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|Michael Irvin, Hall of Famer and Dallas Cowboys Legend is waiting on test results from a throat biopsy to determine if he has cancer
Dallas, Texas – Michael Irvin ’s physicians suggested it would be best to have a biopsy performed on his throat after losing his voice for nearly two months to rule out throat cancer. He is terrified because his father died of throat cancer at the age of 51 years old, Michael is 53. He is requesting prayers for himself and his family, that they can accept the results no matter what the biopsy indicates.
Remington College-Fort Worth Campus to participate in a walk to support National Multiple Sclerosis Society
Walk MS: Fort Worth takes place April 6
- WORTH, Texas (March 25, 2019)– The National Multiple Sclerosis Society knows creating a world free of MS will take everyone working together. Remington College will do its part by joining others on the journey at Walk MS: Fort Worth 2019.
Remington College-Fort Worth Campus will participate in the walk on April 6 at Trinity Park. The walk begins at 9:30 a.m.
The effort is part of Remington College’s nationwide partnership with the National Multiple Sclerosis Society, which kicked off on World MS Day in May 2018. Students and employees at both campuses will be invited to participate in, raise funds for or volunteer for the walk.
Prosecutors abandon the criminal case against Jussie Smollett
By AMANDA SEITZ and MICHAEL TARM
CHICAGO (AP) — Infuriating Chicago’s mayor and police chief, prosecutors abruptly dropped all charges against Jussie Smollett on Tuesday after the “Empire” actor accused of faking a racist, anti-gay attack on himself agreed to do volunteer service and to let the city keep his $10,000 in bail.
Authorities gave no detailed explanation for why they abandoned the case only five weeks after filing the charges and threatening to pursue Smollett for the cost of a monthlong investigation. Prosecutors said they still believe Smollett concocted the assault. Smollett insisted he told the truth all along.
The dismissal drew an immediate backlash. Mayor Rahm Emanuel called the deal “a whitewash of justice” and lashed out at Smollett for dragging the city’s reputation “through the mud” in a quest to advance his career. At one point he asked, “Is there no decency in this man?”
Smollett’s attorneys said his record was “wiped clean” of the 16 felony counts related to making a false report that two men assaulted him. The actor insisted that he had “been truthful and consistent on every single level since day one.”
Trump says report ‘a clean bill of health’ as Dems seek more
WASHINGTON (AP) — An exuberant President Donald Trump took a victory lap on Capitol Hill, emboldened by the end of the special counsel’s Russia probe, even as Democrats pressed insistently for Robert Mueller’s full report and Justice Department officials said more information could be released in “weeks, not months.”
Trump strode into a high-spirited gathering of Senate Republicans on Tuesday, flanked by party leaders, saying the attorney general’s weekend summary of Mueller’s report “could not have been better.” GOP senators applauded his arrival, and he celebrated what he called his “clean bill of health.”
But challenges are ahead for both the Republicans and the Democrats who hope to deny Trump re-election next year. Both parties are readjusting their aims and strategies in the post-probe landscape, pivoting to health care and other issues that are more important for many voters, even with Mueller’s full findings still unknown.
At House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s closed-door caucus meeting Tuesday, she urged rank-and-file Democrats to “be calm” and focus on the policy promises of health care, jobs, and oversight of the administration that helped propel them to the House majority last fall.
“Let’s just get the goods,” Pelosi said.
Not that the Democrats are forgetting Russia and the 2016 presidential election. Many Democrats dismiss the four-page summary released by Attorney General William Barr as inadequate.
Avenatti charged with fraud as he testified in the related case
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Even before federal prosecutors unsealed charges against Michael Avenatti, the lawyer best known for representing porn actress Stormy Daniels in legal battles against President Donald Trump was facing legal scrutiny for his business practices.
Avenatti was testifying Friday in his own defense in a civil case that included allegations he pocketed $1.6 million from a client as the feds were including that claim in their criminal case that could put him behind bars for decades.
Avenatti, 48, faces charges in California for allegedly filing bogus tax returns to secure $4 million in loans and embezzling the client’s settlement funds. He faces charges in New York of threatening to release damaging information against Nike if it didn’t pay him and another lawyer up to $25 million.