Time editor-at-large Fareed Zakaria issued a statement this afternoon confessing to lifting parts from a New Yorker article by historian Jill Lepore for his own column on gun control.

A brand new mosque is scheduled to open today in Murfreesboro, Tennessee, a.k.a. Mohammad's Promised Land. The Muslim community went through three years of shit to get this mosque built. Some highlights of Tennessee's welcoming Southern manners:

Infamous New York serial killer David Berkowitz, better known as the Son of Sam, will forever be remembered for his 13-month shooting spree, during which he killed six people and wounded seven others.

Writer, performer, and frequent NPR contributor David Rakoff has died following a three-year battle with cancer. Rakoff was born in Montreal, and lived, variously, in Toronto, London and Japan before settling in New York City, which he called "the great love of my life" and was the subject of much of his writing. Rakoff worked as an actor — usually playing, he later wrote, "Jewy McHebrew" or "Fudgy McPacker" — and in publishing before quitting to become a full-time writer, penning the interview column "The Way We Live Now" for The New York Times Magazine for several years in addition to his work as a freelance journalist and contributor of personal essays to This American Life.

Try not to let this devastating drought and historic heat wave get you down; soon, we'll have a succession of hurricanes to cool us all off.

At a hearing today, lawyers for Aurora mass shooter James Holmes said their client is mentally ill. Many have speculated that this will pave the way for a "not guilty by reason of insanity" defense.

Harry Reid's accusation that Mitt Romney is hiding something by not releasing his tax returns — specifically not paying taxes for 10 years — isn't going away any time soon.

Despite a tenuous-at-best report that X-Files co-stars David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson are "shacking up and in a relationship," Duchovny's rep last night issued a statement denying that fanfic has come to life.

Ronald Poppo, the man who was rendered severely disfigured following an encounter with Rudy Eugene, known in the media as the "Miami Zombie" or the "Causeway Cannibal," spoke with Miami homicide detectives last month about his harrowing ordeal.

A Defense Department contractor in charge of the prisoners' library at the Guantanamo Bay detention camp reports that early episodes of the '90s sitcom The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air are in high demand among the 168 captives presently serving out the second decade of an indefinite detention.

Expertly coiffed pop star Justin Bieber doesn't understand why Prince William's hair is thinning.

It seems Robert Pattinson may be looking to patch things up with his cheating girlfriend Kristen Stewart — and he's using alcohol as a mediator.

Scientists at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration have confirmed what many in America had already suspected: For the lower 48 states, last month was the hottest month on record.

Rich people across the Western world are anxiously watching France, where president Francois Hollande is vowing to raise the top tax rate—on earnings over $1.2 million a year—to 75 percent. Tres bien, Mr. Hollande. The problem with this otherwise fine idea is that the very rich can simply pack up and move to a more accommodating Western nation with lower taxes and less concern for income inequality, like America. There is, though, a more elegant solution to this: a maximum income.

Members of the truculent Westboro Baptist Church remained defiant yesterday in the face of a newly signed law restricting their ability to protest military funerals.

Mitt Romney got a bit confused earlier today over the pronunciation of "Sikh" while discussing the recent tragedy in Wisconsin. According to the Associated Press, instead of correctly prouncing Sikh like "seek," he instead said "sheek" or "sheik," which is another name for an Arab leader. While confusing Arabs with Sikhs is perhaps not uncommon for some of Romney's supporters, it seems fair to say that this was probably an honest mistake; his people were quick to point out that the Republican presidential nominee prounounced "Sikh" correctly earlier in the week. But still, man, get it together, Mitt.

Earlier this month, someone on Twitter threatened to attack New York's Longacre Theater during a performance of Mike Tyson's new one-man play, writing, "This s**t ain't no joke yo I'm serious people are gonna die just like in aurora." The NYPD immediately requested the user's identity from Twitter but they initially denied the request.

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Neil Barofsky was at the very center of the U.S. government's response to the 2008 economic collapse. He spent more than two years, until March of 2011, as Special Inspector General for the TARP program, overseeing and monitoring government bailout funds. Now, Barofsky has written a ferocious book detailing how, he says, "Washington abandoned Main Street While Rescuing Wall Street." And he's here to take questions from you, the Main Streeters.

Barry Eisler, a former CIA agent turned novelist, has put forth a handy checklist that journalists can use to determine just how co-opted they have become by the very powers over which they are supposed to be serving as a watchdog. It can help any reporter decide just how far down the road to hackdom they've traveled so far. It's like one of those online personality tests, but it tells you exclusively how much of a sellout you are.