After the horrific Tucson shootings last weekend, future U.S. president Sarah Palin retreated to her prayer cave and prayed for guidance. Today, she's announced her findings: The real tragedy here is "journalists and pundits" who "manufacture a blood libel."

[Italian PM Silvio Berlusconi meets with German Chancellor Angela Merkel in Berlin today. Image via AP]

Singer and prolific Twitterer Courtney Love has been sued for defamation over some badly misspelled threats. While the case faces an uphill battle, it also heralds a new front for libel law. Also? Cardinals manager Tony La Russa is involved.

You think anti-smoking regulations are tough in the US? Well, at least you don't have to worry about your home being raided by police with a tobacco sniffer dog, or face five years in prison for having too many cigarettes.

[A cop keeps watch over a makeshift memorial on the stairs of the Capitol for the victims of the Arizona shootings. Image via Getty]

The government has almost certainly made secret requests for WikiLeaks-related material from other companies. But only Twitter (successfully at least) fought to have those orders brought into the open. Here's why.

Scientists in London took samples from busy ATMs and nearby toilets and discovered they have the same type and amount of bacteria. Either people are wiping with dollar bills or they aren't washing their hands. I'm sticking to credit cards.

Armond White, the film critic for the New York Press and chair of this year's New York Film Critics Circle Awards, kept insulting everybody at last night's award ceremony, prompting Annette Bening to issue a teary-eyed appeal for peace.

Steve Jobs will reportedly show up at the launch of Rupert Murdoch's The Daily. With Murdoch's News Corp. sinking a reported $30 million into a product designed specifically for Jobs' iPad, it seems like the least Apple's CEO could do.

Owen Wilson, Marion Cotillard, and Jewel are having babies. Kanye got his album cover banned on purpose. Michael Douglas beats cancer. Andy Dick gets kicked out of the Oscars of porn. Tuesday gossip giggles and coos.

Yesterday we told you a story about Arianna Huffington being escorted off a plane by police after she refused to turn off her Blackberry. It's been officially confirmed! Also officially confirmed: she could not be less concerned about illicit Blackberry-ing.

Uh-oh! Are you named something weird, like "Trig" or "Bristol"? You might go to Hell! Or at least, get in trouble with the Pope. He told some people that Catholics should have Christian names, and Italians flipped out.

[French President Nicolas Sarkozy reminds us of one of the taunting Gauls from that Monty Python sketch when getting all up in President Obama's grill at the White House today. Like Barack doesn't have enough going on. Image via Getty]

As of today, you can no longer avoid Facebook's new profile design; the social network is forcing everyone to upgrade. This means, in many cases, that others can put embarrassing pictures on top of your profile unless you change things.

Chely Wright, the country singer who came out on Cinco de Gayo, says that since that day her album sales have dropped by half and she's received death threats. Guess the announcement wasn't the career boost some thought it was.

In your wary Monday media column: Newsweek has a "sweeping redesign" coming, Ed Rendell vs. 60 Minutes, Piers Morgan will have at least one good week, post-"Giffords Dies" soul searching, and The Daily is nearly here.

[Members of Congress, their staffs and others gather on the steps outside the House of Representatives during this morning's national moment of silence for the Tucson shooting spree victims. Photo via Getty.]

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.

Last Friday night, Arianna Huffington was in Las Vegas, mingling with celebrities. And the next night? According to a tipster, Arianna was being escorted off a plane by Port Authority police—for wanton, unsafe Blackberry-ing.

Put all those sick nightmares about Playboy without a Playboy mansion—or without Hugh Hefner—out of your pretty little mind. Hef's taking the company private again. Party at Hef's place.