After openly gay pastor Jordan Brown claimed that a Whole Foods supermarket decorated his cake with an anti-gay slur, the company released security camera footage showing the label on the box had been moved since it was purchased.

ESPN announced that baseball analyst Curt Schilling has been terminated from the company for posting an image on Facebook that many have accused of promoting bigoted attitudes towards transgender people.

The United States Treasury Secretary Jack Lew announced that notable African-American abolitionist Harriet Tubman would be replacing the seventh President of the United States Andrew Jackson on the front of $20 bills.

Theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking and Russian entrepreneur Yuri Milner announced the new "Starshot" program by Breakthrough Initiatives, which plans to create postage stamp-sized space probes to explore the Alpha Centauri star system.

The infamous "Affluenza teen" from Texas who made the international headlines in 2014 after walking away on probation from a deadly drunk driving case that killed four people, was sentenced to two years in prison during his first court appearance since fleeing the country in last December.