The Women’s Tennis Organization suspended and fined a Russian tennis chief Saturday after he made a demeaning remark about Serena and Venus Williams on a television show, CNN reports. Shamil Tarpischev referred to the tennis stars as “the Williams brothers” during a recent appearance on the late-night Russian talk show Evening Urgant. He made the comment…

Civil rights leader Al Sharpton Saturday rejected a report that police Officer Darren Wilson feared for his life when he shot and killed unarmed teen Michael Brown last summer in Ferguson, Mo., the New York Daily News reports. During a speech Saturday at the Harlem-based headquarters of his National Action Network, Sharpton accused officials of…

A model has filed a federal lawsuit against Trump Model Management, charging that she was promised an annual salary of $75,000 but received only $3,380.75 for 21 jobs over three years, New York’s Daily News reports. In the suit, a proposed class action, Alexia Palmer alleges that between January 2011 and December 2013, the agency…

When President Barack Obama’s credit card was declined at a fancy restaurant in New York City last month, the first lady had him covered. But CNN reports that bad credit was not the issue. The card was likely declined to prevent identity theft. The president told the story Friday while speaking to workers at the…

The Supreme Court on Saturday ruled in favor of a controversial new voter-identification law in Texas, which can be used for the November election, the Associated Press reports. The order came after a majority of the justices rejected an emergency request from the Justice Department and civil rights groups to prohibit the state from requiring…

Officer Darren Wilson of the Ferguson, Mo., Police Department says he was in fear for his life in August when he shot and killed unarmed teen Michael Brown, the New York Times reports. The shooting sparked continuing protests over police violence against minorities, especially unarmed black men. Wilson’s testimony to federal investigators, shared by officials…

A Chicago-area man was charged Saturday with stabbing a 79-year-old woman four times in the back and neck at a grocery store Friday because of her race, the Chicago Sun-Times reports. The man, Pol Danilov, 26, was charged with attempted murder and committing a hate crime. He reportedly told police that he attacked the woman…

The last time anyone saw Aniya Knee Parker was when she was picked up on surveillance video about 3 a.m. on Oct. 2 on a street corner in East Hollywood, Calif. That’s when she was engaged in a struggle with three men over her purse and then shot dead as she tried to run away,…

A Dallas health care worker has tested positive for Ebola, according to preliminary test results, CNN reports. Further tests will be conducted by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta to confirm the presence of the virus in the unidentified worker at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital, the news site notes. The worker reportedly…

Viola Davis has been able to navigate the harsh landscape of Hollywood because she got an early lesson in survival. The 49-year-old native of South Carolina grew up in abject poverty and often did not know where her next meal was going to come from, she said Friday speaking at Variety magazine’s Power of Women…