The makers of the Fox hit show Empire are being sued on allegations that they have been doing what empire builders have been known to do since the dawn of man: steal. Ron Newt, author of the book and script Bigger Than Big, has filed a $1 billion lawsuit in California against the Fox network’s…

Updated May 3, 2015, 12 p.m. EDT: Baltimore City Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake on Sunday lifted a daily 10 p.m. curfew that was imposed five days ago after violence erupted during protests over the death of Freddie Gray, reports NBC News. She made the announcement via Twitter: https://twitter.com/MayorSRB/status/594873995524231168https://twitter.com/MayorSRB/status/594874958880313346 Updated May 3, 2015, 11:30 a.m. EDT: According to…

Six police officers charged in the death of Freddie Gray were released from Baltimore’s Central Booking and Intake Center on Friday night after posting bail, court records show, according to the Baltimore Sun. The four officers facing felony charges posted $350,000 bails; the two facing misdemeanors posted $250,000 bails, the Sun writes. The news comes…

David Stephens of Jacksonville, Fla., apparently found himself in a serious predicament earlier this week after the 24-year-old mother of his two children was shot in random gunfire: caring for his kids, according to News4Jax. “I was stunned, liked to caught a heart attack, you know,” Stephens told the television news station on Monday about…

Russian hackers reportedly snooped through some of President Barack Obama’s emails in a breach of the White House’s unclassified computer system last year, according to the New York Times. In a break that was “far more intrusive and worrisome than has been publicly acknowledged,” the Times says, hackers accessed email archives of people inside the…

Twelve people were arrested late Saturday after peaceful protests in Baltimore against police violence erupted in anger as demonstrators, officers and fans who turned out for an Orioles baseball game clashed in the streets, CNN reports. Baltimore Police Commissioner Anthony Batts said that the arrests came after a clash between demonstrators, officers and Orioles fans…

President Barack Obama may have gotten big laughs Saturday at the 89th annual White House Correspondents’ Dinner, but first lady Michelle Obama stole the show in a shimmering silver gown and ringlets of curls. Obama dished out one-liners about everything from 2016 Democratic presidential candidate and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s recent media woes…

A Seattle woman who was punched in the face by a police officer during an arrest on charges of domestic violence has filed a $1 million claim against the city, saying that her rights were violated, the city clerk’s office said Friday, according to Reuters. Miyekko Durden-Bosley, 23, suffered a fractured eye socket in the…

A Florida sheriff’s deputy in Lee County has been fired after an investigation found that he ignored a 911 call from a woman having a heart attack so that he could finish his pizza, according to television station WZVN. According to an internal report released Wednesday, Lee County Deputy Yvan Fernandez was first dispatched to…

An internal investigation by the Tulsa County Sheriff’s Office appears to have determined in 2009 that training policies were bent in favor of the reserve deputy who killed Eric Harris this month when he mistakenly fired a gun instead of a Taser, according to CNN. Robert Bates, 73, the Tulsa, Okla., reserve deputy who fatally…