Cops investigating the death of the sister of Hollywood producer Jill Blackstone say the siblings had planned to commit suicide together before Blackstone backed out.

The story of the 1965 Selma to Montgomery marches has been documented countless times. What hasn't been explored with the same scope is the effect these momentous events had on townspeople living in Selma during that period. Growing up, my mom shipped me to Selma every summer to stay with my grandmother, Bernice McMillian, choosing the familiar streets of where she grew up instead of letting me run wild in Chicago. It's as big a part of who I am as anything else. In the interest of posterity, I reached out to people who were around during the events of that month.

Thousands of victims and family members received phone calls from an Oregon Department of Corrections monitoring system on Friday alerting them in error to inmates' impending release, The Oregonian reports.

David Copperfield has a private pool in his 8,000-square-foot Manhattan apartment—something all of his neighbors are now well aware of because he managed to flood the entire building with it this week.

Seven children, ranging from 5 to 15 years old, died last night in a house fire in Brooklyn's Midwood neighborhood, The New York Daily News reports. Officials said the children's mother and one of her daughters survived and are in critical condition.

Nine men believed to have been participants in a mob that dragged, beat, and killed a woman after she was accused of burning pages from the Quran have been arrested, The New York Times reports. The woman's parents said she had suffered from mental illness for most of her life.

Everybody loves a good redemption story, so let us all gather around and admire the resilient comeback of Michelle Lapidos, who did a perfect white-person thing when she wore an afro around New York to learn more about herself and is now doing an even more perfect white-person thing: running an "adult preschool" in Brooklyn.

"Too Many Cooks," the sitcom-intro spoof that destroyed America's brains back in November, worked so well because of its spot-on parody of several TV genres, which went uncomfortably long and then glitched out into brilliant, unexpected madness. CNN just tried to do their own version, mocking(?) the 2016 election. Why?

Paul Tudor Jones—whose net worth is $4.6 billion—is one of the most famous hedge fund managers in American history. He is a heavy donor to Republicans. And he is warning of the possibility of class-based revolution in America. Also, he has some ideas.

Rough day in court today for accused murderer and Death Row Records founder Suge Knight, who collapsed and hit his head on a chair after a judge set his bail at $25 million. An unconscious Knight was treated by paramedics and taken to a nearby hospital.

They took Christ out of the classroom, and now they're coming for your iPhone: the new version of iOS has erased the radiant glory of God from the prayer hands emoji.

More than 150 firefighters were called to the scene of a fire in Chicago's Archer Heights neighborhood late Thursday night at a factory that manufactures fire extinguishers.

Art is whatever people think it is, and what people think it is depends an awful lot on context: For example, whether the work is being displayed in an art museum by a dapper bloke in glasses and a vest, or whether it's sitting alongside other copies of the exact same print in an IKEA, with a listed price of €10.

The Great Recession and the rise of the Occupy movement helped to launch a wave of labor organizing among low wage workers over the past few years. A new documentary looks at one single labor campaign at a New York deli.

Charlotte, N.C. police have arrested a second suspect in connection with the February murder of former America's Next Top Model contestant Mirjana Puhar and two others. David Ezequel Lopez, 19, was arrested and charged with three counts of first-degree murder on Thursday.

Last week, a young woman on spring break near Panama City, Florida was photographed in the nude, covered in Mardi Gras beads, and surrounded by shirtless men. Images of the woman began circulating on social media, and now authorities have launched a campaign to make sure the unnamed spring breaker is okay, the Panama City News Herald reports.

The Associated Press reports that the Yemeni branch of ISIS has claimed responsibility for a series of suicide bombings at two mosques in Yemen's capital, Sanaa, that killed at least 137 people and injured more than 300.

Farmworkers in Mexico are on strike for the first time in decades, and they probably have a pretty good reason.

A group of New Hampshire fourth-graders who traveled to the state's capital in Concord to learn about the joys of civic engagement were given a surprisingly realistic picture of the American legislative process after one lawmaker used their bill—a proposal to name the red-tailed hawk the official state raptor—as an opportunity to rail against the evils of abortion.

Michaela Kennedy Cuomo, the seventeen-year-old daughter of New York governor Andrew Cuomo, was found unconscious in her bedroom at her Westchester home on Wednesday, the New York Daily News reports. She was hospitalized for a short time thereafter.