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CHICAGO — Ever since he was a child actor growing up in a show-business family, Jussie Smollett’s life blended activism with the make-believe worlds of television and movies. ..." He spoke of his mother’s closeness with the Black Panthers and prominent civil-rights leaders, and how she had encouraged Mr. Smollett and his brothers and sisters to create art and live out their beliefs. ..." For Mr. Smollett, arts and activism were intertwined throughout his childhood. His parents met while campaigning for civil rights in the Bay Area of California, and his mother had worked with the founders of the Black...

Reviving the debunked claim that Trump mocked journalist Serge F. Kovaleski because of his physical disabilities Poor, poor Barbra Streisand whose initials happen to be B.S. This horrible, affective, whiny has-been is soooo unhappy that Donald Trump will become president in less than 10 days. After Meryl Streep’s ugly anti-Trump rant — she mocked “football and mixed martial arts,” falsely claimed Trump wants to deport all foreigners, and accused Trump of being a bully — at the Golden Globes awards show on the weekend, Streisand came to Streep’s defense.

The FBI investigation into the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and Pentagon has led agents back to a familiar area: northern New Jersey. It was there, in Jersey City, just across the Hudson River from Manhattan, that a Muslim cell plotted the 1993 bombing of the twin towers and sought to destroy other New York landmarks as part of an urban guerrilla war against the United States. ~~snip~~ In Jersey City, within hours of two jetliners' plowing into the World Trade Center, law enforcement authorities detained and questioned a number of people who were allegedly seen celebrating the...