The New York City school system has banned former teacher Nathan Turner for taking five students on an unauthorized field trip to Cuba in 2007. Turner resigned in 2008, so whatever, and besides, he had a good reason.

Defarra Gaymon was a 48 year-old married father of four and CEO of the Credit Union of Atlanta. Last Friday night, he was shot and killed by a Newark police officer shortly after leaving his 30th high school reunion. Why?

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The government says new Gulf oil seepage is "not unlike an oil leak you might have in your car."

Astronomers using images taken from the Very Large Telescope (actual name) in Chile have found the biggest stars ever, with one, called R136a1, said to be 265 bigger than the Sun.

Sometime in the "coming months," LaGuardia and JFK airports will get full body nudie scanners so TSA officials can see your genitals in a dark room on a computer screen. They can apparently detect bombs and drugs and stuff, too.

An Austrian Catholic priest got into trouble with the Vienna archdiocese this week after he listed his church's confessional on eBay. The listing said it could be used as a "one-person sauna, a small bar or a children's playhouse."

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Constance McMillen, the Mississippi teen who scared her school into canceling the prom because she wanted to bring her girlfriend, accepted $35,000 from the school district to settle a discrimination lawsuit. She'll use the money for college tuition. [AP]

In the U.S., Pabst Blue Ribbon (or PBR) is a cheap, unpretentious beer popular among hipsters. In China, it's "Blue Ribbon 1844," costs about $44 a bottle, and is called a "world-famous spirit." It also comes in a funny bottle.

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Anna Chapman, the sexxy spy who stole our hearts, but not, as it turns out, our secrets, has said no to an offer to do porn, TMZ reports. Well, that makes sense: She now has a political career to consider.

According to a Congressional report, since 9/11 the "war on terrorism" has cost the U.S. some $1.15 trillion. Not to mention the fifth, sixth, seventh and eighth amendments. But, eh, we weren't really using them anyway. [CNN]

A North Korean diplomat named Ho Ung was executed by firing squad "after the North Korean government found his talks among the Korean nations to be a failure." Talk about getting fired! No, but seriously, someone died. [NYDN]

It's every girl's dream to touch Zac Efron—but what if you had to touch Jay Leno first? Mentalist Lior Suchard attempted to prove his skills tonight by performing some jaw-dropping acts, and then Leno made a gay joke.

[A polar bear is photographed in Tacoma, Wash. as it eats a fish and dreams of a time when it will exact its revenge on the hairless apes who imprisoned it. Pic via AP.]

On Tuesday, Shirley Sherrod, a black USDA employee, resigned, under pressure from the White House, after conservative publisher Andrew Breitbart published a video where she seemed to admit to anti-white discrimination. Except the video shows her saying the exact opposite.

Why have six meteorites hit the house of 50-year-old Radivoke Lajic over the last six years? "I am obviously being targeted by extraterrestrials," he said. Obviously. Lajic says he doesn't know what he's done "to annoy them." [Daily Telegraph]

Former Georgia Governor Roy Barnes has won the Democratic nomination for his old post, while Republican gubernatorial candidates Karen Handel and Nathan Deal are headed for a runoff election.

The fabled Jersey Shore strike, which has inspired generations of labor activists, has finally ended. But not without cost: Angelina, crushed beneath the pitiless bootheel of capitalism, will not return. Truly, she is the August Spies of our time. [TMZ]