For eight years, Citigroup executive Gary Foster was living the high life on borrowed funds. Embezzling more than $22 million in 2003-2011, Foster, vice president in Citigroup’s treasury finance department in Long Island City, N.Y., racked up a $1 million condo in New Jersey, grand apartments in Brooklyn and Manhattan, along with a Maserati, Ferrari…

At this year’s Hollywood Bowl Jazz series in Los Angeles, music heavyweights including Herbie Hancock and Vince Wilburn Jr. gathered to play but also celebrate one of their own. The United States Postal Service held an unveiling of the Miles Davis stamp, which was announced earlier this year, for the California crowd, according to LA…

The Huffington Post reports that thanks to donations from fans, Ossie Davis and Ruby Dee may have a documentary chronicling their lives soon. Promoting the project — called Life’s Essentials With Ruby Dee — through the fundraising website Kickstarter, Dee’s family will have a hand in telling the story of her and her late husband.…

Following the guilty verdict in the sexual-abuse case of Penn State assistant coach Jerry Sandusky, one man on the jury, Joshua Harper, says he knows he made the right decision. Harper, a graduate of Penn State, told the New York Times that even as the jury read all 45 guilty verdicts, Sandusky’s face never moved. Now…

Following a full-scale revolution and weeks of election turmoil, Egypt’s election commission has announced that Mohamed Morsi is the official successor to former President Hosni Mubarak. As thousands turned out in Cairo’s Tahrir Square and gathered in cities across the country, cheers erupted when the winner’s name was announced. Having bested his opponent Ahmed Shafik,…

Few singer-songwriters are able to capture an audience that includes Beyoncé, Kanye West and Jay-Z with their first independent EP, but Frank Ocean did. The Los Angeles-based artist released the highly popular “Nostalgia/Ultra” mixtape project in 2010 via Tumblr to great results, and now, after becoming a priority artist at the Island Def Jam label,…

As the “war on women” continues, Mississippi has passed a law aiming to effectively shut the only abortion clinic in the Magnolia State. According to the New York Times, the law goes into effect on July 1. The law, which was passed this spring by large margins in the State Legislature, requires all physicians associated…