KIM WILL WALK ACROSS BORDER
KOREA» North SEOUL, SOUTH
Korean leader Kim Jong Un and South Korean President MoonJae-in will plant a commemorative tree and inspect an honor guard together after Kim walks across the border Friday for their historic summit, Seoul officials said Thursday. The talks on the southern side of the border village of Panmunjom are expected to focus on North Korea’s nuclear program, but there will be plenty of symbolism when Kim becomes the first North Korean leader to be in the southern section of the border since the end of the 1950-53 Korean War.
Trump attorney says he will invoke Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination.
President Donald Trump’s attorney Michael Cohen has told a judge he will invoke his Fifth Amendment right against selfincrimination in Stormy Daniels’ lawsuit. Cohen’s declaration, in support of his request to pause proceedings in the civil case, cited an “ongoing criminal investigation by the FBI and U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York.” This month, the FBI raided Cohen’s home, his office and a hotel room where he had been staying. That investigation includes the effort to quash embarrassing stories about thencandidate Trump during the 2016 campaign, according to a person familiar with the matter.
Dane convicted of killing, dismembering journalist on sub.
» A self-taught Danish COPENHAGEN engineer was convicted of murder Wednesday for luring a Swedish journalist onto his homemade submarine then torturing and killing her before dismembering her body and dumping it at sea in a sensational case that has gripped Scandinavia.
Peter Madsen, 47, was sentenced to life in prison for killing Kim Wall, a 30-year-old freelance reporter.
Warrant: Suspect’s suspicious behavior drew police attention.
DALLAS» The gunman accused of opening fire at a Dallas home improvement store — killing one police officer and critically injuring two others — initially was detained because he was acting suspiciously and may have tried to steal from the store, an arrest warrant revealed Wednesday.
An off-duty officer who was working a part-time job at the Home Depot store in the north of the city learned Armando Luis Juarez, 29, had an outstanding felony warrant after he was detained by store officials for suspected shoplifting, according to the arrest warrant.
Two officers, Rogelio Santander and Crystal Almeida, were called to the store and, with a Home Depot loss-prevention officer, were speaking with Juarez in an office. The off-duty officer stepped away, heard a report of “shots fired” over the police radio, and rushed back to the office to find the officers and loss-prevention employee on the ground with gunshot wounds, according to the warrant.
Mother files complaint, says while she was at jury duty, staff sent her to men’s room to pump breast milk. CHICAGO»
She was summoned to jury duty at the downtown Daley Center courthouse, but the Chicago attorney and mother to a newborn said she couldn’t fulfill her civic duty because there was no private place to pump breast milk. So Judith Miller filed a discrimination complaint with the Illinois Department of Human Rights, a possible precursor to a lawsuit against the Cook County court system. According to the complaint, Miller checked the Circuit Court of Cook County website before her jury date for information on the Daley Center’s lactation room. Upon arrival, Miller followed the site’s instructions and contacted a court clerk about using the facility. Miller says the clerk could not locate the room and told her she could use the men’s restroom because the women’s restroom did not have an electrical outlet, required for Miller’s breast pump. At the time of her jury date, Miller needed to pump breast milk or nurse every three hours to maintain milk supply.