Smokey Robinson has filed a defamation lawsuit against four former housekeepers who accused him of rape and prompted a police investigation. Robinson and his wife, Frances Robinson, filed the counterclaim Wednesday in Los Angeles Superior Court against the women and their lawyers, whose allegations, they say, were “fabricated in an extortionate

President Donald Trump has audaciously claimed virtually unlimited power to bypass Congress and impose sweeping taxes on foreign products. Now a federal court has thrown a roadblock in his path. A three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of International Trade ruled Wednesday that Trump overstepped his authority when he invoked the 1977 International

In a bookstore in Kenya’s capital, the proprietor arranged a shelf exclusively carrying books by Kenyan author Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o, who died Wednesday in the United States. Bennet Mbata, who has sold African literature at the Nuria Bookstore for more than 30 years in Nairobi, said he enjoyed reading Ngũgĩ’s writing and is sad

As Detroit Opera officials made plans last fall to bring a production based on the Central Park Five to their 2025 lineup, then-presidential candidate Donald Trump loomed large and just off stage. The opera puts to music the story of five Black and Latino teens imprisoned for the 1989 rape

Sean “Diddy” Combs’ former personal assistant testified Thursday that the hip-hop mogul sexually assaulted her, threw her into a swimming pool, dumped a bucket of ice on her and slammed a door against her arm during a torturous eight-year tenure. The woman, testifying at Combs’ sex trafficking trial under the pseudonym “Mia,”

When Cardi B said she was done, she meant it in 2024, but the story between her and Offset is far from over. The Bronx-born rapper filed for divorce again from her husband of six years last August, setting off a highly public unraveling of one of hip-hop’s most headline-grabbing

Eddie Murphy and Martin Lawrence are officially in-laws! During an appearance on “The Jennifer Hudson Show” on Thursday, May 29, the 64-year-old comedian revealed that his son married 60-year-old Lawrence’s daughter during a private ceremony in a church.  According to the “Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F” star, his son Eric,

Patti LuPone has some thoughts on her fellow Broadway stars Audra McDonald and Kecia Lewis. The 76-year-old three-time Tony Award winner is facing backlash after she made not-so-kind remarks about McDonald and Lewis while speaking to The New Yorker earlier this week ahead of her guest spot on HBO Max’s

An 18-year-old woman about to begin her first year at the U.S. Air Force Academy was killed when a personal watercraft hit her kayak on a Texas lake over Memorial Day weekend, setting off a pursuit by law enforcement that ended in the arrests of two people. Ava Moore died following

Rain…a gender reveal…You never know what kind of magic Beyoncé is going to pull out at one of her shows. During the fourth stop of her Cowboy Carter tour at MetLife Stadium, Queen Bey gave fans more than just vocals and visuals. She gave one lucky couple a moment they’ll