Conor Kennedy can't come over to play video games after school today because his girlfriend, Taylor Swift, flew him out to Nashville by private jet a couple days ago, reports Page Six.

A ridiculous person named Vincent Peters sued Kanye West in 2010, alleging West had stolen a song Peters had sent the rapper in 2006. The overlap in question came in the chorus of Kanye West's "Stronger," which starts, "N-n-now that that don't kill me / Can only make me stronger."

In a stunt so preposterous it could only have been dreamed up by a Harvard man, the Yale Club of New York City announced earlier this summer it would permit members to wear the rough twill fabric of Nîmes in select areas of the Clubhouse at certain times.

This week's New Yorker contains a profile of Scooter Braun, 31-year-old manager of the Wanted, Carly Rae Jepsen and, most importantly, Justin Bieber ("For a reason that Braun can't explain, most of his acts are from the British Commonwealth," writes Lizzie Widdicombe).

A Facebook page reportedly maintained by Prince Harry under the pseudonym Spike Wells has been shuttered in the wake of last week's strip billiards scandal.

A boy who, in another lifetime, might have been a lord of Winterfell is receiving psychological counseling today after hurling a javelin through the jugular vein of a judge during an athletics competition in Germany on Sunday.

TAMPA, Fla.— This, like every presidential election, is the Most Important Presidential Election of your lifetime. This, like every presidential election, is a contest of unparalleled importance between candidates of previously unencountered contrasts to decide the Most Important Issues we have ever seen. Forget what has come before. The politicians, pundits, and moral leaders of the Republican Party want you to know that this election is the One That Matters The Most. Just like every other election.

Tom Cruise formally ended his raw, real heterosexual love affair with actress Katie Holmes on Monday, after a judge in New York agreed to the final terms of their divorce.

22-year-old high school freshman Taylor Swift has upset some powerful people in her day. Kanye West, when she won "Best Female Video" at the 2009 VMA's. Victoria Gifford Kennedy, when she crashed a Kennedy wedding and tried to touch her rough paws to Kennedy skin ("a handshake," Taylor called it) — how vulgar. But what Taylor didn't realize when she crashed that wedding was that she was crossing a force far more powerful than either Kanye West or Victoria Gifford Kennedy:

Today, influential music-crit site Pitchfork really italicized its "influential" modifier by releasing the results of its Pitchfork People's List, a Converse-sponsored "readers' poll" of the best albums from the first 15 years of the site's existence (1996-2011). There were—to invoke the words Radiohead, which had three albums place in the Top 10—no surprises.

Country female Taylor Swift continued her frantic, clumsy scramble up the New England social ladder last weekend, crashing a Kennedy wedding and refusing to leave when the bride's mother asked her to.

I love Busta Rhymes on musical type of level but let's all recognize and realize that Busta Rhymes tends to give interviews where he just says different levels of words out of his mouth that go together to form the types of sentences that do not mean anything on the level of reality, okay? HuffPo has the scoop:

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and the rogue state of Lochtenation may at last have reached an uneasy peace, after their rulers, Prince Harry and Ryan Lochte, met at a Las Vegas hotel pool at 3 a.m. Monday morning, and drunkenly swore to always keep it real and be best bros forever and ever.

NBC, the network that, three decades ago, put Michael J. Fox on the map with Family Ties, has agreed to pick up his new single-camera comedy for a full 22-episode series sight unseen.

In the most American thing to ever happen, comedian Rosie O'Donnell suffered a massive heart attack last week after struggling to help "an enormous woman" out of her car in a parking lot. She then saved herself using a tip she remembered from TV commercials.

Yeah Yeah Yeahs frontwoman Karen O's contribution to the soundtrack of Tim Burton's upcoming full-length Frankenweenie movie is brazenly sweet, even coming from the woman responsible for the Where the Wild Things Are soundtrack. It is sugary enough to speak the language of children fluently.

Noted gossip columnist Janet Charlton claims an insider spilled the bouquet on the secret wedding ceremony of on-again, off-again partners Jessica Biel and Justin Timberlake, which supposedly took place this Saturday in Jackson Hole, Wyoming.

Here's an extremely simple rule for journalists wondering when to disclose that they're married to an influential government official: always. Always disclose that. This rule is, strangely, too complex for adult human Campbell Brown to understand.

Prince William wrought untold suffering upon his island kingdom yesterday, angering the gods when he saved a drowning girl whom the Fates had chosen to die.

It's clear, by now, that the most interesting thing about NASA's Mars Exploration Program is not Mars itself, which appears to consist chiefly of boring dust mountains and nothing else, but the Curiosity Rover sent there to document it.