Updated June 24, 2014, 11:58 a.m. EDT: Meriam Ibrahim has been detained at the international airport in Khartoum, Sudan—the country’s capital—while she, her husband and two children were attempting to leave the country, according to her lawyer, Mohaned Mustafa El-Nour, the Daily News​ reports. “They knew she had been cleared by the court, but they have rearrested her,”…

Venus Williams leaves very little to the imagination in ESPN the Magazine’s sixth annual Body Issue, hitting newsstands July 11. Williams didn’t quite know what she was getting into when she agreed to pose for the issue. “It didn’t dawn on me until right when I walked on set that I would have to be…

Nigeria closed its investigation of the kidnapping of more than 200 schoolgirls on Friday, with little progress made in recovering the girls, who were kidnapped by Boko Haram militants from their secondary school in northeast Borno state during exams April 14, according to Reuters. Brig. Gen. Ibrahim Sabo submitted the final report, which noted that the…

It was a summer box office weekend of sequels, and Think Like a Man Too led the pack with a solid $30 million, reports the Hollywood Reporter. The top three films were all follow-ups that moved into the big box office summer arena after the surprise-hit originals were released during the spring, according to New…

Five men, four black and one Hispanic, widely known as the Central Park Five whose charges—in the 1989 ruthless beating and sexual assault of 28-year-old investment banker Trisha Meili during her routine jog through Central Park—were later overturned, have reached a $40 million settlement with New York City, reports the New York Times. The proposed deal…

“If you’re going to arrest me, then just arrest me now, ‘cause next time I am going to kill him.” Those are reportedly the fighting words Edward Holley, 60, told police when he was arrested and taken into custody Wednesday from an Orlando, Fla., home after allegedly dousing his neighbor Darryl Blacknell with a pan…

Four-year-old Myls Dobson lost his life in the cruelest way. His bruised, emaciated tiny body was found Jan. 8 inside the bathroom of his babysitter Kryzie King’s luxury New York City apartment. Before succumbing to “child abuse syndrome, including dehydration,” according to the autopsy report and as reported in the New York Times, the 4-year-old…

Brittany Florence, who cleans floors for a living at Parkland Hospital in Dallas, will earn a living wage for the very first time. “I can save money and move into my own place now,” Florence told ABC affiliate WFAA 8. Next month Florence, 25, will see her wage increase by $1.50 an hour, reports WFAA.…

A MacArthur Foundation “How Housing Matters” (pdf) study reveals that while black men face alarmingly high incarceration rates, black women are disproportionately evicted from their homes. According to the study, in any given year, approximately 16,000 adults and children are evicted in Milwaukee from approximately 6,000 housing units—that equates to 16 households evicted every day. These…

The last thing one Georgia man expected to see during a routine drive down the highway was a 15-month-old baby crawling near the embankment. “What the hell is going on? A baby?” was Bryant Collins’ knee-jerk reaction to his unusual discovery, according to 11 Alive. Collins said he caught a glimpse of something out of…