The Daily Populous

Friday March 29th, 2019 evening edition

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Jussie Smollett has been ordered to pay $130,000 (£99,000) to cover the cost of the investigation into an alleged assault on him in January in Chicago.

Smollett has always said he is an innocent victim - the charges against him were dropped earlier this week.

But he has now been ordered to cover the costs of police officers, including overtime hours used on the case.

CBS journalist Charlie De Mar shared a letter from the city of Chicago to Jussie Smollett, demanding he pay $130,106.15 in the next seven days.

In the letter, the police repeated their accusations that Jussie Smollett faked the attack on himself.

"Ultimately, the Chicago police investigation revealed that you knowingly filed a false police report and had in fact orchestrated your own attack.".

“It is the Mayor and the Police Chief who owe Jussie - owe him an apology - for dragging an innocent man’s character through the mud. »

A Billion People Will Be Newly Exposed to Diseases Like Dengue Fever as World Temperatures Rise - Georgetown University Medical Center

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A Billion People Will Be Newly Exposed to Diseases Like Dengue Fever as World Temperatures Rise.

According to the World Health Organization, mosquitoes are one of the deadliest animals in the world, carrying diseases that cause millions of deaths every year. »

Wild Geerters auf Twitter: "So it's another one of those books about how bad things only happened because people rejected Christianity. How is Ben Shapiro any different than every other religious cons

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Plastic Bags to Be Banned in New York; Second Statewide Ban, After California

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The plan, proposed a year ago by Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo, would be the second statewide ban, after California, which banned bags in 2016.

Hawaii also effectively has a ban in place, since all the state’s counties bar such single-use bags.

Newspaper bags would also be exempted, as would garment bags and bags sold in bulk, such as trash or recycling bags. »

Reaction as Brexit vote defeated

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BBC political correspondent Chris Mason says there is lots more talk in Westminster tonight about a possible general election.

"There’s a recognition that there’s a lot of weariness about the potential trip to a polling station," he says.

But he says that "Parliament is running out of road – the prime minister used language to that effect today". »