A father of 13, who was recently engaged, was reportedly shot dead by a campus police officer near the University of Cincinnati on Sunday, the Daily Beast reports. According to the report, the UC officer, Ray Tensing, pulled over 43-year-old Sam Dubose about a mile from the university because he did not have a license…

For the first time in 50 years, Cuba and the U.S. will have embassies on each other’s soil, one more step in rebuilding the relationship that was shattered decades ago, USA Today reports. According to the report, on Monday the Cuban flag will officially be raised in Washington, D.C., as part of a daylong series…

Sandra Bland was found dead Monday while in the custody of a Waller County, Texas, jail. Police have called her death a suicide, claiming that she died from “self-inflicted asphyxiation.” Her family and friends insist that the 28-year-old, an outspoken voice against police brutality who was on her way to begin a new job in Texas,…

An 18-year-old Alabama girl reportedly took her own life while being held at a local jail, AL.com reports.  Kindra Darnell Chapman was reportedly booked at Homewood City Jail Tuesday at around 6:22 p.m. on a first-degree-robbery charge for allegedly taking a cellphone from another individual. She was last seen alive at 6:30 p.m. Jailers found…

Video of a fatal Gardena, Calif., police-involved shooting has been unsealed after media outlets demanded its public release, the Associated Press reports. A federal judge ruled in favor of the police dash-cam video’s release, pointing out that the city could not claim any compelling reason to keep the video sealed and adding that there was…

Updated Monday, July 13, 8:15 p.m. EDT: The city of New York settled with the family of Eric Garner on Monday for $5.9 million, according to family attorney Jonathan Moore, the New York Times reports. The city had until Friday to settle the case before the family filed a lawsuit. Other investigations into the case—by…

The Associated Press, the Los Angeles Times and Bloomberg are demanding the release of police dash-cam footage of a fatal 2013 shooting of an unarmed man, AP reports.  A lawyer for the three outlets is arguing that the public has the right to see video that was captured on the cameras in three police vehicles.…

Bill Cosby is the very opposite of the man of the hour at this point. As more companies pull support and distance themselves from the embattled TV dad in light of unsealed court documents in which Cosby admitted to buying drugs for women for the purpose of sex, a sexual-violence awareness group is now petitioning…

Memphis, Tenn., city leaders unanimously voted on Tuesday night to exhume the body of Nathan Bedford Forrest, a former Confederate general and Ku Klux Klan leader who is buried in the city’s Health Sciences Park, and move him to a private cemetery, Fusion reports. According to the report, the City Council also voted to move…

The Confederate flag that flies on South Carolina Statehouse grounds is one signature away from being removed after the state House of Representatives passed its final vote on the measure early Thursday morning, Reuters reports. According to the report, state representatives, on their third and final vote, passed the measure with a sweeping 94-20 vote…