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In stunning moment, Botham Jean's brother embraces Amber Guyger after her sentencing for his brother's murder. "I don't even want you to go to jail. I want the best for you, because I know that's exactly what Botham would want."

The process of jury selection in the Amber Guyger murder case is expected to span at least a week. It was September 6, 2018, when then Dallas Police Department Officer Amber Guyger shot and killed Botham Jean. She told police she mistook his apartment for hers, as she lived one floor below, and thought he was an intruder. She was later fired from the police department and charged with murder. The judge has cast a wide net for potential jurors in this trial, more than anyone can remember. About 4,000 Dallas County citizens have been summoned to appear Friday morning...

by Jenn Carter Almost as quickly as the "bombshell" accusation of rape by "renowned columnist" E Jean Carroll against Donald Trump exploded into the media, it has collapsed into a puddle of mush after Carroll made a series of bizarre statements on the air that have left even her liberal allies struggling to explain it. NO mainstream outlet has bothered to question her lurid and seemingly preposterous story that Trump in 1995 raped Carroll in a dressing room of an "empty" Bergdorf Goodman after demanding she try on lingerie for him. Monday night, Carroll made a stunning statement that...

Dallas police say one of their officers was going home after her shift when she walked into the wrong apartment and shot and killed the man inside. The officer was in full uniform just after 10 p.m. Thursday evening when she walked into an apartment unit she believed to be her own at the 1200 block of South Lamar, about a quarter-mile from the Dallas Police Department.

Actress Jean Smart from "Designing Woman" was on Current TV's "Talking Liberally" with Stephanie Miller to promote her latest project.

MAY 23--When accused narcotics kingpin/hip-hop manager James Rosemond met last year with federal investigators to try and strike a cooperation agreement, he was peppered with questions about whether he knew of any criminal activity on the part of Rev. Al Sharpton, Sean “Diddy” Combs, and Wyclef Jean, according to an Internal Revenue Service agent who testified yesterday at Rosemond’s trial in Brooklyn federal court. Federal prosecutors elicited testimony from Agent Marc Van Driessche about what Rosemond said during a series of nine separate “proffer sessions” in the U.S. Attorney's office attended by various IRS and Drug Enforcement Administration agents, prosecutors,...

At Donna Karan's Fashion Week party in NYC on Monday, singer Wyclef Jean revealed that he's "a huge fan of Sarah Palin,” the former Fugee told Women’s Wear Daily. Wyclef explained that he’s big on the Alaskan politician “'Cause she’s rad.” The star continued singing Palin’s praises: “She’s shrewd. She’s cool. Because at the end of the day, I’m for the people, because this is the United States of America ... this is what America’s really about.”

Haitians headed to the polls to pick a new president Sunday among conflicting reports that former candidate wannabe Wyclef Jean was shot. Jean said a bullet grazed his hand as he stepped out of a car to make a phone call, but local police claim he was only injured by glass. "The way I can explain it is that the bullet grazed me in my right hand," said the hip-hop singer, who has been in Haiti campaigning on behalf of Michel (Sweet Micky) Martelly. "I heard blow, blow, blow and I just looked at my hand." Jean said he was...

I was shopping at Goodwill (don't ask) and found a painting (watercolor) that was very nicely framed and matted. I needed a new painting for my wall but didn't want some cheap print - so I examined it to see if there were 'dots' from the printing process and there were none. I was confident this was a hand-crafted work. As I was examining it a woman approached me - she had been looking at it and wondered whether it was original as well. I told her what I knew and she then informed me there was a second painting...

ANDERSON TOWNSHIP, Ohio -- U.S. Rep. Jean Schmidt can't seem to outrun controversy. The freshman congresswoman is facing a complaint about the truthfulness of her education and her endorsements. The Coalition Opposed to Additional Spending and Taxes, or COAST, has endorsed Schmidt's opponent in the GOP primary, Bob McEwen. The group claims that some of Schmidt's claimed endorsements are bogus, and instead of two bachelor degrees as stated on various biographical material, she has one. "If it was one incident, I might think there was some merit in letting it go," COAST's Jim Urling said. "But we've got a very...

Swedish logo designer Bjorn Atldax did something that even the American ACLU could not do: He made walking advertisements among young Swedes for an anti-Christian message. Atldax’s logo, a skull with a cross turned upside down on its forehead emblazons denim jeans that, because of their trendy tight fit and low price, are all the rage in Stockholm, Sweden.

Just how hard can it be to pick a Governor General? Although not every vice-regal appointment has been an inspired choice (for example, Adrian Clarkson), no previous Prime Minister has so thoroughly messed up what should be a very simple task. There is no way the Prime Minster can legitimately distance himself from the controversy he single-handedly created. Michaëlle Jean was his choice, and her record of separatist support was anything but a secret. Her drinking a toast to Quebec independence was captured on film by her husband, whose support for separatism and FLQ terrorists is more blatant than her...

LifeSiteNews.com Friday August 12, 2005 Governor General Elect's Connections to FLQ Marxist Terrorists Commentary by John Muggeridge TORONTO, August 12, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Since the appointment to the Governor Generalship of Michaelle Jean, a refugee immigrant Haiti and CBC reporter, conservatives in Canada have been wondering what this relative newcomer to public life has to offer a deeply divided country that seems to hover perpetually on the edge of disunion. While Jean's personal accomplishments are seen in English Canada to be insubstantial, on the other side of the French curtain, darker implications are starting to be revealed. An article in...

Editors' preface: A noted historian of the Middle East has said the following about the legacy of scholars who devoted their careers to the study of the region: The giants of the recent past tend to be largely forgotten as soon as they are dead if not before, especially if what they have written isn't what is now considered fashionable or central … They are criticized when they are in error, but their achievements are forgotten.[1] While this is largely true in the English-speaking countries, it is not true in France, where a few French "giants" of Islamic and Arab...

CBS Lies. Will Dan Rather Get Away With It This Time? Written by Doc Farmer Sunday, September 12, 2004 Last week, 60 Minutes The Sequel (This Time It's Personal) ran a hard-hitting no-hold-barred investigative report trashing President George W. Bush. This is the fourth or fifth time CBS News has done this. Normally, this is done in the fashion of taking Bush-bashing books being sold by a publisher owned by the parent company of CBS News (Viacom) and doing puffball interviews with the authors. This time, however, CBS decided to raise, ad nauseum, the already discredited canard regarding Dubya's National...

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MONTREAL -- Opposition MPs called on Youth Minister Ethel Blondin-Andrew to explain her role in the aftermath of an alleged sexual assault in which Prime Minister Jean Chrétien's son, Michel, is charged. The MPs said the RCMP may have to examine her actions. The justice critics for the Progressive Conservatives and the Canadian Alliance said yesterday that Ms. Blondin-Andrew, the MP for Western Arctic and Secretary of State for Children and Youth, owes the public a full explanation of her conversations with the mother of the alleged victim. (The mother cannot be identified, to protect her daughter's identity.) The mother...

Prime Minister Jean Chretien fears his adopted son's arrest on a sexual assault charge may indicate a recurrence of a long-standing substance abuse problem. An 18-year-old Yellowknife woman has accused Michel Chretien, 31, of sexual assault after a night of heavy drinking in his Yellowknife apartment July 15. The woman told the Northern News Service she was in shock and waited four days before telling her mother. Jean Chretien responded to the arrest late Friday night before flying to Toronto to see the Pope. "We have been heartened at the progress he has been making and are deeply discouraged by...

YELLOWKNIFE (CP) -- The 33-year-old son of Prime Minister Jean Chretien was charged yesterday with one count of sexual assault. Michel Charles Chretien, who lives in Yellowknife, appeared before a Northwest Territories Justice of the Peace and was released from custody on conditions of an undertaking. Chretien was charged after a woman complained to police her 18-year-old daughter had been sexually assaulted at an apartment after a night of heavy drinking. Met in bar It was almost exactly 10 years ago that Chretien was convicted of sexually assaulting a woman he met in a Montreal bar. He was sentenced to...