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We are culturally deep in social media, and celebrities are in deepest, leading their lives online, sometimes to their detriment. Twitter libel lawsuits have existed for almost as long as the social network, and now pop singer Ciara is joining the club, suing her child’s father, Future, for $15 million over his disparaging tweets. Future, born Nayvadius Wilburn, has been very vocal about the couple’s breakup since it happened in 2014, according to The Verge....

Drew Barrymore is getting divorced … again. This will be the actress’s third split from a husband. The guy this time is Will Kopelman, and the couple has been married since 2012. So what can we expect from Barrymore’s third divorce? Some attorneys say not much – she’s unlikely to end up in court. Given Barrymore’s status as Hollywood royalty and her rough romantic past, it seems likely that she and Kopelman entered into a prenuptial agreement before they married....

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is directing the manufacturers of all approved Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) drugs to alert patients to possible cardiovascular risks and risks of adverse psychiatric symptoms associated with the medicines, and to advise them of precautions that can be taken. The FDA has received reports of sudden death in ADHD patients with underlying serious heart problems or defects, and reports of stroke and heart attack in adults with certain risk factors....

The concept of money bail is almost as old as the penitentiary itself. And on its face, it seems logical: people charged with a crime can secure their release, and the justice system has a financial interest in motivating defendants to appear for trial. But in practice, it means that thousands of potentially innocent people are stuck in jail – often for minor offenses – simply because they can’t afford bail....

After 10 years of marriage, Coldplay singer Chris Martin and actress Gwyneth Paltrow are separating. While a blog post by the duo says they’re entering into a stage of “conscious uncoupling,” they plan to co-parent their two children, according to Reuters. So how do co-parenting plans work when parents are legally separated? Breaking up is hard to do, but for married couples, there’s the option of either separation or divorce. Legal separation means that the parties are still married under the law....

A health care study published Monday finds that patients who discuss their end-of-life care options with their physicians, and then make their wishes known, incur significantly lower health care costs in the final weeks of their lives. The Archives of Internal Medicine study released Monday, Health Care Costs in the Last Week of Life: Associations with End-of-Life Conversations, compared the health care costs of 603 terminal cancer patients, based on whether or not they had discussed end-of-life care with their doctors....

Several major health insurance companies have announced they will stop selling individual child only health insurance policies, possibly as soon as Thursday, September 23. Companies such as Anthem Blue Cross, Aetna Inc. and others will stop selling the individual policies in states such as California, Illinois, Florida, Connecticut and others due to the requirement in the healthcare reform law that they not reject children with pre-existing conditions from coverage. The companies say, according to the Los Angeles Times, that the new healthcare law requirements will just cost them too much....

Turns out, Hebrew National may not answer to a higher authority. At least, that’s what plaintiffs are claiming in a suit for fraud against the allegedly kosher brand. Consumers claim that meat processing standards at AER Services Inc, which provides kosher meat to ConAgra for Hebrew National products, fell below the requirements for kosher certification. ConAgra was negligent in continuing to label Hebrew National hotdogs as kosher, according to the complaint....

You may have heard about boxing champ Floyd Mayweather and his recent request to be released from prison to house arrest partly due to the fact that he did not want to drink prison tap water. Not surprisingly, his request was denied. House arrest is one of the many forms of alternative sentencing that may be preferred over prison. If you’re convicted of a crime that normally carries jail time, you should know that you could request an alternative penalty if the circumstances dictate....

Shonya Michelle Young, a 38 year-old suspect accused of being part of a nationwide identity theft ring that successfully preyed upon unsuspecting victims, including Anna Bernanke, the wife of U.S. Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke, was arrested in Miami while trying to procure a fix over the phone from her heroin dealer. Criminal charges and a U.S. Postal Service inspector’s affidavit filed in June allege that Young traveled around the country to assist the ID theft ring by making ‘split deposit transactions’:...

Kendall and Kylie Jenner’s PacSun t-shirts were removed from stores this week and a lawsuit with Island Company has been settled, according to the Daily Mail. The famous fashionable sisters “created” a t-shirt for PacSun with an inspiring slogan that seems to be a truncated version of a campaign popularized by the Island Company already. Resort clothing brand Island Company sued the sisters, arguing that their t-shirts would dilute the Island Company brand and cause confusion....

Rape kits may be invasive for victims and expensive for law enforcement, but are absolutely essential to solving sexual assault cases. DNA is one of the few pieces of forensic evidence that still stand up to scientific scrutiny, and having centralized DNA databases can stop serial sex offenders before they strike again. Take the case of DeJenay Beckwith, who was raped in 2011 and whose rapist wasn’t discovered until Harris County Texas prosecutors finally got her rape kit analyzed five years later in 2016....

There’s only one Lindsay. Okay, maybe not. But rumor has it that a Lindsay Lohan name change is in the works and the actress/singer thinks she’s a big enough star to be known only by her first name. Lindsay is no Madonna. And despite their similar, uh, mental issues, she’s not even a Britney. So what’s the deal? Apparently Miss Lohan, along with her sister Ali and mother Dina, no longer wants to be associated with abusive daddy Michael....

She may have had good intentions when she permitted her unlicensed 15-year-old daughter to drive her car, but as a result of that decision, Fayetteville, North Carolina, resident Winona Marie Simmons has been charged with two counts of child abuse and contributing to the delinquency of a minor. The reason? Her daughter, who was also transporting her 10-year-old sister, caused a 5-car accident that led to serious injuries. On the way, the unlicensed teen turned into incoming traffic, hitting a motorcyclist, which then caused a chain reaction that involved four other vehicles, reports WGHP....

Ten billion dollars sounds like an awful lot of money. But when you consider that the second largest cable operator in the country was allegedly systematically discriminating against black-owned media companies when choosing channels to carry, it’s not hard to imagine that amount of financial cost. That’s what Byron Allen, founder and CEO of Entertainment Studios is claiming in a $10 billion lawsuit against Charter Communications. Charter tried to have the suit dismissed, arguing it has a First Amendment right to editorial discretion....

When Lester Packingham, Jr. pleaded guilty in 2002 to taking indecent liberties with a child following a sexual relationship he had with a 13-year-old girl while he was 21, social media didn’t exist. Facebook wouldn’t go online for another two years, and a North Carolina ordinance prohibiting registered sex offenders from accessing any “commercial social networking Web site where the sex offender knows that the site permits minor children to become members or to create or maintain personal Web pages” wouldn’t be enacted for another six....

Grammy-winning singer Rihanna may have been working on her fitness, but this time she is getting a legal workout in a countersuit against her ex-trainer. Rihanna has filed a countersuit against her ex-personal exercise trainer claiming she gave Cindy Percival money upfront for services she never provided, TMZ reported. the failure to perform as promised; making it impossible for the other party to perform; and the repudiation of the contract (announcing an intent not to perform)....

In these modern times of planes, trains, and automobiles, crossing the border has never been easier. The U.S. border is crossed millions of times per year. However, the alarming new trend of customs and border agents demanding to search the contents of travelers’ smartphones, has left many concerned about their privacy rights. While the courts have ruled that border agents do not need a warrant to search a traveler’s phone, there have been limits placed on the extent of the search....

In its long awaited decision, the Supreme Court put an end to the Walmart class action today, a gender bias lawsuit that was projected to reach nearly 1.5 million plaintiffs. The plaintiffs in Wal-Mart v. Dukes may be correct that, at Walmart, gender discrimination is prevalent in the provision of raises and promotions. The Walmart class action alleged that local managers, who have discretion to award raises and promotions, exercise their power disproportionately in favor of men....

As more and more of our social life and day-to-day business exists online, the more criminals will try to take advantage of the internet and access to our personal information. But identity theft is far from the only cybercrime, and the past year demonstrated that. Here are the major cybercrime stories from 2017: Just how much influence did Russian hackers have on the 2016 presidential election? And, perhaps more importantly, how much did American political operatives know about that interference and did they cooperate?...