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Dec 20, 2025
World War II Navy veteran Ira "Ike" Schab, one of the dwindling number of survivors of the 1941 Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor, has died. He was 105.
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Dec 20, 2025
Volunteers delivered food, clothing and toys to families as part of "Operation Midway Bliss" to counter the Trump administration's 'Midway Blitz' crackdown.
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Dec 20, 2025
At least 16 files disappeared from the Justice Department's public webpage for documents related to Jeffrey Epstein — including a photograph showing President Donald Trump — less than a day after they were posted.
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Dec 20, 2025
Aldermen passed the final part of a counterproposal to Mayor Brandon Johnson's budget on Saturday, redrawing the political lines at City Hall and further imperiling his progressive agenda.
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Dec 20, 2025
The Australian state of New South Wales is proposing to ban public displays of Islamic State group flags or extremist symbols after a mass shooting driven by antisemitism killed 15 people at Sydney's Bondi Beach.
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Dec 20, 2025
U.S. forces on Saturday stopped a second merchant vessel off the coast of Venezuela in international waters, two American officials told The Associated Press.
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Dec 20, 2025
U.S. forces on Saturday stopped a second merchant vessel off the coast of Venezuela in international waters, two American officials told The Associated Press.
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Dec 20, 2025
Pope Leo XIV has summoned the world's cardinals for two days of meetings to help him govern the church, the Vatican said Saturday, in the clearest sign yet that the new year will signal the unofficial start of his pontificate.
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Dec 20, 2025
An Illinois man has been arrested for acting out the Grinch's shtick on Whiting City Hall's Christmas decorations late Sunday afternoon.
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Dec 20, 2025
Originally a Christian holiday celebrating the birth of Jesus, Christmas has evolved into a global cultural event.
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Dec 20, 2025
A Russian missile strike on port infrastructure in Odesa has killed eight people and wounded 27, according to Ukraine's emergency service.
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Dec 20, 2025
3 victims were shot while traveling in a vehicle overnight in the Chatham neighborhood on the South Side.
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Dec 20, 2025
The U.S. Senate confirmed Adam Mildred Thursday as the new U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Indiana.
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Dec 20, 2025
The contest, which is held by the Department of Streets and Sanitation, encourages residents to submit creative snowplow names for the city's six snow districts.
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Dec 20, 2025
A former Burns Funeral Home secretary in Hobart got 2.5 years probation Thursday in a plea deal after stealing $122,000 between January 2019 and April 2024. Kathleen Farmer, 63, of Crown Point, pleaded guilty to theft, a Level 6 felony.
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Dec 20, 2025
The Tribune is tracking 11 everyday costs for Americans — eggs, milk, bread, bananas, oranges, tomatoes, chicken, ground beef, gasoline, electricity and natural gas — and how they are changing, or not, under the second Trump administration. This tracker is updated monthly using CPI data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.
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Dec 20, 2025
More than two dozen Chicago Public Schools properties remain vacant. Some have been sold, but most are racking up millions in upkeep costs.
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Dec 20, 2025
Here's a look back at what happened in the Chicago area on Dec. 20 according to the Tribune's archives.
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Dec 20, 2025
On Dec. 20, 1954, Sandra Cisneros was born in Chicago. She went on to attend Loyola University Chicago then Iowa Writers' Workshop at the University of Iowa before achieving acclaim through her novel, "The House on Mango Street."
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Dec 19, 2025
While former Public Safety Secretary Jennifer-Ruth Green will pay a $10,000 civil fine in an ethics probe against her, potential criminal charges remain under review by the Marion County Prosecutor's Office.
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Dec 19, 2025
The U.S. Department of Justice on Friday published thousands of files related to Jeffrey Epstein, a release long anticipated for its potential to reveal new details about the late sex offender and his connections to powerful people.
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Dec 19, 2025
Elon Musk, already the world's richest man, scored another huge windfall Friday when the Delaware Supreme Court reversed a decision that deprived him of a $55 billion pay package that Tesla doled out in 2018.
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Dec 19, 2025
Investigators are still trying to figure out much of what Claudio Neves Valente was doing in New England in the weeks before the shooting, but they know he repeatedly visited the Ivy League school's Providence campus.
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Dec 19, 2025
The Trump administration launched military strikes Friday in Syria to "eliminate" Islamic State group fighters and weapons sites in retaliation for an ambush attack that killed two U.S. troops and an American civilian interpreter almost a week ago.
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Dec 19, 2025
About 10 years ago, the Brown Family Ranch opened up to the public, hosting rodeos, summer camps and other activities.
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Dec 19, 2025
Students opposed to a Turning Point USA affiliate at Carl Sandburg brought their concern to the Orland High School District 30 Board
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Dec 19, 2025
Ewoldt had an encyclopedic knowledge of state high school wrestling and a spirit that led him to work wrestling tournaments long after he retired.
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Dec 19, 2025
A federal judge has overturned the conviction of Karl Jordan, one of the two men accused of killing Run-DMC legend Jam Master Jay.
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Dec 19, 2025
Federal labor investigators are looking into the overnight death of an airline maintenance technician killed in a crash between two cherry-picker machines at Denver International Airport, authorities confirmed Friday.
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Dec 19, 2025
Starting Feb. 1, the city of Rome is imposing a 2-euro fee for tourists to get close to the fountain made famous by Federico Fellini's "La Dolce Vita" during prime-time daylight hours. The view for those admiring the late Baroque masterpiece from the piazza above remains free.
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Dec 19, 2025
The Orland Park Village Board halted fiber optic installation following power outage, will strengthen ordinance.
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Dec 19, 2025
Earlier this week, Lake County Historical Society Museum executive director Diane Gora, board secretary Sharon Nault and volunteer Pat Putigna were busy putting items into large crates and moving boxes that will be moved to a storage facility located in Crown Point, as they've been ordered to vacate the old Lake County Courthouse by Dec. 31.
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Dec 19, 2025
The Justice Department on Friday began releasing its files on Jeffrey Epstein, a convicted sex offender and wealthy financier known for his connections to some of the world's most influential people, including Donald Trump, who as president had tried to keep the files sealed.
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Dec 19, 2025
The Lake County Plan commission heard an initial presentation Wednesday about a proposed data center in Eagle Creek Township about six miles away from Lowell High School.
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Dec 19, 2025
While CPS students continue to show post-pandemic gains, interim CEO Macquline King said that the "encouraging" data is just the start.
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Dec 19, 2025
Good afternoon, Chicago. Here's what is happening today.
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Dec 19, 2025
As the Chicago Bears openly consider constructing a new stadium in Northwest Indiana, team officials say the franchise's presence in Lake Forest will continue.
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Dec 19, 2025
A Lake County judge sentenced a man from Honduras to a maximum 16 years Friday for stabbing a 13-year-old girl in the hand as she was watching her brother's Little League game near Lowell.
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Dec 19, 2025
The budget counterproposal crafted by opponents of Mayor Brandon Johnson won a critical first vote before the full City Council on Friday.
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Dec 19, 2025
Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche said in a Fox News Channel interview that he expected the department to release "several hundred thousand" records Friday and then several hundred thousand more in the coming weeks.
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Dec 19, 2025
Pope Leo XIV named a new archbishop of Westminster on Friday in another high-profile appointment that signals a generational shift in the English-speaking Catholic hierarchy.
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Dec 19, 2025
More than 40 Chicago chefs and restaurant owners launched a coordinated effort to raise money for families severely impacted by federal immigration enforcement.
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Dec 19, 2025
OSF HealthCare, Ascension and Hospital Sisters Health System all say they will not take part in medical aid-in-dying.
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Dec 19, 2025
Federal investigators sifting through the wreckage of a business jet that crashed in North Carolina and killed retired NASCAR driver Greg Biffle, his family, and three others are trying to figure out who was flying the plane and what caused it to return to the airport soon after takeoff.
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Dec 19, 2025
Started by a Hinsdale Central student, Harmony Healers now has more than 100 active members who perform for people who might miss out otherwise.
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Dec 19, 2025
Nudged along by a drama-free meeting held by the Porter County Board of Commissioners Thursday evening, the West Porter Township Fire Protection District and the Lakes of the Four Seasons Volunteer Fire Force entered into a contract for fire and EMS services with advanced life support capability for 2026.
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Dec 19, 2025
Wisconsin Republicans threatened Friday to impeach embattled judge Hannah Dugan if she doesn't resign immediately after she was convicted of obstruction for helping an immigrant evade federal officers, saying her time serving the people of the state is over.
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Dec 19, 2025
Wisconsin Republicans threatened Friday to impeach embattled judge Hannah Dugan if she doesn't resign immediately after she was convicted of obstruction for helping an immigrant evade federal officers, saying her time serving the people of the state is over.
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Dec 19, 2025
U.S. District Court Judge Philip Simon sentenced Caldwell to 14 years after he admitted to leading a cocaine ring and aiding in the murder of Kevin Hood.
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Dec 19, 2025
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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Dec 19, 2025
Sales of previously occupied U.S. homes rose in November from the previous month, but slowed compared to a year earlier for the first time since May.
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Dec 19, 2025
Young women who have grown emboldened in their conservative beliefs are attending the annual conference held by Turning Point USA.
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Dec 19, 2025
The Cook County medical examiner's report identified Phillip Kizer, 18, of Country Club Hills, as the man killed in Hazel Crest.
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Dec 19, 2025
Ford is recalling more than 270,000 electric and hybrid vehicles in the U.S. because of a parking function problem that could lead to them rolling away.
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Dec 19, 2025
The Kennedy Center started the work of adding Donald Trump's name to the building on Friday.
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Dec 19, 2025
The CTA announced Thursday it would boost security on the transit system by increasing the number of police officers as well as K-9 security staffing.
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Dec 19, 2025
A man set himself on fire Friday morning at Damen Avenue on the Blue Line and was taken to Stroger Hospital in critical condition, officials said.
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Dec 19, 2025
One-third of all arrests made during a law enforcement operation in Washington, D.C., were immigration-related, according to official figures reviewed by the AP.
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Dec 19, 2025
Harrison Ford will receive a lifetime achievement award in March from the actors union SAG-AFTRA.
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Dec 19, 2025
A jury found a Wisconsin judge accused of helping a Mexican immigrant dodge federal authorities guilty of obstruction.
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Dec 19, 2025
Good morning, Chicago. Here are the top stories you need to know to start your day.
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Dec 19, 2025
President Donald Trump suspended the green card lottery program that allowed the suspect in the Brown University and MIT shootings to come to the U.S.
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Dec 19, 2025
A frantic search for the suspect in last weekend's mass shooting at Brown University ended at a New Hampshire storage facility.
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Dec 19, 2025
For all the races and some memorable wins, Greg Biffle is perhaps best remembered for his work as a helicopter pilot supplying aid in the devastation left behind by Hurricane Helene.
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Dec 19, 2025
She helped support and shape the magazine that would become Playboy Enterprises, but never tried to capitalize on Hugh Hefner's subsequent fame after their divorce in 1959.
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Dec 19, 2025
On Dec. 19, 1998, President Bill Clinton was impeached by the U.S. House of Representatives for perjury and obstruction of justice. (He was subsequently acquitted by the Senate.)
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Dec 19, 2025
Here's a look back at what happened in the Chicago area on Dec. 19, according to the Tribune's archives.
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Dec 18, 2025
The money — worth $106 billion — would be raised by the EU on capital markets.
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Dec 18, 2025
The man was found dead Thursday evening. He is believed to have died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound, the person familiar with the matter said.
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Dec 18, 2025
Starting Friday, the Chicago Transit Authority Chicago police will would boost the number of officers patrolling in response to a threat from President Trump.
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Dec 18, 2025
Here's what to know about the Chicago Bears' possible move from Soldier Field.
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Dec 18, 2025
The Chicago Bears announced they will consider moving to Indiana if they can't get the deal they want in Illinois. Illinois lawmakers are skeptical.
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Dec 18, 2025
After an ICE processing center located in west suburban Broadview became a flash point in protests against the Trump administration's "Operation Midway Blitz," village officials are moving to require that local prisons and detention centers allow for religious worship inside their walls.
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Dec 18, 2025
Gov. JB Pritzker launched the commission in October to track and scrutinize federal immigration agents' actions in Chicago.
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Dec 18, 2025
Illinois was one of four government bodies sued by the U.S. Justice Department for unredacted copies of voter rolls. Also sued were the states of Wisconsin and Georgia and Washington, D.C.
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Dec 18, 2025
The owners of the Chicago Bears are threatening to move the team to northwest Indiana, though no one seems to be taking the McCaskeys seriously.
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Dec 18, 2025
TikTok has signed a deal to sell its U.S. business to three American investors — Oracle, Silver Lake and MGX — ensuring the popular social video platform can continue operating in the United States.
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Dec 18, 2025
When Border Patrol Cmdr. Gregory Bovino and a throng of masked federal agents returned to Chicago in a flash Tuesday, city residents were ready.
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Dec 18, 2025
A Harvey, Illinois, man was sentenced to 2.5 years in prison Thursday after a plea deal for breaking into the permanently idled U.S. Steel East Chicago Tin in January.
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Dec 18, 2025
In an interview for a food-themed podcast that resurfaced online, Richard Hart, the co-founder of Green Rhino bakery in Mexico City and a well-known figure in international baking circles, said Mexicans "don't really have much of a bread culture," adding that "They make sandwiches on these white, ugly rolls that are pretty cheap and industrially made."
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Dec 18, 2025
Northwest Indiana mayors and state officials have been beaming with pride since the Chicago Bears announced Wednesday that the team's search for a new stadium location includes the region.
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Dec 18, 2025
A Gary man was sentenced Thursday to a 15-year split term for his role in a drug dealer slaying. Davion "Ray-Ray" Dean, 29, pleaded guilty in March in separate criminal cases to attempted armed robbery and dealing in a narcotic drug.
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Dec 18, 2025
A custom collection of five wines was created by Oakwood Vines in Lake Forest in celebration of the 150th anniversary of the Church of St. Mary in Lake Forest.
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Dec 18, 2025
A federal judge sentenced a Lynwood, Illinois, man to 30 years on Wednesday for drug dealing.
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Dec 18, 2025
Mayor Brandon Johnson on Thursday singled out a debt collection measure as his latest nonstarter in the budget proposal crafted by his aldermanic antagonists, who showed no signs of slowing their march toward an imminent final vote.
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Dec 18, 2025
January 1985 began with the city assisting the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service in its efforts to arrest migrants who were working behind the wheel but lacked permanent legal status.
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Dec 18, 2025
Kee Firearms and Kee Construction owners Greta Keranen and Jeff Regnier says two cars ordered returned by the state were damaged.
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Dec 18, 2025
Good afternoon, Chicago. Here's what is happening today.
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Dec 18, 2025
A business jet that crashed at a regional airport in North Carolina was registered to a company run by retired NASCAR driver Greg Biffle.
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Dec 18, 2025
Former race driver Greg Biffle and members of his family were among seven people who died in a plane crash in North Carolina, state police said.
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Dec 18, 2025
President Donald Trump signed an executive order Thursday that would reclassify marijuana as a less dangerous drug.
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Dec 18, 2025
The Indiana State Ethics Commission approved a settlement agreement for former Secretary of Public Safety Jennifer-Ruth Green, who will pay a $10,000 fine to resolve an ethics violations complaint.
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Dec 18, 2025
President Donald Trump's handpicked board voted Thursday to rename Washington's leading performing arts center as the Trump-Kennedy Center.
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Dec 18, 2025
The specter of losing federal funding has already driven some Chicago area hospital systems to scale back gender-affirming care for minors. But a few hospitals have held out.
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Dec 18, 2025
House Democrats released several dozen more photos Thursday from the estate of the convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
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Dec 18, 2025
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services unveiled a series of regulatory actions designed to effectively ban gender-affirming care for minors.
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Dec 18, 2025
President Donald Trump gave an 18-minute speech intended to defend his accomplishments in the first year. Here are six takeaways.
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Dec 18, 2025
A man who stole in ambulance in Rockford and drove it roughly 80 miles to Chicago was caught in in the Humboldt Park neighborhood Wednesday night, officials said.
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Dec 18, 2025
Paul Vallas alleged that Chimaobi Enyia ripped him off by doing little work in exchange for hundreds of thousands of dollars to build support for Vallas with Black voters.
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Dec 18, 2025
A Niles North High School teacher was suspended 3 days without pay; he failed to disclose selling $40,000 in merch to the district.
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