The editors are figuring out if the fee the photographer wants is worth the circulation bump. And who's the star, anyway? The cast members of this show don't like a management shakeup. Maybe they should take it to the press.

If you're ever feeling depressed about the decline of newspapers in America, just be thankful you're not in Mexico—where a newspaper's been reduced to politely asking drug cartels for editorial guidance, in exchange for not being murdered.

VBS and three-piece-suited wonder boy Ian Svenonius ventures to America's deep, deep south to Muscle Shoals, Alabama, an unexpected Mecca of early rock apostles who founded and run FAME Recording Studios.

If you felt there were questions left unanswered at the end of Star Wars, watch Simon Pegg explain it in this scene from Spaced. Hint: It can all be attributed to one minor character, and forgotten munchies in one's pocket.

Model-wrangling billionaire Ron Burkle scored a victory this morning in his battle to grab control of Barnes & Noble, when an advisory service recommended that shareholders vote for Burkle's slate of directors. What's B&N chairman Leonard Riggio (pictured) doing wrong?

Lindsay Lohan spent Yom Kippur atoning and partying. George Clooney meets his girlfriend's parents. Bruno Mars arrested for drug possession. Tom Cruise's Top Gun love interest gets gay-married.

Poor St. Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church, which sat right down by the World Trade Center, was destroyed on 9/11. It still hasn't been rebuilt. You know whose fault that is? That's right: hateful Muslins and their Muslin-loving supporters.

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

A massive Utah wildfire was started by someone shooting a machine gun at a firing range.

[A government plan hopes to drop the number of wild horses near Corolla, on North Carolina's Outer Banks, from about 115 to 60 due to limited land and vacation home encroachment. Image via AP]

Today has been unofficially declared "Everybody Pray for Hitchens Day" by God-fearing admirers of author and noted atheist Christopher Hitchens, who is dying from esophageal cancer. He appreciates the support, but as for a last-minute conversion? "Thanks but no thanks."

A Kentucky man, Woody Will Smith goes on trial today for strangling his wife. But Smith's lawyer says he was "temporarily insane" and in a state of "brief psychosis" after a days-long bender of diet pills, energy drinks and sodas.

Residents of Bermuda caught somewhat of a break when a "very large" Category 1 Hurricane Igor passed the island without making a direct hit. One resident told the AP: "We're certainly getting our money's worth in drama."

Tonight on Mad Men, Sally came unglued, Roger and Joan got mugged, Peggy got political and Mrs. Blankenship met her end. Things are afoot at Sterling Cooper Draper Pryce.

Tonight, HBO began a quest to reclaim its crown as the king of dramatic television with Boardwalk Empire. Does Martin Scorsese's foray to the small screen live up to the hype and succeed in being the best TV show ever?

[Russell Brand wonders whether his contract has a clause for live animals at the pre-party for the premiere of Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga'Hoole. Image via Getty.]

Suzi Hanks is a DJ for a classic rock station in Houston. In her free time, she records herself reading Playboy magazine for the blind. NPR's All Things Considered interviewed Suzi about it, and provided clips from her recordings.

At a GOP picnic, Delaware Senate candidate Christine O'Donnell laughed off her 1999 claim that she "dabbled into witchcraft": "How many of you didn't hang out with questionable folks in high school? There's been no witchcraft since."

Watch this comedian's first-ever stand up routine. He covers the complexities of Super Mario and how losing your Virginity is like doing comedy.

Standing in a tent on the campus of The College of New Jersey, Matty Daley and Bobby Canciello earned a place in the Guinness World Records today by kissing for 33 hours. They livestreamed video of it and just finished.