There are several mysteries in the world, and how Zach Galifianakis scored President Obama on his Funny or Die mock-talk show, Between Two Ferns, may now be the funniest, if not the biggest. Ferns features host Galifianakis and his guest sitting, in fact, between two gigantic ferns while the comedian asks extremely awkward questions. The…

Will Smith is reportedly teaming up with Sony Pictures to produce a film version of the graphic novel Harlem Hellfighters, according to industry blog Shadow and Act. The novel, which is inspired by the true story of the all-African-American 369th Infantry Regiment, was written by Max Brooks, best known for his book World War Z:…

Arizona Cardinals free agent running back Rashard Mendenhall is retiring from football, ESPN reports. Mendenhall, 26, alluded to the fact that his days of playing in the NFL might be coming to an end in a Feb. 25 column he wrote for the Huffington Post, in which he said, “As I write this, today is the…

12 Years a Slave screenwriter John Ridley is aware of the drama surrounding himself and director Steve McQueen. While promoting the U.S. premiere of the Hendrix biopic Jimi: All Is By My Side at SXSW this past weekend, Ridley looked to bury the hatchet. What began over screenwriter credits and escalated to an Academy Award-speech…

A Minnesota high school wrestler showed the crowd the true meaning of a champion after a tough loss in the state championship match, news station KARE 11 reports. After losing the title to Mitchell McKee, Malik Stewart went over and embraced McKee’s father, Steve, who is battling terminal cancer. “I got a little teary because…

Former Vice President Dick Cheney believes that President Obama shouldn’t take military options off the table in response to Russia’s intervention in Ukraine. And the former VP also thinks that there is “no question” that President Vladimir Putin believes President Barack Obama is weak, Yahoo News reports. “I worry when we begin to address the…

Some New York high school students who couldn’t handle a tough semifinal basketball loss took to Twitter to send racially insensitive tweets at the opposing school, leading to the suspension of three students and possibly several more.   According to CBS New York, on Thursday, Mahopac High School lost 43-40 to top-seeded Mount Vernon, which is…

A Georgia jury has found the man who fatally wounded pop singer Usher’s 11-year-old stepson in a 2012 Jet Ski collision guilty and sentenced him to four years in prison, Rolling Stone reports. Jeffrey Simon Hubbard, 40, was found guilty of homicide by vessel as a result of the 2012 water incident that took the…

Isaiah Washington, who was fired from ABC’s Grey’s Anatomy in 2007 for calling cast member T.R. Knight an anti-gay epithet, is throwing on the scrubs once again for a guest appearance on the show in May. According to the Associated Press, Washington’s return as Dr. Preston Burke coincides with the announced departure of series star…

Melissa Harris-Perry, the MSNBC host who recently chronicled on the news channel’s website her fertility issues and the difficulty she and her husband had in choosing to go the surrogate route, is now sharing another side of herself with viewers: her natural hair.   Harris-Perry, the host of the Melissa Harris-Perry show (MHP for those in…