Bubblegum popster Justin Bieber told reporters who attended a London preview for his third studio album that one of the tracks he wrote for Believe is about "that girl - Mariah Yeater - who said she was going to have my baby."

Grammy and Oscar winner Jennifer Hudson was called as the first witness today in the murder trial of William Balfour, the man accused of shooting her mother Darnell Donerson (57), brother Jason Hudson (29), and nephew Julian King (7) in 2008.

Lifetime officially confirmed today that troubled actress Lindsay Lohan has been tapped to play the late legend Elizabeth Taylor in the upcoming made-for-TV-movie Liz & Dick.

Angela Corey, the special prosecutor appointed to handle the Trayvon Martin case, has come under fire for what some regard as a deeply flawed indictment of George Zimmerman. Now Gawker pal Joseph Culligan, proprietor of Web of Deception, has noticed a strange wrinkle in the financial disclosures Corey has filed with the state of Florida: For every year since 2006, Corey has disclosed credit card debt, often with amounts as high as $75,000. Except for 2007. That year, she disclosed none. And 2007 happened to be the first year Corey filed a disclosure while running for statewide office. Weird.

Pop rocking life coach Adam Levine has been tapped to play "a sexy guy," on Season 2 of American Horror Story, according to show creator Ryan Murphy.

Consummate do-gooder NYT columnist Nick Kristof is waging a campaign against Backpage.com, the online hooker-ad compendium, and its corporate parents, Village Voice Media and (until Kristof gave them bad PR) Goldman Sachs. Is there a note of hypocrisy to be found in all this? Perhaps, a little!

Helm, who was diagnosed with throat cancer in the late 90's, passed away this afternoon at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York City. It was recently revealed to the public that he was in the final stages of his battle with cancer.

Watching Fox News can give sentient viewers the impression that the network is run by that nutjob uncle of yours who keeps forwarding chain emails about Obama's time in a madrassa. And it is.

Actor Jonathan Frid passed away of natural causes at Juravinski Hospital in Hamilton, Ontario, last week — less than a month before Johnny Depp's highly anticipated big-screen ressurection of the role he is best remembered for: Dark Shadows vampire Barnabas Collins.

Researchers at Northwestern University recently completed a study in which they were able to restore monkeys' paralyzed hands to "near-normal function" by inserting electrodes into their brains and electronically triggering neural activity.

Sometimes, Slate Magazine's Explainer column tackles topics you've always wondered about ("Why are horses good for making glue?" They have a lot of collagen.) and answers questions pertinent to everyday life ("How do you win the claw game?" Scope out the scene for a few rounds, then work with a partner.).

TIME Magazine has named Rihanna, the wallpaper-y popstar who recently collaborated on two sexy songs with the man whose savage beating of her face resulted in injuries police called "horrific," one of 2012's most influential people.

There were no drums when I visited Occupy Wall Street's small protest on the steps of Federal Hall on Wall Street Monday. It was in keeping with the current tenor of the movement, which seems dangerously quiet for what is supposed to be a massive spring resurgence.

Jose Canseco is on a fresh Twitter rampage. His most recent batch of tweets have crossed over from your garden variety hilarious and incoherent to something straight up worrisome.

Holman Jenkins, like any good upper class white male member of the Wall Street Journal editorial board, is absolutely perplexed by America's "Inequality Obsession." Look America, the whole "I am concerned about the alarming levels of income inequality in America" thing? Yeah. It's getting to be kind of... how can Holman Jenkins put this politely... an obsession. Not cute.

Hirsute-lipped Sesame Street character Thomas Friedman, America's most respected newspaper columnist, does not "have it easy," just because he lives in a sprawling mansion and holds a job that consists of rewriting the same exact column over and over again every week, merely substituting different—but equally trivial—anecdotes gleaned while looking out of the window of a car, train, or airplane in which Thomas Friedman rode on his way to meet some business person.

Did you know that, a couple weeks ago, creator of Girls and voice of her or a generation Lena Dunham recounted to fashion wunderkind Tavi Gevinson's website, Rookie, the story of how she lost her virginity?

The endorsement of ex-relevant-person Ted Nugent has unsurprisingly resulted in some distracting backlash for GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney, who was forced to respond today through spokeswoman Andrea Saul to a quasi-threat the rocker made over the weekend on President Obama's life.

Tupac Shakur's reanimation for Snoop Dogg and Dr. Dre's Sunday night Coachella closer proved so successful, that the duo is seriously considering taking the late rapper's hologram on tour.

During a recent interview with Fuse contributor William Goodman, Hole co-founder Eric Erlandson revealed that, shortly before his 1994 suicide, Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain was hard at work on a solo release that "would have been his White Album."