Updated Wednesday, Dec. 16, 3:45 p.m. EST: A Baltimore jury failed to reach a verdict in the case of Baltimore Police Officer William Porter, the first of six officers set to be tried in the death of Freddie Gray, forcing Judge Barry Williams to declare a mistrial. According to CNN, jurors told the judge Tuesday…

Two Tennessee high school students were arrested and spent two days in jail for wearing sagging pants to school. According to the Huffington Post, four students at Bolivar Central High School were charged with indecent exposure for reportedly wearing sagging pants to school in November, and two of the students were jailed for the offense…

The U.S. Department of Education announced Tuesday that U.S. high school graduation rates reached record highs in the 2013-14 school year, with 82 percent of teens graduating. African-American and Latino students are also continuing to close the graduation gap with their white counterparts. According to the Education Department, there was a 17-point percentage gap in…

Sam’s Club CEO Rosalind Brewer is in hot water with white men after a CNN interview in which she championed diversity and talked about an experience meeting with a supplier who had no representation of women or people of color. “It has to start with top leadership,” Brewer said regarding the way she promotes diversity…

On Dec. 3, Sacramento Kings point guard Rajon Rondo was ejected from a game by referee Bill Kennedy. Rondo refused to leave the court immediately after being ejected and instead followed Kennedy to the far sideline, where he reportedly called the 18-year veteran a gay slur. Rondo was quoted as saying, “You’re a motherf—king f—got.…

President Barack Obama met with his national security team at the Pentagon Monday and then looked to ease fears of domestic terrorism during the holidays in a press conference. The president assured the public that the U.S.-led coalition is hitting ISIS, or the Islamic State, “harder than ever” and will continue with this strategy and…

Video showing Los Angeles County sheriff’s deputies fatally shoot a black man Saturday whose back was turned to them has gone viral and caused a backlash. Los Angeles County sheriff’s officials say that at the time of the shooting, the man, 28-year-old Nicholas Robertson, was holding a gun, which he never let go of, even…

Marvin Banks, 29, had been arrested in the fatal shooting of two Mississippi police officers. On Friday night, Banks was found unresponsive in his cell and rushed to a local hospital, where he was pronounced dead. According to NBC News, “Autopsy results showed Banks died of severe heart disease, but toxicology tests are still pending.”…

University of Mississippi defensive lineman Robert Nkemdiche is in stable condition after falling from a Buckhead, Ga., hotel-room window late Saturday night. According to CBS News, Nkemdiche reportedly broke a fourth-floor window at the Grand Hyatt Hotel, climbed out of the broken window, walked about 15 feet, then climbed over a wall and fell about 15…

On Thursday a California federal judge ordered a jailed Muslim inmate, who stopped eating after his May arrest for supporting ISIS, to eat or be force-fed. Muhanad Badawi, 24, appeared in court looking rail thin, having lost 30 pounds since his arrest in May. At the time of his arrest, Badawi weighed about 140 pounds.…