Emanuel: Allow taxis to charge surge prices, require same background checks...
Responding to years of criticism that City Hall favors upstarts Uber and Lyft over taxi owners, Mayor Rahm Emanuel on Wednesday pitched a solution: Make the beleaguered cab companies more like their...
View ArticleAuthorities review gruesome video of small-town Texas church attack
Authorities have reviewed video from inside the small-town Texas church where a gunman killed more than two dozen people, including footage that shows the assailant shooting victims in the head during...
View ArticleIn Beijing, Trump stops short of castigating Xi for trade deals: 'I don't...
President Donald Trump lavished praise on Chinese leader Xi Jinping ahead of a formal bilateral meeting here Thursday, touting "great chemistry" between them and declaring their relationship a "great...
View ArticleU.S. tightens travel rules to Cuba, blacklists many businesses
Americans seeking to visit Cuba must navigate a complicated maze of travel, commerce and financial restrictions unveiled Wednesday by the Trump administration, part of a new policy to further isolate...
View ArticleFlorida executes man convicted of slashing one man's throat, fatally shooting...
A man convicted of killing two people in 1991 on Wednesday became the third inmate executed in Florida since the state resumed carrying out the death penalty after a hiatus. Fifty-three-year-old...
View ArticleBiggest surprises on the Bulls and the NBA so far
What are the biggest early-season surprises on the Bulls and around the NBA? Lauri Markkanen's defense for the Bulls OK, so he’s not Horace Grant or Dennis Rodman. But from his first exhibition, in...
View ArticleElection losses could snarl GOP's tax reform push, a top GOP senator says
House Republican leaders scrambled Wednesday to patch a $74 billion hole they had created in their own tax plan, leaving them with a painful choice between scaling back the bill's benefits for...
View ArticleA new day for women, Democrats across the nation after Tuesday elections
As of Tuesday, only 17 of the 100 members of the Virginia House of Delegates were women. Now, the number will surge to nearly 30. Women racked up victories across the country on Tuesday and are being...
View ArticleRepublicans fear Democratic wins mean more losses to come
A wave of Democratic victories ignited a ferocious debate across the Republican Party Wednesday over whether President Donald Trump's unorthodox behavior and polarizing agenda is jeopardizing the...
View ArticleKevin Spacey cut from Ridley Scott's finished Getty film, Christopher Plummer...
In a wholly unprecedented move, Kevin Spacey is being cut from Ridley Scott's finished film "All the Money in the World" and replaced by Christopher Plummer just over one month before it's supposed to...
View ArticleGarth Brooks wins CMA entertainer of the year
Garth Brooks continued his winning streak as entertainer of the year at the 2017 Country Music Association Awards, beating out Luke Bryan and Keith Urban. Brooks, who has won the top prize six times,...
View ArticleJustice Department warns AT&T its bid for Time Warner needs changes
Justice Department officials told AT&T that its $85 billion bid to acquire Time Warner is unlikely to be approved without major changes, a move that is driving the two sides toward a high-stakes...
View ArticleHosts address Las Vegas shooting during CMA Awards, but it's hardly enough
So after all that, “Las Vegas” were the very first words spoken on the CMA Awards Wednesday night. “Las Vegas, Charlottesville, New York, Sutherland Springs, historic storms in Texas, Puerto Rico and...
View ArticleCPS reinstates Cook County Jail high school principal accused of fraud
Chicago Public Schools has reinstated the principal of a Cook County Jail high school program after rejecting allegations of wrongdoing made by the district’s inspector general. York High School...
View Article'Fears I have are real,' says sexual assault victim before attacker given...
A Willowbrook woman who was brutalized in her family home by a stranger told a DuPage County court Thursday that she still bears many scars from that day, but the experience hasn’t broken her....
View ArticleLake County, Ind., may issue $8M bond for legal settlements, including for...
The Lake County Council is considering an $8.2 million bond to cover settlements in lawsuits, with nearly $5 million of that going to the families of two inmates who died in the jail. The proposed...
View ArticleDevin Hester says Miami's 'turnover chain' has helped bring Hurricanes' swag...
Did you catch the final meaningful play in last week’s Miami game? Devin Hester did. It was a thing of beauty, a perfectly entertaining reflection of the rebirth of Hurricanes football. “Man, you see...
View ArticleIllinois’ women senators declare solidarity with new caucus, then go opposite...
In the wake of a sexual harassment scandal that’s engulfed the Capitol, a bipartisan group of female senators formalized their own group on Thursday with the overarching goal of working on issues...
View ArticleEmanuel wants to raise restaurant permit fees and fines for building code...
Buried in the fine print of Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s proposed 2018 budget are higher costs for restaurant permits, bigger fines for violating city environmental regulations and stiffer penalties for...
View ArticleWhite House chief of staff tried to pressure acting DHS chief to expel...
On Monday, as the Department of Homeland Security prepared to extend the residency permits of tens of thousands of Hondurans living in the United States, White House Chief of Staff John Kelly called...
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