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Jussie Smollett in 2016. On January 29, 2019, American actor Jussie Smollett approached the Chicago Police Department and reported a hate crime that he had staged earlier that morning. [1] [2] He planned the fake hate crime with two Nigerian-American brothers, Abimbola and Olabinjo Osundairo, who had worked as extras on the set of television ...
The 2001 anthrax attacks, also known as Amerithrax (a portmanteau of "America" and "anthrax", from its FBI case name), [2] occurred in the United States over the course of several weeks beginning on September 18, 2001, one week after the September 11 terrorist attacks. Letters containing anthrax spores were mailed to several news media offices ...
Bruce Edwards Ivins ( / ˈaɪvɪnz /; April 22, 1946 – July 29, 2008) [ 1] was an American microbiologist, vaccinologist, [ 1] senior biodefense researcher at the United States Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases (USAMRIID), Fort Detrick, Maryland, and the person suspected by the FBI of the 2001 anthrax attacks. [ 2]
Editor’s Note: A new episode of the CNN Original Series “How It Really Happened” spotlights the terrifying anthrax attacks that followed Sept. 11, 2001, taking viewers inside one of the ...
Friday, October 12, 2001. 12:30 p.m. EDT Rudy Giuliani holds a press conference detailing earlier reports about a case of anthrax in New York City. A female NBC Nightly News employee is reported to have been exposed to anthrax. It is believed that she received it from a letter containing powder on September 25.
Anthrax usually affects livestock like cattle, sheep and goats, as well as wild herbivores. Humans can be infected if they […] The post Five African countries suffer anthrax outbreaks, with 20 ...
In September 2001, letters containing anthrax spores were mailed to several news media offices and two U.S. Senators, killing five people and infecting 17 others. Of those infected, 11 developed cutaneous anthrax, while 11 developed inhalation anthrax. 20 of the 22 infected worked at a site where contaminated mail was handled or received.
Dense fog in the Chicago area caused delays and cancellations on Sunday morning at Midway Airport amid the busy travel rush. The Federal Aviation Administration issued a ground stop at Chicago’s ...