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A revived Oprah lawsuit will make the media mogul defend her use of the phrase “Own Your Power” in her magazine and on her website, a federal appeals court has ruled. The 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals overturned a lower court ruling and revived claims brought by the owner of a motivational and self-help business who claims she owns a trademark on the phrase. The court is worried the classic “conquer all” Oprah effect is a legal “uh-oh,” not an “aha!...

Rapper Rick Ross crashed his Rolls Royce into an apartment building on Monday. According to Ross, a drive-by shooting (or perhaps an assassination attempt) may have been the reason why. If you are not into the world of gangsta rap, you may not be aware that Rick Ross adopted the symbol of the Gangster Disciples gang and featured the name of the gang’s leader in one of his songs. The gang was none too happy about Ross using their symbol and leader like that and demanded (or perhaps attempted to extort?...

The Supreme Court has upheld the long-standing tradition of offering prayers at the start of government meetings, even if those prayers are heavily Christian. The Court ruled that the town of Greece, New York was free to open its monthly public meetings with a prayer. Two residents, one Jewish and one atheist, claimed that because the prayers were almost always Christian, the practice amounted to government endorsement of a single faith....

Toyota is recalling more than 1 million Corolla and Lexus sedans because of problems with airbags and windshield wipers. It’s the latest in a string of recent recalls for the world’s largest automaker. Along with these Corolla and Lexus recalls, Toyota has also announced recalls in the past several years for problems including bad brakes, gas pedals, and floor mats, reports USA Today. Toyota issued two new recalls Wednesday. The recalls involve:...

After missing countless graduations, marriage and births, Debra Brown was released from Utah State Prison Monday after spending 17 years behind bars. She is the first inmate to successfully take advantage of a new law that allows convictions to be judicially reconsidered based on factual evidence. Debra Brown, now 53, was convicted of the November 1993 murder of her friend and employer, a 75-year-old man she cared for, reports the Associated Press....

It’s a beautiful day in convicted Ponzi schemer Bernard Madoff’s new neighborhood. The disgraced former investment manager is serving his 150-year prison sentence at the Butner Federal Correction Complex in Butner, North Carolina. Here is a sampling of Bernie’s new neighbors, and the answers to frequently asked questions about conjugal visits, gifts, and more. Omar Ahmad Rahman (Prisoner No. 34892-054), the leader of a radical Islamist terrorist group al-Gama’a al-Islamiyya, arrested in 1993 for plotting to blow up the World Trade Center and convicted on gun possession charges, and convicted in 1995 of seditious conspiracy charges, conspiring to blow up U....

Anyone can make the honest mistake of forgetting to return a borrowed item. Time passes, memory slips and before you know it, the person from whom you borrowed the item will wonder whether he or she will ever get their goods back. Even if the owner is miffed about you keeping something for too long, your actions do not amount to theft if you simply, honestly forgot to return the item....

The past 365 days haven’t been great for many reasons, a laundry list of lost artists and athletes and a nasty presidential election being just a few of them. But it wasn’t a great year for food and drug companies, either. The past 12 months have been riddled with recalls, from E. coli-tainted burritos to non-dissolving antidepressants. Here are the top five health scares of 2016: 1. Chipotle Issued Criminal Subpoena Over Norovirus Outbreak The E....

There are more parents in jails and prisons than people might realize. In fact, 1 in 28 children in the United States now has a parent behind bars – more than the number of kids with a parent who is deployed in the armed forces, according to a Pew report. It’s a serious issue, but the topic is rarely broached because of the stigma. Leave it to “Sesame Street” to tackle a topic that others are too afraid to touch....

Over 4 million “Aqua Dots” craft kits are being recalled because colored beads in the sets are coated with a chemical that can turn toxic if ingested, causing children who swallow the beads to possibly become comatose, develop respiratory depression, or have seizures. The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) has received two reports of children swallowing the beads before vomiting, becoming comatose, and requiring hospitalization. Both children have since recovered....

Hayden Panettiere is no Amanda Knox, but she does play her in the new Amanda Knox Lifetime movie–Amanda Knox: Murder on Trial in Italy. Though the network isn’t known for its titling, the Amanda Knox movie is sure to be another boring Sunday afternoon hit. That’s if the lawyers representing Knox, her also-convicted ex-boyfriend, and the parents of victim Meredith Kercher don’t get to it first. The Amanda Knox movie is billed as being based on a true story, but the screenwriters took a bit of liberty in portraying the events that took place....

BP’s day of reckoning has come as it agreed to pay the biggest criminal fine in U.S. history. The oil giant pleaded guilty to a raft of charges in the deadly Gulf of Mexico spill and agreed to pay a record $4.5 billion. BP has agreed to plead guilty to felony misconduct for its role in the devastation caused by the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill. But was the punishment enough?...

In March 2012, an off-duty police officer shot and killed Kenny Smith outside a Cleveland bar. Although Cuyahoga County prosecutor Tim McGinty initially said Officer Roger Jones “correctly and heroically took action to protect the safety of the citizens of Cleveland,” Smith’s family was awarded $5.5 million in a wrongful death claim in September. Smith’s family has yet to see any of that money, and they possibly never will. That’s because Cleveland’s law department is trying a new way around paying millions in civil judgments against the city’s police officers....

Four college students at DePaul University in Chicago have been arrested for selling over 100 Xanax pills to undercover officers. The sales occurred on four separate occasions, for various quantities and prices, over the last few weeks. While Xanax is commonly used to help individuals with serious anxiety or other mental health issues, the drug is also sought after by recreational users. Despite the fact that it is legally available to individuals with a prescription, an individual cannot legally distribute or sell Xanax, or any other prescription drug for that matter, to any other person....

Charlie Sheen has had the fastest drug recovery known to mankind. What was it? Nine days? In an interview, Sheen explained that he “heal[s] really quickly,” reports The Montreal Gazette. Indeed, he also “unravel[s] pretty quickly”–so quickly, that he’s itching to get back to work and fast, before boredom sends his “recovery” off track. So, Charlie Sheen wants to return to work. He’s doing fine. No more drugs or porn stars....

Rapper A$AP Rocky has been charged with assault after allegedly smacking a female fan during a performance at the Made in America festival in Philadelphia over Labor Day weekend. But did the rapper actually commit assault, or was the fan just a hater? In Pennsylvania, A$AP Rocky would be guilty of assault if he: Attempted to cause or intentionally, knowingly or recklessly caused bodily injury to another; Negligently caused bodily injury to another with a deadly weapon; or Physically attempted to put another in fear of imminent serious bodily injury....

Diet soda, stroke. Hey diet soda drinkers, care for some bad news? A pair of recent studies suggest that those who consume diet soda have a higher risk of strokes and heart attacks. In fact, the percentages suggested by the study were staggering: it found that diet soda drinkers were 61 percent more likely to have a vascular event, the AFP reports. Wait a second. What does suggest mean? Why is diet soda bad for you?...

Privacy was one of the top consumer concerns of 2010, and based on a new investigation by The Wall Street Journal, smartphone tracking looks to be an even bigger concern in 2011. Smartphones, through their apps, are intentionally leaking mounds of private data. In essence, the data being leaked can go as far as including your geographic location, like a spy watching your every move, GPS-style. The leaked data may also include the unique phone ID as well as information such as gender, age and more....

Mere hours after North Carolina Governor Pat McCrory doubled down on the state’s discriminatory bathroom access law, the U.S Department of Justice fired back, filing its own lawsuit to enjoin the state from enforcing the law. The DOJ’s Civil Rights Division had already warned McCrory that it saw the law, which prohibits people from using bathrooms with gender designations other than those on their birth certificates, as a violation of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act, and would sue to enjoin its enforcement....

The State of Alabama and the Supreme Court haven’t always gotten along, legally speaking. Most famously, there was then-Governor George Wallace standing in the doorway of the University of Alabama’s Foster Auditorium in an attempt to stall desegregation in the wake of the Court’s decision in Brown v. Board of Education. Most recently, there was disgraced former Alabama Supreme Court Justice Roy Moore’s ongoing battle over same-sex marriage. The Court hasn’t been all that friendly the federal appeals court that includes Alabama, either, overturning 85 percent of the Eleventh Circuit’s decisions that it reviewed from 2010 to 2015, the second-highest reversal rate in the country....