The Latest Breaking News from R Kelly

Today’s update is a 5-minute read that will brief you on the day’s biggest stories.

Derrel McDavid’s lawyers argued that prosecutors “told the jury a story that had to be false.”

CHICAGO — R. Kelly’s Cook County cases continue to move at a snail’s pace, despite a judge’s past urging to make progress now that the singer’s two federal trials have concluded.

The Rev. James Meeks stepped down as senior pastor of the Roseland-area church Sunday on its 38th anniversary. His next mission: building 1,000 homes in Roseland.

"The Final Chapter" of Lifetime's vital series remains an achievement despite a toxic fandom that won't let go

This week’s new entertainment releases include albums from veteran Iggy Pop and rising star Brandon Ratcliff, Lifetime concludes its coverage on R. Kelly’s victims with a two-night special, and Christian Bale stars as a detective in an 1830 whodunit alongside a young Edgar Allen Poe

Donnell Russell, 47, was sentenced to a year in federal prison on Monday

R. Kelly’s onetime manager has been sentenced to a year in federal prison for calling in a shooting threat that halted a screening of a damning documentary about the R&B star

R. Kelly’s team told police in February that hundreds of the singer’s master recordings had been stolen from a storage facility in Illinois, according to TMZ, possibly shining some light on how a “new” Kelly album made it to market.

Can we finally have that conversation about Ye, fame and mental illness?

CHICAGO — Close observers of R. Kelly’s Cook County cases might have had a touch of deja vu Tuesday during the singer’s latest hearing.