The red carpet is the time for spontaneous moments that make for great live television. Unfortunately for Terrence Howard, things got a little too candid on the red carpet of the Emmy Awards Sunday night.

Donald Trump’s new campaign chairman Stephen K. Bannon was an... interesting hire. At a time when the campaign claims to be “pivoting” towards a kinder, gentler campaign style and trying to woo black and Latino voters, hiring the guy who ran Breitbart News was a bold choice. Now, some other unexpected wrinkles are…

Amber Heard and Johnny Depp have settled their divorce after a series of increasingly ugly videos and photos were leaked that showed Depp in a pretty negative light no matter how you slice it.

The brief marriage and nasty legal battle between Johnny Depp and Amber Heard is finally over. TMZ reports Tuesday that Heard’s “domestic violence restraining order” case against Depp has been settled, along with the couple’s divorce.

A particularly gruesome domestic abuse case is rocking Kenya, where a man is believed to have hacked off his wife’s hands after they couldn’t have children, although he was evidently the one who was infertile. Jackline Mwende, 27, says she was counseled by her pastor to try to save her marriage, despite escalating…

Earlier this month, a Pennsylvania married couple and their three small children were found shot to death in their home. The Berks County District Attorney’s Office said Monday they believe Mark Short Sr. was the gunman, killing his wife Megan and their children before shooting himself.

Today’s bizarre and upsetting peek into the tumultuous marriage of Johnny Depp and Amber Heard comes in the form of a TMZ report that Depp created some bloody, drug-fueled artwork earlier this year during one of the couple’s many fights.

Last fall, writer Ernest Baker was arraigned on charges of assault, menacing and harassment of his ex-girlfriend Lauren Nostro, now the music news editor at annotating platform Genius. Baker’s arrest was a bit of a fall from grace, one that he said in a very long series of tweets Monday he’s climbed out of, as the…

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South African athlete Oscar Pistorius has been sentenced to a relatively lenient six years in prison for the 2013 murder of his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp. Pistorius, whose earlier manslaughter conviction was overturned so he could be re-tried on the more serious charge of murder, had faced up to 15 years, but Judge…

A Las Vegas man fatally shot his three children and his wife, who he chased from their apartment and through two parking lots, before turning the gun on himself on Wednesday night.

Police are still investigating the motives of Christy Sheats, the Houston-area woman who fatally shot her two daughters over the weekend. New reports say that Sheats and her husband were having marital issues before the shooting, and that she drew a gun during a family meeting, telling her husband “This is about…

Racist shock jock Anthony Cumia, who assaulted his girlfriend in an attack, the aftermath of which she broadcast live on Periscope, pleaded guilty last week to third-degree assault and criminal obstruction of breathing. If Cumia completes rehab and and a batterers intervention program, the charges will be reduced and…

A Tennessee woman in the middle of having a home security system installed because she was afraid of a violent, abusive ex-boyfriend subsequently confirmed her own reasoning by discovering him under her bed. After seeing Tony Joe Gunter lying in wait, the woman shot him in the foot while shouting at the security…

Police are searching for a Roswell, New Mexico man who is suspected of killing his wife and four young daughters on Saturday. Juan David Villegas-Hernandez may have been apprehended in Mexico, but authorities have yet to publicly confirm he is in custody.

The latest—never the last—horrifying deadly shooting rampage in America was brought to us by Mainak Sarkar, a disaffected former UCLA student who murdered Professor William Klug over an imagined slight. Before killing Klug and then himself, Sarkar also killed his estranged wife Ashley Hasti. While no one was paying…

A Texas man is accused of stabbing his girlfriend to death in what he claimed to police was a suicide pact gone wrong. After the killing, he posted a photo of the woman’s lifeless body to Facebook, where it remained for 36 hours, even as her family and friends begged to have it removed.

This week’s issue of People includes a short profile of actress and controversial political commentator Stacey Dash. In it, she discusses how her life changed after publicly expressing her support for 2012 Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney, her upcoming memoir There Goes My Social Life (out June 6), and some…

A number of people have come forward to support Johnny Depp against allegations of abuse from his wife, Amber Heard. The accusations are disturbing, and not many are willing to publicly acknowledge the possibility that an actor as well-known and beloved as Depp could be capable of domestic violence.

This week in the bad kind of irony, a woman was arrested for menacing her husband with a gun, accused of firing it in their bedroom while they argued. She posed for her mugshot wearing that deeply unfortunate“Stop Domestic Violence” t-shirt.