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A.P. reports that hundreds of world leaders, powerful politicians, billionaires, celebrities, religious leaders, and drug dealers have been ...

The U.S. Navy nuclear submarine USS Connecticut reportedly crashed in the South China Sea, Saturday. Recently, some critical voices have eme...

Billionaire grifter Ken Griffin keeps threatening to leave Chicago. He hates this place. Too many poor folks. Too much public space —you kno...

“We will not tolerate that. That is inhumane. That is not American,” Patrick Brutus, president of Haitian American Professional Network, tol...

Even while he was preparing to unleash AUKUS, the new white, Anglo-speaking front to contain and confront China with nuclear warships, Pres...

Hundreds of Haitian migrants are being rounded up and deported from the US. The large-scale expulsion involves several daily flights and a s...

V.P. Kamala Harris was sent to South China Sea last month to try and push Singapore and Vietnam into an anti-China front. But her offer was ...

Columnist Laura Washington "My message to Chicago Ald. Jim Gardiner: You are mired in a bottomless pit of misogyny." -- Sun-Times...

I hate the term, "low-skilled" to describe the millions of workers who have built and maintained this country and who are largely ...

68% of Americans approve of labor unions—despite a relentless and withering assault on worker organizing by those who benefit from the atomi...

Mike Klonsky pic. Driving down Lake Street on the city's west side Monday, I stopped to take a look at the former Dett Elementary School...

Abdul Matin Azizi, a neighbor who saw the attack. Azizi, 20, said the explosion occurred as the family returned home Sunday afternoon around...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE August 27, 2021 Contact: Catherine Murrell, 312-523-3882  The following was released by SEIU Healthcare Illinois Presi...

“We’re in America, goddamn it." -- FOP Lodge #7 Prez John Catanzara Chicago's Fraternal Order of Police (FOP) has no business calli...

Remembering Trump's lost armada. It was just three years ago that Trump was threatening "fire and fury" against North Korea an...

BUDAPEST, Aug 23 (Reuters) - WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said on Monday that COVID-19 booster shots should be delayed a...

Crime is once again the hot-button issue here in Chicago and in cities across the country. Yesterday's funeral following the killing of ...

Yes, ‘I Am Legend,’ the 2007 movie about zombie vampires, is now a part of the vaccine conversation.  As of Wednesday, more than 166 million...

Trump and the Republicans called it the "China Virus" or "Kung Flu." Pretty racist and disgusting. Biden and the Democra...

Randi Weingarten says it's a 'personal matter.' "In order for everyone to feel safe and welcome in their workplaces, vaccin...