Brooklyn might be seeing the return of street trolleys! The city is studying the possibility of running a mile-long streetcar line between the transportation-starved neighborhood of Red Hook and Brooklyn Bridge Park. Next, can we have the Dodgers back? [pic]

On CW's La Femme Nikita remake, a rogue assassin sexily seeks revenge on the agency that betrayed her, but unlike her previous incarnations she has some help from the inside. Sex, drugs, and gun fights! This show's got it all.

[Scotland created a special tartan (plaid pattern) to commemorate the Pope's visit! Here, Cardinal Keith Patrick O'Brien and piper Louise Marshall Millington unveil the thing. Plans to specially deep-fry a Mars bar were scrapped. Pics via Getty. Click for close-ups.]

Three frat boys realized their goal of making it to finale night, leaving a path of destruction strewn with the evicted bodies of women, a gay, and one Orthodox Jew in their wake. Perfect game? Maybe. Exciting? Not one bit.

Tonight, Jon Stewart noted President Obama's shift from bipartisan love machine to Republican-killing campaign shark, and—namely—the media's reaction to it. The verdict? MSNBC should emulate Fox News' skew-the-news-to-fit-our-narrative mantra, and Rick Sanchez is an effing idiot. Video inside.

James Clooney, an alleged "frequent patron of the Penthouse Executive Club" (a club, for executives, who wish to see breasts), ran up a $46,698.18 tab ("on beef and babes")... and never paid. Good strategy! Except he's getting sued.

The CW's new show Hellcats is part Bring It On, part Glee, and all kinds of terrible. A kind of terrible that has to be seen to be believed.

Economist (and frequent Daily Show guest) Austan Goolsbee will be named chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers.

Did you really think Katherine's arrival in Mystic Falls would be boring? The sneaky vampire did some serious damage, and as this is the first episode, she's just getting started.

An enormous explosion just rocked San Bruno, California, a suburb just above San Francisco International Airport. Like, really big: A whole block is on fire with 200-foot flames. Six people are in critical condition. What the hell is going on?

A federal judge declared the U.S. military's anti-gay "Don't Ask Don't Tell" policy unconstitutional, because it violates the First Amendment rights of gays. Not only that: She ruled that the policy has a "direct and deleterious effect" on the military.

Chris Klein was never known for his great acting prowess, but this is just epically—and hilariously—horrible. Here's a video montage that includes every single one of Klein's lines in Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li. Secondhand embarrassment, inside!

Secret-sharing website Wikileaks is preparing the "'biggest leak of military intelligence' that has ever occurred"—three times larger than the cache leaked by the site in July. What's in it? More terrible revelations about "abusive treatment of detainees," apparently.

Do you want to watch a bunch of crazy people fight, hook up, and fight again? Do you want to make fun of them while they do it? Then be sure to join us for our Jersey Shore live blog.

"Yielding everything!" Pete Holmes proves his own government conspiracy theory, centering around Facebook.

Now this is a brilliant way to advertise a new TV show—let the witty and charming star of the show interview himself! Will Arnett does just that in this quick video about Fox's Running Wilde.

TV shows are like cleavage. You look out for tasteful ones, but you really can't take your eyes off the trashy ones.

Happy New York Fashion Week! It kicked off today at Lincoln Center. What better way to honor the occasion than to participate in our live blog of tonight's episode of Project Runway? Join us in the comments!

[Two secret service agents keep watch atop the White House today after U.S. embassies around the world were told to step up security because of now-canceled Koran burning in Florida, which had been scheduled for Saturday. Image via Getty]

England's former boozehound-in-chief, Tony Blair, apparently plagiarized a fictional scene from The Queen—the Oscar-winning 2006 movie starring Helen Mirren, which Blair said he never watched—and tried to pass it off as reality in his memoir.