Out magazine’s annual list of the most influential gays and lesbians has been announced and CNN’s Anderson Cooper again tops the list of media names, coming third for the second year in a row. Although Cooper and fellow power-lister blogger Matt Drudge (he dropped from 6th to 15th) have never publicly acknowledged being gay, that doesn’t stop Out from consistently counting the two men–as well as actress Jodie Foster–when tallying who is gay and lesbian.

National Public Radio’s Ari Shapiro is moving from the Justice Depatment to the White House, a move he announced in a tweet and on his Facebook page: “It’s official! As much as I’ve loved covering Justice for the last 5 years, I’m about to be NPR’s newest White House correspondent.” Shapiro will replace Don Gonyea, who is being named national political correspondent after a decade on the White House beat.

CNN’s Anderson Cooper is denying reports by the National Enquirer that he is planning to adopt a child from Haiti. In a statement to Andy Towle at Towleroad, Cooper says “[w]hile the plight of children in Haiti has touched us all, and I continue to cover the situation there closely, stories about me adopting a baby are false. I am not adopting a child, Haitian or otherwise.” He also denied the story in a tweet.

Who knew that the cover of a gay magazine could put everyone in such a bad mood. Adam Lambert used an interview with Entertainment Weekly to respond to allegations made earlier in the week by Out magazine editor Aaron Hicklin that Lambert didn’t want to be seen as “too gay” in the magazine devoted to being, well, openly gay.