The FBI has admitted to keeping files on working-class poet and middle-aged postal worker Charles Bukowski, because he wrote half-fiction columns for the Los Angeles underground newspaper Open City. The Bureau was particularly fascinated by the story of a drunken lady who liberated $5,000 worth of pet birds.

New emails tie John Ensign even closer to his cuckolded, hush-moneyed staffer.

Nearly a month after Roman Polanski was jailed in Switzerland, the U.S. has filed a formal demand for extradition so he can face sentencing for charges of unlawful sex with a minor. Litigation over the request could take six months.