NBC has formally cut business ties with business giant and 2016 presidential candidate Donald Trump over controversial remarks made about Mexicans.  According to NBC News, the network will no longer air the Miss USA pageant, which was scheduled for July 12; nor will it air the Miss Universe pageant, which was to be aired next year.…

An Ole Miss football player has been arrested after reportedly punching his stepfather in defense of his mother, the Clarion-Ledger reports.  All-American left tackle Laremy Tunsil turned himself in in connection with an altercation that started Thursday night, university coach Hugh Freeze confirmed over the weekend. Freeze said that Tunsil went after his stepfather, Lindsey…

A Detroit mother has admitted guilt in the deaths of two of her children, whose bodies were found in the family’s deep freezer in March, the Detroit Free Press reports.  Mitchelle Blair pleaded guilty to two counts of murder in the deaths of Stoni Blair and Stephen Berry, offering details of the horrifying abuse they…

One Republican politician isn’t too impressed with the recent, heated debate concerning the Confederate flag, calling it a “manufactured political crisis” meant to distract. Former Rep. Allen West of Florida quoted Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s statement to “never let a good crisis go to waste” on Fox & Friends Monday morning, adding that the discussion…

Mike Huckabee, former Arkansas governor and 2016 Republican presidential candidate, told ABC’s George Stephanopoulos Sunday that he believes same-sex-marriage opponents will continue to fight against the Supreme Court’s ruling and use MLK-like tactics of civil disobedience.  When Stephanopoulos asked the politician if he supported individual citizens’ use of civil disobedience to oppose the court’s historic 5-4 ruling Friday,…

Whittier, Calif., residents found Ku Klux Klan fliers on their front lawns Sunday morning, prompting shocked responses from neighbors, the Los Angeles Times reports.  According to the report, one block in the neighborhood received plastic bags with the fliers, which declared “Wake Up WHITE AMERICA!” along with a rock and some candy, local police told…

In a rousing eulogy punctuated by organ riffs, clapping and the occasional “Amen,” the president remembered and praised the life work of state Sen. Clementa Pinckney of South Carolina, who was also the pastor of the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston. “We are here today to a remember a man of God who…

South Wesleyan University, the employer of one of the victims of the attack at the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, S.C., is honoring its fallen employee by offering full tuition scholarships to her four children if they wish to attend the school, USA Today reports. DePayne Middleton Doctor was an alumna of the…

For the second time this week, a black church has reportedly been set on fire, this time in Georgia, The Telegraph reports. According to the report, arson investigators are still awaiting test results from the scene of the fire at God’s Power Church of Christ in Macon, Ga. However, fire Sgt. Ben Gleaton told the…

Same-sex couples can get married in all 50 states after a historic Supreme Court ruling on Friday struck down state bans, according to NPR. Gay marriage was already legal in 37 states and the District of Columbia, but now the narrow 5-4 ruling means that the remaining 13 states must stop refusing to marry same-sex…