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Man living at O’Hare for 3 months without detection posts bail, ordered on electronic monitoring
CHICAGO — A man who was discovered living at O’Hare International Airport for at least three months has left Cook County Jail after posting bail. Aditya Singh, 36, was aided by the Chicago Bail Project, which came up with the $1,000 he needed to go free until his next court date after a $10,000 D-bond was set earlier, according to Cook County sheriff’s spokesman Matt Walberg. The Chicago Bail Project also helped secure an undisclosed place for Singh to live while he faces felony criminal trespass to a restricted area of an airport and misdemeanor charges. A condition of his Wednesday release w...
Chicago Tribune
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Commentary: What Martin Luther King Jr. taught us about embracing our enemies
This year’s celebration of Martin Luther King Jr. Day comes less than two weeks after a violent white mob, inspired by entrenched racism and dressed up in Christian symbolism, attacked American democracy, leaving five people dead. As a Black Christian minister leading a nonviolent movement for civil rights, Martin Luther King Jr. came to know such mobs well. He faced them across the American South, and also right here in Chicago. What might we learn from how King dealt with such mobs in his own time? It is reasonable to believe that King would support holding people accountable for crimes comm...
Chicago Tribune
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Dahleen Glanton: White privilege — and the American caste system — was on display during the insurrection
When the insurrection on Capitol Hill was over, midlife Black men in navy blue custodial uniforms cleaned up the mess. The viral video of the janitors sweeping debris from the hallway was as telling as any image of the day. It told a story beyond the photos of white people scaling the exterior walls of the Capitol, breaking windows to gain entry or the man lounging in the House speaker’s office chair with his feet propped upon her desk. It was a resignation without a word spoken. As is often the case, Black people were left to clean up the mess, this time left by whites who stormed the Capitol...
Chicago Tribune
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42 journalists killed around the world in 2020, according to report
More than 40 journalists and media workers around the world were killed and another 200-plus were imprisoned while doing their jobs, according to a grim report released ahead of the International Day for Human Rights. According to the International Federation of Journalists, Mexico topped the 2020 list of countries where the most journalists were killed, with 13 of the 42 deaths across the world. Mexico led the list for the fourth time in five years. Five were killed in Pakistan. Afghanistan, India, Iraq and Nigeria recorded three killings each. The journalism federation, which has 600,000 mem...
New York Daily News
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US soars past 12 million coronavirus cases
More than 12 million people in the U.S. have now been infected with coronavirus.The virus has spread rapidly in recent weeks, as the country hit 10 million cases Nov. 9 and the 11 million mark Nov. 15.More than 255,000 people in the U.S. have died from COVID-19, according to data from Johns Hopkins University.The U.S. has recorded more cases and deaths than any other country. India, home to an estimated 1.3 billion people, has tallied 9 million cases and 130,000 deaths. Brazil has reported 6 million cases and 168,000 deaths.A record 665,000 new cases were reported worldwide Friday. The U.S. wa...
New York Daily News
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What to stream: These chess films are perfect for a post-'Queen's Gambit' savoring
It seems everyone is watching the much-buzzed about Netflix series “The Queen’s Gambit” these days, and if you haven’t started it yet, here is another nudge to do so. Anya Taylor-Joy stars as Beth Harmon, an orphan who learns to play chess at the girls’ home where she lives after her mother’s suicide. The custodian who teaches her the game quickly discovers she’s a prodigy, and Beth quickly rises through the ranks of competitive chess in the swinging ’60s.Created by Scott Frank, adapted from the novel by Walter Tevis (who also wrote the books “The Hustler,” “The Color of Money,” and “The Man W...
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Vice President-elect Kamala Harris derided as 'the Indian' by member of British House of Lords
A British member of the House of Lords derided trailblazing Vice President-elect Kamala Harris as “the Indian” in a Twitter post that is being condemned as racist.“What happens if Biden moves on and the Indian becomes President,” John Kilclooney asked in a tweet that he later deleted.Harris, the first black woman to hold the No. 2 office in the U.S., is the daughter of immigrants from India and Jamaica.Kilclooney, 82, a member of the largely ceremonial upper chamber of the British parliament and a former leader of a right-wing Protestant party in Northern Ireland, claimed he meant no harm by t...
New York Daily News
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James Bond inspired creation of Horowitz's 'Alex Rider'
An idea percolated in writer Anthony Horowitz’s brain for 10 years before anything came of it. But what came of it changed his life. Horowitz is the author of such works as “Foyle’s War,” “The Power of Five,” “The House of Silk” and the uber-popular “Alex Rider” series.“Growing up, books by Ian Fleming and the Bond films were a HUGE source of happiness for me,” recalls the British Horowitz.“I can remember waiting and waiting for December when the movie would be released. I’d be the first in the queue standing in the rain to see the latest James Bond movie … Everything that was missing from my ...
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What to stream: The best of Sean Connery
Over the weekend, iconic actor and first James Bond, Sir Sean Connery, passed away at age 90. Connery leaves an enduring cinematic legacy that isn’t just Bond, James Bond. Having originated the role, it’s impossible to think of Bond without thinking of Connery, arguably the gold standard of the character. However, as director Edgar Wright said on Twitter, “it says something for the extraordinary charisma of this Edinburgh lad to have created the most iconic character in film, and then, rather be typecast by it, become equally famous for just being Sean Connery.”On screen, Connery embodied a ce...
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