Jared Lee Loughner, the 22-year-old accused of attempting to assassinate Rep. Gabrielle Giffords and killing several others in a mass shooting spree in Arizona earlier this month, pleaded not guilty in federal court in Phoenix on Monday.

Keith Olbermann has only been out at MSNBC for one weekend, but what will he do next? Some people on Facebook, Twitter and Daily Kos want him to run for Joe Lieberman's Connecticut Senate seat.

Tunisia has been epically chaotic lately, which is why we thought it was odd that the U.S. embassy there was closed on Martin Luther King Day. Now our ambassador there has found the time to write Gawker an angry letter.

While there won't be any official bipartisan seating during tomorrow's State of the Union, Congress members are free to sit across the aisle if they want to! So many are choosing to sit with "dates." Who will ask whom?

An appellate court has kicked ex-White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel off the ballot for Chicago mayor over residency requirements. Wow. He'd been leading in polls and fundraising, and his case will likely hit the Illinois Supreme Court now.

Elena Kagan's act of civic responsibility last week has been overshadowed already: Joe Biden is showing up for local jury selection, too, in Delaware today. Hopefully he makes the jury and shouts "That guy is SO guilty!" throughout the trial.

Oprah has been hyping a huge family secret she plans to reveal on today's program. Guess what it is? She has a secret sister living in Milwaukee! She's actually Oprah's half-sister, but still. Welcome to the billionaire's club, lady!

An explosion has rocked Moscow's Domodedovo airport—Russia's busiest—wounding hundreds and killing at least 31. The bomb hit the international terminal, apparently outside its security perimeter. A suicide bomber is suspected; Chechen separatists struck the same airport in 2004.

[Kevin Smith takes on protesters from the Westboro Baptist Church outside the screening for his church horror movie 'Red State' at Sundance yesterday. Image via AP]

[A man walks across a frozen river in Benxi in the Liaoning province of China. Image via AP]

Jack LaLanne, the fitness guru, juicer pitchman and television host, has died of respiratory failure due to pneumonia at his home in California. He was 96 years old! But, well, that's the power of juice.

On Friday, South Korean commandos raided a hijacked ship in the Arabian Sea, and killed eight Somali pirates in the process. South Korea released the video today, and Somali pirates promised to kill any Koreans they capture from now on.

Everyone's coming down on Silvio Berlusconi for hosting "bunga bunga" parties. Except Italian porn star Rocco Siffredi, who said: "Italians are proud of someone like Berlusconi who is 74, loves sex and has a good sex life." Fair enough! [Guardian]

[Dear Leader Kim Jong-il eats a tasty biscuit in this photo released today by the Korean Central News Agency. Image via AP]

You know how, when you applied for college, you sent the same bromide "Why I want to go to _____ University" essay to every school, because all colleges are interchangeable anyway? Turns out John F. Kennedy thought so, too.

Washington Post columnist Dana Milbank has gotten so tired of reading his own articles about Sarah Palin that he's proposing a "Palin-Free February" of news coverage. You can join him by taking a Twitter pledge! But why?

American artist Jeff Koons, the man behind those giant balloon sculptures of dogs, is trying to stop a San Francisco gallery from selling balloon dog bookends. Rich people are so greedy! But the gallery is fighting back!

Congratulations to Mike Huckabee! He is, for at least the next few days, the frontrunner to take the 2012 Republican nomination for president. But does he even want to run? He has a mortgage to pay off, after all.

Andy Coulson, the former editor of shameless News Corp-owned British tabloid News of the World, resigned today from his job as press chief for UK Prime Minister David Cameron. The tabloid phone hacking scandal has claimed a dandy scalp.

[More snow. How will the New York Post attack the Sanitation Department this time? Image via AP]