Jussie Smollett testifies to receiving text from CNN's Don Lemon during Chicago Police attack investigation

Jussie Smollett, on trial for allegedly staging a hate crime against himself, testified Monday that he had correspondence with CNN’s Don Lemon during the early parts of the Chicago Police Department’s (CPD) investigation into the incident. Smollett, 39, testified that he received a text from Lemon, supposedly relaying information that the CPD didn’t believe Smollett’s…

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Justice Department closes its investigation into 1955 killing of Emmett Till

The justice-department” target=”_blank”>Justice Department< who was abducted and killed while visiting family in us-regions after witnesses accused him of making sexual advances at a White woman. A 2017 book by Duke University professor Timothy Tyson, “The Blood of Emmett Till,” spurred investigators to reopen the case.  In the book, Tyson wrote that he handed 20-year-old…

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South Carolina high schooler arrested for allegedly threatening to shoot up schools

us-regions sheriff’s deputies arrested a 14-year-old male high school student Monday on charges that he threatened to crime” target=”_blank”>shoot up schools< the Gilbert High School student made a “threatening statement” while on the bus last Thursday, and another student overheard him.  Gilbert High School (Lexington County School District One) The student told school administrators that…

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Texas AG fires back at Biden admin's 'absurd lawsuit' over redistricting

us-regions Attorney General Ken Paxton blasted thejoe-biden” target=”_blank”> Biden administration’s< The lawsuit alleges the districts drawn by Texas lawmakers violate the federal Voting Rights Act by diluting the voting strength of minority voters. “The department’s career voting law experts have assessed Texas’s new redistricting plans and determined that they include districts that violate the Voting…

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