Republican presidential candidate Ben Carson says that he pulled his proposed tax plan straight out of the Bible, Raw Story reports.  It’s “tithing,” the former neurosurgeon explained to Fox News host Chris Wallace Sunday, describing his plan as one in which everyone would pay according to his or her ability. “You make $10 billion a…

Sierra Mccurdy was fired from her job at a Subway sandwich shop for allegedly gloating in a Facebook post about how two Mississippi police officers were slain Saturday, the New York Daily News reports. In screenshots that have circulated online, a post from Mccurdy’s Facebook account read: “2 police officers was shot in Hattiesburg tonight!…

The world is already aware that many of the women and girls abducted by Boko Haram have been sexually assaulted and forced to convert to Islam and then into marriage. Now it is being reported that some 214 out of the 234 women and girls who were recently rescued by Nigerian authorities are visibly pregnant,…

In 2005, then-Florida Gov. Jeb Bush took $1.3 million out of his state’s pension fund to invest in Movie Gallery, a now-defunct video-rental company known for its wide selection of pornographic films. Political observers predict that the investment might come back to haunt Bush now that he’s seeking the Republican nomination for the 2016 presidential election,…

Anucha Browne, the former New York Knicks executive who filed a sexual harassment suit against the Knicks’ then-coach, Isiah Thomas, in 2007, is responding to statements made by Thomas and Madison Square Garden, the team’s home stadium, discrediting her allegations now that Thomas has been named president of the WNBA’s New York Liberty, the New…

Philippe Archer, a Miami Beach police detective, was reprimanded for punching and kicking a female model nearly two years ago while she was handcuffed and in custody, the Daily Mail reports. Archer has also been suspended for one month (without pay)—he’ll serve the suspension over days spread out in May, June and July, the Daily…

Dorian Johnson, the only person who was with unarmed teen Michael Brown when he was fatally shot by then-Police Officer Darren Wilson in Ferguson, Mo., was arrested Wednesday on drug-related charges and suspicion of resisting arrest—not long after he filed a lawsuit against Wilson, the New York Daily News reports. In the lawsuit, Johnson claims…

All aboard to Cuba! Making good on President Barack Obama’s promise to thaw the icy relations between the U.S. and Cuba, his administration gave the green light to four ferry operators Tuesday to begin making round-trips to Cuba, the Associated Press reports. Baja Ferries—a U.S. passenger line that operates in Mexico—said that it received a…

President Barack Obama went on the Late Show With David Letterman Monday to bid farewell to the host, who is nearing his final days on the air. The president weighed in on the protests in Baltimore in response to the death of Freddie Gray while in police custody. He said that racism does, in fact,…

Authorities in Lee County, Fla., have fired Jean Lopez, a former deputy sheriff who reportedly referred to a black man as a monkey on his Facebook page, NBC2 reports. According to an investigation by the Lee County Sheriff’s Office internal-affairs unit, Lopez posted a video on his Facebook page that showed a black man talking…