It must be the influence of new judge André Leon Talley, but Tyra Banks' public access-grade reality competition America's Next Top Model is getting a high-class make over for its 15th "cycle." They even tricked Vogue into taking part.

Donald Trump has teamed up with Talbott Teas to put his gilded name on a line of Trump Teas. Naturally, you can only brew the tea with Trump water after dining on a Trump Steak and drinking Trump Vodka. TRUMP!

Wyclef is still waiting for Haiti's electoral commission to rule on whether he can legally run for president there. In the meantime, he now says he's in hiding, thanks to death threats. Where is his lion when he needs it?

Wyclef's campaign for the presidency of Haiti has brought predictable scrutiny on his time at the head of Yele Haiti—the badly mismanaged charity whose problems have been cataloged here before. But there's more—he rented a lion! For charity?

Paris Hilton's "next project" will be joining the family business as a hotelier. "I've pretty much done all you can do," she explains. She'll be a natural with hotels because she has been "growing up in it my whole life."

When we last left the story about the upstate New York man who is claiming he owns 84% of Facebook (Paul Ceglia), we had concluded that the digital "contract" Ceglia had produced was probably a fake.

[A boy in Kabul, Afghanistan flies a kite from the top of a ruined building while celebrating the Muslim holy month of Ramadan. Image via Getty]

Michael Douglas says his doctors discovered a cancerous tumor in his throat. He'll undergo two months of chemotherapy and radiation, but says he's "very optimistic" he'll make a full recovery. Does this mean we have to like Wall Street 2?

Finally, after months of jostling and competition and speculation, they've gone and cast the lead girl for that buzzed-about Dragon Tattoo movie. Let's never speak of it again. Also today: Clint Eastwood news, X-Men casting, and Angelina Jolie as Marilyn?

Eric Schmidt's apparently trying to become tech's creepiest executive. The Google CEO outlined his dystopian vision of the future, in which children change their names at adulthood to escape damning online dossiers — dossiers of the sort stored by Google.

Sorry, it's just science. A new study confirms that men whose wives make more than they do are more likely to cheat. This study was conducted by a PhD student from Cornell—an Ivy!—so it must be real.

The crack investigative reporters at tabloid Life & Style claim that sex tape actress and all-around menace Danielle Staub has been fired from Bravo's Real Housewives of New Jersey, the show that made her infamous. Can it be true?

Oprah Winfrey's cable channel OWN won't even be on your television until January and it's already making all kinds of news, including a double-down on its investment and its very first lawsuit—for discrimination, of all things.

A newspaper owned by the North Korean government opened the regime's first Twitter account. Our favorite so far is the post calling South Korea a "poor whore," "dirty whore," and "prostitute." Twitter's "Content Boundaries" don't apply to Dear Leader! [Mashable]

What kind of silly people would give Congress the grade "A" when asked? According to a new poll, it's most likely to be... well, educated, wealthier people who work with Congress on things.

In a new interview with New York magazine, little ol' Katie Holmes admits her precocious paparazzi-bait daughter is better at being famous than she is, perhaps because she's still starstruck with Tom Cruise.

Tabloid sex fiend Andrea Peyser can most accurately be summed up as a ball of ill-concealed sexual repression who constantly lashes out at delusional symbols of impropriety, out of guilt. Sad, really. Today: why are all young girls sluts, 100%?

[Dozens of hot air balloons get ready for a morning flight at the Bristol International Balloon Fiesta in Bristol, England, today. Image via Getty]

Well, this is what you get for visiting commie Europe: Michelle Obama's approval rating has tumbled — from 64 to 50 percent — following her horribly misreported Spanish vacation. No more fancy hotels for you, you... hotel snob!

Sheryl Crow is dedicated to saving the planet. That's great! But the rider for her current tour is so Draconian in its green policies that it's driving concert promoters nuts. Does she really care that deeply about toilet paper?