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“Empire” actor Jussie Smollett was charged with disorderly conduct on Wednesday, for allegedly filing a false police report about an attack he claims took place last month as he walked to his apartment building in Streeterville last month. The felony charge was announced by the Cook County state attorney’s office Wednesday evening, hours after police…
Molly Prince on February 20, 2019 Independent Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders is kicking off his campaign for the presidency as the leading candidate for the Democratic ticket in 2020. Sanders announced on Tuesdaythat he will be officially launching a bid for the presidency to continue the “political revolution” that he began in 2016. He has been consistently polling…
In what they claim is the “first of many lawsuits”, the lawyers of Covington High School Junior Nick Sandmann filed a hefty $250 million dollar lawsuit against The Washington Post on Tuesday. “The Post rushed to lead the mainstream media to assassinate Nicholas’ character and bully him,” high-profile attorneys Lin Wood and Todd McMurty wrote…
President Donald Trump signed a directive on Tuesday laying out his administration’s long-awaited plans for a Space Force. “This afternoon the President is going to sign the Space Directive, Policy Directive that will establish the Space Force and give presidential direction to establish the Space Force within the Department of the Air Force,” Gen. David…
Jason Hopkins on February 19, 2019 A young Texas boy faced both praise and ridicule from adults after he opened a hot chocolate stand to raise money for President Donald Trumps’ border wall. Benton Stevens — a seven-year-old from Austin, Texas — wanted to help help raise funds for a wall on the U.S.-Mexico border after…
The Vermont senator officially announced his second presidential campaign Tuesday morning during a public radio show in his home state. Sanders was the 2016 runner-up to Hillary Clinton for the Democratic Party’s nomination for president. “We began the political revolution in the 2016 campaign, and now it’s time to move that revolution forward,” Sanders remarked…
Neetu Chandak Jussie Smollett’s case about an alleged attack in January could be headed to a grand jury. Law official sources reported the case could be headed to a grand jury sometime this week, according to TMZ Sunday. Law enforcement is allegedly making sure Smollett is not in contact with the two Nigerian brothers who were first…
Evie Fordham An 11-year-old boy from Florida was charged for disrupting a school function and resisting arrest without violence after refusing to stand for the pledge of allegiance in school Feb. 4. The unnamed boy’s mother, Dhakira Talbot, is demanding the misdemeanor charges be dropped, reported WHDH Monday. “I’m upset,” Talbot said according to Orlando Weekly. “I’m angry….
Neetu Chandak Vox senior video correspondent Liz Plank said celebrities — not media outlets — were reporting on the “This is MAGA country” quote in “Empire” actor Jussie Smollett’s alleged attack. “The [Make America Great Again] quote, I remember reading about this story and looking for a real, reputable media outlet reporting on that and I…
Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg officially returned to the Supreme Court on Friday. This is the first time she has been on the bench since undergoing cancer surgery in December. The Libertarian Republic previously reported on Ginsburg’s fall in which the Justice broke three ribs on her left side. It was during her treatment…