Hours before shutdown deadline, Biden signs a package of spending bills passed by Congress
President Joe Biden has signed into law a package of spending bills passed by the Senate in time to avoid a shutdown of many key federal agencies.
President Joe Biden has signed into law a package of spending bills passed by the Senate in time to avoid a shutdown of many key federal agencies.
A brand-new group of elected officials on Friday named 15 finalists to serve as the first permanent members of a civilian body overseeing city public safety decisions and operations of the Chicago Police Department. The Community Commission for Public Safety and Accountability, created under the 2021 Empowering Communities for Public Safety ordinance, plays a central part in selecting and removing the police superintendent, police board members and the Civilian Office of Police Accountability’s chief administrator. Читать дальше...
As the drugstore chains Walgreens and CVS Health plan to begin dispensing the controversial abortion pill mifepristone, Illinois reproductive rights advocates praise the new means of access to the medication — which they say will improve health equity as well as help destigmatize abortion. Abortion opponents, however, have decried the move, fearing the distribution of the popular abortion medication at well-known retailers will normalize terminating a pregnancy. Dr. Amy Whitaker, chief medical officer at Planned Parenthood of Illinois... Читать дальше...
Researchers believe that warmer lakes could lead to bigger algae blooms, more evaporation, and beach erosion, and less oxygen for bottom-dwelling organisms that bigger fish consume.
Disagreements among Indiana lawmakers could stop passage of a bill aiming to address antisemitism on college campuses for the second year in a row.
A Carpentersville Middle School teacher/wrestling coach who allegedly made an "inappropriate comment" to a child in a locker room at Norris Recreation Center in St. Charles has been arrested on felony charges, law enforcement officials said.
President Joe Biden has endorsed legislation that could lead to the popular video-sharing app TikTok being banned in the United States.
The U.N. human rights office said in a report that the establishment and expansion of Israeli settlements in the West Bank and east Jerusalem amount to a war crime.