush is a lilac-scented nancy boy. Second, that his show needs a new opening credits sequence — for America! Video inside.