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The Alabama Court of the Judiciary, a panel of nine members, filed an unanimous order detailing concerns about Talladega County Probate Judge Randy Jinks’ actions. The court’s ruling followed a days-long hearing of testimony of Jinks’ racist and sexist comments that included him saying George Floyd “got what he deserved.” Floyd was killed by a Minneapolis police officer in May 2020. Jinks allegedly called Floyd “just another thug” and mouthed the n-word when referring to Black people during racial justice protests, according to court records....

Kimberly Tegner filed a lawsuit against Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools alleging “racially motivated criticism and bullying.” Among the claims were that Tegner’s white colleagues circulated a petition referring to her hair as unprofessional. The supervisor who began the petition claimed to have friends who were black “so it was okay for her to say what she did.” According to The State, Judge Robert J. Conrad, Jr. said the petition was “offensive” and not appropriate, but that it did not “satisfy the demanding severe or pervasive standard required to state a claim for hostile work environment....

While speaking Wednesday at the Steelers’ mandatory minicamp, Smith-Schuster admitted he has no beef with Brown but wishes things wouldn’t have ended so abruptly between them. “The man’s a role model. In that situation, I didn’t want it to end like that,” Smith-Schuster told reporters. “I have no hard feelings against him. Obviously if we’re ever in the same room, I’m going to say what’s up to him. I think hatred is a huge word to use against somebody....

Assange, 50, was given permission by the High Court in London to appeal his case to the U.K. Supreme Court. Monday’s ruling means Assange, an Australian citizen, has passed the first hurdle in his bid to overturn a December decision that he could be sent to the U.S., where he is wanted over Wikileaks’ publication of thousands of classified documents in 2010 and 2011. Assange remains in custody at London’s high-security Belmarsh prison pending his extradition battle....

Peter Newsham, the chief of the Metropolitan Police Department in the nation’s capital, said the boy was shot in the head in the 1400 block of Cedar Street when a group of about five men started “shooting up in the area” at around 9:30 p.m. on Saturday night. The boy was taken to a local hospital, where he was pronounced dead, Newsham said. In a post on Twitter, police asked the public to be on the lookout for a black sedan seen fleeing the scene through an alley....

Forty years ago today, the Yankees and the Red Sox played a game on national television. Sounds familiar, right? And the game was a heated contest that featured a war of words that nearly turned into a nasty brawl. That probably also sounds familiar because in the storied history of the Red Sox-Yankees rivalry, fans have witnessed many bench clearing incidents between the teams, only this wasn’t an incident between the two rivals — it was a kerfuffle between a fiery manager and his star right fielder....

The 52-year-old tactician has come under intense scrutiny in recent months after he opted to swap a back four in favour of playing three at the back during the World Cup qualifier against Iraq in March earlier this year. Despite such criticisms, Postecoglou remained steadfast in his ways and has seemingly finally gotten his team clicking following an impressive display in which the Australians managed to limit the Hondurans to just one attempt on goal in the first-leg of the intercontinental play-off in San Pedro Sula....

Royals fan John Coomer, a resident of Overland Park, Kan., sued the team after getting hit in the eye by a foil-wrapped hot dog. Coomer testified that he was looking at the scoreboard when the hot dog struck him in the left eye, resulting in a detached retina, a cataract procedure, vision damage and possible glaucoma. MORE: Royals’ rabid voters should spark changes to All-Star Game A jury ruled in 2011 that Coomer was at fault because he should have been paying attention....

Closing arguments in the case will be given in court on Wednesday morning. The jury will then receive its instructions and begin deliberations. Smollett is charged with six counts of disorderly conduct for filing false police reports, all of which he has pleaded not guilty to, having maintained his innocence throughout his prolonged legal battle. If found guilty, the former Empire star faces up to three years in prison....

On the evening of March 16, 2022, the Empire actor walked out of jail six days into a 150-day sentence. Smollett’s release comes after his legal team filed an appeal against the conviction. However, Gene Rossi, a former career federal prosecutor who spoke to Newsweek said the appeals court’s move is likely to be cited by other defense attorneys and defendants in the future. He said that any defense attorney is likely to make mention of the kind of treatment Smollett received and ask that their client receive a similar type of treatment....

Nearly a year after the actor made headlines for allegedly staging a homophobic attack against himself in Chicago, an Illinois judge has now ordered Smollett’s personal electronic data be handed over to a special prosecutor, according to reports published on Wednesday. A judge signed a warrant on December 6 ordering Google to deliver all of Smollett’s Google search and browsing history, Google Drive and Google Voice files, emails (included those drafted or deleted), photographs and geolocation data from November 2018 to November 2019....

The former Empire star is due in a Chicago court on Monday as he defends himself against charges that he orchestrated his own attack in the city back in 2019, in which he had alleged that two men poured bleach on him and placed a noose around his neck. Brothers Abimbola and Olabinjo Osundairo later alleged they had been paid $3,500 by the actor to stage the attack. While Smollett was arrested, charges against him were dropped in March 2019....

ABC News and Langer Research Associates released on Friday new polling data showing that significantly more Americans disapprove of Biden’s response to crime than approve of his handling of the problem. While nearly half (48 percent) said they disapprove of Biden’s handling of crime, only 38 percent said they approve. Americans are about evenly split when it comes to which political party they view as better at responding to crime....

NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio announced Monday that middle and high school students will be able to return to classrooms starting April 26. Previously, the city said elementary students would be the first to return, followed later by older grades. The Department of Education said nearly half of those opting back into the classroom are elementary grade students. Roughly 10,000 middle school and 13,000 high school students could be heading back at the end of the month....

Rakitic returns for Barca after City links Neymar had not netted since October 19 prior to this game and midway through the first half, he had gone 1,000 minutes without a goal. He has been contributing, though, and averaged almost an assist per match (0.8) before this cup clash. He looked to have added another when he put through Luis Suarez for the Uruguayan to slot home in the first half, but the strike was wrongly ruled out for offside....

“This warden has gone above and beyond to make sure that everything is being done right,” Ricardo Gutierrez, an inmate at the Roach Unit, said. Gutierrez told The Texas Tribune that the facility has followed “everything that the government has mandated: social distancing, the masks, sanitizing everything.” He said that when an inmate is suspected of having an infection, he is immediately removed and tested, while the other male prisoners who share a wing with the sick inmate are put under quarantine until test results came back....

About midday on April 16, a Secret Service trainer unlocked a shoot house to set it up for a drill session. Officers are trained to be ready for anything when they walk inside that building. But the sergeant, who is African-American, wasn’t prepared for what he saw: a noose, hanging from the railing of an overhead staircase. “It was a solid rope … about eight feet long, and the noose fell at about neck level,” says a witness who asked not to be named because of the sensitivity of the case....

Assistant Attorney General Matthew Olsen told lawmakers Tuesday he decided to create the specialized domestic terrorism unit to investigate domestic violent threats from extremists. Olsen called the threats “elevated,” as they have more than doubled since Spring 2020 after the January 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol. The creation of the new unit, alongside the department’s National Security Division which has a counterterrorism section, underscores the extent to which domestic violence extremism was overshadowed by international terrorism, following the events of 9/11....

While this is common practice for the department, this year’s deployment is not as extensive as the one from the 2016 election, when personnel were sent to 67 jurisdictions across 28 states. However, the Justice Department plans to observe twice as many Michigan cities as it did four years ago. On Tuesday, personnel will be sent to Detroit, Eastpointe, Flint, Hamtramck, Highland Park, Jackson and Shelby Township. That compares to only Detroit, Hamtramck and Dearborn Heights in 2016....

If you are under 50 you may never have heard of him. If you are over 50 what you know about him, if anything, is that he was ““Engine Charlie,’’ famous for saying ““What is good for General Motors is good for the country.’’ He didn’t say that, but the fiction that he did say it served a particular political agenda. And journalism, because of carelessness or complicity with the agenda, treated the fiction as a defining fact of the ’50s....