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Actor and singer Jussie Smollett attends the "Empire"

Chicago police: Smollett assault case has 'shifted'

Chicago police say "the trajectory of the investigation" into the reported attack on Jussie Smollett has shifted and they want to conduct another interview with the "Empire" actor.

Nation State Dept.: Nauert out as pick for UN ambassador
Heather Nauert, picked by President Donald Trump to be the next U.S. ambassador to the United Nations but never officially nominated, has withdrawn from consideration, the State Department said.
2/16/19
Nation Police: Aurora attacker shouldn't have owned gun
The man who opened fire and killed five co-workers at a suburban Chicago manufacturing plant took a gun he wasn't allowed to have to a job he must have known he was about to lose.
2/16/19
Nation Woman finds tiger in house: 'I'm not lying'
A woman who called Houston's non-emergency dispatch line after discovering a tiger inside a cage at an abandoned home told the shocked dispatcher: "I'm not lying."
2/16/19
Nation 13 quotes that stood out in Trump's State of the Union
Here are 13 quotes that stood out from President Donald Trump's second State of the Union address.
2/6/19
Nation Vatican defrocks former U.S. cardinal over sex abuse
Former Cardinal Theodore McCarrick has been found guilty by the Vatican of sex abuse and defrocked, as calls rose Saturday for Pope Francis to reveal what he knew about the once-powerful American prelate's apparently decades-long predatory sexual behavior.
2/16/19
Nation Oakland teachers announce strike over pay, class sizes
The union representing the 3,000 teachers announced the walkout Saturday, making it the latest in a wave of educator activism that has swept the U.S. since last spring.
2/16/19
Nation Potential privacy lapse found in 2010 census data
An internal team at the Census Bureau found that basic personal information collected from more than 100 million Americans during the 2010 head count could be reconstructed from obscured data, but with lots of mistakes, a top agency official disclosed Saturday.
2/16/19
Nation Fact check: Trump's State of the Union claims
President Trump laced his speech with puffed-up numbers and partial truths Tuesday as he hailed an "economic miracle," warned of human traffickers flooding across the border and appeared to place Afghanistan in the Middle East instead of where it is, Asia.
2/6/19
Nation Climate change means more floods, great and localized
COLUMBIA, S.C. — When he took the job 15 years ago, Horry County Emergency Manager ...
2/16/19
World Merkel defends Iran deal, multilateralism; Pence resists
MUNICH — German Chancellor Angela Merkel robustly defended European nations' decision to stand by the ...
2/16/19
Nation Illinois employee being fired fatally shoots 5 co-workers
At least one person was killed and four police officers wounded when a shooter opened fire at an industrial park in Aurora, Illinois, officials said Friday.
2/15/19
Nation Trump declares national border emergency
President Trump declared a national emergency on the border with Mexico to tap federal funds after Congress denied his full request for a wall, spurring a political and legal confrontation.
2/15/19