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Chicago mayor Lori Lightfoot expressed agreement with President Trump’s plan to deploy federal police to the city during a Wednesday evening phone call with the president, according to the mayor’s office. Trump has ordered the Department of Homeland Security to send 200 officers to Chicago, which recorded an abnormally high number of shootings over the …

Blac Chyna is here for Kanye West. Chyna, who is involved in a lawsuit with Kris Jenner and the rest of the Kardashian-Jenner families over the cancelation of E!’s “Rob & Chyna,” is speaking out as West grapples with a bipolar disorder episode. During his breakdown, West, 43, has fired off a number of tweets …

Don’t believe what you’ve read: Clint Eastwood isn’t leaving Tinseltown to pursue a career hawking CBD products. The Academy Award-winning actor, producer and director, known for his roles in “Dirty Harry,” “The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly,” and “Gran Torino,” filed two lawsuits in Los Angeles federal court on Wednesday against CBD manufacturers, marketers …

At least 14 people were shot outside a funeral home in Chicago on Tuesday night, in one of the most violent incidents the city has seen this summer. Police told reporters that gunmen began firing from inside a car at people exiting a funeral at Rhodes Funeral Services in Chicago’s Gresham neighborhood. Some attendees were …

Investigators have discovered the charred remains of a body in a Minneapolis pawn shop that was set ablaze in the riots after the death of George Floyd, the Minneapolis Star Tribune reported on Tuesday. The building that housed the pawn shop, Max It Pawn, was burned to the ground on May 28. Agents from the Minneapolis Police …

More than a dozen workers sued Whole Foods after the grocery giant allegedly punished some of them for wearing “Black Lives Matter” face masks on the job. The 14 workers in four states say staffers were sent home without pay, formally disciplined or even fired for donning the masks in solidarity with the nationwide movement …

The Italian offices of Apple and Amazon were raided Tuesday as the country’s antitrust authority opened an investigation into whether the companies engaged in anti-competitive practices. The probe is focused on whether the iPhone maker conspired with the e-commerce juggernaut to prevent electronics retailers not included in Apple’s official reseller program from selling its popular …

The vegans who accused Burger King of deceptively marketing its “Impossible Whopper” didn’t put enough meat on their legal claims, a federal judge ruled. The aggrieved diners failed to prove the fast-food giant duped reasonable consumers into thinking its meatless sandwich would be cooked on a different grill than its beef and chicken products, US …

Acting homeland security secretary Chad Wolf on Tuesday hit back at criticism of the department’s officers deployed in Portland, Ore., slamming media coverage of federal police activities in the city as well as local officials’ response to rioting. Portland has seen continuous rioting since the death of George Floyd, an African American man killed in …

A recent article in the New Yorker wrongly claims that two-thirds of emergency room visits by Americans aged 15 to 34 were the result of police violence. The article, written by Harvard University history professor and longtime New Yorker staff writer Jill Lepore, tells of a “crisis in policing” which Lepore says is the “culmination …