Claire Huxtable herself spoke out about the multiple rape accusations against Bill Cosby at a luncheon for the movie Selma yesterday. Phylicia Rashad told Roger Friedman at Showbiz 411 that the claims against Cosby must be "orchestrated" somehow and that everyone should "forget these women."

Masked gunmen wielding Kalashnikovs and a rocket launcher killed at least 12 people and injured 10 more at the Paris offices of satirical French newspaper Charlie Hebdo on Wednesday before escaping. French president François Hollande called the shooting "unquestionably a terrorist attack."

In which Nicole Kidman relates the time she threw herself at Jimmy Fallon and he was too dumb to notice. Wait what?

The man suspected of murdering his hedge fund manager father over an allowance cut is also the prime suspect in a suspicious fire at a romantic rival's Hamptons home, police say.

Vicky Ward, the Vanity Fair contributor who profiled Jeffrey Epstein back in 2003, says even then it was obvious something was very off with the mysteriously well-connected Palm Beach sex offender.

"Have I got an investment for you," Bill Gates whispers, his eyes feverish with excitement. Or is it the poop water? Only time will tell.

Unexpectedly, something funny in the Jeffrey Epstein-sex-with-minors case: after threatening to sue everyone involved for defamation, high-powered attorney Alan Dershowitz now finds himself the defendant in a defamation suit brought by the plaintiff's lawyers.

As a top money manager says "The good times are over," stocks fell today for the fifth day in a row, their longest losing streak in more than a year. Also, astronomers observed the largest-ever x-ray flare from the supermassive black hole at the center of our galaxy. Things are happening.

The man who will, in the absolute best case scenario of his life, go down in history as America's second-most-famous Brad—Bradley Cooper—appears within and without the February issue of W magazine in the costume of a nearly naked French clown. Pasty and slick, straight out of the Comédie-Italienne of your nightmares, he stands in stately profile, bearing his nipples to the world.

"One person sustained minor injuries and several roads were closed" in Granada, Colombia, the BBC reports, which is the BBC's way of saying "Holy fucking shit, a fireworks factory caught fire, setting off hundreds of fireworks at once in an explosion that knocked this local TV cameraman on his ass."

The small staff of Boston.com, the breaking-news site associated with The Boston Globe, is still reeling from weeks of internal unrest stemming from a series a viral posts about a Harvard professor and a Chinese restaurant published in early December, which resulted in a retraction, some disciplinary actions, and a suspension for one staffer. The turmoil’s latest casualty, however, involves a previously unrelated party: a young journalist who was about to start a fellowship at BuzzFeed.

A tipster writes that a "widely accepted" rumor points to the Republican former senator from Virginia, who retired in January 2009.

Four months after he was found guilty of 11 counts of corruption, former Virginia governor Bob McDonnell was sentenced to just two years in federal prison today. The sentence was far lower than the six and half years sought by prosecutors.

It'd be great if furious animals could destroy all the things that make us unhappy: imagine crows picking apart our texts from mom, or a giraffe stomping on bad cops. Luckily, it looks like sharks are devouring the underwater cables that make the internet possible.

Did Farrah Abraham have an allergic reaction to a lip-implant procedure or is her new ledge of an upper lip just a sneaky bid to get on the popular E! fix-her-up series Botched? The answer is probably a little from Column A, a little from Column Dammmmmmmmn That's a Fucked-Up Lip.

The latest Politico magazine features a long read by Liza Mundy on "The Secret History of Women in the Senate." While the whole article is surely fascinating, I'd like to focus for a moment on the tantalizing anecdote laid out in its first two paragraphs.

Charlie Sheen, a blinding sun of rage that consumes all in its ambit (starting with booze and Taco Bell) has exploded and collapsed on itself once again, this time in the general direction of Kim Kardashian and her "giggly" ass.

There was a fun blind item revealed today on the unverifiable gossip site Crazy Days and Nights:

A Turkish official who was carried across a snowy patch in the Aegean province because he was not wearing sensible footwear has been suspended, the BBC reports, for his inability to comply with the "municipality's attitude of service, citizen relations and values." He had some local farmers carry him as to not get his feetsies wet.

Leather-faced sad man John Boehner survived challenges from Louie Gohmert and other GOP weirdos and was re-elected as House Speaker this afternoon.