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CHESAPEAKE, Va.  — A shooting at a Walmart in Virginia on Tuesday night left several people dead and wounded, though the exact numbers were not immediately known, police said. The shooter was among the dead, officials said. Officers responded to a report of a shooting at the Walmart on Sam’s Circle around 10:15 p.m. and as soon as they arrived they found evidence of a shooting, Chesapeake Officer Leo Kosinski said in a briefing. Over 35 to 40 minutes, officers found multiple dead people and injured people in the store and put rescue and tactical teams together to go inside…

by Mark Sherman WASHINGTON  — The Supreme Court on Tuesday cleared the way for the imminent handover of former President Donald Trump’s tax returns to a congressional committee after a three-year legal fight. The court, with no noted dissents, rejected Trump’s plea for an order that would have prevented the Treasury Department from giving six years of tax returns for Trump and some of his businesses to the Democratic-controlled House Ways and Means Committee. Alone among recent presidents, Trump refused to release his tax returns either during his successful 2016 campaign or his four years in the White House, citing…

by Andrew Seligman CHICAGO  — Zach LaVine was back where he wanted to be, on the court and helping the Bulls get a win they sorely needed. Even better, it came against the team with the NBA’s best record. LaVine scored 22 points, DeMar DeRozan had 28 and Chicago stopped Boston’s nine-game win streak, beating the Celtics 121-107 on Monday night. Patrick Williams scored a season-high 17, and the Bulls made it look rather easy against a team that’s 13-4. They led by 13 at halftime, got it up to 21 in the third quarter and withstood a push to…

by StevePeoples WASHINGTON — There was no violence. Many candidates who denied the legitimacy of previous elections lost and quietly conceded. And few listened when former President Donald Trumptried to stoke baseless allegations of electoral fraud. For a moment, at least, there’s a sense of normalcy in the U.S. The extremism that has consumed political discourse for much of the last two years has been replaced by something resembling traditional democratic order. The post-election narrative was instead focused on each party’s electoral fate: Republicans were disappointed that sweeping victories didn’t materialize, while relieved Democrats braced for the possibility of a…

by Jesse Bedayn and Sam Metz COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — When army veteran Rich Fierro realized a gunman was spraying bullets inside the club where he had gathered with friends and family, instincts from his military training immediately kicked in. First he ducked to avoid any potential incoming fire, then moved to try to disarm the shooter. “It’s the reflex. Go! Go to the fire. Stop the action. Stop the activity. Don’t let no one get hurt. I tried to bring everybody back,” he said Monday outside his home. Fierro is one of two people police are crediting with saving…

by Steve Douglas LUSAIL, Qatar — Saudi Arabia scored one of the biggest World Cup upsets ever by beating Lionel Messi’s Argentina 2-1 on Tuesday. Messi’s quest to win the one major title to elude him got off to a shocking start and brought back memories of Cameroon’s 1-0 win over an Argentina team led by Diego Maradona in the opening game of the 1990 World Cup. Goals by Saleh Alshehri and Salem Aldawsari in a five-minute span in the second half gave the Saudis the win. Argentina took an early lead with a 10th-minute penalty by Messi. The Argentina…

by Joseph Omoremi CHICAGO, IL –   A wire transfer of $80,000 to the First Heritage Bank account of Ashiwaju Bola A. Tinubu triggered the investigation of the former Lagos Governor and closure of nine bank accounts linked to him as well as the forfeiture of $460,000 to the U.S. government in October 1993. Tinubu had opened an individual money market account and a NOW account in Chicago in December 1989 according to U.S District Court documents obtained by The Chicago Inquirer. Mr. Adegboyega Mueez Akande who was under investigation by local police, Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) and FBI wired…

Africans, are gradually climbing their ways into top echelon of leadership in America, especially the corporate world. One of the trailblazers is Dr. Akinyinka Akinyele, District Manager for Chicago Postal Service. After a couple of changes because of his tight schedule, he eventually spoke to our editor, Joseph Omoremi, on what is it being the headsman, areas of opportunities, race relations and his Christian values. It is an exciting reading. Excepts: Inquirer: We don’t have many district managers around. Yours quickly comes to mind in Chicagoland? Dr. Akinyele: America basically is a land of opportunity. Our preparation, when it eventually…

“We are here to solidify the relationship between Lagos and Chicago. Chicago is a sister city to Lagos and we are here to build on the existing relationship with the hope of turning Lagos into Chicago,” Nigeria’s monarch Oba Rilwan Akiolu of Lagos told The Chicago Inquirer on Monday. In his first international outing as the Oba of Lagos, the monarch expressed satisfaction with the visit. “I met the mayor, city and Cook County officials, Lagosians and friends and Africans from all walks of lives,” the Oba said. He appealed to the Cook County board President John Stroger, to make…

by Joseph Omoremi The world stood still at the Harambee Hall, Chicago when the recently crowned Lagos monarch Oba Rilwan Akiolu was ushered into the main hall, venue of the 60th birthday party of Dr. Nurudeen Olowopopo. Long before the arrival of the king and Gov. Bola Ahmed Tinubu of Lagos State, the main entrance to the hall was jammed by gatecrashers who were politely turned back by security men and police officers while invited guests with valid invitation cards streamed in continuously. Nigerians, nay Africans, decked in their glittering babanriga, Senegalese and other native attires and costumes were a…