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Dec 31, 2025
On Dec. 31, 1972, baseball player Roberto Clemente, 38, was killed when a plane he chartered and was traveling on crashed shortly after takeoff from Puerto Rico while carrying relief supplies for earthquake-devastated Nicaragua.
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Dec 30, 2025
Orthodox Jewish Democratic candidate said the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, or AIPAC, pressured him to drop out to consolidate support for state Sen. Laura Fine.
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Dec 30, 2025
Two men were wounded, one fatally, in a double shooting Tuesday afternoon in Humboldt Park, Chicago police said. The men, 18 and 38, were in an alley in the 700 block of North Spaulding Avenue just after 1:15 p.m. when four people jumped out of a car and opened fire, according to police. The 38-year-old […]
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Dec 30, 2025
President Donald Trump's administration announced on Tuesday that it's freezing child care funds to Minnesota after a series of fraud schemes in recent years.
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Dec 30, 2025
A new flu variant is known as "subclade K," and led to early outbreaks in the United Kingdom, Japan and Canada.
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Dec 30, 2025
Michael Cronin was an expert on West Side street gangs for the Chicago Public Department. He cultivated informants who helped convict some of the city's most notorious criminals.
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Dec 30, 2025
New tax on online bets in Chicago is projected to raise $26.2 million in 2026 and was included in the recently passed city budget.
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Dec 30, 2025
The United States and Ivory Coast signed a health deal Tuesday requiring the U.S. to commit $480 million to the West African nation's health sector as part of "America First" global health funding pacts that mirror the Trump administration's foreign policy.
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Dec 30, 2025
A Gary man has been charged with shooting a man who had broken up a fight between two women.
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Dec 30, 2025
Environmental journalist Tatiana Schlossberg, the granddaughter of the late President John F. Kennedy, has died. She was 35.
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Dec 30, 2025
Good afternoon, Chicago. Here's what is happening today.
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Dec 30, 2025
A newly unsealed order in the criminal case against Kilmar Abrego Garcia reveals that high-level Justice Department officials pushed for his indictment, calling it a "top priority," only after he was mistakenly deported and then ordered returned to the U.S.
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Dec 30, 2025
Some Federal Reserve officials who supported cutting a key interest rate earlier this month could have instead backed keeping the rate unchanged, minutes released Tuesday show, underscoring the divisions and uncertainty permeating the central bank.
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Dec 30, 2025
Orland Park police cruise lights are steady and used without police sirens, in contrast to flashing red and blue emergency strobes.
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Dec 30, 2025
The department will focus particularly on areas that saw the highest levels of celebratory gunfire last New Year's Eve and on the Fourth of July.
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Dec 30, 2025
Starting Thursday, Americans in five states who get government help paying for groceries will see new restrictions on soda, candy and other foods they can buy with those benefits.
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Dec 30, 2025
The U.S. Department of Energy issued an emergency order that would require NIPSCO's R. M. Schahfer generating station to continue operating.
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Dec 30, 2025
A 911 call shows that while Chicago police and emergency personnel did not assist Border Patrol Cmdr. Gregory Bovino's caravan in its arrests or other immigration enforcement, local authorities coordinated with federal agents to meet their convoy.
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Dec 30, 2025
A Humboldt Park man is facing felony charges for allegedly crashing a stolen car into a Chicago police car in Wrigleyville Monday night and leaving the officers with serious injuries, police said.
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Dec 30, 2025
Warren Buffett will remain chairman and plans to continue coming into the office each day to help spot new investments and offer Greg Abel any advice he asks for.
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Dec 30, 2025
Three more dog breeds joined the American Kennel Club's roster of recognized breeds on Tuesday, making them eligible for many U.S. dog shows and likely increasing their visibility to the pet-loving public.
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Dec 30, 2025
More artists have canceled scheduled performances at the Kennedy Center following the addition of President Donald Trump's name to the facility, with jazz supergroup The Cookers pulling out of a planned New Year's Eve concert.
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Dec 30, 2025
President Donald Trump, whose loss of the House halfway through his first term led to two impeachments, is trying to keep history from repeating — and doing so in ways his opponents say are intended to manipulate next year's election landscape.
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Dec 30, 2025
Wall Street is largely unchanged early Tuesday as trading for 2025 nudges closer to the finish line. Gold, silver and copper all resumed their ascent after steep declines Monday.
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Dec 30, 2025
The Quadrantid meteor shower peaks Friday night into Saturday morning, according to the American Meteor Society.
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Dec 30, 2025
Israel says it will suspend several humanitarian organizations, including Doctors Without Borders, for failing to meet its new rules to vet international organizations working in Gaza.
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Dec 30, 2025
Since entering office in February, the health secretary has overseen a dramatic reshaping of the agencies he oversees, including eliminating thousands of jobs and freezing or canceling billions of dollars for scientific research.
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Dec 30, 2025
Good morning, Chicago. Here are the top stories you need to know to start your day.
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Dec 30, 2025
A wild winter storm was expected to bring strong winds, heavy snow and frigid temperatures to the Great Lakes and Northeast on Tuesday.
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Dec 30, 2025
Saudi Arabia bombed Yemen's port city of Mukalla after a weapons shipment from the United Arab Emirates arrived for separatist forces in the war-torn country.
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Dec 30, 2025
Time and again, Donald Trump's immigration agents claimed horrific crimes at the hands of protesters in Chicago. Those allegations of abuse did not withstand the scrutiny of judicial review.
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Dec 30, 2025
VPPs tap into everyday home technologies, including solar panels and batteries, by transmitting excess stored energy to the grid.
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Dec 30, 2025
Here's a look back at what happened in the Chicago area on Dec. 30, according to the Tribune's archives.
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Dec 30, 2025
On Dec. 30, 2006, former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein was executed by hanging after being convicted of crimes against humanity by the Iraqi High Tribunal. Hussein was captured in 2003 by U.S. forces while hiding near his hometown of Tikrit.
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Dec 29, 2025
A Chicago nonprofit, in conjunction with the American Federation of Teachers, is suing the U.S. Department of Education over funding cuts to a program that has long provided wraparound services to students in high-poverty and rural areas.
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Dec 29, 2025
The federal government is awarding Illinois $193 million next year to support rural health care — money that's part of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, but not enough to make up for Medicaid cuts from the measure, state health leaders say.
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Dec 29, 2025
For the first time in 20 years, rain could be an intruder at the Rose Parade in Southern California.
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Dec 29, 2025
The U.S. military said Monday that it had conducted another strike against a boat accused of smuggling drugs in the eastern Pacific Ocean, killing two people.
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Dec 29, 2025
The interim chair of the Chicago City Council's Zoning Committee is halting its meetings to try to force Mayor Brandon Johnson to appoint a permanent head of the critical committee.
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Dec 29, 2025
The Chicago Board of Education voted to slightly increase its property tax levy, to yield up to an additional $25 million for district schools.
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Dec 29, 2025
The Chicago Board of Education voted to slightly increase its property tax levy, to yield up to an additional $25 million for district schools.
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Dec 29, 2025
Barrington police are investigating the early Sunday morning burglary of a Cook Street consignment business.
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Dec 29, 2025
Mayor Brandon Johnson and Chicago police Superintendent Larry Snelling on Monday urged local parents to keep vigilant over their teens' whereabouts ahead of the city's planned New Year's Eve celebration in the Loop.
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Dec 29, 2025
The Court of Appeals of Indiana directed the trial court to dismiss the 26-year old Gary gun lawsuit, citing a state law passed last year.
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Dec 29, 2025
Chicago Public Schools is challenging the Service Employees International Union's petition to represent 1,600 miscellaneous workers, stalling the effort.
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Dec 29, 2025
A strengthening bomb cyclone barreled across the northern U.S. on Monday, unleashing severe winter weather in the Midwest as it took aim at the East Coast.
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Dec 29, 2025
Retired Valparaiso Clerk-Treasurer Sharon Swihart, 80, died unexpectedly at home on Christmas Day.
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Dec 29, 2025
Homewood-Flossmoor District 233 approved a $49.3 million tax increase while High School District 218 OK'd a $110.6 million hike.
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Dec 29, 2025
Curious kids eyed the books spread out on tables by age group and carefully made their selections on Dec. 20 at a free book fair sponsored by Gary Teachers Union Local 4.
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Dec 29, 2025
Two men who died after their helicopters collided midair in New Jersey over the weekend both received their pilot licenses later in life and would often have breakfast together at a cafe near the crash site before taking to the skies from the local airport.
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Dec 29, 2025
When turbulent weather with whipping winds and heavy snow is in the forecast, meteorologists sometimes warn that a storm could "bomb out" or become a bomb cyclone.
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Dec 29, 2025
Will County deputies heard gunshots when they responded to a call Sunday morning in the 16100 Block of Twin Oak Court, Homer Glen.
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Dec 29, 2025
Teen Self Care Slow Down at the Oak Lawn Library sometimes involves "turning off quiet music and screaming at each other over video games."
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Dec 29, 2025
Nivia Phillips, 38, and Marcus T. Jones, 45, were killed in Richton Park, and Deandre D. Golden, 32, was killed in Blue Island.
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Dec 29, 2025
Chesterton Police were greeted by a woman covered in blood and screaming on the front porch of residence early Saturday morning.
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Dec 29, 2025
A Utah judge on Monday ordered the release of a transcript from a closed-door hearing in October.
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Dec 29, 2025
President Donald Trump has indicated that the U.S. has "hit" a facility in South America as he wages a pressure campaign on Venezuela.
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Dec 29, 2025
The United States announced a $2 billion pledge for U.N. humanitarian aid as President Donald Trump's administration slashes U.S. foreign assistance.
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Dec 29, 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 29, 2025
Here's a look back at how Chicago's current snowfall compares with previous seasons.
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Dec 29, 2025
Chicago homicide data, which is updated on this page weekly, is through Dec. 27, 2025.
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Dec 29, 2025
The world's new hunger for ube, the Philippine purple yam, it is starting to strain the people who farm it.
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Dec 29, 2025
The United States is offering Ukraine security guarantees for a period of 15 years as part of a proposed peace plan, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said.
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Dec 29, 2025
Good morning, Chicago. Here are the top stories you need to know to start your day.
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Dec 29, 2025
President Donald Trump is scheduled to meet with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday.
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Dec 29, 2025
Despite some headline-grabbing mayhem, Chicago's gun violence fell to levels not seen in a decade in 2025, with a homicide total roughly half what it was just four years ago.
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Dec 29, 2025
Illinois has joined 57 lawsuits against Donald Trump's administration since his term began in January. The latest involves a ban on gender-affirming care for children and adolescents.
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Dec 29, 2025
Without naming individuals, the report listed more than 100 state employees who received more than $2.8 million in PPP loans.
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Dec 29, 2025
As he runs for an open Illinois House seat representing part of Chicago's North Side, Karim Lakhani promotes being a small business owner. But the family business powering his campaign has drawn scrutiny in the past.
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Dec 29, 2025
Here's a look back at what happened in the Chicago area on Dec. 29, according to the Tribune's archives.
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Dec 29, 2025
On Dec. 29, 2021, Ghislaine Maxwell was convicted in New York of helping lure teenage girls to be sexually abused by the late Jeffrey Epstein; the verdict capped a monthlong trial featuring accounts of the sexual exploitation of girls as young as 14. (Maxwell would be sentenced to 20 years in prison.)
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Dec 28, 2025
An argument inside the St. Sabina Church gym during a basketball tournament led to a shooting that wounded three men Sunday afternoon outside the well-known Auburn Gresham church, police sources said. All three of the victims were attending the basketball tournament when an argument broke out and a crowd made its way outside around 4:10 […]
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Dec 28, 2025
The National Weather Service on Sunday warned of an incoming cold front and possible wind speeds that could approach 50 mph by Monday.
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Dec 28, 2025
The Tribune in 1989 characterized Kadet as having a "sultry voice and easy style." Kadet, 96, died Nov. 9 in her Streeterville home, her daughter said.
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Dec 28, 2025
Hollywood wrapped up a turbulent year with big ticket sales for "Avatar: Fire and Ash" and a box-office hit for Timothée Chalamet with "Marty Supreme" over a busy holiday weekend in movie theaters.
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Dec 28, 2025
Two helicopters crashed in New Jersey in what federal authorities say was a midair collision.
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Dec 28, 2025
Two helicopters crashed in New Jersey in what federal authorities say was a midair collision.
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Dec 28, 2025
The victims were getting into a vehicle on the 400 block of North La Salle Drive around 2:35 a.m. when four men approached and opened fire.
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Dec 28, 2025
President Donald Trump will host his Ukrainian counterpart, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, on Sunday to try to close out a peace agreement that would end nearly four years of war sparked by Moscow's invasion of Ukraine.
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Dec 28, 2025
President Donald Trump will host his Ukrainian counterpart, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, on Sunday to try to close out a peace agreement that would end nearly four years of war sparked by Moscow's invasion of Ukraine.
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Dec 28, 2025
President Donald Trump will host his Ukrainian counterpart, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, on Sunday to try to close out a peace agreement that would end nearly four years of war sparked by Moscow's invasion of Ukraine.
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Dec 28, 2025
The moon and sun share top billing in 2026.
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Dec 28, 2025
A powerful winter storm was sweeping east from the Plains on Sunday, driven by what meteorologists describe as an intense cyclone, setting off a chain reaction of snow, ice, rain and severe weather.
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Dec 28, 2025
Senate Bill 79 and House Bill 1043 aim to set limitations for data centers statewide.
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Dec 28, 2025
A man accused of allegedly shooting a woman in the head was arrested at a Chesterton residence, where he was hiding Saturday morning.
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Dec 28, 2025
Brigitte Bardot, the French 1960s sex symbol who became one of the greatest screen sirens of the 20th century and later a militant animal rights activist and far-right supporter, has died. She was 91.
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Dec 28, 2025
Incomplete or delayed permit proposals and IEPA budget cuts are stalling approvals, prolonging Illinois communities' exposure to hazardous sludge.
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Dec 28, 2025
Mayor Brandon Johnson released his most recent tax returns, showing the freshman chief executive remains less wealthy than his predecessors and does not earn outside income.
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Dec 28, 2025
President Donald Trump's federal immigration enforcement operation led to most surreal autumn in Chicago history. What happened during those 64 days will be remembered for a long time.
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Dec 28, 2025
Beginning Jan. 1, roughly 300 new laws will take effect regarding public safety, reproductive rights, higher education, environmental protection and the role of emerging technologies.
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Dec 28, 2025
Steven Gonzalez says he took up the red suit to spread cheer after Operation Midway Blitz.
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Dec 28, 2025
Here's a look back at what happened in the Chicago area on Dec. 28, according to the Tribune's archives.
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Dec 28, 2025
On Dec. 28, 1973, the Endangered Species Act was signed by President Richard Nixon, a law designed to protect plants and animals from extinction.
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Dec 27, 2025
Park Forest police Officer Tim Jones was remembered Saturday by about 1,000 people, including officers from 30 area departments.
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Dec 27, 2025
Barefoot children played on chilly sand as Gaza's thousands of displaced people prepared threadbare tents for another round of winter rain.
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Dec 27, 2025
As the Chicago Bears play the field over where to play, the episode brings to mind many long shots that played out in Northwest Indiana.
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Dec 27, 2025
More than 17 million people in Afghanistan now face crisis levels of hunger in the winter, the World Food Program warned last week, 3 million more than were at risk more than a year ago.
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Dec 27, 2025
At least 1,500 flights were canceled from Friday night, according to flight-tracking service FlightAware.
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Dec 27, 2025
Explosions boomed across Kyiv for hours as ballistic missiles and drones hit the city in the early morning hours Saturday.
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Dec 27, 2025
A 49-year-old man was found fatallywounded Friday night inside a residence in the Grand Crossing neighborhood.
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