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DEARBORN—The media clash between local Arab American leaders and the writer of a Wall Street Journal opinion piece continued Monday as both sides doubled down on accusations their opponents are pedaling hate. On Monday, members of the Arab-American Civil Rights League and others held a press conference outside the Dearborn Police Department and denounced the op-ed piece published Friday. The piece, which described the Wayne County suburb as "America's Jihad Capital," prompted city officials to increase police patrols near places of worship. On Sunday, President Joe Biden, along with Michigan p......

Mental health parity has been a political applause line for more than three decades. And it’s been federal law since 1996, when President Bill Clinton signed the Mental Health Parity Act, a statute whose obligations were reiterated, expanded and refined in the 2008 Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act. But it is yet to be a reality in the lives of millions of Americans, who, grappling with complex rules written by private insurers, still far too often struggle to obtain the affordable, high-quality psychological and psychiatric help they need, when they need it. Indeed, the disparitie......

The rum might be gone, but the possibility of Johnny Depp reuniting with Disney is not. The “Pirates of the Caribbean” star, 60, is open to the idea of working with the House of Mouse again, despite feeling like the entertainment giant previously left him in the dust amid his nasty battle with ex-wife Amber Heard, a source close to Depp told People. “Anything is possible,” they told the outlet, not naming the “Pirates” franchise in particular. “If it’s the right project, he’ll do it.” Last month, the company was reported by The New York Times to be “seemingly inching the door open” to once aga......

As promised, Johnny Depp is putting the $1 million settlement he was awarded from the Amber Heard defamation case to good use. The former “Pirates of the Caribbean” star has reportedly spread out the payment among five charities, including Make-A-Film Foundation, The Painted Turtle, Red Feather, Tetiaroa Society, and Amazonia Fund Alliance. Sources told People that each organization will receive $200,000. Last June, a seven-person Virginia jurysided with Depp in his messy $50 million defamation trial, stemming from Heard’s 2018 Washington Post op-ed in which she said she was a survivor of dome......

If a police officer cannot be trusted, then there’s really no reason for that cop to remain on the force. That’s the thrust of a new report from the city’s primary watchdog revealing serious credibility fissures at the Chicago Police Department. The Chicago Office of Inspector General found that more than a hundred Chicago Police Department officers gave false information during criminal investigations. In many cases, the officers’ behavior — and how it was handled by the department and its oversight bodies — speaks to CPD’s persistent culture of cover-up. The report cites cops who lied about ......

Consider Hollywood’s evolving villains over the years: Nazis, Russians, South African white nationalists, Middle Eastern terrorists, South American drug lords, dinosaurs, aliens, Wall Street cutthroats, and, now, Tim Robbins. It’s Robbins as creepy “Bernard,” a dour IT director in “Silo,” an AppleTV+ sci-fi series about thousands of people living underground for reasons they do not understand — and that Bernard is loath to explain. An IT boss as bad guy (so far) taps into our growing cultural anxiety about technology, be it a threat to jobs or the expansion of artificially generated misinforma......