A lengthy new report on the 2002 kidnapping and murder of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl says that a photo of a hand definitively proves that 9/11 plotter Khalid Sheik Mohammed killed and decapitated Pearl, on video.

Before he rose to notoriety as the founder of Penthouse magazine, Bob Guccione allegedly wrote letters soliciting customers to buy his dirty photos at the bargain rate of 10 photos for $2 under the pseudonym of "Robert Gucci."

Ashley Turton, a lobbyist and ex-Hill staffer whose husband, Dan Turton, is the White House's legislative liaison to the House of Representatives, was found dead in a burnt car inside a Capitol Hill garage this morning.

The U.S. Department of Justice is currently trying to build a case against Julian Assange for his role in leaking 250,000 State Department cables. Today, one prominent Wikileaks volunteer claimed the DOJ is subpoenaing her Wikileaks-related Tweets.

Biggie Smalls, the illest, was murdered in L.A. in 1997. Thirteen years! And not one arrest yet! There have been documentaries and posthumous albums and one million R.I.P. graffiti walls, but no arrests. But: the investigation's being "reinvigorated" (again).

John Wheeler, the defense contractor who served in three Republican presidential administrations and was found dead in a landfill on New Year's Eve, was acting crazy before his death — and may have tried to burn his neighbor's house down.

Christine O'Donnell will file amendments to all the campaign finance reports her campaign filed during the 2009-2010 election cycle, a lawyer for the failed Delaware Republican Senate candidate wrote in a letter to the Federal Election Commission.

The Feds are coming down hard on ol' Christine O'Donnell, the failed Delaware Senate candidate. The FBI has allegedly opened a criminal probe into the dingbat witch over whether she used campaign funds for personal expenses. Why so sexist, FBI?

When the FBI sent an informant into a California mosque to surveil terror suspects, the plan backfired hilariously. Muslims were so alarmed by his talk of violent Jihad that they reported him to the FBI.

A while back, we filed a Freedom of Information Law request looking for e-mails between New York Gov. David Paterson's flacks and a bunch of reporters. The governor's office tried hard to keep them secret, but we finally got them.

According to the New York Attorney General's office, there are three ongoing investigations into New York Gov. David Paterson that may be interested in looking at reporters' e-mails with Paterson's press aides. Why?

Back in the day, the U.S. had a policy of waterboarding people, but the CIA secretly destroyed the videotapes of these "sessions" in 2005. Now the agents responsible won't even be prosecuted. So that's how it works. [AP, photo]

A presidential commission yesterday found that BP and Halliburton knew that the cement mixture used to seal the Macondo well before the oil spill had "repeatedly failed lab tests." You should probably grab some Halliburton shares while they're hot.

Mexican officials say they've "suspended" the investigation into Texas jet-skier David Hartley's alleged murder by pirates, but they hope to re-start it "in a few days." Decapitating criminal investigators really gets results. [CBS, photo via AP]

Federal prosecutors have issued a new round of subpoenas in their probe of John Edwards' campaign finances — giving the investigation seemingly stalled for a year fresh signs of life, the Associated Press reported.

The Justice Department has arrested 130 people in Puerto Rico—including 89 cops—and charged them with corruption and involvement in drug and gun trafficking. It's "the largest police corruption investigation in the history of the FBI." [CBS. Pic via]

If Republicans take the House back this fall, there's one thing you can count on: their constant use of subpoena power. Meaning, they'll formally investigate Obama's every turn. They can't wait. In fact, they're already drafting a long, long list.