Short takes: CIA torture, GOP DOMA subterfuge, Gov. Jerry Brown's cancer, cops loot Rivera crash site

Sir Ian Mckellen's agent says that the British actor doesn't have prostate cancer after all.

However, California Gov. Jerry Brown does.

Below: Stephen Colbert mocks Judge Shrubb's delay in implementation of law to outlaw so-called "conversion therapy" for minors in California.

Jim Burroway of Box Turtle Bulletin: My Mini Cooper against your VW Cabriolet. Anytime. Anywhere.

The man who changed how you shop is dead at 91. His invention is used 5 billion times a day.

European court of human rights unanimously ruled that CIA agents beat, shackled and sodomized a German citizen as Macedonian state police watched.

House Republicans hid budget increases to defend the federal Defense of Marriage Act, even though the Supreme Court has yet to rule whether they even have standing to do so, as the White House has stopped legal defense of the law (but not, as some Republicans falsely claim, its enforcement.) House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi is not amused at John Boehner's subterfuge and has issued a blistering statement.

Two Mexican cops, 23 and 24, have been arrested for stealing items from the Jenni Rivera crash site.

Antonin Scalia's son Paul, a priest, is chaplain to a Catholic group which denies gay identity.