FBI ordered US newspaper to pass on information about its readers for a case
Investigators asked USA Today to track down readers of a story about a suspect who killed two FBI agents
5 June 2021 • 7:23am
USA Today has a daily print circulation of about 700,000 and about 2.6 million daily readers online
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A US newspaper is resisting a demand by the FBI to hand over information about its readers as part of a case involving two dead agents.
The FBI sent a subpoena to
USA Today ordering it to help track down the readers of a story about a suspect in a child pornography case who fatally shot two FBI agents in February.
The Judas to Fred Hampton’s Messiah: the tragic tale of teen car thief turned FBI mole Bill O’Neal
As seen in the Oscar-tipped film, O Neal spied on the Black Panthers and was an accomplice to murder – but was he also a victim?
12 March 2021 • 3:35pm
Who is the true O’Neal?: Lakeith Stanfield in Judas the Black Messiah and William O Neal
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Hollywood loves dividing the world up into heroes and villains. This awards season, in the wake of the Black Lives Matter protests, more contenders than usual feature characters whose good or evil is defined by the nature of their involvement in America’s historic civil rights movement.
Former Trump aide charged with beating a police officer with riot shield during siege of Capitol
Federico Klein worked at the State Department and had Top Secret security clearance
5 March 2021 • 8:00pm
Video footage alleges to show Mr Klein wearing a red “Make America Great Again” cap and that he was “resisting officers, attempting to take items from officers, and assaulting officers with a riot shield.”
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Federico Klein, a former Trump campaign employee who worked at the State Department and had Top Secret security clearance, is the first member of the administration arrested in connection with the insurrection on January 6.
The second Lady Day: Andra Day plays Billie Holiday in Lee Daniels s film
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Dir: Lee Daniels. Cast: Andra Day, Trevante Rhodes, Garrett Hedlund, Natasha Lyonne, Miss Lawrence, Rob Morgan, Da’Vine Joy Randolph, Evan Ross, Tyler James Williams, Tone Bell. No cert, 130 min
The FBI couldn’t lynch Billie Holiday, but they inflicted their version of it. Their mutual antagonism began with the incendiary lyrics of Strange Fruit (“Black bodies swingin’ in the Southern breeze…”), the breakout single she first recorded in 1939, and the authorities would breathe down her neck for the remaining 20 years she enjoyed between stardom and the grave.