Jussie Smollett won't reimburse Chicago's investigation costs; city vows civil suit
Chicago is vowing a civil suit against Jussie Smollett after the "Empire" actor "refused to reimburse" the city for the cost of investigating his controversial case.

Chicago is vowing a civil suit against Jussie Smollett after the "Empire" actor "refused to reimburse" the city for the cost of investigating his controversial case.
Harvard University announced Thursday that it had opened an investigation into head fencing coach Peter Brand and the May 2016 sale of his house to the father of a prospective student.
An undocumented immigrant accused of more than 100 counts of sex crimes has been arrested, according to Louisiana officials.
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is repealing rules unveiled in 2015 that banned baptisms for children of gay parents and made gay marriage a sin worthy of expulsion.
Over the objections of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and an explosive dissent from an Obama-appointed judge, a federal appeals court has upheld the constitutionality of a Kentucky law requiring doctors to perform ultrasounds and show fetal images to patients prior to abortions.
Howard Schultz, the former Starbucks CEO and potential 2020 presidential contender, joins Fox News' Bret Baier and Martha MacCallum at a town hall in Kansas City, Missouri.
A U.N. task force including more than 60 international organizations is calling for an overhaul of national and international financial systems, warning that current arrangements can't tackle climate change, poverty, inequality and other urgent development issues.
Political journalist Mark Halperin is speaking out for the first time since he faced sexual harassment allegations and NBC cut ties with him in 2017.
The Latest on efforts to confirm the identity of a 14-year-old who told police he is Timmothy Pitzen, an Illinois boy who has been missing since 2011 (all times local): 10:50 a.m.
Fourty-four Nobel Prize laureates in various disciplines have signed a letter expressing concern over what they call deteriorating conditions for democracy and human rights in Guatemala.
Denise Richards has admitted she asked her ex-husband Charlie Sheen his thoughts before she signed on for “The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills.”
The Pennsylvania man accused of fatally shooting the son of a prominent Philadelphia Police official at a baseball game tailgate over the weekend was arrested Wednesday, police said.
The Latest on immigration agents arrest of nearly 300 people at a Texas company (all times local): 4:50 p.m. Immigration officials say the nearly 300 people arrested at a Texas technology repair company came to the U.S. from 15 different countries on multiple continents.
In order to convince insurance companies to cover a prescription of Subsys, prosecutors say Insys set up call centers where employees posed as physicians' assistants and were told to say whatever was necessary -- including falsely stating that a patient had cancer -- to get the insurers' approval.
A Milwaukee man charged with killing the mother of his child and suspected of killing their 2-year-old child appeared at a court hearing restrained in a wheelchair, shackled and wearing a shock device.