Jen Chung

After celebrating her engagement to Brad Pitt with a family trip to the Galapagos Islands, Angelina Jolie headed to Ecuador for her inaugural trip as special envoy to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees.

U.S. officials are upset that the LA Times published the photographs, possibly putting forces in harm's way, but Afghan President Karzai has a solution: Get out fast.

Eight years after photographs of U.S. soldiers torturing prisoners at Abu Gharib shocked the country and world, there's now a set of photographs showing U.S. soldiers in Afghanistan posing with body parts of bombers. The photo were given to the LA Times, which reports that the soliders were initially supposed to get iris scans and fingerprints to ID "the mangled remains of an insurgent suicide bomber."

Sometimes people don't know who Dick Clark is—and that's actually understandable. But one person did Tweet, "If you don't know who dick Clark is #killyourself"

Tupac's hologram Those rumors of Tupac Shakur playing Coachella were true: A hologram of the slain rapper turned up alongside Dr. Dre and Snoop Dogg to close out last night's performance... and it was moving—at least for Katy Perry, who Tweeted, "I think I might have cried when I saw Tupac. #coachella" Pop & Hiss recounted the evening, which also included 50 Cent and Eminem. Their criticisms are being echoed in a lot of...

Lenny Dykstra, the former Mets outfielder who has had financial and legal troubles for the past few years, was sentenced to three years in California state prison today. A Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge refused to allow him to withdraw his no-contest plea to grand theft auto and he was immediately taken into custody.

During last night's Grammy Awards telecast, the music industry association acknowledged Whitney Houston's shocking death almost immediately. After the opening performance from Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band, host LL Cool J took to the stage and said, "There's no way around it. We've had a death in our family. For me, the only thing that feels right is to begin with a prayer for a woman who we love, for our fallen...

Yesterday afternoon, music superstar Whitney Houston was found dead in her hotel suite at the Beverly Hilton. Her body was removed from the hotel to the morgue for an autopsy, but Beverly Hills Police Lt. Mark Rosen said, "There were no obvious signs of criminal intent," though it's unclear whether she died of natural causes. Houston had been expected to perform at music impresario Clive Davis' pre-Grammy party at the Hilton last night, but...

The National Transportation Safety Board has recommended that cell phone use while driving should be banned while driving. The NY Times reports, "The recommended ban applies to hands-free devices, a recommendation that goes further than any state law to date."

Shed a tear: "In this case, while other people were still manipulating their own phones, this one employee singled me out to put my phone away."