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Jan 06, 2026
CIA turncoat Aldrich Ames, who betrayed Western intelligence assets to the Soviet Union and Russia in one of the most damaging intelligence breaches in U.S. history, has died in a Maryland prison. He was 84.
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Jan 06, 2026
The proposal would allow 11 leaking coal ash sites, including three in Illinois and one in Indiana, to remain operating until 2031.
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Jan 06, 2026
In a response for a request to comment on the expected endorsement, Schakowsky's office said: "Stay tuned."
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Jan 06, 2026
Catherine "Cat" Sharp announced she was no longer running for county board because she needed to "focus on winning the legal battle against the Trump administration."
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Jan 06, 2026
President Donald Trump said Tuesday on his social media site that "Interim Authorities" in Venezuela would be selling 30 million to 50 million barrels of "High Quality" oil to the U.S. at its market price.
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Jan 06, 2026
Republican governor candidate Ted Dabrowski warned large increases in human service programs under Democratic Gov. JB Pritzker were warning signs for fraud but acknowledged he didn't know of any crooked expenditures.
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Jan 06, 2026
A hospital workers' union is calling on Northwestern Memorial Hospital to beef up its emergency department staffing, ahead of a scheduled state board vote next week on whether the hospital should be allowed to embark on a $96 million expansion.
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Jan 06, 2026
Michael Reagan, the eldest son of President Ronald Reagan and a conservative commentator, has died. He was 80.
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Jan 06, 2026
The man identified by law enforcement as the shooter who killed two Brown University students and an MIT professor had been planning the attack for at least six semesters.
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Jan 06, 2026
The man identified by law enforcement as the shooter who killed two Brown University students and an MIT professor had been planning the attack for years.
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Jan 06, 2026
A motion to correct the sentencing of a Gary man, 31, convicted of killing his stepfather netted him only six months less on his sentence.
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Jan 06, 2026
The Trump administration has launched what officials describe as the largest immigration enforcement operation ever carried out, preparing to deploy as many as 2,000 federal agents and officers to the Minneapolis area.
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Jan 06, 2026
Nicole Kidman and Keith Urban are divorced and legally single, ending the 19-year marriage of one of entertainment's most prominent power couples.
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Jan 06, 2026
IBLC's priorities include lowering the cost of living, easing the burden of medical debt and addressing rising utility fees.
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Jan 06, 2026
Indiana continued its upward graduation rate climb with nearly 92% of 2025 high school seniors earning a diploma, according to results released Monday by the state Department of Education.
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Jan 06, 2026
Will County Judge Brian Barrett slams prosecutors' move to appeal each ruling, calling delays devious, ridiculous and absurd.
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Jan 06, 2026
Following false police reports against State Senators, a bill has been filed to hold people who commit doxxing to face criminal charges.
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Jan 06, 2026
Good afternoon, Chicago. Here's what is happening today.
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Jan 06, 2026
The Elgin City Council is holding a town hall meeting Wednesday for residents to ask questions and get information about ICE actions.
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Jan 06, 2026
Coverage of a half court shot at a Lyons Township basketball game against Hinsdale Central won the La Grange students a national Emmy Award.
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Jan 06, 2026
The Senate Corrections and Criminal Law committee discussed a bill that would allow firing squad executions for death penalty inmates.
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Jan 06, 2026
A school police officer in Uvalde, Texas, stood by during one of the deadliest school shootings in U.S. history and made no attempt to distract or stop the gunman before he opened fire inside classrooms, a prosecutor told a jury Tuesday.
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Jan 06, 2026
Five years ago outside the White House, outgoing President Donald Trump told a crowd of supporters to head to the Capitol — "and I'll be there with you" — in protest as Congress was affirming the 2020 election victory for Democrat Joe Biden.
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Jan 06, 2026
Harvey Park Board member Lakeisha Brown-Oneal says her arrest last week in a domestic battery case was politically motivated.
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Jan 06, 2026
Roger Paulhus, long a holiday fixture ringing Salvation Army bells outside an Elmhurst grocery, died suddenly just before Christmas.
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Jan 06, 2026
Here's a look back at how Chicago's current snowfall compares with previous seasons.
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Jan 06, 2026
Ken Griffin famously paid $58.75 million in 2017 for the top four floors in the building at 9 W. Walton, but he never built them out and left them as raw space.
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Jan 06, 2026
Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen said Monday an American takeover of Greenland would amount to the end of the NATO military alliance.
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Jan 06, 2026
From the smoldering wreckage of two catastrophic world wars in the last century, nations came together to build an edifice of international rules and laws. The goal was to prevent such sprawling conflicts in the future.
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Jan 06, 2026
Deaths of on-duty law enforcement officers in the U.S. decreased by nearly 25% in 2025, according to an annual report.
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Jan 06, 2026
President Donald Trump will gather with House Republicans on Tuesday to ensure they're aligned on their agenda at the start of a critical midterm election year that could alter the course of his final two years in office.
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Jan 06, 2026
Several European leaders pushed back Tuesday on U.S. President Donald Trump's comments seeking an American takeover of Greenland.
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Jan 06, 2026
A male victim was injured and displaced overnight in a fire on the Far South Side in the Roseland neighborhood, Chicago police said.
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Jan 06, 2026
A woman and a man were stabbed Monday night during a fight on a CTA platform in the Grand Crossing neighborhood, Chicago police said.
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Jan 06, 2026
Good morning, Chicago. Here are the top stories you need to know to start your day.
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Jan 06, 2026
President Donald Trump wants to make sure the U.S. controls Greenland, a mineral-rich country that guards the Arctic and North Atlantic approaches to North America.
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Jan 06, 2026
Former three-term Democratic congresswoman Melissa Bean says in the campaign commercial that Democrats need to "stop whining and start winning again with common sense problem solving."
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Jan 06, 2026
The district is hosting training for employees as uncertainty about federal immigration enforcement continues.
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Jan 06, 2026
The City Council passed a budget over Mayor Brandon Johnson's objection, but questions remain, among them, is it more sustainable or only more politically palatable?
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Jan 06, 2026
Here's a look back at what happened in the Chicago area on Jan. 6, according to the Tribune's archives.
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Jan 06, 2026
On Jan. 6, 1974, year-round daylight saving time began in the United States on a trial basis as a fuel-saving measure in response to the OPEC oil embargo. The country, however, returned to standard time in October, effectively ending the experiment.
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Jan 05, 2026
Auschwitz survivor Eva Schloss, the stepsister of teenage diarist Anne Frank and a tireless educator about the horrors of the Holocaust, has died. She was 96.
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Jan 05, 2026
U.S. Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi seeks bill blocking U.S. military funds for Venezuela while U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin blasts the Trump administration's decision to exclude Senate Judiciary Committee from briefing.
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Jan 05, 2026
The condition is rare but a University of Illinois Chicago found the number of diagnosed cases jumped seven-fold from 2016 to 2022.
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Jan 05, 2026
At their first session since the redistricting votes, Indiana senators and representatives shared their goals for the 2026 session.
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Jan 05, 2026
A state audit released Monday accused Lake County Sheriff Oscar Martinez Jr. of improperly using nearly $300,000 for charity or church donations, golf outings and travel costs.
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Jan 05, 2026
Major airlines reopened flights across the Caribbean region after U.S. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said on X that the U.S. would lift airspace restrictions at 12 a.m. ET on Saturday.
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Jan 05, 2026
A Gary man was charged with fatally stabbing his younger brother on Saturday over a rent money dispute.
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Jan 05, 2026
Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, Democrats' 2024 candidate for vice president, is ending his bid for a third term amid President Trump's relentless focus on a fraud investigation into the state's child care programs and its Somali community.
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Jan 05, 2026
Bob Pulford, a Hockey Hall of Fame player who spent three decades as an executive and coach for the Chicago Blackhawks, has died. He was 89.
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Jan 05, 2026
U.S. flu infections surged over the holidays, and health officials are calling it a severe season that is likely to get worse.
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Jan 05, 2026
Leaders of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, a private agency that has steered federal funding to PBS, NPR and hundreds of public television and radio stations across the country, voted Monday to dissolve.
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Jan 05, 2026
Illinois moves to 'very high' flu levels, as federal government decides to no longer recommend flu vaccine for kids
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Jan 05, 2026
Three people were seriously injured in a shooting Monday morning on the city's West Side.
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Jan 05, 2026
A Chesterton Police officer was being treated for a mental health issue before his arrest for allegedly assaulting a pregnant woman.
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Jan 05, 2026
The U.S. took the unprecedented step Monday of dropping the number of vaccines it recommends for every child — leaving other immunizations, such as flu shots, open to families to choose but without clear guidance.
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Jan 05, 2026
The Golden Globes return Sunday. The boozy, bubbly kickoff to Hollywood's awards season will feature nominees including Timothée Chalamet, Leonardo DiCaprio, Michael B. Jordan, Ariana Grande, Cynthia Erivo and Emma Stone.
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Jan 05, 2026
Good afternoon, Chicago. Here's what is happening today.
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Jan 05, 2026
Robbins Historical Society Executive Director Dawn Colquitt Anderson is working to digitize history to increase accessibility.
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Jan 05, 2026
Chicago police are mourning the death of Deputy Chief William Betancourt, who died Saturday morning of heart disease, an autopsy revealed.
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Jan 05, 2026
The Trump administration has added seven countries, including five in Africa, to the list of nations whose passport holders are required to post bonds of up to $15,000 to apply to enter the United States.
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Jan 05, 2026
As the Trump administration's mass deportation raids continue, their impact has stretched across the Chicago region. Here's what to know.
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Jan 05, 2026
When Chicago police boarded a CTA bus late Sunday night in Englewood, they found a man at the front of the bus with a fatal gunshot wound to the right side of his torso, authorities said.
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Jan 05, 2026
"One Battle After Another" claimed its first televised trophies Sunday night, earning the best-picture prize at the Critics Choice Awards.
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Jan 05, 2026
A man who broke windows at Vice President JD Vance's Ohio home and caused other property damage was detained early Monday, the U.S. Secret Service said.
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Jan 05, 2026
A former school police officer in Uvalde, Texas, who was part of the slow law enforcement response to one of the worst school shootings in U.S. history went on trial Monday on charges that he failed to protect children from the gunman.
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Jan 05, 2026
One of the first police officers to respond to the 2022 school shooting in Uvalde, Texas, goes on trial Monday on charges that he failed to protect children during the attack, when authorities waited more than an hour to confront the gunman.
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Jan 05, 2026
A day after the audacious U.S. military operation in Venezuela, President Donald Trump on Sunday renewed his calls for an American takeover of the Danish territory of Greenland for the sake of U.S. security interests and threatened military action on Colombia for facilitating the global sale of cocaine, while his top diplomat declared the communist government in Cuba is "in a lot of trouble."
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Jan 05, 2026
In his celebratory news conference on the U.S. capture of Venezuelan strongman leader Nicolás Maduro, President Donald Trump set out an extraordinarily forthright view of the use of U.S. power in Latin America that exposed political divisions from Mexico to Argentina as Trump-friendly leaders rise across the region.
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Jan 05, 2026
Good morning, Chicago. Here are the top stories you need to know to start your day.
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Jan 05, 2026
Deposed Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro is set to make his first appearance Monday in an American courtroom on the narco-terrorism charges the Trump administration used to justify capturing him and bringing him to New York.
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Jan 05, 2026
Deposed Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro is set to make his first appearance Monday in an American courtroom on narco-terrorism charges.
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Jan 05, 2026
Participants in the nonprofit Refugee Life Foundation's Humanity 5K last April raised over $76,000 for a van donated to an orphanage in the West Bank.
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Jan 05, 2026
The Tribune requested the past four years of tax returns from the Democratic candidates for Cook County Board president and assessor.
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Jan 05, 2026
The Chicago Tribune requested the past four years of tax returns from the Democratic candidates for Cook County Board president and assessor
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Jan 05, 2026
A young man approached a card table set up under the Green Line tracks on the city's West Side and asked the woman behind it if she had any clean needles or naloxone, a medication that can reverse the effects of an opioid overdose. While rummaging through a box of supplies in search of those […]
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Jan 05, 2026
Here's a look back at what happened in the Chicago area on Jan. 5, according to the Tribune's archives.
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Jan 05, 2026
On Jan. 5, 2024, a door plug on Alaska Airlines jetliner blew out shortly after takeoff from Portland, Oregon, forcing the 171 passengers and six crew to don oxygen masks before the pilots made an emergency landing. No one was seriously hurt, but the sudden depressurization left a gaping hole in the Boeing 737 Max 9 aircraft.
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Jan 04, 2026
President Donald Trump on Sunday told reporters that U.S. national security officials have determined that Ukraine did not target a residence belonging to Russian President Vladimir Putin in a drone attack last week, disputing Kremlin claims that Trump had initially greeted with deep concern.
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Jan 04, 2026
Israel's decision to revoke the licenses of more than three dozen humanitarian organizations this week has aid groups scrambling to grapple with what this means for their operations in Gaza.
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Jan 04, 2026
North Korea said Monday that leader Kim Jong Un observed test-flights of hypersonic missiles and underscored the need to bolster the country's nuclear war deterrent, as the country dials up weapons displays ahead of its major political conference.
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Jan 04, 2026
Hundreds marched in silence Sunday to honor the victims of the New Year's Eve fire at a bar in the Swiss Alpine resort of Crans-Montana, which left 40 dead and many severely injured.
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Jan 04, 2026
She was the first Black woman to graduate from Grinnell College in Iowa and a longtime Chicago schoolteacher.
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Jan 04, 2026
A newly unsealed U.S. Justice Department indictment accuses captured Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro of running a "corrupt, illegitimate government" fueled by an extensive drug-trafficking operation that flooded the U.S. with thousands of tons of cocaine.
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Jan 04, 2026
President Donald Trump's military intervention in Venezuela will pose a fresh test of his ability to hold together a restive Republican coalition during a challenging election year that could be defined by domestic concerns like health care and affordability.
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Jan 04, 2026
Indiana legislators have been filing bills for the 2026 legislative session and some of the bills have a lighthearted goal.
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Jan 04, 2026
Deposed Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro arrived in the United States to face criminal charges after being captured in an audacious nighttime military operation.
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Jan 04, 2026
Deposed Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro arrived in the United States to face criminal charges after being captured in an audacious nighttime military operation.
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Jan 04, 2026
President Trump's plan to take control of Venezuela's oil industry and ask American companies to revitalize it after capturing President Nicolás Maduro isn't likely to have an immediate impact on oil prices.
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Jan 04, 2026
The Brooklyn jail holding Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro is a facility so troubled, some judges have refused to send people there even as it has housed music stars R. Kelly and Sean "Diddy" Combs.
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Jan 04, 2026
The letter details concerns with a U.S. Department of Energy order that would require NIPSCO to keep its R.M. Schahfer plant operating.
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Jan 04, 2026
Paul Terry's struggle is a stark example of a problem Illinois has yet to confront meaningfully: what happens to people after the state's judicial system admits it wrongfully took their freedom.
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Jan 04, 2026
Joabe Barbosa is part of a new breed of "run-every-street" runners setting out to run down every Chicago street with the hopes of challenging perceptions of the city.
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Jan 04, 2026
A Tribune review of court filings, databases and other public records detailing the scope of the incursion and typical costs shows how much the federal government has spent since September.
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Jan 04, 2026
Here's a look back at what happened in the Chicago area on Jan. 4, according to the Tribune's archives.
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Jan 04, 2026
On Jan. 4, 2010, the Burj Khalifa, the tallest structure in the world at 2,717 feet tall, opened in Dubai, United Arab Emirates.
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Jan 03, 2026
Detrion Anderson is charged with first-degree murder in connection with the July shooting deaths of Michael Agee and Raqwan Dixon.
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Jan 03, 2026
Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro created a humanitarian crisis. Illinois residents hope his ouster marks a transition toward democracy, but they remained concerned about the future.
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Jan 03, 2026
South Korea's military said North Korea's missile launch off the North's east coast happened Sunday morning but gave no further details.
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Jan 03, 2026
Venezuelans on Saturday were scrambling to understand who is in charge of their country after a U.S. military operation that captured President Nicolás Maduro.
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