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By Sabrina Franza, Samah Assad, Mikayla Price Click here for updates on this story CHICAGO (WBBM) — An adjunct professor was fired from her role at DePaul University, after offering an optional assignment to her students in which she asked them to explore the biological and health impacts Israel’s war in Gaza has on Palestinians.
Continue ReadingBy Jermont Terry Click here for updates on this story CHICAGO (WBBM) — The prevalence of gun violence during Memorial Day weekend in Chicago is a concern every year, but a Chicago Police program is actively working to change that. From city life to the great outdoors, a Chicago Police officers headed off Friday to
Continue ReadingWBBM, FAMILY PHOTO, CNN By Jermont Terry Click here for updates on this story CHICAGO (WBBM) — The prevalence of gun violence during Memorial Day weekend in Chicago is a concern every year, but a Chicago Police program is actively working to change that. From city life to the great outdoors, a Chicago Police officers
Continue ReadingBy Lori Bordonaro Click here for updates on this story NEW YORK (WCBS, WLNY) — Police say a vandal has been targeting pickleball courts in Riverside Park. He has allegedly struck three times in the last week, slashing nets and throwing out equipment in the trash. Pickleball has surged in popularity, and the courts are
Continue ReadingBy Aileen Graef, Athena Jones and Shania Shelton, CNN (CNN) — President Joe Biden touted the expansion of NATO, his actions in the Middle East and progress in lowering military sexual assaults in a commencement address to the West Point graduating class Saturday. While Biden stayed away from mentioning former President Donald Trump or making
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WPXI, WTAE, CNN By Michael Rios, Holly Yan and AnneClaire Stapleton, CNN (CNN) — The first of several Americans recently charged with possession of ammunition in Turks and Caicos headed home Friday after getting a suspended 52-week sentence and a $6,700 fine, his representatives said. But four other Americans still await their fate. In recent
Continue Reading By Abdel Qadder, Sarah El Sirgany and Kareem Khadder, CNN (CNN) — At least 10 people, including children, died in Gaza on Saturday after a drone strike hit the school they were sheltering in, according to local health workers. The Al-Nazla school in Saftawy, on the outskirts of Jabaliya, was being used as a temporary
Continue ReadingBALTIMORE (AP) — Authorities say police officers in Baltimore have fatally shot a man who pulled a gun while they questioned him in a different shooting. Police say a detective was shot in the chest, and his protective vest likely saved his life. Police were on the city’s south side on Friday investigating a different
Continue ReadingBy Peter Valdes-Dapena, CNN (CNN) — In the early morning of May 14, Vicki Hill was startled awake by the sound of explosions outside her home in Bethesda, Maryland. The loud bangs, she learned later, had come from the airbags of the family’s SUV, a 2015 Nissan Murano that was parked in the driveway. It
Continue ReadingHIGHLAND, Calif. (AP) — A teenager was taken into custody after a crowd of young people swarmed a deputy’s patrol car earlier this month, kicking and punching the vehicle before the deputy could drive away, a California sheriff’s office said this week. The 15-year-old male allegedly opened the driver’s door of the San Bernardino Sheriff’s
Continue ReadingHIGHLAND, Calif. (AP) — A teenager was taken into custody after a crowd of young people swarmed a deputy’s patrol car earlier this month, kicking and punching the vehicle before the deputy could drive away, a California sheriff’s office said this week. The 15-year-old male allegedly opened the driver’s door of the San Bernardino Sheriff’s
Continue ReadingNEW DELHI (AP) — Police in India say that at least 27 people including children have been killed in a major fire at an amusement park. The blaze broke out Saturday at the park in the western city of Rajkot in Gujarat state. A police officer said that the bodies were difficult to identify. Another
Continue ReadingAMSTERDAM (AP) — Rapper Nicki Minaj said Saturday that police in the Netherlands discovered marijuana in her bags as she was preparing to leave the country for her next concert. Minaj tweeted that she was stopped at the Amsterdam airport as she was about to board a plane for a concert in Manchester, England. Police
Continue ReadingBy DOUG FERGUSON AP Golf Writer Two-time PGA Tour winner Grayson Murray died Saturday morning at age 30, one day after he withdrew from the Charles Schwab Cup Challenge at Colonial. There were no immediate details on the circumstances of his death, only shock and grief from the PGA Tour and his management team. “I
Continue ReadingMIAMI (AP) — Progressive civic groups have challenged how four congressional districts and seven state House districts in South Florida were drawn by the Republican-controlled Florida Legislature. They claim they were racially gerrymandered for Hispanics who are too diverse to be considered a protected minority. The groups filed a lawsuit on Thursday, claiming the districts
Continue ReadingBy Steve Contorno and Aaron Pellish, CNN Washington, DC (CNN) — Former President Donald Trump will address the Libertarian Party’s convention Saturday, an unconventional stop for a presumptive Republican nominee but also illustrative of his campaign’s intensifying concern over third-party candidates. Trump is expected to deliver a pitch to Libertarians focused on their shared grievances
Continue ReadingBy Ben Morse, CNN (CNN) — Barcelona retained its Women’s Champions League title on Saturday, beating Lyon 2-0 in the final in Bilbao, Spain. It was a cagey encounter, with clearcut chances few and far between as both teams’ defenses canceled out one another. Aitana Bonmatí opened the scoring at the San Mamés Stadium, her
Continue ReadingBy Hanna Ziady, CNN London (CNN) — Money generated by Russian financial assets frozen in Europe will soon start flowing to Ukraine, giving Kyiv a boost as it struggles to counter an advance by Moscow’s troops. Now, the West is trying to turn that trickle of cash into a flood. Finance officials from the G7
Continue ReadingBy JAKE COYLE AP Film Writer Sean Baker’s “Anora,” a comic but devastating Brooklyn odyssey about a sex worker who marries the son of a wealthy Russian oligarch, won the Cannes Film Festival’s top award, the Palme d’Or. The win Saturday for “Anora” marked a coronation for Baker, the 53-year-old indie filmmaker of “The Florida
Continue ReadingBy WILL WEISSERT Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Donald Trump plans to use an address at the Libertarians’ national convention to court a segment of mostly conservative voters that has often been skeptical of the former president. He’s also trying to ensure that party activists aren’t drawn to the campaign of independent Robert F. Kennedy
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