Tue, 20:28: The Jussie Smollett case is wild and complicated, but this piece offers the most delightful aside I have seen in a while:
"A Canadian, Robert Spearing, was charged with disorderly conduct in 2011 after Chicago police said he lied about being beaten and robbed of tickets to an Oprah Winfrey show. He concocted the story, even cutting his own forehead with a rock, to conceal from his wife that he had never had tickets."
EXPLAINER: What charges does Jussie Smollett face at trial?