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Dexter Reed’s mother Nicole Banks attends a news conference outside the 11th District police station in East Garfield Park, Wednesday, April 24, 2024, where her attorney announced a lawsuit that they filed against the City of Chicago and the five …

Surveillance video captured a fatal shooting outside an Oak Forest home Sunday. Provided An Orland Park man was ordered to remain in custody in connection with a fatal shooting in suburban Oak Forest, authorities announced Wednesday morning. Omar Zegar, 37, …

Chicago Cubs center fielder Cody Bellinger struggles to catch a fly ball from Houston Astros’ Yainer Diaz as it bounces off the ivy during the fourth inning of a baseball game Tuesday, April 23, 2024, in Chicago. Erin Hooley/AP Photos …

By Khari Johnson | CalMatters If you visited a Planned Parenthood in the continental United States in the past few years then the company Near Intelligence, a data broker, probably knew it — and may have sold that information to …

Miguel’s Jr. is launching its take on birria, which the National Restaurant Association predicted would be a hot trend in 2024. The Corona-based chain describes its version as a traditional Mexican beef stew. It is featured in Birria Queso Tacos, …

LOS ANGELES — As a dreary, fog-coated morning gave way to brilliant sunshine, the ring of NFL eyes around USC’s Allyson Felix Field only grew wider, all drawn to the 6-foot-1 lightning rod dealing at the center of the turf. …

By Wendy Fry | Calmatters Government agencies are spending billions of dollars to improve wait times at the U.S.-Mexico border, but the checkpoints remain severely clogged — and border communities are hurting. In recent months lines at the border often …

The Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office on Wednesday filed charges against a suspected gang member accused of shooting a motor deputy in the back who was waiting at a red light in West Covina. In addition to attempted murder …

Like the salty fermented yeast spread called Vegemite, zaatar is a love-it-or-hate-it food. Vegemite is the very essence of Australian cuisine. Walk into a kitchen in Sydney, and you’ll see not just the small jars of Vegemite that tourists often …

Police officers prepare to escort students to be reunited with their families at Arlington Bowie High School after the school was placed on a lockdown (Picture: AP) One person has been injured in a Texas high school shooting and a …

Lisa Pisano looks at photos of her dog after her surgeries at NYU Langone Health in New York (Picture: AP) A 54-year-old grandmother has successfully received the first-ever combined pig kidney and mechanical heart pump transplant. Lisa Pisano, a New …

By Jacques Billeaud and Jonathan J. Cooper | Associated Press PHOENIX — A proposed repeal of Arizona’s near-total ban on abortions won approval from the state House Wednesday after two weeks of mounting pressure on Republicans over an issue that …

Looking to buy a home in Alameda County? Now is your last chance to apply for an interest-free loan from a local program that helps first-time homebuyers afford a down payment. AC Boost, a $50 million county effort launched in …

SAN FRANCISCO — This is not what the Giants anticipated every fifth day when they signed Blake Snell. Week after week, the Giants’ worst days have been the ones on which their $62 million free-agent prize was scheduled to start. …

By Edith M. Lederer | Associated Press UNITED NATIONS — Russia on Wednesday vetoed a U.N. resolution sponsored by the United States and Japan calling on all nations to prevent a dangerous nuclear arms race in outer space, calling it …

Joseph Wilkinson | New York Daily News Hamas released Wednesday a propaganda/proof of life video of American-Israeli hostage Hersh Goldberg-Polin. The 24-year-old was one of the hundreds of people taken hostage in Hamas’ Oct. 7 attack on Israel. He’s one …

By Haley Talbot, Lauren Fox and Clare Foran | CNN House Speaker Mike Johnson called on Columbia University’s president to resign Wednesday during a tense news conference where the crowd repeatedly interrupted the speaker and at times loudly booed him and other GOP lawmakers …

An April 17 article about protests of a Google cloud-computing contract with the Israeli government incorrectly reported some facts about a sit-in protest that targeted Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian’s office. The sit-in, attended by more than a dozen people, …

Antioch Unified School District Superintendent Stephanie Anello this week called for an “independent investigation” of the district’s handling of employees’ complaints that their boss was bullying and harassing them and that the district had turned a blind eye. At the …

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