President Barack Obama is slated to sign orders in the next few weeks to release scores of federal inmates imprisoned on nonviolent drug charges, reports the New York Times. Upon signing the orders, Obama will likely reduce more sentences at one time than any president in nearly 50 years, the report says. The total number…

Tennis’ star sisters Venus and Serena Williams have played tennis together forever, but they played against each other in a professional setting for the first time 17 years ago at the Australian Open in a game that was won by the elder sister. The two have played at eight grand-slam finals, according to the Daily…

Star Trek legend George Takei has apologized for calling Clarence Thomas a “clown in blackface” following the Supreme Court justice’s dissent in last week’s landmark same-sex-marriage ruling, according to CNN. “I was still seething, and I referred to him as a ‘clown in blackface’ to suggest that he had abdicated and abandoned his heritage,” Takei…

Arthur Booth, 49, was in Miami-Dade Circuit Court for a bond hearing Thursday when the judge recognized him as a former middle school classmate, triggering a tearful outburst from the defendant, according to the Huffington Post. Booth, a burglary suspect, appeared before Florida judge Mindy Glazer, who at the end of the proceedings asked him…

Elder first daughter Malia Obama has been seen on the set of Lena Dunham’s hit HBO show Girls in Brooklyn, N.Y., since landing her second television entertainment internship, reports the Daily Mail. Malia, who turns 17 on the Fourth of July, was on the set of Girls on Thursday at Aurora Ristorante, the Mail writes,…

Just months after Baltimore resident Freddie Gray was fatally injured while being transported in the back of a police van, city officials are investigating a photograph of a sign inside the rear door of a similar transport vehicle that reads, “Enjoy your ride, cuz we sure will,” CNN reports. The image has emerged amid smoldering…

Bobbi Kristina Brown’s family gathered Saturday at an Atlanta-area hospice-care center where the 22-year-old daughter of the late Whitney Houston was moved last week amid concerns about her deteriorating health, according to People magazine. She was transferred to the facility Wednesday after her condition began to worsen. The move came at the same time her…

Just hours after a Black Lives Matter activist scaled a pole outside the South Carolina Statehouse to remove the Confederate flag, dozens of supporters rallied in defense of the divisive banner Saturday at the capitol in Columbia, S.C., according to USA Today. A new flag was hoisted within an hour after Black Lives Matter activist…

Brittany “Bree” Newsome became a social media rock star Saturday in Internet warp speed, of course, after she clambered up a flagpole outside the South Carolina Statehouse and removed the Confederate flag at the break of dawn. The flag was hoisted just hours after Newsome’s effort, which took place about 6:30 a.m. EDT. She and…

A lawyer representing Bill Cosby argued in court Friday that it would be “terribly embarrassing” for the comedian if documents from a 2005 sex-assault lawsuit were ever unsealed, reports the Associated Press. The embattled comedian is fighting efforts by AP to unseal motions from a civil lawsuit he settled with Andrea Constand, a former Temple…