Police face a similar climbing protester in England recently.Photo: Oil Scarff/Getty Images Early this morning, a Zuccotti Park protester believed to be Toronto native Dylan Spoelstra scaled the 40-foot red-beamed Joie de Vivre statue by Mark di Suvero, claiming he would not come down until Mayor Michael Bloomberg resigned. Naturally, his conditions were not met, and after a two-hour standoff i... more.

Governor Piyush "Bobby" Jindal.Photo: Justin Sullivan/Getty Images Yesterday, Louisianans went to the polls and reelected Bobby Jindal to a second term as governor, with an almost 40-point margin over his closest opponent. Jindal has largely been absent from the national stage since his botched Republican response to the State of the Union in 2009, but this solid win and his endorsement of fell... more.

Now hold on just a gosh darn second!Photo: Ethan Miller/Getty Images One of the biggest causes of Rick Perry's abrupt decline in the polls was all the attention he received for passing as governor a law that allows illegal immigrants access to the lower tuition fees that are offered to Texas's in-state students. It was an issue that was all too easy for his opponents to exploit. Mitt Romney wen... more.

Five years after he was released from prison, Robert Durst has returned to New York. Having fallen out of the public eye after becoming a high-profile fugitive in the killing and butchering of an elderly man at a Texas boarding house, Durst has lately been spotted by locals working out at a Harlem Planet Fitness, getting his coffee fix at a 125th Street Starbucks, and dropping off his dry cleani... more.

We still think your eyes are beautiful, Alec.Photo: Mike Coppola/Getty Images Alec Baldwin has been awfully busy lately. When he's not tweeting about 9/11 (among many, many other things) or chatting up lovely young reporters, he's ... more.

Rick Perry will not go gently into that good night.Photo: Ethan Miller/Getty Images The Republican presidential debates have driven the course of the campaign, but sometimes it takes a couple days for the result to make itself clear. Now that the dust from Tuesday night’s angry confrontation has settled, the new picture is emerging. Rick Perry has stopped his free fall and is complicating... more.

The man in charge.Photo: Chris Ratcliffe/Bloomberg via Getty Images In the second-worst News Corp. scandal of the moment, the company is accused of participating in shady deals to boost the circulation numbers of The Wall Street Journal's European edition. Last week, the paper's publisher Andrew Langhoff resigned for promising favorable coverage to a company that was buying huge amounts of the ... more.

Start spreading the news ...Photo: PHILIPPE DESMAZES/AFP/GETTY It's not entirely clear just yet how Muammar Qaddafi was killed, but here's one version of the events, courtesy of the BBC: A fighter in Sirte has told the BBC his account of the reported capture. Mohammed, a young fighter in his 20s, wearing a blue T-shirt and a New York Yankees baseball cap, said he had found the colonel hiding... more.

Photo: Andrew Burton/Bloomberg via Getty Images The company that owns the New York Times, Boston Globe, and part of the Red Sox, among other less successful things (hello, About.com), reported a profit of $15.7 million this quarter, making for a much better summer than last year, when they lost $4.3 million in the same time frame. The paywall on the website of their flagship newspaper now count... more.

Obama's still hauling it in.Photo: JEWEL SAMAD/AFP/Getty Images Barack Obama might not seem to be the most popular guy with Wall Streeters these days, but they can't seem to stop donating to him. The Washington Post has done the math, and says that donations to the Obama campaign from the finance sector still top their donations to all of the Republican presidential candidates combined. Now, ... more.

Photo: All Things D After six years at her little brother’s company, Randi Zuckerberg is striking out on her own. In a just-released resignation letter, published at All Things D, the now former Facebook marketing director explained: "I have spent my years at Facebook pouring my heart and soul into innovating and pushing the media industry forward by introducing new concepts around live,... more.

“You are guilty of extremely poor judgment. Stop doing stupid things. Don't do stupid things. Don’t give people a reason to hate you. If probation calls, you must answer. House arrest is akin to jail, and you can’t have a barbecue in jail.” —The honorable Judge Sautner takes out her frustrations on a clearly indifferent Lindsay Lohan, who recently failed a booze tes... more.

Photo: Saul Loeb/AFP/Getty Images Massachusetts congressman Barney Frank has recently expressed approval for the goals of Occupy Wall Street, though he has also said that he "wishes that kind of energy was around two years ago" when he was working to pass Dodd-Frank, the financial-reform law that bears his name. While that legislation certainly didn't do much to endear him to the financial indu... more.

In the most significant action they've taken since the bailout was grudgingly approved over a year ago, the House today voted 223–202 in favor of a plan to tighten federal regulation of Wall Street and the financial sector. If it passes the Senate, the plan, which was put together by Barney Frank and the House Financial Services committee, would be the most significant overhaul of securiti... more.

Photo: Sugar Sweet Sunshine/Flickr The worth of a little metal badge that validates a yellow cab in the eyes of the city has grown faster in the last three decades than the Dow Jones industrial average and the price of gold or oil, the New York Times reports, hitting $1 million yesterday in two sales. In 1937, the first medallions went for $10, equivalent to $157.50 today, meaning the value is ... more.

Photo: PHILIPPE DESMAZES/AFP/Getty Images It's stil unclear how, exactly, Muammar Qaddafi died. He was clearly captured alive, as these choppy (and bloody, and unsettling — you've been warned) cell-phone videos prove. It seems likely that sometime after this footage was shot, Qaddafi was executed by his rebel captors. One official in the Libyan government, speaking anonymously to Reuters, ... more.

Photo: Mario Anzuoni-PoolGetty Images Lindsay Lohan was back in court on Wednesday for a chat with her old pal Judge Stephanie Sautner, who admonished her for, once again, violating the terms of her parole. Apparently, the actress has "just blown off" the majority of the 360 community service hours she was ordered to perform at L.A.'s Downtown Women's Center, which aids homeless women. Sautner ... more.

Randi Zuckerberg.Photo: Facebook Back in August, Randi Zuckerberg, Mark Zuckerberg's 29-year-old sister, quit her job as Facebook's marketing director to "build a company focused on the exciting trends under way in the media industry." At the time, many observers speculated that her departure meant she was ready to more publicly embrace the performative side she displayed with some of her Faceb... more.

Photo: Frederic J. Brown/AFP, Getty Images Civil rights activist and Princeton professor Cornel West has been an outspoken supporter of the Occupy Wall Street movement, but not just from behind his lectern. West was arrested today in Harlem while demonstrating against the NYPD's stop-and-frisk tactics, making for his second police run-in for civil disobedience in less than a week. Outside of a ... more.

The White House asked that Saslow please not use this photo of Obama.Photo-illustration: Pedro Santana/AFP/Getty Images; iStockphoto President Obama has been known to write personal checks to and make phone calls on behalf of hard-up Americans who write letters to the White House, reveals a new book by a Washington Post reporter. "It's not something I should advertise, but it has happened," Oba... more.