The Justice Department expects to make special counsel Robert Mueller's report on the Russia investigation public on Thursday morning. Spokeswoman Kerri Kupec said Monday the redacted report will be sent to Congress and made available to the public Thursday. Mueller officially concluded his investigation...
Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris has released 15 years of tax returns, including her returns for 2018, and the California senator reports that she and her husband had a federal tax bill of about $700,000 on an adjusted gross joint income of about $1.9 million last year. The documents...
Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp were temporarily down early Sunday. All three social media platforms, including Facebook Messenger, were affected by the outage. Downdetector.com, a site that monitors site outages, shows Facebook had been down since 6:30 a.m. EST in much of the world, with thousands...
Top Democrats on Saturday rushed to defend Rep. Ilhan Omar after President Donald Trump retweeted video that was edited to suggest she was being dismissive of the significance of the worst terrorist assault on U.S. soil. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi scolded Trump for using the "painful images of...
An idea floated by President Donald Trump to send immigrants from the border to "sanctuary cities" to exact revenge on Democratic foes could end up doing the migrants a favor by placing them in locations that make it easier to put down roots and stay in the country. The plan would put thousands...
A giant six-engine aircraft with the world's longest wingspan completed what company officials called a superb initial flight over California's Mojave Desert, bringing to life a dream held by the late Microsoft co-founder Paul G. Allen. Stratolaunch Systems Corp. chief executive Jean Floyd said...
Georgetown University undergraduates have voted in favor of a referendum seeking the establishment of a fund benefiting the descendants of enslaved people sold to pay off the school's debts. The $27.20-per-semester fee would create one of the first reparations funds at a major U.S. institution....
An effort by writers and their agents to resolve a dispute over industry practices collapsed Friday night as the Writers Guild of America said it had not reached a settlement to end the standoff that has kept Hollywood on edge. The WGA said that the agencies haven’t provided them with a fair offer...
President Donald Trump said Friday he is strongly considering releasing "Illegal Immigrants" into Democratic strongholds to punish congressional foes for inaction on the border— just hours after White House and Homeland Security officials insisted the idea had been rejected as fast as it had been...
A 5-year-old boy plummeted three floors Friday after being pushed or thrown from a balcony at the Mall of America, according to witnesses, and a 24-year-old man with a history of causing disturbances at the mall was in custody. Bloomington Police Chief Jeffrey Potts said police don't think there...
President Donald Trump weighed in Friday on the most recent controversy involving Democratic Rep. Ilhan Omar, retweeting video edited to suggest that the Minnesota congresswoman was dismissive of the significance of the Sept. 11 attacks. The video pulls a snippet of Omar's speech last month to...
What is expected to be an epic legal and political battle over whether to extradite Julian Assange to the U.S. began to take shape, with Britain's opposition Labour Party urging the government Friday not to hand the WikiLeaks founder over to the Americans. Party leader Jeremy Corbyn tweeted that...
Many employers in New York City could no longer require job applicants to be tested for marijuana use under legislation approved this week. The New York Times says the City Council bill, which would take effect a year after it's signed into law, has the support of Democratic Mayor Bill de Blasio's...
The homeless veteran who admitted to conspiring with a New Jersey couple in a GoFundMe scam that raised more than $400,000 was sentenced Friday to five years' probation. Johnny Bobbitt pleaded guilty last month in state court to conspiracy to commit theft by deception. Conditions of his sentence...
Fisher-Price recalled nearly 5 million infant sleepers on Friday after more than 30 babies died in them over a 10-year period. The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission said anyone who bought a Fisher-Price Rock 'n Play sleeper should stop using it right away and contact Fisher-Price for a refund...
A top Red Cross official said Friday he's "more concerned than I have ever been" about the possible regional spread of the Ebola virus after a new spike in cases, as the World Health Organization met on whether to declare the outbreak in Congo an international health emergency. Emanuele Capobianco,...
A suicide bomber targeted an open-air market in the southwestern Pakistani city of Quetta on Friday, killing at least 20 people and wounding dozens of others, police and hospital officials said. Shortly after the bombing, struck near a Shiite residential area, dozens of angry Shiite youths rallied...
A Washington political consultant initially entangled in the Russia investigation was sentenced Friday to three years of probation for illegal lobbying and skirting the ban on foreign donations to President Donald Trump's inaugural committee. W. Samuel Patten and prosecutors had asked for leniency,...
China said Thursday that trade talks with the U.S. are "moving forward" after nine rounds of consultations aimed at ending a standoff that has shaken the world economic outlook. The latest discussions had achieved "new substantial progress," Foreign Ministry spokesman Lu Kang said at a daily news...
The number of young kids who went to U.S. emergency rooms because they swallowed toys, coins, batteries and other objects has nearly doubled, a new study says. In 2015, there were nearly 43,000 such visits among kids under 6, compared with 22,000 in 1995, according to the study published Friday...
Peacefully tucked away in the European Alps, Switzerland isn't the kind of country you would associate with the end of the world. But deep beneath the about 700,000 bell-clanging milk cows chewing soft grass, drinking from clean glacier rivers and staring at snowy mountains, lies a hidden, far...
Police say a couple made laxative-laced cookies for striking school employees because they were tired of the noise from the picket line near their home. Authorities in eastern Ohio say none of the striking workers ate the sugar cookies, but the couple was charged with contaminating the treats. ...
White House officials have tried to pressure U.S. immigration authorities to release detainees onto the streets of "sanctuary cities" to retaliate against President Donald Trump's political adversaries, according to Department of Homeland Security officials and email messages reviewed by The Washington...
British police on Thursday hauled a bearded and shouting Julian Assange from the Ecuadorian Embassy where he was holed up for nearly seven years, and the U.S. charged the WikiLeaks founder with conspiring with former Army intelligence analyst Chelsea Manning to get their hands on government secrets....
Federal prosecutors painted a picture of attorney Michael Avenatti on Thursday as a scheming operator who stole millions of dollars from clients, cheated on his taxes, lied to investigators and tried to hide money from debtors in bankruptcy proceedings. A 36-count indictment returned late Wednesday...
A bill imposing one of the most stringent abortion restrictions in the nation was signed into law in Ohio on Thursday, banning abortions after a detectable heartbeat in a long-sought victory for abortion opponents that drew an immediate constitutional challenge. In signing the heartbeat bill, Republican...
Julian Assange's arrest on Thursday in the Ecuadorian Embassy in London opens the next chapter in the saga of the WikiLeaks founder: an expected extradition fight over a pending criminal prosecution in the United States. It's also likely to trigger a debate over press freedom and call attention...
The suspect in a string of fires that destroyed three black churches in rural Louisiana is the white son of a sheriff's deputy whose father helped arrange for his arrest, authorities said Thursday. Holden Matthews, 21, was jailed without bail on arson charges in connection with the blazes in and...
An Israeli spacecraft lost contact with Earth and crashed just moments before it was to land on the moon late Thursday, failing in an ambitious attempt to make history as the first privately funded lunar mission. The Beresheet spacecraft lost communication with ground control as it was making its...
Sudan's military overthrew President Omar al-Bashir on Thursday after months of bloody street protests over his repressive 30-year rule. But pro-democracy demonstrators were left angry and disappointed when the defense minister announced the armed forces will govern the country for the next two...
Former Obama White House counsel Greg Craig was indicted Thursday on charges of making false statements and concealing information in a federal foreign lobbying investigation that intersected with the Russia probe. Craig, 74, was charged in a two-count indictment that accuses him of willfully concealing...
It was a far cry from "I love WikiLeaks!" President Donald Trump declared on Thursday that "I know nothing about WikiLeaks" after its disheveled founder Julian Assange was hauled out of the Ecuadorian Embassy in London to face charges, a stark contrast to how candidate Trump showered praise on...
The handwritten notification of President Abraham Lincoln's death is being offered for sale by a Philadelphia documents dealer. Nathan Raab, president of the Raab Collection, says the telegram was thought to be lost, and calls it "truly one of our great finds." It was written inside the home where...
Tax day is here; but what if you can't file — or pay — your taxes on time? The IRS said Friday that even with just days to go until the deadline, about 50 million taxpayers had yet to file their tax returns. If you are among them, don't despair — there are options. Don’t delay If you don't think...
A 5-year-old boy who was seriously injured when he was thrown from a third-floor balcony at the Mall of America near Minneapolis remains hospitalized. Friends of the family have started a crowdfunding effort to help with medical bills. The GoFundMe campaign had raised nearly $400,000 as of Sunday...
It may be spring on the real-world calendar, but the screens of “Game of Thrones” followers everywhere Sunday delivered, finally, the full arrival of winter. In that long-promised dip of the thermometer the battle was at last about to be joined between the living and the undead, between humanity...
The last time it snowed this much so late in spring, John F. Kennedy was president. O’Hare International Airport’s official snow measurement for Sunday came in at 5.3 inches, making it the second-snowiest day on record so late in the season. The snowiest day on record this late in spring was April...
Tiger Woods faced this question: Should Jack Nicklaus be worried about his record 18 majors? “Well, I don’t know if he’s worried or not,” Woods replied, later adding: “I’m just enjoying 15.” Perhaps he’d also enjoy these 15 takeaways from one of the most memorable Masters in history: 1. This place...
A 32-year-old Sleepy Hollow man faces more than two dozen charges in connection with the sexual assault and stabbing of a Sleepy Hollow woman and a knife attack on her brother, Kane County State’s Attorney Joe McMahon announced Thursday. Fabian Torres, a convicted felon on parole, was charged with...
When Dominic Ruggieri wanted to pick up gifts for his children on a recent business trip to Chicago, he set aside some time to shop — not on Michigan Avenue, but on Midway Airport’s Concourse A. Ruggieri, 34, of Connecticut, isn’t usually much of an airport shopper, saying options can be thin....
A lot changed for the Blackhawks when they moved up nine spots in the draft lottery to grab the No. 3 pick in the June NHL draft. But for Mark Kelley, the Hawks vice president of amateur scouting, things didn’t change all that much. “In the week before Christmas if you look at where we were in...
The Bears have already received tremendous production from their 2019 first-round draft pick, and a year from now they almost certainly will be saying the same thing about their 2020 first-round pick. Khalil Mack paid dividends well before the bill came due on their Sept. 1 trade with the Raiders....
Dear Amy: Six years ago, my two grandchildren were playing “family” in a makeshift fort with blankets hung for walls. These cousins were both 6 years old at the time. Sometime during their play, clothes were removed and my grandson kissed his female cousin’s bottom. Since then, my daughter-in-law...
Laura Noe was starting her morning as she often does, watching the sparrows, doves and cardinals who come to the bird feeder she keeps in her Jefferson Park backyard, when she sensed a sudden change. “I turned my head for a minute,” she says, “and the hawk was there. And all of the other birds...
Back in the ’80s, anyone perusing lists of Chicago’s most highly regarded restaurants (the diner-opinion-driven Zagat Survey, for instance) would have found that French cuisine dominated the public’s fancy. Leading the charge would have been Le Francais, so popular in its heyday that wealthy out-of-staters...
For 11 years, Brian Brundage promoted Intercon Solutions, his booming suburban Chicago electronics recycling company, as a scrupulous industry leader in environmentally responsible waste disposal, led by a colorful, high-flying entrepreneur. On Thursday, a decidedly humbled Brundage was sentenced...
Comedian Tom Segura has a message for anyone offended by his jokes (or, as he put it Saturday night during the second of two sold-out shows at the Chicago Theatre, anyone who tells him, “I was deeply hurt by things you said during your ha-ha show.”): “You should never hear things you don’t like....
As the Bears begin the 2019 season Monday by reporting to Halas Hall to start their voluntary offseason program, coach Matt Nagy expects one major difference from last year’s first day: belief. When Nagy addressed his team for the first time as coach on April 3, 2018, he had the Bears’ only Super...
Three takeaways from the abbreviated Angels-Cubs series this weekend. 1. The visitors clubhouse is a big hit. When the Cubs opened their new home clubhouse at Wrigley Field in 2016, Dodgers pitcher Clayton Kershaw was asked about the disparity in amenities between the Cubs’ spacious room and the...
I’m not afraid of migrants. I’m not afraid of people fleeing violence in search of a better life. I’m not afraid of asylum seekers. And I’m certainly not afraid of a president who thinks he can scare a large swath of his fellow citizens — you know, the ones he’s supposed to represent — by threatening...
Rob Loukotka launched his fifth Kickstarter project in the summer of 2017. Within a month, the Chicago-based artist had raised more than $20,000 online from nearly 400 people across the country. In exchange for the capital, Loukotka promised to create posters with gold ink that depicted ACME Corp....
Justin Atwater, 18, knows more than just how to drive a car. He can change a car tie rod, a hood, a fender and a tire. He knows how to set up a paint booth and can paint a whole car. When fixing a car, he can use a jack and a jack stand, a skill he says not all car aficionados have. Atwater, who...
Actress Lori Loughlin and her fashion designer husband, Mossimo Giannulli, are pleading not guilty to charges they took part in the sweeping college admissions bribery scam, according to court documents filed Monday. Loughlin and Giannulli said they are waiving their right to appear in Boston federal...
Top Democrats on Saturday rushed to defend Rep. Ilhan Omar after President Donald Trump retweeted video that was edited to suggest she was being dismissive of the significance of the worst terrorist assault on U.S. soil. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi scolded Trump for using the "painful images of...
A spring storm dumped more than 5 inches of snow on parts of the city and brought sightings of a rare weather phenomena — thundersnow — on Sunday, nearly breaking the record for snowiest day this late in the season, according to meteorologists. The National Weather Service in Chicago recorded 5.3...
A coach with the Chicago Fire junior soccer team was jailed on accusations that he inappropriately touched and groomed three young female players for sex. In one of the alleged encounters, according to Cook County prosecutors, the coach told the teenage girl that having sex would make her more...
The premiere of the final season of HBO’s “Game of Thrones” Sunday didn’t stop viewers from sharing their glee, shock, wonder and terror — basically all the feels — on Twitter. We’ve rounded up our favorite outpourings of fan reaction. Winter comes to Chicago RELATED: 'Game of Thrones' recap: 5...
Mark Buciak was given two alternatives to fix his leaky heart: A cow valve. Or a mechanical device. The long-distance runner from Chicago, who will attempt to become the first Illinois competitor to finish 40 straight Boston Marathons on Monday, had a question about a third option. “Do you have...