CHICAGO — The Chicago Cubs have withdrawn their offer of face-value World Series tickets to Chicago aldermen after a city ethics board determined that taking the team up on the offer could violate a ban on elected officials accepting gifts worth more than $50. Three aldermen on Monday confirmed that the team had withdrawn the […]
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Sports & Competitions, USADonald Trump on Monday defended himself against the latest allegations of sexual misconduct by pointing out that the accuser worked as an adult film actress. “One said, ‘He grabbed me on the arm.’ And she’s a porn star,” Trump said in an interview with a New Hampshire radio station. “Now you know, this one that
MIAMI — Something is missing from President Barack Obama’s list. “Progress is on the ballot,” he said at a campaign rally here last week. “Tolerance is on the ballot. Justice is on the ballot. Equality is on the ballot. Our democracy is on the ballot!” It’s not as if Obama forgot that Hillary Clinton, the
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USADETROIT — Buick is ranked third in the latest annual Consumer Reports ranking of the most reliable automotive brands, marking the first time a domestic brand has been in the top three. Even so, Asian brands continued to dominate the influential consumer magazine’s rankings. Of 29 brands, Asian nameplates accounted for 7 of the top
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USAThe “alt-right” website Breitbart News is reportedly set to announce that they have hired former ESPN analyst Curt Schilling to host a conservative talk radio show. Schilling was criticized by the Anti-Defamation League on Friday for “positioning Israel as a partisan issue” after he pushed the anti-Semitic trope that American Jewish people should all support
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Middle East, USALOS ANGELES — In 2011, a tour bus returning from a casino overturned on a highway in the Bronx and rammed into a support pole on a sign, killing 15 people and injuring several others. Five years later, another tour bus returning from a casino crashed — this one on a Southern California freeway. The
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USAThere has been a surprise result in Lithuania’s general election with political newcomers the Peasant and Green Union claiming victory. The agrarian bloc, is set to win between 54 and 56 seats out of the 141 member parliament – the biggest victory by a single party in 20 years. Its success comes after a campaign
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InternationalI am pro-life. I have been for as long as I can remember. I went to crisis pregnancy center events with my parents when I was a kid. I remember painting pro-life signs with my mom. I believe that every life is precious and every human being is created in the image of God. I
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USACHICAGO — Chicago radio legend Herb Kent, the longest-running DJ in the history of radio and a fixture on local airwaves for more than 70 years, died Saturday. He was 88. Kent’s death was announced Sunday by executives at V103, where Kent worked for the past three decades. Also known as “The Cool Gent,” “King
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Music, Dance, and Visual Arts, USAMINNEAPOLIS — Pop idol Bobby Vee, the boyish, grinning 1960s singer whose career was born when he took a Midwestern stage as a teenager to fill in after the 1959 plane crash that killed rock ‘n’ roll stars Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and J.P. “The Big Bopper” Richardson, has died. He was 73. Vee, whose
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Music, Dance, and Visual Arts, USAJohn Bentel, the man who oversaw then-Secretary Hillary Clinton’s technology at the State Department, refused to answer questions about his knowledge of her activities in a sworn deposition Monday, according to Judicial Watch. Mr. Bentel had protected Mrs. Clinton during her time in office, assuring lower-level employees that her use of a secret email account
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USACanvassing in Florida, former president warns Jewish audience against ‘threat to fundamental character of the nation, future of our children and grandchildren’ By Eric Cortellessa In this July 26, 2016 file photo, former president Bill Clinton speaks during the second day of the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster, File) WASHINGTON — Former
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Middle East, USAAfter passing a resolution denying any Jewish connection to Jerusalem, the UN”s cultural agency UNESCO is planning to vote on another similar anti-Israel resolution. Arab states on Saturday presented a watered down version of a new resolution denying the connection between Judaism and the Temple Mount. A vote on the latest resolution is expected at
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International, Middle EastCaracas (dpa) – Thousands of women dressed in white protested against Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro on Saturday, two days after a citizen’s vote to remove him from office was blocked. The protesters were led along one of the main motorways in the capital Caracas by Lilian Tintori, wife of jailed opposition leader Leopoldo Lopez. The
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