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Dec 24, 2025
Police departments from Clarendon Hills, Hinsdale, Burr Ridge and Willowbrook have joined to hire a social worker.
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Dec 24, 2025
The faith leaders who were turned away instead led a prayer and sang hymns near the facility's doorstep, and vowed to try again.
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Dec 24, 2025
Thousands of people flocked to Bethlehem's Manger Square on Christmas Eve as families there and at other sites across the Holy Land heralded a much-needed boost of holiday spirit, after two years of subdued celebrations because of the war in Gaza.
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Dec 24, 2025
Good afternoon, Chicago. Here's what is happening today.
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Dec 24, 2025
The Justice Department said Wednesday that finishing the release of all of the Jeffrey Epstein files could take a "few more weeks."
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Dec 24, 2025
A 33-year-old Dolton man faces armed robbery charges after stealing money and cigarettes from a Walgreens in Hammond, charges state.
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Dec 24, 2025
Actor and comedian Pat Finn, who appeared in sitcoms like "The Middle," "Seinfeld" and "Friends," has died after a years-long battle with cancer.
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Dec 24, 2025
Former Portage Mayor James Snyder's January sentencing was delayed following the former judge's recusal in the case.
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Dec 24, 2025
A powerful winter storm swept across Southern California, with heavy rain threatening mudslides and debris flows in areas scorched by wildfires.
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Dec 24, 2025
The new Wellness Room at Stagg High School in Palos Hills is a dedicated space for students to relax and recharge.
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Dec 24, 2025
A K-9 named Rak is officially no longer a member of the Winfield Police Department and is reportedly living with Winfield Town Councilman Tim Clayton and his family.
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Dec 24, 2025
One person died and three people were injured after a multi-vehicle wreck late Tuesday afternoon in Crown Point, police said.
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Dec 24, 2025
A man accused of shooting two National Guard troops near the White House has been charged in a complaint with federal firearms charges.
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Dec 24, 2025
Southland crime items compiled from police and court reports and news releases.
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Dec 24, 2025
Construction crews and drones searched the rubble of a Pennsylvania nursing home, a day after a powerful explosion killed at least two people.
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Dec 24, 2025
A man and woman who were hosting a party at their Chesterton residence got into a fight and ended their night in the Porter County Jail.
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Dec 24, 2025
A man was fatally wounded in a shooting that left three others injured overnight in the Englewood neighborhood, Chicago police said.
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Dec 24, 2025
A boat belonging to an Egyptian pharaoh is being assembled in full view at the Grand Egyptian Museum's exhibition hall.
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Dec 24, 2025
The Department of Homeland Security said it was replacing its longstanding lottery system for H-1B work visas with a new approach that prioritizes skilled, higher-paid foreign workers.
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Dec 24, 2025
Lawyers for hip-hop mogul Sean "Diddy" Combs urged a federal appeals court in New York to order his immediate release from prison.
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Dec 24, 2025
A coalition of 19 states and the District of Columbia sued over a declaration that could complicate access to gender-affirming care for young people.
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Dec 24, 2025
Good morning, Chicago. Here are the top stories you need to know to start your day.
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Dec 24, 2025
The United States and Ukraine have reached a consensus on several critical issues aimed at bringing an end to the nearly four-year conflict.
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Dec 24, 2025
A news segment about the Trump administration's immigration policy that was abruptly pulled from "60 Minutes" was mistakenly aired on a TV app.
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Dec 24, 2025
A Christmas Eve Powerball drawing could add new meaning to holiday cheer as millions of players hope to cash in on the $1.7 billion prize.
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Dec 24, 2025
Here's a look back at each of the Bears' playoff games — including two trips to the Super Bowl — since 1932.
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Dec 24, 2025
The Oasis Foundation was formed to assist patients at Flossmoor-based Oasis Hospice and Palliative Care, Inc. and The House of Goshen.
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Dec 24, 2025
The freeze is "an authoritarian move to punish the city of Chicago," one expert said.
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Dec 24, 2025
On Dec. 24, 1851, fire devastated the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C., destroying about 35,000 volumes (about two-thirds of the library's collection).
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Dec 24, 2025
Here's a look back at what happened in the Chicago area on Dec. 24, according to the Tribune's archives.
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Dec 23, 2025
"He was instrumental in the early 1990s in guiding Illinois' economy through a severe national economic downturn," said RTA chair Kirk Dillard.
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Dec 23, 2025
Millions of borrowers are considered in default, meaning they are 270 days past due on their payments. The department must give borrowers 30 days notice before their wages can be garnished.
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Dec 23, 2025
Pope Leo XIV said Tuesday he was "very disappointed" that his home state of Illinois had approved a law allowing for medically assisted suicide, and he called for greater respect of life.
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Dec 23, 2025
A Hammond man faces drug charges after selling methamphetamine to a police informant, according to court documents.
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Dec 23, 2025
More than 200 area high school students immersed themselves in the fundamentals and real-world applications of artificial intelligence, cybersecurity robotics and more at a recent Purdue University Northwest annual "AI, Cybersecurity, and STEM Discovery Day" event.
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Dec 23, 2025
Calumet City Mayor Thaddeus Jones plans to veto a City Council move to hire Odelson, Murphey, Frazier and McGrath as its counsel.
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Dec 23, 2025
The conservative-majority U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday denied a request from President Donald Trump's administration to allow the Republican president to deploy National Guard troops to Illinois while a lower court's restraining order is appealed.
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Dec 23, 2025
Good afternoon, Chicago. Here's what is happening today.
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Dec 23, 2025
A 49-year-old man was left in critical condition Tuesday morning after he was wounded in a shooting outside of a business in Brighton Park, Chicago police said.
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Dec 23, 2025
The Harvey City Council meeting last met in October, when residents criticized the administration in the midst of a financial crisis.
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Dec 23, 2025
Medicaid programs made more than $200 million in improper payments to health care providers between 2021 and 2022 for people who had already died, according to a new report from the independent watchdog for the Department of Health and Human Services.
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Dec 23, 2025
Mayor Brandon Johnson announced Tuesday he will not veto the 2026 budget passed by aldermen, conceding a historic struggle that reached the brink of a government shutdown.
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Dec 23, 2025
Former Portage Mayor Sammie Maletta Sr. was found dead early Monday, a shock to his family.
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Dec 23, 2025
If the Chicago Bears decide to build their new stadium in Northwest Indiana, the South Shore Convention and Visitor Authority will be ready to chip in however it's needed.
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Dec 23, 2025
There are at least three instances in the past 150 years when opposing temperature extremes hit the area in back-to-back years.
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Dec 23, 2025
The Department of Justice released more files related to the investigation of financier Jeffrey Epstein late Monday, making public thousands of documents that included emails from prosecutors, unverified tips and records from Epstein's death in a New York City jail.
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Dec 23, 2025
At least one person was fatally wounded and one injured in a possible robbery on the CTA Pink Line, according to a police report obtained by the Tribune.
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Dec 23, 2025
The Trump administration is offering undocumented migrants $3,000 and paid travel if they agree to leave the US voluntarily before the end of the year.
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Dec 23, 2025
The U.S. military said Monday that it had conducted another strike against a boat it said was smuggling drugs in the eastern Pacific Ocean, killing one person.
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Dec 23, 2025
Medicaid programs made more than $200 million in improper payments to health care providers between 2021 and 2022 for people who had already died, according to a new report from the independent watchdog for the Department of Health and Human Services.
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Dec 23, 2025
For the first time since the roaring flood, the 100-year-old all-girls Christian sleepaway retreat plans to sign up campers in January, forging ahead with a reopening that has divided families and stunned some lawmakers. Campers will start arriving in May, bunking on higher ground than the area where fast-rising waters on the Guadalupe River swept away two cabins.
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Dec 23, 2025
Gary students and parents got a jump start on their two-week winter break Dec. 19 at a Holiday Help Fair sponsored by the Gary Community School Corp. Kids engaged in hands-on STEM projects, such as building a pyramid slingshot, sponsored by Scouting America, while their parents sought out job and mentoring resources or learned different aspects of home ownership, including how to make a down payment.
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Dec 23, 2025
Good morning, Chicago. Here are the top stories you need to know to start your day.
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Dec 23, 2025
Samantha Steele's opponent in the race for the Cook County Board of Review has alleged Steele tried to get her to drop out in exchange for a six-figure job in Steele's office.
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Dec 23, 2025
Chicago last had a white Christmas in 2022, but this year temperatures are likely to be in the 40- to 50-degree range.
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Dec 23, 2025
The new proposed federal classification of marijuana would allow more research, and would let cannabis businesses take normal tax deductions.
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Dec 23, 2025
The new proposed federal classification of marijuana would allow more research, and would let cannabis businesses take normal tax deductions.
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Dec 23, 2025
Here's a look back at what happened in the Chicago area on Dec. 23, according to the Tribune's archives.
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Dec 23, 2025
On Dec. 23, 1972, in an NFL playoff game between the Pittsburgh Steelers and the Oakland Raiders, Steelers running back Franco Harris scored a game-winning touchdown on a deflected pass with less than 10 seconds left. The "Immaculate Reception," as the catch came to be known, is often cited as the greatest NFL play of all time.
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Dec 22, 2025
Brown University's president on Monday placed its campus police chief on leave as the Rhode Island university reviews its security policies after a gunman killed two students and injured nine others earlier this month.
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Dec 22, 2025
U.S. Reps. Chuy García, Danny Davis, Delia Ramirez and Jonathan Jackson arrived carrying a federal court order.
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Dec 22, 2025
U.S. regulators on Monday gave the green light to a pill version of the blockbuster weight-loss drug Wegovy, the first daily oral medication to treat obesity.
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Dec 22, 2025
A judge on Monday scolded Jeffrey Epstein's longtime confidant Ghislaine Maxwell for including confidential victim names in court papers seeking to set aside her 2021 sex trafficking conviction and free her from a 20-year prison sentence.
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Dec 22, 2025
Illinois Secretary of State Alexi Giannoulias released this year's rejected vanity and personalized license plate applications.
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Dec 22, 2025
An officer encountered a crashed vehicle that had rolled over, and its engine compartment was fully engulfed in flames, police said.
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Dec 22, 2025
Ariel Ginjauma received a 12-year sentence for aggravated battery and a 10-year sentence for criminal confinement.
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Dec 22, 2025
From department stores to grocery stores, most retailers across the U.S. close early on Christmas Eve and shut their doors entirely on Christmas Day — while others opt to cut back hours.
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Dec 22, 2025
Chris Rea, the singer and songwriter best known for the hit "Driving Home for Christmas," has died at 74, his family said Monday.
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Dec 22, 2025
Four boys and three girls, ranging in age from 10 to 13, have been charged with misdemeanor battery causing bodily harm, Chicago police say.
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Dec 22, 2025
Barry Manilow will be having surgery to remove a cancerous spot on his lung and will reschedule his January concerts, the singer announced Monday.
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Dec 22, 2025
Community feedback led Evergreen Park District 124 to cancel a referendum to replace Central Middle School and renovate other schools.
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Dec 22, 2025
Bourbon maker Jim Beam is halting production at one of its distilleries in Kentucky for at least a year as the whiskey industry navigates tariffs from the Trump administration and slumping demand for a product that needs years of aging before it is ready.
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Dec 22, 2025
Powerball will be drawing its winning lottery numbers Monday night for a record 46th time since its last jackpot was claimed, as a string of failed sweepstakes ballooned the top prize to $1.6 billion.
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Dec 22, 2025
A federal grand jury has indicted six purported Chicago gang members for racketeering conspiracy, accusing the gang of involvement in 13 homicides as well as spates of other violence across the city in service of protecting their South Side territory.
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Dec 22, 2025
Board of Education President Sean Harden pulled a proposed property tax hike from the school board's agenda last week that would have netted the district $25 million.
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Dec 22, 2025
Gold and silver soared to all-time highs, as escalating geopolitical tensions and bets on further US rate cuts added momentum to the best annual performance in more than four decades.
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Dec 22, 2025
James Ransone, the actor who played Ziggy Sobotka in the HBO series "The Wire" and appeared in many other TV shows and movies, has died. He was 46.
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Dec 22, 2025
People stop reading in adulthood for lots of reasons. But it's never too late to turn the page on old habits and start again.
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Dec 22, 2025
In merger application, railroad plans to double the number of trains on a 2-mile stretch of track on Chicago's West Side.
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Dec 22, 2025
Here's a look back at how Chicago's current snowfall compares with previous seasons.
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Dec 22, 2025
A driver in a gray Jeep Grand Cherokee with an Illinois passenger plate hit and killed two pedestrians near Marshfield Plaza shopping area.
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Dec 22, 2025
After an autumn of angst over the impending expiration at the end of the month of Porter County's ambulance contract with Northwest Health, the county and hospital have come to a two-year agreement at an annual cost of $1.5 million for a minimum of four advanced life support and one basic life support ambulances. It's a considerable, but expected, increase from the yearly ambulance subsidy of $450,000 the county currently pays.
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Dec 22, 2025
A man accused of killing 15 people at Sydney's Bondi Beach conducted firearms training in an area of New South Wales state outside of Sydney with his father, according to Australian police documents released on Monday.
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Dec 22, 2025
Most Americans aren't making end-of-year charitable giving plans, according to the results of a new AP-NORC poll, despite the many fundraising appeals made by nonprofits that rely on donation surges in the calendar's final month to reach budget targets.
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Dec 22, 2025
CBS News' "60 Minutes" on Sunday didn't air a planned story on Trump administration deportations of immigrants to El Salvador, pulling it only hours before airtime at the direction of new editor-in-chief Bari Weiss.
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Dec 22, 2025
Chicago homicide data, which is updated on this page weekly, is through Dec. 20, 2025.
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Dec 22, 2025
The Gary School Board agreed Thursday to dip into its cash reserves to cover more than $5 million in unexpected expenses not included in its 2025 budget..
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Dec 22, 2025
Good morning, Chicago. Here are the top stories you need to know to start your day.
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Dec 22, 2025
Through mid-November, records show, CPD officers in 2025 have recovered nearly 400 "ghost guns" — effectively untraceable weapons.
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Dec 22, 2025
Cook County suburban school districts are begging to receive their share of property tax revenues in order to to make payroll.
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Dec 22, 2025
The shooting has sent ripples of worry and anxiety across many of the roughly 2,300 Afghans who have resettled in Illinois since the U.S. withdrew from Afghanistan in 2021.
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Dec 22, 2025
Here's a look back at what happened in the Chicago area on Dec. 22, according to the Tribune's archives.
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Dec 22, 2025
On Dec. 22, 1984, New York City resident Bernhard Goetz shot and wounded four young Black men on a Manhattan subway, alleging they were about to rob him. (Goetz, a white man in what became known as the "Subway Vigilante" case, was later acquitted of attempted murder and assault charges but convicted on a weapons possession charge and served eight months of a one-year sentence.)
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Dec 21, 2025
Vice President JD Vance said Sunday the conservative movement should be open to everyone as long as they "love America," declining to condemn a streak of antisemitism that has divided the Republican Party.
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Dec 21, 2025
Female rapper Nicki Minaj on Sunday made a surprise appearance at a gathering of conservatives in Arizona that was memorializing late activist Charlie Kirk.
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Dec 21, 2025
The Trump administration is recalling nearly 30 career diplomats from ambassadorial and other senior embassy posts as it moves to reshape the U.S. diplomatic posture abroad with personnel deemed fully supportive of President Donald Trump's "America First" priorities.
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Dec 21, 2025
The Powerball jackpot now stands at an estimated $1.6 billion, making it one of the largest lottery prizes in U.S. history, Powerball officials said Sunday.
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Dec 21, 2025
The U.S. Coast Guard on Sunday was pursuing another sanctioned oil tanker in the Caribbean Sea as the Trump administration appeared to be intensifying its targeting of such vessels connected to the Venezuelan government.
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Dec 21, 2025
A White House envoy said Sunday he held "productive and constructive" talks in Florida with Ukrainian and European representatives to end the nearly four-year war between Russia and Ukraine.
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Dec 21, 2025
In a particularly long, absurd year marked by violence toward Jewish people across the world, with Sydney, Australia's Bondi Beach mass shooting at a Hanukkah celebration December 13 as the latest on the list, Chabad Northwest Indiana's Rabbi Eliezer Zalmanov said there is a duty to smile and be fearless.
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