Actor Jussie Smollett has been indicted by a Cook County grand jury of 16 felony counts of disorderly conduct for allegedly filing a police report. Each count stems from an alleged lie that Smollett told police officers in two separate interviews.
Read more at ABC 7, the Chicago Tribune, NBC News, CNN and Fox News.
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In other stories:
From CBC News, Canadian Liberals have taken a hit in the polls in the wake of SNC-Lavalin, but Prime Minister Trudeau has taken a bigger one.
From Global News, the prime minister's office denies that he yelled at a fellow Liberal MP.
From CTV News, a man climbs and slides down a building in Vancouver, B.C. (The line between the "badass" and "stupid people" labels can be very thin, but due to the illegal nature of his stunt, he gets the latter.)
From Mexico News Daily, for yesterday's International Women's Day observance, the town of Torreón, Coahuila installs a sculpture of pots and pans. (MND informs me that I may view nine more of their pages this month.)
From National Review, Paul Manafort was not an agent of Russia, but of Ukraine.
From The Washington Free Beacon, despite strict gun control laws, the number of Californians owning guns has doubled in ten years.
From the Washington Examiner, a failed senatorial candidate from Alabama is "seriously considering" running again in 2020.
From The Federalist, former Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz, who is considering running for president as an independent, "is living in a fantasy world".
From American Thinker, socialists don't really want socialism - for themselves.
From LifeZette, actress and TV host Whoopi Goldberg says that she has been close to leaving the earth. (No, this is not about her role as Guinan in Star Trek: The Next Generation.)
From CNS News, a TV host blames President Trump for "forcing" people to enter the U.S. illegally. (Never mind that people have been illegally crossing the southern border for decades.)
From Conservative Woman, in response to knife crime, London's mayor whips out the jargon.
From the Express, House of Commons leader Anrea Leadsom is "furious" over the E.U.'s latest Brexit proposals.
From the Evening Standard, Queen Elizabeth speaks ahead of the British Commonwealth's 70th anniversary. (I learned about the commonwealth during my childhood due to my hobby of collecting coins, after wondering why coins from the U.K. and Canada depicted the same person.)
From BBC News, U.K. Home Secretary Sajid Javid is criticized after the ISIS bride's baby son dies.
From the Independent, Westminster Bridge and Victoria Embankment are evacuated due to a suspicious vehicle.
From the Irish Examiner, according to Ulster Unionist leader Robin Swann, Northern Ireland will not be a "dowry" for the E.U. when Brexit happens.
From VRT NWS, the Flemish Nationalist party wants children who don't master Dutch to be immersed in the language for a year.
From the Hungary Journal, Hungarian Prime Minister Orban and Polish Foreign Minister Morawiecki meet twice in one week.
From Daily News Hungary, a museum exhibit in Budapest shows Hungarians in the California gold rush.
From Russia Today, an employee of the U.S. embassy in Russia brings a mortar shell to the Moscow Sheremetyevo Airport. (Score two for the "stupid people" label.)
From Sputnik International, Russian engineers develop a new helicopter engine.
From Ekathimerini, International Women's Day was marked by a work stoppage and a demonstration in Athens.
From the Greek Reporter, to start Lent among Orthodox Christians in Greece, go fly a kite.
From Total Croatia News, the president of Croatia's Social Democratic Party wants to ban fascist symbols.
From the Malta Independent, Malta surpasses the E.U. average for using renewable energy for heating and cooling.
From Malta Today, NGOs warn that the proposed tunnel between Malta and Gozo must be submitted to a sea impact study.
From El País, International Women's Day brings out hundreds of thousands of protesters in both Madrid and Barcelona.
From Morocco World News, the Moroccan government decides against commenting on protests in Algeria.
From the Egypt Independent, Egypt's finance ministry will move its employees to the New Administrative Capital starting in March 2020.
From Egypt Today, a wanted member of the Muslim Brotherhood is arrested in Italy.
From Arutz Sheva, Egypt reportedly brokers a new agreement between Israel and Hamas. (The article cites, but does not link, the newspaper Al-Ayyam.)
From The Times Of Israel, terrorists fire a second mortar shell into southern Israel in two days.
From The Jerusalem Post, in a series of Tweets, the Anne Frank center in Frankfurt, Germany compares Jews fleeing the Nazis to ISIS terrorists.
From YNetNews, an Israeli businessman is running for president in Guatemala.
From Rûdaw, the U.N.'s refugee agency urges Syria's government to allow it access to all parts of the country to which people have returned.
From Radio Farda, police in Arak, Iran arrest a couple for proposing in public.
From AhlulBayt News Agency, Iran's minister of education and science warns against letting Western culture penetrate their education system.
From Dawn, Pakistan's prime minister and Iran's president agree to cooperate against terrorism.
From The Express Tribune, Pakistan's government launches an on-arrival visa program for citizens of five countries.
From Khaama Press, over 60 more Taliban terrorists are sent to their virgins.
From The Straits Times, a Malaysian man gets a 10-year sentence for insulting Islam on social media.
From Gatestone Institute, Sweden's government will offer even more migration.
From The Daily Caller, congresscritter Ted Lieu (D-Cal) deletes his Tweet mocking Trump for visiting Alabama.
From WPVI-TV, the top prosecutor in Baltimore, Maryland declines to prosecute a North Carolina man who allegedly had 16 pounds of marijuana in his car.
From the New York Post, starting in 2021, the E.U. will start requiring Americans to have a visa-like travel pass.
From NewsBusters, NRA President Wayne LaPierre points out the suppression of dissent by the left.
And from Twitchy, a fan of former First Lady/Senator/Secretary of State Hillary Clinton asks about the word "regulated", and gets some answers.
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