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President Trump reportedly plans to skip Game 4 of the NBA Finals at Madison Square Garden after getting roundly booed by Knicks fans before Monday night’s deflating Game 3 loss. The president has “scheduling conflicts and obligations” that will prevent …

Hundreds of people hopped on their bicycles Monday evening and rode through Bridgeport to honor Riley O’Neil, a city employee and champion of improving road safety who was fatally struck by a truck driver while biking over the weekend. “We …

The Cubs caused a stir in Northern California, and it had nothing to do with the action on the field this weekend. After all, the Giants won the series and could’ve swept it. The angst came from the Giants’ Spanish-language …

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The union representing roughly 2,000 hospitality workers at SoFi Stadium announced a tentative contract agreement Tuesday, averting a potential strike days before the venue hosts its first FIFA World Cup match. The agreement, which is subject to ratification by workers …

By ZANA CIMILI TIRANA, Albania (AP) — Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama is vowing to press ahead with a luxury development linked to U.S. President Donald Trump ’s son-in-law Jared Kushner, despite a surge in protests against it there. In …

A Santa Monica High School graduate was named on Tuesday the commander of the next flight in NASA’s ambitious Artemis project aimed at returning astronauts to the moon and ultimately establishing a base there as a stepping stone to Mars. …

A swell expected to be the largest summer south swell in years filled into Southern California beaches on Tuesday, June 9, bringing hazardous conditions as lifeguards send out warnings to beachgoers to use extreme caution during the event. The National …

Ald. Timmy Knudsen (43rd) is asking for “stricter rules on nightlife” in a corridor of Lincoln Park where a woman was shot Sunday following a bar fight nearby. The 39-year-old woman was shot while standing outside in Lincoln Park Sunday …

The iconic Chicago-area hot dog chain Portillo’s will open a restaurant on Michigan Avenue, south of the Chicago River. The Oak Brook-based company didn’t give an opening date for the location at 304 N. Michigan Ave. But the news marks …

Michael Jordan said Monday he’s “deeply saddened” by the death of former Bulls teammate Stacey King, who died Sunday at 59. Jordan emphasized King’s role on his first three NBA championship teams with the Bulls (1991-93). King was the No. …

A Northwestern researcher and several other diabetes experts were escorted out of a medical conference Friday for handing out copies of an editorial criticizing President Donald Trump’s attacks on America’s long-established system of scientific research. The incident happened at the …

By STEPHEN HAWKINS, AP Sports Writer Texas Tech quarterback Brendan Sorsby has won a temporary injunction against the NCAA that allows him to remain eligible even after he acknowledged making thousands of impermissible bets worth at least $90,000 on college …

Call it President Trump’s “credibility gap.” That’s a phrase used for President Lyndon Johnson prevaricating on the Vietnam War. Trump’s gap got wider during his Sunday interview with Kristen Welker on NBC News’s “Meet the Press,” held in a Wisconsin …

PLAYER OF THE YEAR James Tronstein, Harvard-Westlake, Sr. Harvard-Westlake baseball coach Jared Halpert summed it up pretty well this past spring when talking about senior standout James Tronstein. “When you talk about the Mount Rushmore of players that’ve come through …

By SAM McNEIL and SYLVIE CORBET PARIS (AP) — A coalition of six countries on Tuesday issued new joint sanctions on Israeli settlers and settlements in the West Bank, including a hard-line Israeli cabinet minister already sanctioned by Western countries, …

The vote counts have finally solidified in the nationally watched race for Los Angeles mayor, and projections suggest that Mayor Karen Bass will face off against Councilmember Nithya Raman in the November general election. Anyone familiar with the city’s overwhelmingly Democratic voter-registration …

They won’t be flying to the moon, but will be paving the way. NASA announced today the four astronauts assigned to Artemis III, a mission targeting launch from Kennedy Space Center next year. “So you want to find out who …

By MATTHEW PERRONE, AP Health Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal health regulators on Tuesday signed off on the first new sunscreen ingredient for the U.S. market in more than 25 years, giving Americans access to a skin-protecting chemical long used …

By JAMES ROBSON, AP Soccer Writer The wait is over for the biggest World Cup ever with 48 teams, 104 matches, three host nations and a slew of questions and controversies swirling around the highly scrutinzed event that will last …