They're banning the Lady Gaga song! No, sadly, just kidding. The state Assembly passed a bill making "'false imprisonment' by physically harassing someone else for photos or sound recordings" a lawsuit-worthy offense. They also passed ordinances on reckless paparazzi driving.

Fresh from a farewell dinner for departing New York Times public editor Clark Hoyt, the paper's standards editor, Phil Corbett, issued a memo to the newsroom yesterday on that perpetually controversial issue: use of anonymous sources. Full memo below.

Rev. Sun Myung Moon is buying back the Washington Times for a buck. Whatta deal!

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

The American teen tradition of chugging Robitussin and trippin' could soon become a lot harder if the man gets his way. The Food and Drug Administration is trying to crack down on the over-the-counter sale of medicine containing dextromethorphan. Lame.

[Pope Benedict XVI walks at his summer residence outside Rome today. He is due to visit England and Scotland in two weeks, and the Vatican quashed any possible fun by banning everything ahead of time. Image via AP]

Legendary train thief Darius McCollum was arrested yesterday for stealing a Trailways passenger bus from Hoboken, New Jersey, and driving it to Queens, saying afterward, "I'll bet they won't leave the keys in the ignition." It was his 27th arrest.

Cedric the Tasmanian devil, who was hailed in Australia for being immune to a facial cancer that threatens to kill off his entire species, was euthanized after being injected with diseased cells and growing tumors. He was five years old.

California has been trying to ban plastic shopping bags to save the environment or something, but the state Senate yesterday rejected the bill. Also not banned yesterday — carrying unloaded firearms in public. So much for all that, hippies.

[Indonesian government vulcanologists admitted they hadn't been paying attention to or measuring seismic activity at Mount Sinabung, which has been spewing clouds of hot ash and smoke for the first time since 1600. "Our bad," they said. Pic via AP.]

Former Cuban president Fidel Castro told the Mexican newspaper La Jornada that "If someone is responsible" for the persecution suffered by Cuban gays after the 1959 revolution, "it's me." In response, gays named a San Francisco neighborhood in his honor.

What would you do if you were entrusted with a $1.35 million painting? Would you... get wasted? That's what James Haggerty did when his art-dealer pals had him look after Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot's "Portrait of a Girl." Guess what happened!

Have you seen this music video for Canadian band the Arcade Fire's single "We Used to Wait"? Well, actually, it's not quite a music video—it's a website. But it does some pretty amazing stuff.

While Michael Douglas and David Letterman discussed throat cancer, Jay Leno had Kim Kardashian on The Tonight Show to apply makeup to Carrot Top. Given the individuals involved, it is almost shocking how slowly they start making the obvious jokes.

Senator Orrin Hatch, the conservative Utah Republican, has come out in support of the Park 51 Muslim community center, popularly known as the "Ground Zero Mosque." The best part? He's doing so in stronger terms than anyone besides Mayor Bloomberg:

[Darth Vader approaches stormtroopers in the treacherous hive of scum and villainy known as Los Angeles. Actually, it's impersonator Chris Mitchell, protesting a crackdown on costumed characters. But wouldn't it be cool if it were actually Vader? Pic via Getty.]

Tonight's Louie discussed belief and religion. Before the more serious childhood flashback started, Louis CK used a glory hole to broach the subject of faith and riffed on the Old Testament's favorite negligent father, Abraham.

If the pictures of Calvin Klein's 20-year-old boyfriend we showed you earlier weren't revealing enough, don't worry. You can see more of him in some of the gay porn that he made. Don't worry, we're keeping it safe for work.

Tonight brought us the season finale of Shaq Vs., a show in which Shaquille O'Neal issues challenges to celebrities. This time, it was O'Neal vs. tween sensation Justin Bieber. Video of their dance-off—and O'Neal rapping at Bieber's concert—inside.

Earlier this week, Michael and Carmen Ojeda were stopped by a uniformed official while rushing their asthmatic daughter Briana to the hospital. Briana died, and the city resisted the Ojedas' claim that a cop had stopped them—until now.