Northwestern quarterback Kain Colter had strong words for the NCAA, the governing body of collegiate sports, during a news conference on Tuesday in which he called the group “a dictatorship” while unveiling a proposal for college athletes to unionize, issuing the latest blow in the growing national debate over whether college players should be compensated,…

His purple majesty, Prince, who is notorious for controlling his musical image, is now suing 22 fans who he claims have illegally posted his live shows online, making them available for download, the New York Daily News reports. According to the Daily News, Prince Rogers Nelson filed a lawsuit in Northern District of California earlier…

A 56-year-old Missouri death row inmate’s life was spared on the eve of his execution, the Associated Press reports. Herbert Smulls received word that U.S. Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito had signed the order that was sent out Tuesday night after President Barack Obama’s State of the Union speech. Smulls’ lawyers had been making last-minute…

The U.S. government doesn’t want people looking at the phone records of the people whom they are spying on. The Associated Press has learned that while the Obama administration is considering moving its  collection of phone-surveillance records from the National Security Agency to be stored at phone companies or elsewhere, it is also funding research…

A North Carolina grand jury on Monday has rectified what many considered an injustice by indicting an officer who shot and killed an unarmed former Florida A&M football player, the New York Daily News reports. Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Officer Randall Kerrick, 27, now faces a voluntary-manslaughter charge for the September 2013 shooting in which Kerrick is…

Sen. Chuck Schumer is demanding that the federal government create a program to outfit autistic kids with tracking devices after the disappearance of autistic teen Avonte Oquendo, whose remains were recently discovered, the New York Daily News. The senator plans to introduce “Avonte’s Law” this week. Oquendo disappeared from the Riverview School in Long Island…

Turns out superproducer Pharrell Williams’ hat wasn’t just a fashion faux pas but was actually a nod to hip-hop history. While the rest of us were on Twitter laughing at the images of his oversized real-life re-creation of the Arby’s insignia, photoshopped atop the heads of some of our favorite celebrities, the folks over at…

This year’s 56th Annual Grammy Awards show was filled with head-scratchers, from Pharrell’s hat to a mass wedding officiated by Queen Latifiah to robots winning best album and song and then being unable to deliver an acceptance speech because they are nonverbal futuristic machines. The biggest head-scratcher of them all was a Compton, Calif.-raised rapper,…

On Saturday morning, instead of heading off to Dunkin’ Donuts where he was supposed to open the store, Darion Marcus Aguilar, 19, whom neighbors describe as a quiet, skinny teenager who loved skateboarding, got in a cab with a pump-action, pistol-grip Mossberg 12-gauge shotgun hidden from sight and a backpack filled with homemade explosives and…