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By Marissa Parra Click here for updates on this story CHICAGO (WBBM) — The Faces of COVID exhibit is finally on display for the public to see. It’s 12 portraits installed in one of Harold Washington Library’s windows facing State Street. It shows just some of the faces among the thousands of Illinoisans who died
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By BRIAN SLODYSKO Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden is set to meet privately with Senate Democrats at the Capitol, a visit intended to deliver a jolt to the party’s long-stalled voting and elections legislation. Biden is expected to discuss potential changes to Senate rules that will be needed to overcome repeated Republican
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By BRIAN SLODYSKO Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden is set to meet privately with Senate Democrats at the Capitol, a visit intended to deliver a jolt to the party’s long-stalled voting and elections legislation. Biden is expected to discuss potential changes to Senate rules that will be needed to overcome repeated Republican
Continue Reading By GREG BEACHAM AP Sports Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Eric Weddle’s agent says the veteran NFL safety is coming out of retirement to rejoin the Los Angeles Rams for the playoffs. A person with knowledge of the deal confirmed the Rams plan to re-sign Weddle, who turned 37 last week and hasn’t played since
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By GREG BEACHAM AP Sports Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Eric Weddle’s agent says the veteran NFL safety is coming out of retirement to rejoin the Los Angeles Rams for the playoffs. A person with knowledge of the deal confirmed the Rams plan to re-sign Weddle, who turned 37 last week and hasn’t played since
Continue Reading MEXICO CITY (AP) — Migrant smugglers in Mexico apparently painted fake government food distribution logos on a freight truck to disguise the fact they had crammed 38 migrants. The scheme appeared to have worked until the driver crashed into a guardrail on a highway in the Gulf coast state of Veracruz. The logos of the
Continue Reading By BASSEM MROUE Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) — Lebanon’s powerful Hezbollah group has hosted a conference for Saudi opposition figures in its stronghold south of Beirut in a defiant gesture certain to anger the oil-rich kingdom. Wednesday’s gathering came as the Lebanese government is trying to mend relations with Saudi Arabia that hit a new
Continue Reading By TRISHA THOMAS and NICOLE WINFIELD Associated Press GIGLIO, Italy (AP) — Italy is marking the 10th anniversary of the Costa Concordia cruise ship disaster with a daylong commemoration on Thursday. The events include a Mass and will end with a candlelit vigil near the moment of impact: 9:45 p.m. on Jan. 13, 2012. That’s
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By TRISHA THOMAS and NICOLE WINFIELD Associated Press GIGLIO, Italy (AP) — Italy is marking the 10th anniversary of the Costa Concordia cruise ship disaster with a daylong commemoration on Thursday. The events include a Mass and will end with a candlelit vigil near the moment of impact: 9:45 p.m. on Jan. 13, 2012. That’s
Continue Reading By TRISHA THOMAS and NICOLE WINFIELD Associated Press GIGLIO, Italy (AP) — Italy is marking the 10th anniversary of the Costa Concordia cruise ship disaster with a daylong commemoration on Thursday. The events include a Mass and will end with a candlelit vigil near the moment of impact: 9:45 p.m. on Jan. 13, 2012. That’s
Continue ReadingBy David Shortell, Paula Reid and John Couwels, CNN An ex-girlfriend of Rep. Matt Gaetz, who is seen as a key witness in the investigation into alleged sex trafficking by the Florida Republican, testified on Wednesday before a grand jury investigating the congressman. The development is the latest signal that the long-running investigation into Gaetz
Continue Reading UPPER DARBY, Pa. (AP) — Federal investigators have been poring over the wreckage of a medical helicopter a day after it crash-landed without loss of life next to a church in a residential area of suburban Philadelphia, somehow avoiding a web of power lines and buildings. Brian Rayner, senior safety investigator with the National Transportation
Continue ReadingBy WJZ Staff Click here for updates on this story BALTIMORE (WJZ) — Homicide detectives are investigating a fatal shooting that killed a 23-year-old Towson University student early Tuesday in Towson. At about 2 a.m., officers responded to a shooting in the unit block of West Susquehanna Avenue where they found Ikemefuna Eguh on the
Continue Reading By DOUG FERGUSON AP Golf Writer HONOLULU (AP) — Webb Simpson could have waited another week to start his new year. Instead, he chose to fly out to the middle of the Pacific Ocean for one week at the Sony Open. He wants to get started after a tough ending to last year. Simpson says
Continue Reading By JIM MUSTIAN Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Federal prosecutors have charged a Texas man with providing performance-enhancing drugs to athletes competing in the 2020 Olympics in Tokyo, including the star Nigerian sprinter Blessing Okagbare. Prosecutors said Wednesday that Eric Lira of El Paso is the first person to be charged under a new
Continue Reading BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — The Buffalo Sabres have signed Michael Houser to a one-year, $750,000 contract and called up Aaron Dell from the minors to shore up their injury-depleted goaltending ranks. The signing comes with Buffalo adding goalies Ukko-Pekka Luukonen and Malcolm Subban to their injured list. Luukonen is considered week-to-week after sustaining a lower
Continue ReadingBy Betsy Klein, CNN The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has not changed its guidance on mask usage, but the Biden administration is “strongly considering” making higher quality masks, like N95 and KN95 masks, more available to Americans. The consideration comes as some experts warn Americans should be wearing those types of masks
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urielblanco (CNN) — La participación de Novak Djokovic en el Abierto de Australia le dio un panorama distinto al torneo. El tenista número 1 del mundo está retenido en Australia por una disputa sobre el visado y su estatus de vacunación contra el covid-19, y el martes publicó un extenso comunicado en el que abordaba sus
Continue Reading ANTWERP, Belgium (AP) — The Belgian city of Antwerp has put its faith in monkey business to put kids at ease for their first COVID-19 jab. With the expansion of the country’s vaccination campaign to include children as young as 5, Belgian authorities are getting creative as they try to prevent kids getting spooked by
Continue Reading BALTIMORE (AP) — The Orioles are moving the wall in left field back as much as 30 feet in an effort to make Camden Yards a bit easier on pitchers. An Orioles spokesman confirmed the team’s plans, sharing an email sent to fans whose seats will be affected. The email said the height of the
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