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A man fired a gunshot into the air and several people, including a police officer, were pepper-sprayed when a pro-Palestinian group demonstrated outside a Jewish organization’s rally in solidarity with Israel Sunday, according to Lincolnwood and Skokie police. The rally was originally set to be a fundraising dinner for the Midwest Regional Office of the Simon Wiesenthal Center, whose website describes it as a Jewish human rights activist organization, but organizers switched it to a Solidarity with Israel event in Skokie after the Israel-Hamas war started on Oct. 7, they said in a news release......

Climate change protesters spray-painted Walmart heiress Nancy Walton Laurie’s superyacht Sunday while it was docked in Ibiza. Two members of Spanish activist group Futuro Vegetal unleashed red and black spray paint from fire extinguishers on the yacht Kaos. The two young men then unfurled a banner that read, “You consume, others suffer.” Crew members on the superyacht tried in vain to wash off the paint with hoses. “The richest 1% of the world’s population pollutes more than the poorest 50%,” the Futuro Vegetal members said. “They are condemning us to a future of pain, misery and desolation.” ......

Last weekend, the activist organization Justice for Wyandotte held a rally requesting that the Kansas City, Kansas Police Department release body camera footage from the night two weeks ago when an officer shot and killed 25-year-old Amaree’ya Henderson during a traffic stop. His girlfriend was in the car with him, and his mother was on FaceTime with the couple when the shooting happened. Both said he did not have a weapon and have told The Star about how he was a beloved member of their family who was trying to earn some extra cash delivering Doordash orders that night. Kansas City, Missouri ......

ST. LOUIS — School librarians across Missouri are pulling books from shelves as they face the potential for criminal charges under a new state law banning “explicit sexual material.” The law goes into effect Aug. 28 and applies to both public and private schools. It was part of a state bill addressing various sexual assault and other crimes and creating a “sexual assault survivors bill of rights.” The law defines explicit sexual material as any visual depiction of sex acts or genitalia, with exceptions for artistic or scientific significance. “It applies to any kind of images, which could incl......

CHICAGO — The original Shepard Fairey “Hope” portrait of former President Barack Obama has sold in an auction for $735,000. The iconic red and blue portrait was displayed in April as part of Expo Chicago by Heritage Auctions, which reported the sale Friday. It was created in 2008 by the Los Angeles-based street artist as a form of grassroots activism to support then-Sen. Obama’s first campaign. Fairey based the image on an Associated Press photograph by Mannie Garcia. According to the announcement from Heritage, although the work has since been recreated many times, just three original large-s......

The mass trials against July 11 protesters continue this week in Cuba despite the outcry of family members, local activists and international organizations, as the communist government has signaled it won’t budge on its intention to snuff other attempts at a popular rebellion. At least 45 protesters will be tried this week in Havana and nearby Mayabeque province, according to information verified by the activist group Justicia 11J. They have been charged with several crimes, including causing “public disorder,” resisting the police, assault and disrespecting the flag. Some, including nine youn......