• Despite formally pledging to make such information and statistics public, new findings show the administration of Mexican president Felipe Calderon and attorney general tried cover up the 2011 death toll of Mexico's bloody drug war. [LATimes]
• So a Los Angeles County Sheriff's deputy smuggled heroin hidden in a burrito into a courthouse jail... [KABC]

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• Spiritual Tibetan leader the Dalai Lama is forced to cancel his trip to South Africa to celebrate the 80th birthday of close friend and fellow Nobel Peace Laureate Desmond Tutu due to travel visa issues. [LATimes]
• Former #1 Tiger Woods mistress Rachel Uchitel, 36, secretly marries 26-year-old boyfriend Matt Hahn in Las Vegas over the weekend. [DailyMail]

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• More legal woes for Frank McCourt as Fox Sports, which owns the Dodgers TV rights, sues the franchise's owner for trying to sell the rights in filing for bankru— honestly, it's early and very confusing before I've had my coffee this morning, but it's just another wrinkle in the sad, twisted crapblizzard that is Frank McCourt's life. [KABC]
• Sarah Palin has a very hard time trying to compliment GOP presidential hopeful Herman Cain during a Fox News appearance, calling him "flavor of the week" and then getting his first name wrong. [HuffPo]

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• Did you know you can now add "Expected: Child" to your list of family tags on your Facebook profile to let your closest 900 friends, acquaintances, and people you don't even know but feel rude rejecting because you have 10 mutual friends, know you're knocked up. [LATimes]
• The only known copy of a long-lost Alfred Hitchcock film, the earliest of his legendary filmmaking career circa 1923 titled The White Shadow starring Betty Compson, surfaces in New Zealand. [Telegraph]
• This news story actually made waking up this morning totally worth it: a duo of Ashton Kutcher and Colonel Sanders doppelgangers have been stealing bicycles in the Newport area. [KTLA]
• A homeless man is arrested after jumping the fence of the White House as CNN's John King is about to go live for a segment in front, the whole thing caught by the network's film crew. [TMZ]
• Sarah Palin pulls the Obama "palling around with domestic terrorists" card, again, on FOX News, sounds equally moronic. [HuffPo]

• A former Fox News exec who helped launch the channel in 1996 claims the Rupert Murdoch-owned network has a "counter intelligence and black ops office" that may have engaged in phone hacking. [Telegraph]
• Apple is struggling to figure out how to use their $76.2 billion in cash and investors are getting frustrated. [WSJ] More»

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Fifty Asian Americans from a variety of Asian ethnic backgrounds were honored at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel in New York City last night.  This amazing group was referred to as "The Outstanding 50 Asian Americans in Business"  The gala is currently the only forum that recognizes the achievements of Asian Americans in the United States. More»

• The CFDA Awards were last night - winners included Lady Gaga (Fashion Icon) Jack McCollough and Lazaro Hernandez for Proenza Schouler (Womenswear), and Alexander Wang (Accessories). [TheCut]
• Anthony Weiner confesses that those Twitter crotch shots were indeed his, as he bawls during his confession. [NYPost]
• Apple unveils the iCloud, and Steve Jobs says you will no longer have to manually sync devices. [NYTimes]
• FOX News uses a Tina Fey photo while reporting about Sarah Palin! [BusinessInsider] More»

• Associated Press refuses to give today's Republican presidential debate any coverage due to event sponsor Fox News' imposed media restrictions which "violate basic demands of newsgathering." [HuffPo]
• Stop traffic: after compromising photos of her brother surface, photos of Kate Middleton's sister Pippa dancing topless in her bra emerge. Gasp! [PE]
• Titan of U.S. Internet coupon industry Groupon is facing steep competition in the Chinese market since its March launch in China. [LATimes]
• Obama visits Ground Zero for a memorial of 9/11 victims and meets with their families in wake of Osama bin Laden's death. [KABC]
• Currently on his world tour, Justin Bieber's tour crew stages a mutiny refusing to go to Japan concerts out of fear of radiation and another earthquake. [TMZ]

• When American forces finally tracked down Osama bin Laden, they found him right under the noses of Pakistan’s military, and that’s likely to ratchet tensions between the US and Pakistan even higher. [NYT]
• Inside the walls of Bin Laden's compound. [Reuters] More»

• Scientists have unveiled a computerized "atlas of the brain," which combines several imaging techniques to map features including nerve structure and gene activity. [WSJ]
• It's OK for middle school students to wear bracelets proclaiming "I (heart) boobies!"—at least in the context of breast cancer awareness, a federal judge has decided. [PhiladelphiaInquirer] More»

• Claws are out. Glenn Beck’s supporters say he was unhappy at Fox almost from day one and the network is being accused of planting stories about his declining ratings. [NYT]
• Gary Gates averaged the results of five US surveys conducted between 2004 and 2009 to find that 3.5% of Americans identify themselves as gay, lesbian, or bisexual, he says in a report released today.That's 9 million people. [WaPo] More»