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Jan 23, 2025
Chicago's undocumented immigrant community was targeted more than 70 years ago for deportation.
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Jan 23, 2025
President Donald Trump is pardoning anti-abortion activists who were convicted of blockading abortion clinic entrances.
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Jan 23, 2025
A Merrillville dad got a split term Thursday after his 3-year-old son King Penro picked up a loaded gun tossed on the bed and fatally shot himself in the chest.
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Jan 23, 2025
Good afternoon, Chicago. Here's what is happening today.
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Jan 23, 2025
The Senate on Thursday confirmed John Ratcliffe as CIA director, giving President Donald Trump the second member of his new Cabinet.
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Jan 23, 2025
Alderman-turned-FBI mole Daniel Solis held a huge red flag in front of Michael Madigan, prosecutors said Thursday, when during a wiretapped phone call Solis uttered a radioactive phrase: "quid pro quo."
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Jan 23, 2025
Michael Madigan was so important to ComEd's legislative agenda in Springfield that the utility was willing to bend over backwards to make the then-powerful House speaker happy, showering his cronies with do-nothing contracts, giving special treatment to 13th Ward internship applicants, and putting a Madigan-recommended candidate on its board of directors, a federal prosecutor argued Thursday.
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Jan 23, 2025
The Senate advanced the nomination of Pete Hegseth as President Donald Trump's defense secretary Thursday on a largely party-line vote, despite grave objections from Democrats and stirring unease among Republicans over his behavior and qualifications to lead the U.S. military.
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Jan 23, 2025
A Cook County judge dismissed Supervisor Tiffany Henyard's lawsuit to overturn Thornton Township caucus nomination of Napoleon Harris.
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Jan 23, 2025
A Cook County judge dismissed Supervisor Tiffany Henyard's lawsuit to overturn Thornton Township caucus nomination of Napoleon Harris.
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Jan 23, 2025
Members of the family who own OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma, and the company itself, agreed to pay up to $7.4 billion in a new settlement to lawsuits over the toll of the powerful prescription painkiller, New York Attorney General Letitia James announced Thursday.
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Jan 23, 2025
Lake County Sheriff's Office Deputy Chief Christopher Covelli said federal agencies have no obligation to notify state, county or local law enforcement about their federal enforcement activities.
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Jan 23, 2025
CNN expects to lay off about 200 people as part of a restructuring announced on Thursday that pivots the news organization toward a more digitally oriented future.
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Jan 23, 2025
As Ben Johnson becomes the 19th head coach in the franchise's 100-plus-year history, here a look back at the team's 18 previous coaches. Some were significantly more successful than others.
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Jan 23, 2025
National Weather Service officials are expecting light snow to continue in the Chicago area in the morning Thursday.
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Jan 23, 2025
Chicago police found a door of a restaurant in the Hyde Park neighborhood open overnight and money stolen from a register. Shortly before 12:30 a.m. Thursday, officers responded to a burglar alarm at a restaurant in the 1500 block of East 55th Street and discovered the front door open. A preliminary investigation revealed money was […]
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Jan 23, 2025
Good morning, Chicago. Here are the top stories you need to know to start your day.
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Jan 23, 2025
Evanston and Oak Park have approved ranked choice voting, but the Cook County Clerk is waiting to act. DuPage and Will Counties may enact it first.
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Jan 23, 2025
Illinois had at least 103 outbreaks of the stomach bug norovirus in November and December - a dramatic increase from previous years, according to the Illinois Department of Public Health.
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Jan 23, 2025
Here's a look back at what happened in the Chicago area on Jan. 23, according to the Tribune's archives.
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Jan 23, 2025
On Jan. 23, 1997, Madeleine Albright was sworn in as the nation's first female secretary of state.
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Jan 23, 2025
NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte warned on Thursday that a Russian victory over Ukraine would undermine the dissuasive force of the world's biggest military alliance and that its credibility could cost trillions to restore.
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Jan 22, 2025
Naperville City Council chambers were packed with Say No to Coal members opposed to continuing the electric contract with the Illinois Municipal Electric Agency.
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Jan 22, 2025
A routine proposal to pay Naperville School District 203's monthly bills and claims hit a snag Tuesday when a board member previously censured for her actions was questioned as to why she didn't review the information as scheduled.
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Jan 22, 2025
A day after President Donald Trump threw out policies that limited immigration arrests at sensitive locations, such as churches, schools and hospitals, a ripple of fear spread across the undocumented community who were stripped of protection in places they once felt safest.
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Jan 22, 2025
Stuart Rice, who specialized in physical chemistry during a long career as a professor and researcher at the University of Chicago, has died.
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Jan 22, 2025
A former high-ranking director in then-Cook County Assessor Joseph Berrios' office pleaded guilty Wednesday to accepting sports tickets, restaurant meals and other bribes in return for lowering certain property tax assessments. Francisco Perez, 50, of Chicago, was charged with bribery conspiracy earlier this month. Details in a plea agreement released Wednesday estimate that Perez received […]
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Jan 22, 2025
A female student was killed and another student was wounded Wednesday in shooting in a Nashville high school cafeteria, police said.
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Jan 22, 2025
President Donald Trump's national security adviser on Wednesday sidelined about 160 National Security Council aides, sending them home while the administration reviews staffing and tries to align it with Trump's agenda.
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Jan 22, 2025
The man fell sometime after 1 p.m. Wednesday at the Obama Presidential Center construction site. He had several injuries from the fall but was alert and conscious as he was being taken to University of Chicago Medical Center, sources said.
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Jan 22, 2025
Citing a "financial shortfall," Planned Parenthood of Illinois announced Wednesday — on the 52nd anniversary of Roe v. Wade — that it will be closing four clinics across the state, including one on Chicago's South Side.
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Jan 22, 2025
The House on Wednesday gave final approval to a bill that requires the detainment of unauthorized migrants accused of theft and violent crimes, marking the first legislation that President Donald Trump can sign.
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Jan 22, 2025
Devontae Stokes, of Riverdale, was charged in the Jan. 16 shooting of a woman at a Hazel Crest gas station
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Jan 22, 2025
A federal judge in Washington, D.C. on Wednesday dismissed a case against a January 6 defendant from the Chicago area, but refused to do so with prejudice in a fiery order days after President Donald Trump's clemency decision.
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Jan 22, 2025
Evacuations were ordered on Wednesday for remote communities near a new wind-driven wildfire in mountains north of Los Angeles, as Southern California endured more dangerous winds ahead of possible rain over the weekend.
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Jan 22, 2025
Evacuations were ordered on Wednesday for remote communities near a new wind-driven wildfire in mountains north of Los Angeles, as Southern California endured more dangerous winds ahead of possible rain over the weekend.
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Jan 22, 2025
A major storm spread heavy snow, sleet and freezing rain across the southern United States on Wednesday, breaking snow records and treating the region to unaccustomed perils and wintertime joy.
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Jan 22, 2025
Valparaiso University President José Padilla announced Wednesday that he will retire at the end of the calendar year, capping a five-year tenure which saw disruptions on campus caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, the expansion of partnerships and programs to bring in new students as faculty and programs were cut, and the controversial planned sale of key artwork from the university's museum.
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Jan 22, 2025
The Orland District 230 contract will increase costs 19.52% over three years including more compensation for co-curricular stipends.
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Jan 22, 2025
Good afternoon, Chicago. Here's what is happening today.
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Jan 22, 2025
Prosecutors charged a Wisconsin man who allegedly told police he tried to burn down a congressman's office because he was upset with the federal TikTok ban with multiple counts on Wednesday, including arson.
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Jan 22, 2025
A female student was killed and another student was wounded Wednesday in shooting in a Nashville high school cafeteria, police said.
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Jan 22, 2025
A 17-year-old shooter killed himself after fatally wounding a female student in a shooting at a Nashville high school on Wednesday, police said.
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Jan 22, 2025
It's not just criminal prosecutions that worry those who have crossed President Donald Trump. There are more prosaic kinds of retaliation: having difficulty renewing passports, getting audited by the IRS and losing federal pensions.
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Jan 22, 2025
The Pentagon will begin deploying as many as 1,500 active duty troops to help secure the southern border in the coming days, U.S. officials said Wednesday, putting in motion plans President Donald Trump laid out in executive orders shortly after he took office to crack down on immigration.
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Jan 22, 2025
The Trump administration has put a freeze on many federal health agency communications with the public through at least the end of the month.
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Jan 22, 2025
Crime reports from south and southwest suburban agencies from police and court reports and news releases.
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Jan 22, 2025
National Weather Service officials are expecting up to an inch of snow Wednesday morning as temperatures hover slightly about 10 degrees in Chicago.
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Jan 22, 2025
Refugees who had been approved to travel to the United States before a deadline next week suspending America's refugee resettlement program have had their travel plans canceled by the Trump administration.
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Jan 22, 2025
The public exhibit in the city-run building features bloodied caricatures of Uncle Sam and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu described on a sign as "protest puppets."
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Jan 22, 2025
Chicago police reported about six residents of a Lower West Side apartment building were displaced due to a fire.
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Jan 22, 2025
A robber was taken into custody after he implied he had a weapon during a robbery overnight at a restaurant in the Loop neighborhood, Chicago police said. Shortly after midnight Wednesday, a male entered a restaurant in the 100 block of North Wabash Avenue with his hand inside a bag and implied he had a […]
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Jan 22, 2025
The Justice Department is directing its federal prosecutors to investigate any state or local officials who stand in the way of beefed-up enforcement of immigration laws under the Trump administration, according to a memo to the entire workforce obtained by The Associated Press on Wednesday.
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Jan 22, 2025
A U.S. Border Patrol agent who was killed in Vermont during a traffic stop near the Canadian border was a military veteran who worked security duty at the Pentagon during the time of the Sept. 11 attacks, his family said.
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Jan 22, 2025
After three months, more than five dozen witnesses and an array of thorny legal scuffles, attorneys in the landmark corruption trial of ex-speaker Michael Madigan are slated to begin presenting closing arguments Wednesday.
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Jan 22, 2025
Stephanie Wiedeman received about 150 votes while runner up Carol Cook had about 40 votes and Charles Rayburn saw only a handful.
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Jan 22, 2025
Good morning, Chicago. Here are the top stories you need to know to start your day.
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Jan 22, 2025
In the days since a fragile ceasefire took hold in the Gaza Strip, Israel has launched a major military operation in the occupied West Bank and suspected Jewish settlers have rampaged through two Palestinian towns.
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Jan 22, 2025
Many U.S. adults are on board with the idea of beefing up security at the southern border and undertaking some targeted deportations, according to a poll. But as President Donald Trump begins his second term with a series of sweeping executive orders on immigration, the findings suggest his actions may quickly push the country beyond the limited consensus that exists on the issue.
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Jan 22, 2025
The Southeast Asian island, home to some of the world's strangest and most iconic creatures, is a dream for a growing number of "mammal watchers."
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Jan 22, 2025
With Chicago Public Schools and Chicago Teachers Union still unable to settle on a contract, parents say their children are not the priority.
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Jan 22, 2025
With Chicago Public Schools and Chicago Teachers Union still unable to settle on a contract, parents say their children are not the priority.
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Jan 22, 2025
Today is Wednesday, Jan. 22, the 22nd day of 2025. There are 343 days left in the year. Today in history: On Jan. 22, 1973, the U.S. Supreme Court, in its Roe v. Wade decision, declared a nationwide constitutional right to abortion. (The court would overrule Roe v. Wade in 2022, in the decision Dobbs […]
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Jan 22, 2025
Here's a look back at what happened in the Chicago area on Jan. 22, according to the Tribune's archives.
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Jan 22, 2025
China's relations are starting to improve with Japan, India and other countries that former U.S. President Joe Biden courted, just as Donald Trump brings his more unilateralist approach back to the White House.
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Jan 21, 2025
President Donald Trump's administration is directing that all federal diversity, equity and inclusion staff be put on paid leave, and that agencies develop plans to lay them off, according to a memo Tuesday from the Office of Personnel Management.
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Jan 21, 2025
Amid President Donald Trump's threats of sweeping arrests and mass deportations, undocumented workers in Chicago skipped work in order to avoid being caught by ICE agents.
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Jan 21, 2025
Illinois joined three other states in a lawsuit challenging President Donald Trump's executive order ending birthright citizenship.
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Jan 21, 2025
Senators vetting the nomination of Pete Hegseth for defense secretary received an affidavit Tuesday from a former sister-in-law alleging that the onetime Fox News host was abusive to his second wife, to the point where she feared for her safety. Hegseth denies the allegations.
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Jan 21, 2025
Officers enforcing immigration laws will now be able to arrest migrants at sensitive locations like schools and churches after the Trump administration threw out policies limiting where those arrests could happen.
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Jan 21, 2025
The winning entries include Bozo the Plown and Lollaplowlooza.
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Jan 21, 2025
President Donald Trump moved quickly to remake the Department of Homeland Security Tuesday, firing the heads of the Transportation Security Administration and Coast Guard before their terms are up and eliminated all the members of a key aviation security advisory group.
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Jan 21, 2025
Willie Donald's trial against the city of Gary, the estate of John E. Jelks, Jr., and former Gary Police Department Officer Bruce Outlaw has been set for Feb. 24 in Hammond's U.S. District Court.
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Jan 21, 2025
Nate Grant, a longtime Homewood resident and pioneering African American producer and educator, was remembered for his contributions.
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Jan 21, 2025
Dangerous winds returned to Southern California on Tuesday as new wildfires broke out and a pair of major Los Angeles-area blazes burned for a third week, while officials made preparations to protect scorched neighborhoods from toxic ash runoff ahead of potential rain this weekend.
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Jan 21, 2025
A fire raged through a 12-story hotel at a popular ski resort in northwestern Turkey early Tuesday during a school holiday, killing at least 76 people — at least two of them when they jumped from the building to escape the flames, officials said.
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Jan 21, 2025
Northwest Indiana immigration attorney Alfredo Estrada said he's been preparing his clients to know their rights as President Donald Trump assumes his second term in office.
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Jan 21, 2025
The only suspect ever to be charged in the 1990s killing of rap icon Tupac Shakur in Las Vegas has lost a bid to have his murder case dismissed.
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Jan 21, 2025
At the inaugural prayer service, the Right Rev. Mariann Budde, the Episcopal bishop of Washington, made a direct appeal to President Donald Trump to have mercy on the LGBTQ community and undocumented migrant workers.
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Jan 21, 2025
Lockport High School was among the few schools to have in-person classes during Tuesday's frigid temperatures.
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Jan 21, 2025
Cynthia Erivo, who is starring in the hit musical "Wicked," was named Tuesday as the 2025 Woman of the Year by Harvard University's Hasty Pudding Theatricals.
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Jan 21, 2025
Marco Rubio was confirmed by the Senate as secretary of state with unanimous support, Democrats joining Republicans in praising his acumen and judgment.
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Jan 21, 2025
President Donald Trump has directed his Justice Department to pause enforcement of the TikTok ban until early April, but a host of questions remain - including whether Trump has the authority to issue such an order and if TikTok's China-based parent would be amenable to selling the popular social media platform.
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Jan 21, 2025
The indictment accused Anthony Marsico of using confidential information to make an illegal profit of about $607,000 by buying stock in another marijuana company that Verano planned to acquire.
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Jan 21, 2025
Dakota Petrey from Central Illinois is charged with first-degree murder for the 2020 slaying of Vanessa Ceja-Ramirez of Harvey.
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Jan 21, 2025
A trial opened Tuesday for an East Chicago man charged with two counts of murder in a couple's 2021 slaying.
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Jan 21, 2025
Good afternoon, Chicago. Here's what is happening today.
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Jan 21, 2025
The future of a proposed agreement for Dominican University's women's softball to use a field at River Forest's Keystone Park is cloudy.
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Jan 21, 2025
Four men with Northwest Indiana ties were among the more than 1,500 people pardoned by President Donald Trump Monday for storming the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021.
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Jan 21, 2025
Yemeni students and their Arab friends shared history, dance, poetry, cooking and clothing at Oak Lawn Community High School.
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Jan 21, 2025
Attorney Mario Godoy has some practical advice for undocumented immigrants who need to know their rights. His law firm, Godoy Law Office, has been doing Zoom workshops with people to help guide them should they be stopped by an U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer.
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Jan 21, 2025
Right-wing extremists are celebrating Elon Musk's straight-arm gesture during a speech Monday, although his intention wasn't totally clear and some hate watchdogs are saying not to read too much into it.
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Jan 21, 2025
Canada's outgoing prime minister and the leader of the country's oil rich province of Alberta are both confident Canada can avoid the 25% tariffs President Donald Trump says he will impose on Feb. 1.
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Jan 21, 2025
President Donald Trump signed an executive order promising to eliminate what he incorrectly labels "the electric vehicle mandate" imposed under former President Joe Biden.
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Jan 21, 2025
Elgin-area agencies ay they are working with undocumented immigrants as fears of mass deportations escalate with this week's inauguration of President Donald Trump.
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Jan 21, 2025
The crowded dais in the Capitol Rotunda on Inauguration Day featured four of the world's five wealthiest men, five U.S. presidents, tech titans and business moguls, and two foreign leaders with prime spots.
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Jan 21, 2025
President Donald Trump moved to end a decades-old immigration policy known as birthright citizenship when he ordered the cancellation of the constitutional guarantee that U.S.-born children are citizens regardless of their parents' status.
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Jan 21, 2025
Downward 'possum might not be a traditional yoga pose but Shadow, Twig and Flapjack are trying to change that.
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Jan 21, 2025
A prisoner swap between the United States and Afghanistan's Taliban freed two Americans in exchange for a Taliban figure imprisoned for life in California on drug trafficking and terrorism charges, officials said Tuesday.
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Jan 21, 2025
Chicago homicide data, which is updated on this page weekly, is through Jan. 6, 2025.
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