Top Lightfoot aide apologizes for scotch-and-cigars comic story

A most sensible mayoral aide apologized Wednesday for creating a comic story out of the 11-day lecturers strike — by means of sending an electronic mail providing to wager Mayor Lori Lightfoot and most sensible mayoral aides about when the strike would finish. ”My electronic mail mirrored a failed try on my section to inject some levity right into a top tension, hectic and critical scenario,” Mike Frisch, the mayor’s leader in-house exertions negotiator, was once quoted as announcing in a remark launched by means of the mayor’s workplace. “There was no actual bet. This was intended to be a joke that clearly did not land. It was in poor taste, and I apologize.” Although Lightfoot was once amongst those

Former Trump aide Kellyanne Conway assessments certain for

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump’s former adviser Kellyanne Conway mentioned past due Friday that she has examined certain for the coronavirus, days after attending a White House tournament with a number of others who've since come down with COVID-19. Conway tweeted Friday that she has a “light cough” and is “feeling fine.” “I have begun a quarantine process in consultation with physicians,” she added. Conway attended the Rose Garden announcement Saturday the place President Donald Trump introduced his nomination of Judge Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court. Among the attendees, Republican Sens. Mike Lee and Thom Tillis, the president of the University of Notre Dame, in addition to Trump himself examined certain Friday for the coronavirus. Conway’s tweet got

Joseph Lowery, civil rights chief and MLK aide, dies at 98

ATLANTA — The Rev. Joseph E. Lowery fought to finish segregation, lived to look the election of the rustic’s first black president and echoed the decision for “justice to roll down like waters and righteousness like a mighty stream” in America. For greater than 4 a long time after the dying of his pal and civil rights icon, the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., the fiery Alabama preacher was once at the entrance line of the struggle for equality, with an unforgettable supply that rivaled King’s — and was once steadily extra unpredictable. Lowery had a knack for chopping to the core of the rustic’s sense of right and wrong with remark steeped in scripture, refusing to back