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Bakhmut, the midsize Ukrainian city that used to have a population of 80,000, is now reportedly in Russian hands after a bloody nine-month military operation that turned the area into a wasteland.But regardless of who controls Bakhmut, the war will go on for the foreseeable future - the U.S. intelligence community assesses the fighting will progress well into 2024.

Rajan Menon Daniel R DePetris Xi Jinping's phone call with Volodymyr Zelenskiy was a long time coming, but it should not have come as a surprise.Beijing is on everyone's shortlist when it comes to prospective peacemakers in Ukraine.The French president, Emmanuel Macron, is no exception.I know I can count on you to bring back Russia to reason and everyone back to the negotiating table, Macron told the Chinese leader during their meeting in Beijing this month.

Meta/Facebook is threatening to remove all local news from its platform following reports that proposed legislation to force Big Tech to pay publishers for news content is being added to a defense bill in a bid to win approval during the lame-duck Congress session.The Journalism Competition and Preservation Act made it through the Senate Judiciary Committee in September, but is running out of time to pass before the end of the year, when the House will flip to Republican control.

Meta/Facebook is threatening to remove all local news from its platform following reports that proposed legislation to force Big Tech to pay publishers for news content is being added to a defense bill in a bid to win approval during the lame-duck Congress session.The Journalism Competition and Preservation Act made it through the Senate Judiciary Committee in September, but is running out of time to pass before the end of the year, when the House will flip to Republican control.

Andy Lyons/Getty Images Even longtime Windy City residents get tired of the frigid temps.It's part of the reason pro golfer Jeff Sluman is ready to part ways with his home in Hinsdale, IL, a western suburb of Chicago.According to a report from the Chicago Tribune, Sluman's wife, Linda Skoog-Sluman, says living in Florida "is much better for my husband's golf game."

Gen. Gary Prado Salmon, who as a Bolivian Army captain led the operation that captured the Argentine revolutionary Che Guevara, a critical ally of Fidel Castro's in the Cuban revolution, in 1967, died on May 6 in a hospital in Santa Cruz, Bolivia.He was 84.His son Gary Prado Arauz announced the death on Facebook but did not give a cause.

Forced out of the Freedom Center to make way for Bally's Chicago Casino, Tribune Publishing has agreed to buy the Daily Herald printing plant in Schaumburg for an undisclosed price, keeping the presses rolling for the Chicago Tribune and other newspapers.The deal, announced Wednesday, is expected to close within days, with printing operations and production employees moving to the new facility in the northwest suburbs over the coming months, sources said.

Rick Kogan | Chicago Tribune (TNS) The first Black boxing champion was a man named Jack Johnson and a few years before he died in 1946, he told a young reporter, Just remember, whatever you write about me, that I was a man.You will meet this man in all his ferocity, style, audacity and courage in a spectacular new book, a dynamic and unforgettable collaboration between artist Youssef Daoudi and writer Adrian Matejka.

April showers bring May flowersand a crop of fresh books, each deliciously inventive.In Abraham Verghese's long-anticipated The Covenant of Water, a curse follows a South Indian family for close to a century.Tom Hanks' The Making of Another Major Motion Picture Masterpiece takes readers behind the scenes of a Hollywood superhero flick.

The Chicago Tribune and ProPublica won the Chicago Headline Club's 2022 Watchdog Award for "The Price Kids Pay," an investigation that exposed the unfair practice of school officials and local police working together to punish students with costly tickets for minor misbehavior at school.The prize was announced Friday at the 46th annual Peter Lisagor Awards, where "The Price Kids Pay" - a collaboration between the Tribune's Jennifer Smith Richards and ProPublica's Jodi S. Cohen - also won two "best all media" awards, for investigative reporting and data journalism, as well as two other Lisagor awards for large print/online newsrooms: best investigative reporting and best education reporting.

At a time when the Biden administration has its hands full trying to reverse Russia's invasion of Ukraine and manage a U.S.-China relationship stuck in the doldrums, America's vast, lethal counterterrorism machine continues to be in high gear.The U.S. intelligence community, in close partnership with America's special operators, are tracking and hunting down terrorists in several countries - Syria and Somalia, most especially - with such regularity that it barely makes a dent in the news cycle anymore.

Chicago Bears offensive coordinator Luke Getsy expects big things out of Justin Fields this year.Look for the Chicago Bears to sink or swim this season based the growing rapport between starting quarterback Justin Fields and offensive coordinator Luke Getsy.In addition to hiring Kevin Warren away from the Big Ten, what this potential duo could do together is the thing that makes me the most excited about the Bears.

After months of negotiation, Tribune Publishing has agreed to leave the Freedom Center printing plant in River West by July 2024 to make way for Bally's Chicago Casino.Bally's, which bought the 30-acre site last year, will give the newspaper company a "series of cash payments" in return for its commitment to exit the Freedom Center, Bally's Chairman Soo Kim said Thursday.

When Sudanese strongman Omar al-Bashir was removed from power in 2019 after a 30-year reign, a ray of hope emerged for the millions of people on the streets who spent months risking their lives for a new political order.While very few thought democratic governance would flourish in Sudan quickly or easily, the feeling on the ground was one of possibility - after three decades of economic mismanagement, U.S. sanctions and diplomatic isolation from the West, Africa's third-largest country was on the cusp of a new era.

Ah, Dilbert, we hardly knew ya.Scott Adams, creator of the popular "Dilbert" comic strip, has faced a backlash of cancellations after a tirade on his YouTube livestream in which he described Black people as members of "a hate group" from which white people should "get away."

Yes, the Chicago White Sox were one of the teams that flirted with the Tampa Bay area before our region was awarded an expansion team.In fact, as what is now Tropicana Field was under construction, the state went all in on this courtship.The Orlando Sentinel of June 8, 1988 reported that the state legislature allocated $30 million to attract the White Sox.

Tragedy has long haunted the broad swath of land where earthquakes have just claimed thousands of lives, left many thousands of people injured and plunged already impoverished millions into yet deeper financial despair.For centuries, an angry earth has shaken communities in the sunbaked mountains and valleys that sprawl across southeastern Turkey.

Lisa Schencker | (TNS) Chicago Tribune When traditional treatments such as chemotherapy and radiation fail, lung cancer can be a death sentence for many patients.That, however, may be changing, with Northwestern Medicine leading the way.Northwestern plans to begin regularly performing double lung transplants on patients with terminal lung cancer, after successfully transplanting lungs into two patients who would have otherwise died of the disease, the health system announced Wednesday.

In a remarkable reaction to a foreign country's anti-LGBTQ+ policies, the Chicago Blackhawks, an NHL team, abandoned plans for players to wear Pride-themed jerseys during warm-ups this Sunday at the team's Pride Night celebration, citing security concerns for three players with ties to Russia.The Chicago Tribune reported sources with the team say the Blackhawks didn't want to risk "any media" depicting the Russians in Pride Night colors, which would put the players in conflict with official Russian government policy.

For the past three years, the COVID-19 pandemic has demonstrated, and will continue to demonstrate in the future, that America is one of the unhealthiest countries in the industrialized world.Critics on the right and left harp on how the pandemic was handled, but in fact the dismal outcomes in the U.S. do not reflect management of the crisis so much as our underlying health as a country.

Chicago scored big time when Milan's La Scala announced that soprano Rosa Raisa would perform the title role in the world premiere of "Turandot" at the famed opera house.In 1926, things usually worked the opposite way, as American opera companies were far more likely to tout the guest appearance of a European soprano or baritone.

Chicago scored big time when Milan's La Scala announced that soprano Rosa Raisa would perform the title role in the world premiere of "Turandot" at the famed opera house.In 1926, things usually worked the opposite way, as American opera companies were far more likely to tout the guest appearance of a European soprano or baritone.

There was a time, only a few short years ago, when Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman thought Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, was worse than Adolf Hitler."I believe that the Iranian supreme leader makes Hitler look good," Prince Mohammed told The Atlantic's Jeffrey Goldberg in a 2018 interview.

From August to November, I taught high school English alongside a few roosters who lived in a coop in the courtyard outside my first-floor classroom.Hatched in an incubator in the science department in the spring of 2022, the roosters became, during these few months, the most vocal sentient beings at my school.

Bally's has given Tribune Publishing its walking papers, exercising a relocation option in an attempt to force the newspaper company to vacate its mammoth River West printing plant to make way for a casino.The relocation notice, delivered several weeks ago, could end a four-decade run for the Freedom Center, which is slated for demolition to build a $1.74 billion casino complex in its place along the Chicago River.

If you told me a year ago that the Russian army would be performing as incompetently in Ukraine as it is today, I would have responded with a sarcastic chuckle.And yet, 12 months into Europe's bloodiest conflict since World War II, this is precisely what has occurred.The Ukrainians have made mincemeat of the Russians, evident in last year's successful counteroffensives south of Kharkiv and in Kherson.

The action could result in a "roadmap for 2024 insurrection," one former member of the January 6 committee said.Tucker Carlson speaks with attendees at the 2022 AmericaFest at the Phoenix Convention Center in Phoenix, Arizona.Gage Skidmore via Flickr Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy (R-California) has given far right Fox News host Tucker Carlson access to extensive surveillance footage from the January 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol.

With the recent Chicago Auto Show, talk of electric cars has kicked into high gear.It's hard to turn on a radio or television and not hear joyful coverage of our grand transition to electric.But forgotten amid all the happy hype is the fact that electric vehicles are still a small percentage of the whole.

Horror films have become a rare bright spot for contemporary Hollywood.Now a group of theater artists is hoping the genre can work on Broadway, too.The producers Tom Kirdahy (Hadestown) and Robert Ahrens (Little Shop of Horrors) said Tuesday that they are planning to bring an unsettling new play, Grey House, to Broadway this spring.

Gael Greene, who reinvented the art of the restaurant review with sass and sensuality in four decades as New York magazine's restaurant critic, died on Tuesday at her home in an assisted living facility in Manhattan.She was 88.The cause was cancer, said her niece Dana Sachs Stoddard.Until her death, Ms. Greene had continued to serve as chairwoman of Citymeals on Wheels, a New York charity she helped create in the early 1980s to provide food for the elderly.

Will Germany send its coveted Leopard 2 battle tanks to Ukraine, or at the very least give other countries like Poland the green light to send theirs?This is the question that lingered over recent discussions at the U.S. Air Force base in Ramstein, Germany, where countries supporting Kyiv's war effort came together to pledge additional military assistance.

Some area members of Congress, state lawmakers and DuPage County Board members gathered Monday to call on DuPage County Sheriff James Mendrick to retract his statement or resign after he said he will not enforce the state's new assault weapons ban.Mendrick issued a statement Jan. 13, saying he believes the new bill violates Second Amendment rights and that his office won't be checking to ensure that lawful gun owners register their weapons with the state nor arresting or housing anyone charged solely with not complying with the act.

Chicago's mayor, Lori Lightfoot, is facing criticism after her office attempted to recruit students with school credit to help with her re-election campaign.Emails encouraging students to volunteer were sent to several Chicago Public School (CPS) teachers' work emails from Megan Crane, who identifies herself as Lightfoot's deputy campaign manager on LinkedIn.

One-time child actor Adam Rich, who starred in the 1970s TV show Eight is Enough," walks out of a sheriff's station after posting bail in City of Industry, Calif., in 2002.Jean-Marc Bouju/AP LOS ANGELES Adam Rich, the child actor with a pageboy mop-top who charmed TV audiences as "America's little brother" on Eight Is Enough, has died.

Geordie Greig has been appointed Editor in Chief of The Independent, starting with immediate effect.Mr Greig joins The Independent from DMGT where he was most recently editor of the Daily Mail (2018-2022), Britain's highest circulation newspaper.Prior to editing the Daily Mail he was editor of the Mail on Sunday and the Evening Standard.

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1926 - The Chicago Tribune releases a story stating that the Detroit Tigers threw a four-game series against the Chicago White Sox in 1917 to help Chicago win the pennant.Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis responds by holding a hearing on the matter, but dismisses all charges as he can find no witnesses to confirm any part of the claim.

Following in the footsteps of My Chemical Romance and Blink-182, Fall Out Boy have teased their imminent comeback.In a note sent to their email list, the band revealed they have been in the studio "jamming ideas in a tiny room."Titled "A Homeboy's Life," the note features several paragraphs of existential rambling before getting to the point.

Chicago's media dish on their favorite spots in 2022 as part of Eater's ongoing tradition of polling the city's experts for their year-end takes.: Obelix.I love the fresh take on French fare and the whole vibe and always run into someone I know.Give me the steak tartare, Lyonnaise salad, and anything wrapped in pastry and I'm happy.

Newsmax reporter William Kelly joined a chorus of Chicago media voices expressing opposition to Mayor Lori Lightfoot's (D) initiative to switch over from traditional police scanners to encrypted radios.The Chicago Sun-Times and Chicago Tribune were among the outlets to sign a letter calling out Lightfoot's move, arguing it could prevent essential crime reporting and put lives in danger.

Japan isn't known for being an aggressive country in the world of foreign affairs.Successive Japanese governments have taken pains to emphasize their peacelike nature, a direct consequence of Tokyo finding itself on the losing side of the most horrific war of the 20th century.Japan's constitution renounces the use of force as a "means of settling international disputes," and at $54 billion as of last year, its defense budget is extremely modest compared with its $4.9 trillion economy.

The five people found dead in Buffalo Grove Wednesday were likely killed in a murder-suicide carried out by Andrei Kisliak, officials said Monday.The preliminary investigation indicates Andrei Kisliak, 39, murdered his two daughters, 6-year-old Vivian Kisliak and 4-year-old Amilia Kisliak; his wife, Vera Kisliak, 36; and Lilia Kisliak, 67, Buffalo Grove Police Chief Brian Budds said in a Monday news release.

Ald. Ed Burke will end his run as the longest-serving alderman in Chicago history.Fighting a wide-ranging federal corruption indictment, the alderman who has represented the Southwest Side's 14th Ward for more than a half-century declined to file nominating petitions before Monday's deadline to run in next year's City Council election for what would have been a record 14th term.

The Chicago Tribune has won the right to get a potentially revealing letter about claims that workers were fired two years ago from the office of city Treasurer Melissa Conyears-Ervin after they refused to participate in alleged illegal and unethical conduct.Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul's office handed the Tribune the victory following months of fightingby Mayor Lori Lightfoot's legal team, which argued the letter should be kept secret.

Bally's completed its $200 million purchase of the Freedom Center printing plant Friday, paving the way to build Chicago's long-sought and much-debated casino.The Rhode Island-based company bought the 30-acre River West site from Nexstar Media Group, with plans to transform it into a $1.74 billion casino complex.

Veterans Day calls on us to remember all those who have served our country in the armed services.For those with family who have served, the call is personal.Growing up in the 1950s, I knew my father had served in World War II, but by the strange clock of childhood, his time in the Army seemed long ago.

Bob Vanderberg was known for many things during nearly 37 years at the Chicago Tribune.A kind, generous and funny colleague who could light up a room despite his soft-spoken demeanor.A talented writer and strong, well-organized editor.A spot-on Harry Caray impersonator.A high school sports expert.And a Chicago White Sox fan and historian.

Our annual Top Workplaces report spotlights what companies are doing to recruit and retain the best employees while also cultivating loyalty.Strong leadership, a culture of collaboration and communication, and a commitment to helping employees advance in their careers are fundamental strengths that the companies in our report share.

The Bears added wide receiver Chase Claypool to the roster on Tuesday and they may also be getting left guard Cody Whitehair back in time to face the Dolphins this Sunday.Whitehair has missed the last four games with a knee injury, but he was designated for return from injured reserve on Wednesday.He'll practice with the team and head coach Matt Eberflus made it sound like there's a decent chance that he'll be activated on Sunday.

With a lackluster on-field product, a complete lack of star power and one of the costliest game day experiences in the league, the Chicago Cubs shouldn't be shocked at the message fans sent this year in their lack of attendance, especially late in the year.The 2022 attendance at Wrigley Field marked the lowest full-season figure since 1997 (obviously, there were limits in place early in 2021 and no fans were allowed to attend games in 2020) - and seeing large swathes of empty green seats, especially during those midweek night games became commonplace.

Court filings in a divorce case between state Sen. Michael Hastings and his now ex-wife, Kathleen, portray the veteran legislator as being unable to control his anger in front of his children, according to court records.After Hastings and his wife began divorce proceedings, Hastings "elbowed Kate in the face in front of the children," according to statements her attorney filed in court records.