On a makeshift tennis court outside the Ed Sullivan Theater in New York City, late-night talk show host David Letterman and Serena Williams, one of the world’s top tennis players, decided to get in a quick game yesterday. The pair didn’t even change into tennis gear. Letterman merely ditched his sport coat and played in…

Tatsha Robertson, People magazine’s only black editor until she was fired in May, has filed a lawsuit against the magazine alleging that the publication is biased against blacks and that she was treated like a second-class citizen. According to New York’s Daily News, which has viewed the lawsuit, Robertson, 48, alleges that there were only…

This may be a clear case of “police-enza.” Fred Couch, the father of Ethan Couch, the Texas teen who made national news after his attorneys argued an “affluenza” defense for a drunken-driving accident that killed four people and seriously injured two, has been arrested for impersonating a police officer, the Dallas News reports. According to…

The video footage was violent. A California Highway Patrol officer straddling an older woman rained down punches, all of them closed fist, to the woman’s face.  The July 1 video of the incident went viral. On Wednesday the CHP released a statement noting that Daniel Andrew, the officer who is reported to have been involved…

Speaking at an early-morning press conference Thursday, Missouri Highway Patrol Capt. Ronald S. Johnson noted that the 11th night of protests in Ferguson were mostly peaceful as protesters gathered calmly and police did not use smoke, tear gas or pepper spray, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports. Johnson credited the police, community leaders, clergy and the…

While tempers continue to flare in Ferguson, Mo., after a white police officer shot and killed an unarmed African-American teen Aug. 9, there are still a number of issues that now must be considered. As several stories have emerged and Ferguson continues to split at its racial seam, state prosecutors have to decide whether to…

Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon is ordering the National Guard into Ferguson after a Sunday night of unrest resulting in police using tear gas to get protesters off the streets before a midnight curfew. The violence comes after news reports that a private autopsy ordered by the family of Michael Brown showed that the unarmed teenager,…

A new eyewitness to the fatal police shooting of unarmed Ferguson, Mo., teen Michael Brown has come forward, claiming that she saw Brown and the officer scuffling and witnessed the fatal shots that left the 18-year-old dead. According to Tiffany Mitchell, who spoke to Don Lemon on CNN Tonight, Brown was trying to pull away…

Because kids have nothing better to do with their time except douse themselves in flammable liquid and then light themselves on fire while a friend records it on video until the fire is put out, “the fire challenge” was born, and now a Charlotte, N.C., mother has been arrested for allegedly helping her teenage son…

President Barack Obama called the death of Michael Brown—the 18-year-old who was fatally shot by a police officer in Ferguson, Mo., on Saturday—”heartbreaking” and asked that the community allow for the details to “unfold.” “Michelle and I send our deepest condolences to his family and his community at this very difficult time,” a statement released…