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Chicago South Side Birth Center celebrates Black Breastfeeding Week with first ‘Latch and Stroll’ event
The Kansas City man at the center of an alleged scheme to hide a sex tape showing R. Kelly in a threesome with a 14-year-old girl told a federal jury Friday that he only handed over a partial copy of the tape to Kelly’s associates at first because he “didn’t think they’d know the difference.”
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- In a bizarro Chicago baseball season, the contending White Sox are getting booed while the rebuilding Cubs are busy growing optimism.
- Fourteen of the 15 boxes recovered from former President Donald Trump’s Florida estate early this year contained classified documents, many of them top secret, mixed in with miscellaneous newspapers, magazines and personal correspondence. That's according to an FBI affidavit released Friday explaining the justification for this month's search of the property. The affidavit, even in its redacted form, offers the most detailed description to date of the government records being stored at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago property long after he left the White House. It also reveals the gravity of the government’s concerns that the documents were there illegally.
- With a solemn ceremony in St. Peter's Basilica, Pope Francis was poised to formally expand the ranks of churchmen now eligible to vote for his successor in case he dies or resigns — the latter a step he says he'd consider if the time comes. Of the 20 churchmen being raised to cardinal’s rank on Saturday, 16 are younger than 80 and thus eligible to participate in a conclave. That's the locked-door assembly of cardinals who cast ballots to elect a pontiff. The latest cardinals will include one bishop from the United States and a churchman representing the tiny Catholic flock in Mongolia. By now, the 85-year-old Francis has named more than half of the elector cardinals.
- During a verbal altercation, a 30-year-old woman was shot in the knee while riding a CTA Red Line train in the Loop neighborhood shortly after midnight Saturday, Chicago police said.
