Why allocate more money for domestic AIDS education when Facebook is free?

Poor BP just can't catch a break. Some US lawmakers now want to investigate whether the company played a role in the early release of convicted Lockerbie bomber Abdelbaset al Megrahi, in exchange for lucrative oil contracts in Libya. [CNN]

Trigger happy record producer Phil Spector's wife, Rachelle Spector, has a new record coming out! It's called "Out of My Chelle," and if the first music video from the record is any indication, it's going to be hot.

The British Ministry of Defence just upped the ante in the race to build the best killer robot with a stealth, intercontinental drone named after the Celtic god of thunder, Taranis. American Predator and Reaper drones look like bitches now.

Who: A fixture on TV since the '60s, Walters is known for her soft-focus interviews, her ability to make grown men and women cry, and one of the most famous speech impediments of the 20th century. She's currently recovering from heart surgery, but plans to return to The View as resident den mother and referee this fall.

Italian authorities have arrested over 300 people in a sweep of the Calabrian mafia 'Ndrangheta, on suspicion of murder, drug trafficking and money laundering. Some 3,000 police officers took part and arrests were also made in the US. [BBC]

[Brad Pitt, beardless, feels the cool air gently caress his bare chin while filming his new movie Moneyball. Pic via Flynet.]

OMG science gossip! Rumors are circulating that the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory in Illinois has found the elusive Higgs Boson (nicknamed the "God Particle"). Does this mean we finally finished science?

Guacamole or salsa were at fault in one out of every 25 outbreaks of food poisoning at restaurants between 1998 and 2008—twice the rate of the decade before. They were also blamed for being delicious, always. [WSJ]

David Ortiz hit 32 home runs to win the Home Run Derby at Angel Stadium.

The Agriculture Department rounded up 400 Canada geese in Brooklyn's Prospect Park last week and killed them so they'd stop flying into jet engines. One Brooklyn resident said it looked like the geese had "been Photoshopped out." [NYT; pic]

[Former President Bill Clinton and actor Sean Penn shake hands in Haiti during a memorial ceremony for the sixth-month anniversary of the devastating earthquake in Port-Au-Prince as Haitian President Rene Preval looks on worriedly. Pic via AP.]

Actor John Stamos tried to perform oral sex on a 17-year-old girl after plying her with cocaine delivered by strippers, according to the girl, who is now on trial for attempting to extort Stamos out of $680,000. Have mercy!

Radio host Gawker fan Rush Limbaugh sold his New York condo for around $11.5 million (below the $12.95 million asking price) and is leaving town—even after we got him such a nice wedding present and everything! [WSJ]

Daily News publisher Mort Zuckerman was on Fox pundit Neil Cavuto's show on Monday, talking trash about President Obama, when he made a very interesting claim: That he "helped write" one of Obama's speeches. Well, did he? No.

On tonight's episode of Cake Boss, Frankie and Buddy prepared to make a 100th Anniversary cake for Fiore's Deli the same way anyone else would... by eating layers of meat.

A gunman opened fire on an office in Albuquerque, killing two before turning the gun on himself.

Only someone as cute and cuddly as Michael Ian Black could address the subject of how he'd treat a slave without being offensive. Well, not that offensive.

BP's got a new cap for the leaking oil well in the Gulf of Mexico, and it might be working—NewsHour tweeted that oil had stopped flowing, but one camera in their live feed seems to show otherwise. [AP]