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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…

There was reportedly no criminal intent behind the fire overnight Tuesday at a historic black church in Greeleyville, S.C. According to local investigators, along with the the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms, the blaze at Mount Zion African Methodist Episcopal Church must have been sparked by  “natural causes,” according to reporting by NBC News.…

He was trained in his father’s home country of Jamaica but now plays for his mother’s native Germany, according to The Independent. Today Dustin Brown, ranked 102nd in the world, is celebrating a stunner in the tennis world, knocking out two-time Wimbledon champ Rafael Nadal in four sets: 7-5, 3-6, 6-4, 6-4. It’s the first time…