Ex-presidents

tribute Jackson

CHICAGO (AP) — From former presidents to an NBA Hall of Famer to prominent church pastors, stories of the Rev. Jesse Jackson Sr.’s influence on politics, corporate boardrooms and picket lines loomed large at a celebration honoring the late civil rights leader.

Thousands of people gathered Friday at a church on Chicago’s South Side to pay a final public tribute to Jackson.

Barack Obama, Bill Clinton and Joe Biden, and former Vice President Kamala Harris, spoke during the program. The ceremony honors Jackson, a protege of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and two-time presidential candidate. It follows memorial services that drew large crowds in Chicago and South Carolina.

Calls reveal

detention woes

EL PASO, Texas (AP) — The calls to 911 poured in from staff at Camp East Montana, the nation’s largest U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention facility, in its first months of operation in El Paso, Texas.

The emergencies included repeated suicide attempts by detainees, seizures, injuries from fights and a pregnant woman in pain. Data from more than a hundred 911 calls obtained by The Associated Press, interviews with detainees and court filings offer a portrait of overcrowding, medical neglect, malnutrition and emotional distress.

A Department of Homeland Security spokesperson rejected claims of subprime conditions, saying detainees receive food, water and medical treatment in a facility that’s regularly cleaned.

NASA passes

asteroid test

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — A new study has found that an asteroid NASA used for target practice a few years ago was nudged into a slightly different route around the sun. It’s the first time that a celestial body’s solar orbit was deliberately changed.

Scientists reported Friday that the 2022 impact by the Dart spacecraft not only trimmed the asteroid’s orbit around its bigger space rock companion, but also around the sun.

Researchers say their findings could help divert an incoming killer space rock given enough advance notice. The study was published in Science Advances.