🔎📚Civil rights attorney Benjamin Crump is joining a lawsuit against Baltimore City Schools, which accuses the school system of wasting tax dollars and failing to provide an adequate education to generations of students.

Crump told Project Baltimore. “It's just as horrific when you think about our children being killed softly, slowly, every day in an unsympathetic, uncaring school system that believes in just passing them along to get along.” Crump is nationally known for representing the families of Trayvon Martin, George Floyd, and Breonna Taylor.

In joining the lawsuit, Crump will help represent plaintiffs Jovani and Shawnda Patterson, two Baltimore City parents who filed the lawsuit in January against the Baltimore City Board of School Commissioners, Baltimore City Council, and Mayor Brandon Scott.

Subscribe to @SputnikInt

🔎🏀President Joe Biden has called the wife of WNBA player Brittney Griner, who is detained in Russia, and has pledged that he is working to win her release as soon as possible, the White House said Wednesday.

Biden's conversation with Griner's wife, Cherelle Griner, comes after Brittney Griner wrote Biden a letter on Monday. In the letter, Brittney Griner told the president she feared she would spend forever in a Russian jail. She has been detained for four months.

The WNBA star is currently on trial in Russia, accused of possessing vape cartridges containing cannabis oil.

Subscribe to @SputnikInt

🚨🚓Washington D.C. Police arrested a man who had two Molotov cocktails near Union Station yesterday afternoon.

Authorities said around 3:30 p.m. on Tuesday, two USCP patrol officers received a report that someone had Molotov cocktails along Massachusetts Avenue, Northwest near Union Station. According to the officers, the suspect threw one of the Molotov cocktails at the officers while trying to light it.

He dropped another Molotov cocktail that was made out of a tequila bottle stuffed with a sock and a liquid that the USCP Hazardous Material Response team later determined to be a petroleum-based accelerant. Police recovered a backpack that had two more bottles of liquid at the scene. Two officers were treated for minor injuries after the incident.

Subscribe to @SputnikInt

LIVE UPDATES | Donetsk People’s Republic again shelled by Ukrainian forces, DPR says

LIVE UPDATES | BoJo rejects calls to step down after being hit with 46 gov't resignations

⚡️ ⚡️Northern Ireland Secretary Brandon Lewis resigns from BoJo's government

The FBI and MI5 heads are so concerned about the Chinese government that for the first time in history, they made a joint statement accusing China of "stealing" Western technology for competitive gain.

▪️ FBI Director Christopher Wray called China "the largest long-term threat" to the economic and national security of Western countries.

▪️ Director General of the MI5 Ken McCallum stated that British intelligence had increased the number of investigations against China sevenfold since four years ago.

In his turn, Liu Pengyu, a representative of the Chinese Embassy in Washington, rejected the accusations, saying that China “firmly opposes and combats all forms of cyber-attacks” and called the accusations groundless

Subscribe to @SputnikInt

⚡️⚡️ Number of BoJo gov't resignations hits 50 as three more ministers resign

⚡️Guy Opperman becomes 51st minister to resign

UPDATE | Chris Philp, technology minister, resigns, as well as James Cartlidge, who resigns as courts' minister

❗️ Sam Coate, deputy political editor with Sky News, citing a source, said that Downing Street is preparing a resignation letter, but it is unclear whether the prime minister will read it

Subscribe to @SputnikInt

⚡️ Gas prices in Europe have exceeded $1,900 per 1,000 cubic meters since March - Intercontinental Exchange

Russian FM Lavrov is holding talks with fellow G20 diplomats in Bali. Head of Russia's diplomacy has underlined the importance of Russia-China strategic ties in "creating a fairer and more democratic world order" during a meeting with Chinese FM Wang Yi.

WATCH: Footage of Western Military District Grad multiple launch rocket systems in action has been released by the Russian Defense Ministry

Subscribe to @SputnikInt

⚡️ Sky News political editor Beth Rigby says, citing a source, that the resignation of Boris Johnson should be expected today