Tulane removes ‘Victory Bell’ after learning of its history
Chicago mayor: Police shooting video ‘extremely disturbing’
CHICAGO – Mayor Lori Lightfoot said video footage of police shooting and wounding a suspect Friday inside a downtown Chicago train station is “extremely disturbing” and that she supports the interim police superintendent’s request for prosecutors to be sent directly to the scene – an unusual or perhaps unprecedented action in the city. Lightfoot tweeted that although “one perspective does not depict the entirety of the incident, the video is extremely disturbing and the actions by these officers are deeply concerning.”
NEW ORLEANS – The history behind a bell that stood in front of Tulane University’s Mcalister Auditorium prompted administrators to remove it. In an email, President Mike Fitts and Board Chairman Doug Hertz said they were informed that the “Victory Bell” was originally used to direct the movements of enslaved people on a plantation, The Times-picayune/the New Orleans Advocate reported. The Victory Bell was cast in 1825 and donated by Richard W. Leche, a former Louisiana governor and a Tulane law school graduate.
British PM Johnson, girlfriend engaged, expecting baby
LONDON – British Prime Minister Boris Johnson revealed Saturday that he and his girlfriend, Carrie Symonds, are engaged to be married and expecting a baby in the early summer. A wedding date wasn’t announced. Johnson, 55, and Symonds, 31, made history as the first unmarried couple to openly live together at the British prime minister’s official London residence when they moved in last year. Symonds is a conservationist and former communications chief for the Conservative Party, which Johnson now leads.
Pope Francis cancels audiences for third day with apparent cold
VATICAN CITY – Pope Francis canceled official engagements for the third day in a row Saturday as he fought an apparent cold. The pope, who lost part of a lung to a respiratory illness as a young man, has never canceled so many official audiences or events in his sevenyear papacy. Francis is, however, continuing to work from his residence at the Vatican’s Santa Marta hotel and is receiving people in private, the Vatican said. Francis, 83, last appeared in public Wednesday. The Vatican hasn’t revealed the nature of his illness.