Rudy Giuliani and several former Bush Administration officials who were criticized last week for attending a rally for what the State Department says is a terrorist organization—which was probably illegal—have responded. They say their terror group doesn't count.

Renato Seabra, a 20 year-old male model, has confessed to attacking, castrating, and killing Portugese fashion journalist Carlos Castro (pictured) in a Times Square hotel room Saturday night. Seabra is apparently very, very disturbed.

22-year-old Arizona shooting suspect Jared Lee Loughner planned ahead. According to court documents, police found evidence of an assassination plot against Rep. Gabrielle Giffords at Loughner's house, including a 2007 letter from Giffords herself.

Police investigating the assassination attempt yesterday in Arizona said "there is some reason to believe [Jared Loughner] came to this location with another individual, and that individual is involved." They've released a picture. (Updated: Man pictured is cleared of involvement)

The gunman who shot Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords and 17 others in Arizona this morning has been identified as 22-year-old Jared Loughner. He uploaded a number of strange videos to YouTube expressing convoluted philosophical and political views. And he hates Giffords.

The body of 65-year-old Portuguese journalist Carlos Castro was found yesterday in a Times Square InterContinental Hotel room "bludgeoned in the head and his scrotum cut off." Police are questioning Castro's male model companion, "twentysomething" Renato Seabra. [NYDN; image]

Biggie Smalls, the illest, was murdered in L.A. in 1997. Thirteen years! And not one arrest yet! There have been documentaries and posthumous albums and one million R.I.P. graffiti walls, but no arrests. But: the investigation's being "reinvigorated" (again).

As if the Somali pirates weren't raking in enough booty, they've now expanded their buccaneering attacks past mere shipping lanes, into an area of ocean that's "about 2.5 million square miles." Is one of those square miles yours? [USAT]

Allen "Mini-Madoff" Stanford, the crooked Texas financier charged with ripping investors off for billions, already had his head smashed in jail; now, he's being sent to detox to come down from his 3 mg/ day klonopin prescription. That's a lot.

Explosive mail packages "flared up" in two Maryland state government buildings today, causing a few minor injuries. The Feds are investigating.

Dr. Charles Bizilj took his eight-year-old son to a gun show two years ago. There, he videotaped his son's death, as the boy lost control while trying to test-fire an Uzi. Today, Bizilj is testifying in court. It is awful.

Jeffrey Sterling, a former CIA officer, was indicted today for leaking classified information to New York Times reporter James Risen. The indictment shows that the federal government had access to their e-mail and phone contacts going back several years.

Porn star/escort Kayla Coxx arrived at the apartment of a "date," and when he didn't have her full $2,000 fee, she saw some guns and grenades lying around. She did what any hooker would do. She called the cops!

Six tweenage girls from Nevada, the moral wasteland that bore demon Sharron Angle from its sandy loins, were arrested after police discovered a Facebook event they'd created that was dedicated to threatening certain teachers with violence.

Robert Butler Jr., son of a police detective, shot the principal and assistant principal at his school in Omaha, Nebraska before killing himself. His last Facebook status update was a chilling indictment of the school he'd just transferred to.

FBI agents investigating an online child pornography ring wound up targeting one of their own after AOL handed over subscriber information on an anonymous user who'd received kiddie porn at his AOL address. His phone number was FBI headquarters.

John Wheeler, the defense contractor who served in three Republican presidential administrations and was found dead in a landfill on New Year's Eve, was acting crazy before his death — and may have tried to burn his neighbor's house down.

WABC weatherperson Heidi Jones entered a not guilty plea today to misdemeanor charges that she falsely told police a "Hispanic man" tried to rape her in Central Park. But according to the criminal complaint, she's already confessed her guilt.

WABC weatherperson Heidi Jones will reportedly plead not guilty today to charges of filing a false sexual assault report.

A reminder to people writing fake blogs and fake social networking profiles: Online impersonation became punishable by up to one year in jail and $1,000 in fines in California this year — and it's not clear satire is exempted.