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Mar 03, 2026
Residents of Chicago's North Shore neighborhoods respond to U.S. and Israel's coordinated attack on Iran, which killed Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei.
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Mar 03, 2026
An unidentified man was discovered fatally wounded Monday night inside of a residence in the Roseland neighborhood on the Far South Side, Chicago police said.
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Mar 03, 2026
Good morning, Chicago. Here are the top stories you need to know to start your day.
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Mar 03, 2026
Iran struck the U.S. Embassy in Saudi Arabia's capital with a drone early Tuesday, while the United States and Israel pounded Iran with airstrikes.
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Mar 03, 2026
The last few years have seen broad changes in the Muslim student experience at Northwestern, specifically during the month of Ramadan, when observing students are fasting from dawn to dusk.
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Mar 03, 2026
With Schakowsky retiring, 15 Democrats are battling in Illinois' 9th District primary, a closely watched race reflecting the party's Trump-era shift, rising outside money and a generational change in Chicago politics.
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Mar 03, 2026
With Schakowsky retiring, 15 Democrats are battling in Illinois' 9th District primary, a closely watched race reflecting the party's Trump-era shift, rising outside money and a generational change in Chicago politics.
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Mar 03, 2026
On March 3, 1845, Florida became a U.S. state.
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Mar 03, 2026
Here's a look back at what happened in the Chicago area on March 3, according to the Tribune's archives.
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Mar 02, 2026
The Supreme Court cleared the way Monday for California schools to tell parents if their children identify as transgender without getting the student's approval, granting an emergency appeal from a conservative legal group.
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Mar 02, 2026
Justin Timberlake is suing to block the release of police body camera footage from his drunken driving arrest in New York's Hamptons in 2024.
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Mar 02, 2026
The Trump administration on Monday abandoned its attempts to impose potentially crippling executive orders against law firms that refused to capitulate to the president, walking away from its appeal of victories the firms had won against the White House.
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Mar 02, 2026
The Aurora man has been charged with 72 counts related to gunrunning, illegally possessing silencers and machine-gun conversion devices and unlawful possession of unserialized firearms and receivers, according to a news release from the Illinois Attorney General's Office.
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Mar 02, 2026
Shekinah Lee said she and her friends, vacationing this week in Dubai, have seen a missile and heard explosions. They're sheltering in place at their hotel until further notice.
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Mar 02, 2026
Photos: South Carolina honors the Rev. Jesse Jackson
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Mar 02, 2026
Chicago hosted the 2024 DNC and is a finalist — along with Atlanta, Boston, Denver and Philadelphia — to host the Aug. 7-10, 2028, event.
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Mar 02, 2026
As the Indiana legislature finished the 2026 legislative session Friday, many bills didn't advance.
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Mar 02, 2026
Federal authorities joined local police Monday in the search for a suspect in a weekend nightclub shooting in Cincinnati that wounded nine people.
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Mar 02, 2026
Flags were lowered to half-staff this morning in South Carolina, where civil rights icon Rev. Jesse Jackson will lie in repose at the state capitol.
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Mar 02, 2026
The gunman who opened fire outside a crowded Texas bar and killed two people in an attack that wounded 14 others was not on the radar of authorities before the shooting, federal and local investigators said Monday.
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Mar 02, 2026
"Today" show host Savannah Guthrie and her sister returned to their mother's home outside Tucson on Monday in their first sighting at the house since Nancy Guthrie went missing a month ago.
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Mar 02, 2026
Videos of former President Bill Clinton and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton answering questions about convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein were released Monday by a House committee investigating the late financier.
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Mar 02, 2026
Videos of former President Bill Clinton and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton answering questions about convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein were released Monday by a House committee investigating the late financier.
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Mar 02, 2026
If you plan to vote by mail in the March 17 primary election, don't delay, urged the League of Women Voters of the La Grange Area.
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Mar 02, 2026
Good afternoon, Chicago. Here's what is happening today.
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Mar 02, 2026
A woman was found intoxicated on the floor, oblivious to a naked, crying 5-month-old infant lying beside, court documents show.
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Mar 02, 2026
When Gary Police found an 11-year-old girl wandering in an alleyway, she told an officer she didn't want to go home.
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Mar 02, 2026
A North Side synagogue is asking Edgewater residents to support a plan that would transform its lakefront site into a 12-story apartment complex with hundreds of units and a new, smaller synagogue.
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Mar 02, 2026
The Clarendon Hills Historical Society is speaking out strongly against removal of the Sloan Triangle in the village's downtown
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Mar 02, 2026
The Indiana General Assembly passed several consequential education-related bills in its abbreviated session that ended Feb. 27. Two bills placed restrictions on student social media and cellphone use, and a section of Senate Bill 76 that focuses on immigration enforcement requires schools to cooperate with federal authorities when they arrive at a school.
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Mar 02, 2026
In front of a gym full of 21st Century Charter School students on Friday, leaders from IU Northwest, Purdue Northwest and Ivy Tech signed a memorandum of understanding outlining the terms of a new partnership aimed at strengthening student success and coordinating pathways to help students earn certificates and degrees.
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Mar 02, 2026
The shootings occurred in the Clearing, Woodlawn, Belmont Cragin and West Lawn neighborhoods, police said.
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Mar 02, 2026
Iran's place at the men's World Cup in three months' time was put in doubt Monday amid an escalating Middle East conflict sparked by the soccer tournament's co-host: the United States.
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Mar 02, 2026
The endorsement brings a significant boost to Kim, the Lake County treasurer, over three Democratic rivals vying for their party's nomination in the March 17 primary election.
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Mar 02, 2026
Chicago homicide data, which is updated on this page weekly, is through Feb. 28, 2026.
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Mar 02, 2026
Here's a look back at how Chicago's current snowfall compares with previous seasons.
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Mar 02, 2026
Flags were lowered to half-staff this morning in South Carolina, where civil rights icon Rev. Jesse Jackson will lie in repose at the state capitol.
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Mar 02, 2026
Global air travel chaos intensified on Monday as the U.S. and Israel continued to bombard Iran, which struck back at targets across the Middle East, leaving airports closed and stranding travelers including those in faraway areas who were scheduled to transit through the region.
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Mar 02, 2026
Global air travel chaos intensified on Monday as the U.S. and Israel continued to bombard Iran, which struck back at targets across the Middle East, leaving airports closed and stranding travelers including those in faraway areas who were scheduled to transit through the region.
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Mar 02, 2026
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on Monday spoke to widening concerns that the U.S.-Israeli strikes in Iran could spiral into a protracted regional conflict by declaring, "This is not Iraq. This is not endless."
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Mar 02, 2026
A reputed high-ranking member of the Sinaloa drug cartel has been indicted on federal charges in Chicago alleging he ran security and helped the sons of Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman-Loera smuggle and distribute large quantities of narcotics into the U.S.
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Mar 02, 2026
The U.S. Congress is about to launch a war powers debate over President Donald Trump's authority to bomb Iran under largely unusual circumstances — he has already done it, and the country is essentially already at war.
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Mar 02, 2026
Pritzker Traubert Foundation is awarding $5 million to train and place Chicagoans into 1,000 health care jobs over the next three years.
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Mar 02, 2026
Good morning, Chicago. Here are the top stories you need to know to start your day.
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Mar 02, 2026
The United States and Israel targeted Iran in coordinated attacks over the weekend that killed Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and dozens of other senior figures. Here's where things stand.
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Mar 02, 2026
Iran and Iranian-backed militias fired missiles at Israel and Arab states, apparently hitting the U.S. Embassy compound in Kuwait, while Israel and the United States pounded targets in Iran.
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Mar 02, 2026
Just as Waymo autonomous vehicles were spotted video mapping Chicago streets, Niles voters will weigh on whether self-driving taxis should be allowed in their town.
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Mar 02, 2026
Thornton, Rich, Orland and Palos townships are asking voters if the state should provide annual property tax rebates to homeowners.
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Mar 02, 2026
Likely escapees of the exotic pet trade, the birds first put down roots in some south suburbs in the 1960s and Hyde Park in the 1970s.
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Mar 02, 2026
Of the 21 judges who worked at the city's immigration court in January 2025, nine judges have resigned, taken buyouts or been terminated, a Tribune review found.
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Mar 02, 2026
Here's a look back at what happened in the Chicago area on March 2, according to the Tribune's archives.
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Mar 02, 2026
On March 2, 1955, nine months before Rosa Parks' more famous act of defiance, Claudette Colvin, a Black high school student in Montgomery, Alabama, was arrested after refusing to give up her seat on a public bus to a white passenger.
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Mar 01, 2026
The fire in Green River State Wildlife Area quickly grew to a five-alarm level because of dry, warm and windy weather.
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Mar 01, 2026
After six months of negotiations, Pace and Niles village leaders have approved a new contract to continue the free bus service in the community.
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Mar 01, 2026
The U.S. and Israeli attacks on Iran rattled world markets early Monday, with U.S. futures falling more than 1% and oil prices soaring.
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Mar 01, 2026
Over $1.5 million was raised by Polar Plunge attendees Sunday to benefit Special Olympics Illinois.
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Mar 01, 2026
Many in Chicago's Iranian community are in high spirits after Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei was reported dead following a major attack Saturday by the United States and Israel.
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Mar 01, 2026
Three American service members have been killed and five others seriously wounded during the U.S. attacks on Iran, the military announced Sunday.
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Mar 01, 2026
President Donald Trump has taken the United States into war with Iran despite decades of self-professed aversion to foreign entanglements, particularly in the Middle East.
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Mar 01, 2026
A woman and a man died of smoke inhalation in a Friday morning apartment fire that erupted in the Miller section of Gary
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Mar 01, 2026
The Lake County Coroner's Office released the identities of the two people who died in a likely murder-suicide in Merrillville on Friday.
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Mar 01, 2026
Six people were injured in a three-car crash in the North Center neighborhood early Sunday morning, Chicago police said.
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Mar 01, 2026
The Read to a Dog program is usually held on Fridays after school hours. Bonner feels this gives children and teens who come into the library "a calming break after a full day/week of school."
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Mar 01, 2026
The president of Iran's soccer federation says he does not know if the national team can play World Cup matches in the United States following the surprise bombardment of his country.
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Mar 01, 2026
Over a decade after finishing a stint in federal prison for a campaign finance scandal, Jesse Jackson Jr. says he has learned his lesson and wants that old seat back.
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Mar 01, 2026
The trio of former South Carolina players are among about a half dozen former WNBA players who are playing basketball in Israel.
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Mar 01, 2026
A senior White House official said Sunday that Iran's "new potential leadership" has suggested it is open to talks with the United States after American and Israeli forces launched a major attack against Tehran.
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Mar 01, 2026
President Donald Trump, his Treasury secretary and his choice to lead the Federal Reserve believe they can coax the U.S. economy into partying like it's 1999.
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Mar 01, 2026
World leaders urged peace and a return to talks Sunday as the military strikes by the United States and Israel on Iran raised concerns that the violence could spread across the region.
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Mar 01, 2026
Three officers were minorly injured in the crash late Saturday night, Chicago police said.
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Mar 01, 2026
Violent clashes between protesters and security forces in Pakistan's port city of Karachi on Sunday left at least 10 people dead and more than 50 others injured.
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Mar 01, 2026
Violent clashes between protesters and security forces in the Pakistani port city of Karachi left at least nine people killed and more than 50 others wounded on Sunday, after hundreds of demonstrators attempted to storm the U.S. Consulate, authorities said.
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Mar 01, 2026
Three people were killed, including the alleged gunman, and 14 others were wounded in a mass shooting at a popular bar in the Texas capital of Austin, authorities said Sunday.
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Mar 01, 2026
Three people were killed, including the alleged gunman, and 14 others were wounded in a mass shooting at a popular bar in the Texas capital of Austin, authorities said Sunday.
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Mar 01, 2026
This time it was Hilary Knight's turn to provide a big laugh in the wake of a weeklong dust-up involving the United States women's and men's Olympic gold medal-winning hockey teams.
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Mar 01, 2026
Israel and Iran traded strikes Sunday as part of a widening war after the killing of Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei in a surprise U.S. and Israeli bombardment a day earlier.
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Mar 01, 2026
Israel and Iran traded strikes Sunday as part of a widening war after the killing of Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei in a surprise U.S. and Israeli bombardment a day earlier.
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Mar 01, 2026
In the rush by the Indiana legislature to bring the Chicago Bears to the state, lawmakers gushed over the proposal. One group was conspicuously absent from comments: taxpayers who opposed the plan.
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Mar 01, 2026
Potential Chicago Bears stadium near Wolf Lake just the latest story for a place thats long balanced nature, recreation and industry.
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Mar 01, 2026
"Litigating against the city of Chicago is probably one of the greatest schools of learning you could go to," Antonio Romanucci said.
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Mar 01, 2026
W.I.T.C.H., or the Women's International Terrorist Conspiracy from Hell, staged satirical protests around Chicago in 1969 and 1970.
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Mar 01, 2026
Postponing the closure of the Schahfer coal plant also means continued exposure to toxic emissions and leaks for nearby communities like Wheatfield.
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Mar 01, 2026
Here's a look back at what happened in the Chicago area on March 1, according to the Tribune's archives.
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Mar 01, 2026
On March 1, 1961, President John F. Kennedy signed an executive order establishing the Peace Corps; since its establishment, over 240,000 Americans have served as Peace Corps volunteers.
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Feb 28, 2026
Israel has killed multiple senior officials with Iran's armed proxies like Hamas in Gaza and Hezbollah in Lebanon since the Hamas-led attack on Israel on Oct. 7, 2023.
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Feb 28, 2026
President Donald Trump, whose fierce denunciation of military adventurism abroad fueled his unlikely rise to the top of the Republican Party, risks becoming ensnared by that very type of conflict.
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Feb 28, 2026
Four lucky winners raced through the Forest Park grocery store, gathering everything from meat to laundry detergent.
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Feb 28, 2026
America and Israel's attack on Iran disrupted flights across the Middle East and beyond Saturday as countries around the region closed their airspace.
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Feb 28, 2026
A high-stakes dispute over military use of artificial intelligence erupted into public view this week as Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth brusquely terminated Anthropic's work with the Pentagon and other government agencies.
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Feb 28, 2026
The United Nations chief condemned the U.S.-Israeli airstrikes on Iran and called for an immediate return to negotiations "to pull the region, and our world, back from the brink."
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Feb 28, 2026
Mexican authorities returned the body of Nemesio Oseguera Cervantes, known as "El Mencho," to his family after he was killed by the Mexican army last week, officials said on Saturday.
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Feb 28, 2026
The U.S. and Israel launched a major attack on Iran on Saturday, and U.S. President Donald Trump called on the Iranian public to "seize control of your destiny" by rising up against the Islamic leadership that has ruled the nation since 1979.
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Feb 28, 2026
The U.S. military's strikes on Iran provided added impetus for leading Illinois Democrats to step up their criticism of Republican President Donald Trump's leadership.
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Feb 28, 2026
The U.S. and Israel attacked Iran on Saturday in what President Donald Trump said was a massive operation to destroy the country's military capabilities and eliminate the threat of it creating a nuclear weapon.
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Feb 28, 2026
Key members of Congress are demanding a swift vote on a war powers resolution that would restrain President Donald Trump's military attack on Iran unless the administration wins their approval for what they warn is a potentially illegal campaign.
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Feb 28, 2026
Kane County held its first major recycling event of the year - dubbed "The Big One" - in St. Charles on Saturday morning, which offered a chance to recycle a wide variety of items from batteries and electronics to clothes and bicycles.
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Feb 28, 2026
World leaders have responded cautiously after U.S. and Israeli strikes on Iran raised fears of a wider war.
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Feb 28, 2026
The USW president said in a statement that the country's trade system needs revamped after the U.S. Supreme Court's recent tariff decision.
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Feb 28, 2026
Conservation advocates shared findings in the 2025 "State of the Birds" report at the Indiana Statehouse on Feb. 17.
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Feb 28, 2026
The Indiana legislature completed the 2026 session Friday evening with final approvals of bills dealing with the creation a "military police force" within the Indiana National Guard, fiscal matters, and doxing. The bills go to Gov. Mike Braun's desk for signature.
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