Heather Cox Richardson confirmed on BlueSky today that Facebook has removed her five most recent posts . This takes “obeying in advance” to a new level.
Here’s her Facebook page at 12:50 pm Pacific. Posts from March 27 , March 28 , March 29 , March 30 and March 31 are missing.
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TAMPA, Fla. — Women’s college basketball has been on the rise these last few years, riding the wave of iconic players like Caitlin Clark, Angel Reese, Paige Bueckers and JuJu Watkins.
Now, with Clark and Reese in the WNBA, Bueckers headed to the league and Watkins sidelined for the foreseeable future with an ACL injury, it raises the question of who will pick up the torch and continue that momentum.
There may be no clear candidate to become the face of the game, though there’s no shortage of talented players, including UCLA’s Lauren Betts, UConn freshman Sarah Strong and South Carolina freshman Joyce Edwards. And there are more looming on the horizon, like high school sensation Aaliyah Chavez will be making her collegiate debut at Oklahoma next season.
The ratings for the women’s NCAA Tournament leading into the title game Sunday didn’t match last year’s record numbers, though they were better than nearly every other year in NCAA history.
“It’s a great sign that without Caitlin we’re still certainly on the ascent,” ESPN analyst Rebecca Lobo said. “Hopefully, that’s the same even without the star power next year of Paige Bueckers and JuJu. The game is at place where it can still grow.”
The talent pool continues to get stronger, as was evident in the title game performances by Strong (24 points and 15 rebounds) and Edwards (10 points, five rebounds). As expected, both impacted the game though UConn came away with its 12th national championship, ending a nine-year drought with an 82-59 victory over South Carolina .
“Runs like this make you still feel relevant, you still have an impact. Kids still respond,” Huskies coach Geno Auriemma said. “Our coaching staff is really, really good at what they do. And I’m fortunate enough to coach great kids who want to win for each other.”
Even though UConn was back on top at the end, more teams showed this season they could compete with the best. UCLA, which held the No. 1 spot in the AP poll for 14 weeks, had no seniors on its team and coming off its first NCAA Final Four ever, could go a step further next season.
South Carolina will be back too with a young nucleus led by Edwards and MiLaysia Fulwiley.
“I’m excited for what our team will look like next year,” South Carolina coach Dawn Staley said. “I am, because I do think they’ll be talented enough to get here, especially with getting in the transfer portal and getting some experienced pieces that can help with this young group.”
Women’s basketball, like other college sports, has changed the last few years with the transfer portal. There are over 1,200 players currently in the portal, a person with access to it shared with The Associated Press.
Where some of those impact players — Olivia Miles , Cotie McMahon and Ta’Niya Latson — end up could not only shape which teams rise up to challenge UConn and South Carolina next season, but also which player separates herself from the rest.
The iconic Wrigley Field bleachers welcomed an unusual guest during the Chicago Cubs’ series against the San Diego Padres this weekend.
Photos on social media showed a goose nesting in a juniper planter next to the center-field seats underneath the scoreboard during Saturday’s game. Several rows of the upper bleachers were blocked off from fans Sunday while two Canada geese stood on a roof nearby. Fans snapped photos of the feathered duo before Sunday’s game began.
“At the Friendly Confines, we truly mean it when we say everyone’s welcome, including the goose and her nest who took up residence in the bleachers,” Cubs Senior Director of Communications Jennifer Martinez said in a statement to The Associated Press.
“We’re giving her the space she needs while we’ve been working closely with a wildlife organization to manage the situation safely and responsibly, in full accordance with state law. In the meantime, we have blocked off the area to fans. Protecting our fans, and our feathered guest, is our top priority.”
One goose appeared to be sitting on the nest a couple of hours before first pitch but took off flying with its mate.
“They wanted the best view of the game,” said Michael Pardun, 26, of Chicago, who attended the game with friends in the bleachers. “They’re diehard fans.”
Season-ticket holders Debbie Hultine, 69, and Buster Zenor, 71, of Spring Valley, Illinois, moved from their usual seats in the bleachers to accommodate the geese. They saw the female goose nesting during the Cubs’ home opener Friday and again Saturday. They said they thought the geese chose the bushy area when the ballpark was quiet before the Cubs played their first home game, a 3-1 victory over the Padres.
“She was pretty calm for 42,000-plus people,” Hultine said of the female goose.
The geese became agitated when fans banged on a nearby wall during Friday’s game, Hultine said.
“They’re both keeping an eye on things,” Hultine said. “The male will keep sentry for a while. Opening day, he was above the press box sitting up by one of the flags. When she got a little upset when guys were banging, she honked and he did come back and he was up there for a very short time with his wings out and he was hissing.”
Hultine has been attending games for more than 60 years, and she and Zenor were married at Wrigley. She said this is the first time she has seen a goose nest in the ballpark.
“I’m glad they’re protecting them now,” Zenor said.
President Trump said the trade deficit between the U.S. and China must be resolved before he is willing to negotiate a deal regarding the tariffs he placed on Beijing.
“When you look at the trade deficit we have with certain countries … with China it’s a trillion dollars. And we have to solve our trade deficit with China,” Trump said late Sunday aboard Air Force One. “Hundreds of billions of dollars a year we lose with China.”
“I’m willing to make a deal but they have to solve their surplus,” he added.
On Friday, Trump criticized China after Beijing responded to the tariffs he imposed with equal duties of its own on U.S. goods.
Trump said China “played it wrong” and panicked in response to the 34-percent tariff imposed by the U.S.
China’s Finance Ministry said it would impose its own 34 percent tariff on imports from the U.S., sparking a retaliation that is causing concern for a global trade war.
Trump aboard Air Force One argued that no other president has taken on China’s trade deficit with the U.S. and he is looking to solve it.
“China is right now taking a big hit because everyone knows we’re right,” he said.
Trump’s tariff plan shook up the U.S. stock market and sparked concern for an international trade war. The market had its worst day of losses since the COVID-19 pandemic after Trump announced a 10 percent tariff on imported goods and specific reciprocal tariffs on various countries, including China.
Por CHRIS MEGERIAN
WASHINGTON (AP) — El presidente Donald Trump se mantuvo desafiante el lunes mientras los mercados globales seguían cayendo tras su anuncio de aranceles la semana pasada.
En una publicación en su red social Truth Social, dijo que otros países habían estado “aprovechándose de los buenos Estados Unidos”.
“Nuestros ‘líderes’ pasados son los culpables de permitir que esto, y mucho más, suceda en nuestro país. ¡HAGAMOS A ESTADOS UNIDOS GRANDE OTRA VEZ!”, afirmó.
Trump ha insistido en que sus aranceles son necesarios para reequilibrar el comercio global y reconstruir la manufactura nacional. Ha señalado a China como “el mayor abusador de todos” y ha criticado a Beijing por aumentar sus propios aranceles en represalia.
El presidente republicano también pidió a la Reserva Federal que baje las tasas de interés. El viernes, el presidente de la Reserva Federal, Jerome Powell, advirtió que los aranceles podrían aumentar la inflación, y dijo que “hay mucha espera y observación, incluso por parte de nosotros”, antes de que se tomen decisiones.
Trump pasó el fin de semana en Florida, llegando el jueves por la noche para asistir a un torneo financiado por Arabia Saudí en su campo de golf en Miami. Se hospedó en Mar-a-Lago, su club privado en Palm Beach, y jugó al golf en dos de sus propiedades cercanas.
El domingo publicó un video de sí mismo haciendo un drive y dijo a los reporteros a bordo del Air Force One esa noche que ganó un campeonato de club.
“Es bueno ganar”, dijo Trump. “¿Escucharon que gané, verdad?”.
También dijo que no daría marcha atrás en sus aranceles a pesar de la agitación en los mercados globales y los temores de una recesión.
“A veces hay que tomar medicina para arreglar algo”, dijo Trump.
El lunes, el presidente tenía previsto recibir a los Dodgers de Los Ángeles en la Casa Blanca para celebrar su victoria en la Serie Mundial. También se reunirá con el primer ministro israelí, Benjamin Netanyahu, y se espera que celebren una conferencia de prensa conjunta por la tarde.
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Esta historia fue traducida del inglés por un editor de AP con la ayuda de una herramienta de inteligencia artificial generativa.
We all know the problems with American health care . It costs too much, there are gaps in insurance coverage, health care markets are uncompetitive, provider payments are often incomprehensible, pricing is opaque, bureaucracy is metastasizing, and our citizens face absurd barriers to personal choice of plans and providers.
These problems cry for solutions. Sen. Bernie Sanders , I-Vt., recently restated his timeworn remedy for our ills: a “single payer” system of government-run national health insurance.
His reason to adopt such a system? The United States spends $4.9 trillion on health care, more than any other country in the world. But our medical outcomes in certain areas, such as maternal mortality, are substandard.
On that point, Sanders is right.
But our problems are much deeper than flawed financing and insurance arrangements. The root cause of our spending problem is a growing epidemic of chronic disease.
More than 40% of adults are obese and, unsurprisingly, over 85% of our health care spending goes toward treating and managing often-preventable chronic diseases and mental health conditions. Our raging obesity epidemic fuels cardiovascular diseases, certain cancers, diabetes, and its related comorbidities.
In short: Because of factors such as obesity, Americans are generally sicker than our counterparts in other advanced nations—and that means our doctors and hospitals must work harder than their counterparts in other high-income countries to treat costly chronic diseases.
But the news isn’t all bad.
When Americans get sick, we have reason to be thankful for the high-quality care available to us.
Our many successes in care delivery are too often overlooked. We should be proud of our ability to respond quickly and effectively to treat major killers like cancer, heart disease, and strokes. And we should celebrate the stunning American advances in basic biomedical research, pharmacology, and technology.
Consider the facts.
First, the U.S. is the undisputed world champion in biomedical research. No other country even comes close.
Since World War II, 74 Americans have won Nobel prizes in physiology and medicine. American achievements have included breakthroughs like the discovery of streptomycin to treat tuberculosis successfully, the discovery of tumor-generating viruses, and research into how cell and organ transplantation can improve disease treatment.
Our Nobel Prize winners have also pioneered breakthroughs in our understanding of genetics, immunology, and virology. In 1988, the U.S. National Academy of Sciences outlined a successful research program to map the human genome, thus ushering in a new age of biomedical research that holds enormous potential to improve and extend human life.
With the ability to isolate the genetic predisposition to disease, the field for future innovation is wide open, including the potential of regenerative medicine such as ethicalstem cell or cellular transplants.
Now, rapid advances in artificial intelligence bring a new host of possible clinical applications. Soon, medical professionals may be able to deploy a powerful new weapon in our growing arsenal to diagnose, treat, and even predict disease.
But the U.S. isn’t just superior in biomedical research. It’s also home to rapidly advancing medical technologies to treat and cure disease such as robotic surgeries, personalized drugs, and advanced therapies that are most effective based on a person’s genetics.
At the same time, America’s innovative use of telehealth allows tens of millions of patients in rural and “underserved” areas to receive care. Remote patient monitoring devices are now becoming widely available and increasingly affordable. Patients can now monitor their heart rate, blood pressure, and blood sugar—an ability that enables timely medical interventions and fewer visits to hospital emergency departments.
Globally, no country comes close to developing the number of breakthrough and lifesaving medications and therapies as the U.S.
According to 2023 clinical trial data, the U.S. had 8,403 medicines in preclinical and clinical development. The next closest countries were China, with 4,024, and the European Union, with 3,445. The leading “single payer” countries, the United Kingdom and Canada, had only 1,763 and 1,250, respectively.
In those “single payer” countries, the delivery of medical services is undercut by weak research and development, bureaucratic delays, and denials of available drug therapies. For example, one breast cancer therapy was initially approved in 2013 in the U.S. and Europe, but it wasn’t available for British women until 2017.
Similarly, in Canada, as Michael Baker of the American Action Forum notes, “only 11% of new cancer drugs that were approved for marketing in Canada, the United States or the EU between 2016 and 2020 were listed on its public formulary.”
In the U.S., on the other hand, our performance in care delivery is among the best in the world. The U.S. provides outstanding training for physicians and other medical professionals and is home to some of the finest medical facilities in the world, including Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, Johns Hopkins University Hospital in Baltimore, the MD Anderson Cancer Center in Texas, and the University of California in San Francisco.
Researchers at the Commonwealth Fund of New York, a liberal think tank, routinely give American health care a “failing” grade on their metrics. But even they report that among 10 economically advanced countries, the U.S. ranks second in the “care process,” behind the Netherlands, when one considers “prevention, safety, coordination, patient engagement and patient preferences.”
These researchers note that a “concerted focus in the U.S. on patient safety since the beginning of the century has yielded significant reductions in adverse events during hospital stays for heart attack, heart failure, pneumonia and major surgeries between 2010 and 2019.”
Similarly, while cancer is the leading cause of death in the U.S. and worldwide, American cancer survival rates are impressive. A common measure of success is the five-year relative survival rate, meaning the percentage of people in the general population with “the same type and stage of cancer” who live at least five years after diagnosis.
According to data from the National Breast Cancer Foundation, Americans’ relative five-year survival rate for all types of breast cancer is 91%, and for early-stage breast cancer, it’s 99%. According to the data from the American Cancer Society, the five-year “relative survival rate” is 90% for Americans with prostate cancer and 80% for those with colorectal cancer.
Yet under a “single payer” system like the one that Sanders wants, we likely wouldn’t see as much success.
Just look at the U.K.’s “single payer” performance in treating cancer.
Ishani Sarkar, an analyst with MacMillan Cancer Support, observes that “cancer survival rates in the U.K. are as much as 25 years behind other European countries.” According to Sarkar, “analysis suggests if the U.K.’s survival rates matched the best in Europe, thousands more people who are diagnosed each year would survive their cancer for at least five years.”
And “single payer” care’s promise of universal coverage means little if one cannot access medical care.
According to a recent report by the British Medical Association, the U.K. has approximately 7.5 million cases on waiting lists. The median wait time is 14.2 weeks, and about 200,000 patients have been waiting for over a year for treatment.
In Canada, wait times from an initial referral from a primary care physician until “receipt of treatment” reached 30 weeks last year—a record high, according to a recent Fraser Institute report .
Americans should celebrate our successes in reducing death from big killers such as cancer and heart disease.
As Douglas Holtz-Eakin, former director of the Congressional Budget Office, said , “Health care is about access to good preventive care and, especially, to the most innovative treatments when, God help us, we need them. America does that better than any country in the world.”
While U.S. health care financing is far from perfect, those facing diseases such as breast cancer stand far better odds in Massachusetts or Maryland than in London or Liverpool.
And now, the new administration has the chance to make America healthier than ever.
When accepting his nomination, President Donald Trump promised to “unleash the power of American innovation.” In doing this, he said, we’d “soon be on the verge of finding the cures to cancer, Alzheimer’s, and many other diseases.”
Originally published by the Washington Examiner
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Por RAJESH ROY
NUEVA DELHI (AP) — La policía india ha arrestado a un YouTuber estadounidense de 24 años que visitó una isla prohibida en el océano Índico para intentar contactar con una tribu aislada conocida por atacar a los intrusos.
Mykhailo Viktorovych Polyakov, de Scottsdale, Arizona, fue arrestado el 31 de marzo, dos días después de haber pisado el territorio restringido de la isla Sentinel del Norte —parte de las Islas Andamán y Nicobar de India— en un intento de conocer a la hermética tribu de los sentineleses, según informó la policía.
Un tribunal local envió a Polyakov a una custodia judicial de 14 días la semana pasada y está previsto que comparezca de nuevo ante el tribunal el 17 de abril. Los cargos conllevan una posible sentencia de hasta cinco años de prisión y una multa. Las autoridades indias dijeron que habían informado a la embajada de Estados Unidos sobre el caso.
Está prohibido que los visitantes se acerquen a menos de cinco kilómetros (tres millas) de la isla, cuya población ha estado aislada del resto del mundo durante miles de años. Los habitantes usan lanzas y arcos y flechas para cazar a los animales que deambulan por la pequeña isla con densa vegetación. Profundamente desconfiados de los forasteros, atacan a cualquiera que desembarque en sus playas.
En 2018, un misionero estadounidense que desembarcó ilegalmente en la playa fue asesinado por los isleños de Sentinel del Norte, quienes aparentemente le dispararon con flechas y luego enterraron su cuerpo en la playa. En 2006, los sentineleses mataron a dos pescadores que habían desembarcado accidentalmente en la orilla.
Los funcionarios indios han limitado los contactos a raros encuentros de “entrega de regalos”, en los que pequeños equipos de funcionarios y científicos dejan cocos y plátanos para los isleños. Los barcos indios también vigilan las aguas alrededor de la isla, tratando de asegurar que los forasteros no se acerquen a los sentineleses, quienes han dejado claro repetidamente que quieren que les dejen en paz.
La policía dijo que Polyakov navegó guiado por GPS durante su viaje y observó la isla con binoculares antes de desembarcar. Permaneció en la playa durante aproximadamente una hora e hizo sonar un silbato para atraer la atención, pero no obtuvo respuesta de los isleños.
Más tarde dejó una lata de Diet Coke y un coco como ofrenda, hizo un video con su cámara y recogió algunas muestras de arena antes de volver a su bote.
A su regreso fue avistado por pescadores locales, quienes informaron a las autoridades y Polyakov fue arrestado en Port Blair, la capital de las Islas Andamán y Nicobar, un archipiélago a casi 1.207 kilómetros (750 millas) al este del continente de India. Se abrió un caso en su contra por violación de las leyes indias que prohíben a cualquier forastero interactuar con los isleños.
La policía dijo que Polyakov había realizado una investigación detallada sobre las condiciones del mar, las mareas y la accesibilidad a la isla antes de comenzar su viaje.
“Planeó meticulosamente durante varios días visitar la isla y hacer contacto con la tribu sentinel”, indicó el agente de policía senior Hargobinder Singh Dhaliwal.
En un comunicado, la policía dijo que las “acciones de Polyakov representaron una seria amenaza para la seguridad y el bienestar del pueblo sentinelés, cuyo contacto con forasteros está estrictamente prohibido por la ley para proteger su forma de vida indígena”.
Una investigación inicial reveló que Polyakov había hecho dos intentos previos, en octubre del año pasado y en enero, para visitar las islas, en una ocasión utilizando un kayak inflable.
La policía dijo que Polyakov se sintió atraído por la isla debido a su pasión por la aventura y los desafíos extremos, y estaba fascinado por el misticismo del pueblo sentinelés.
Survival International, un grupo que protege los derechos de los pueblos indígenas, dijo que el intento de Polyakov de contactar con la tribu de Sentinel del Norte fue “imprudente e idiota”.
“Las acciones de esta persona no solo pusieron en peligro su propia vida, sino que también pusieron en riesgo la vida de toda la tribu sentinelesa”, dijo en un comunicado la directora del grupo, Caroline Pearce.
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Esta historia fue traducida del inglés por un editor de AP con la ayuda de una herramienta de inteligencia artificial generativa. Con AP Fotos.
President Trump late Sunday defended his tariff plan amid recession fears, saying they are sparking investment in the United States.
Trump spoke aboard Air Force One, where he said he was elected because of the tariffs.
“This was one of the biggest reasons I got elected, was exactly because of this,” Trump said.
“We’re going to put tariffs — we already put them on. It’s not a question if we will. We will put them on,” he continued. “And those tariffs next year will make us $1 trillion.”
Markets fell sharply in the days after Trump imposed his tariffs. They apply to nearly every country that exports goods to the U.S. and caused concern for higher prices domestically despite the Trump administration arguing it will bring jobs back to the U.S.
Trump on Air Force One said that “thousands of companies” will relocate to the U.S.
“In North Carolina, already furniture people are starting to move back in,” Trump said. “In Detroit and Michigan, which I won because of what I said, what I’m telling you, car companies are starting to open up. In Indiana, a big one is under construction as an example, Honda.”
“They are moving in like nobody has ever seen before,” he added.
Trump also argued that it’s “unsustainable” for China to have “surpluses of a trillion dollars.”
“We will be taking in over a trillion dollars over the next short period of time with the tariffs that I’ve already instituted and they’re already in place,” Trump said.
He noted the stock market uncertainty and said he “can’t tell you” what is going to happen.
“But I can tell you how our country has gotten a lot stronger,” Trump said. “And eventually, it’ll be a country like no other. It’ll be the most dominant country economically in the world, which is what it should be.”
This story had been out there for several days. The U.S. Naval Academy has taken nearly 400 books off the shelves in the Nimitz Library at the Annapolis, MD campus because they violate the new Trump Administration policy against DEI materials in the classroom. Initially, Trump issued an executive order in January that banned DEI materials in kindergarten through 12th grade education. On March 28th, Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth informed the Naval Academy that the order would apply to it as well though the Academy is a college.
The materials being banned are of course anything deemed to be about diversity, equity, and inclusion. The banned titles cover topics like the history of racism in America, studies on the KKK, the Holocaust, and sex and gender. It appears, though, that the book banning isn’t about DEI at all. It is about teaching a view of America devoid of all criticism.
In the original January 29 press release announcing the executive order banning material in K-12 class rooms, the Administration stated that “Parents trust American schools to provide their students with a rigorous education and to instill a patriotic admiration for our incredible nation and the values for which we stand.” In other words, saying true things about America’s past that suggest a less-than-perfect history is not to be allowed.
I can’t believe this has to be said, but every nation has done things for which it has latter been ashamed. Learning about history is in great part learning why these events happened so similar occurrences don’t happen again. Depriving K-12 students of these lessons is unfortunate. Depriving future military leaders of a thorough understanding of these lessons is a tragedy precisely because so much of the worst of any nation’s past has happened at the point of a gun.
President Jackson’s policy of displacing Native Americans, the so-called “trail of tears,” the enforcement of Jim Crow in the South, the internment of Japanese-Americans during WWII, the murder of Vietnamese civilians at My Lai are just a few of the events in American history that should be taught. But if the goal of education in Trump’s America is exclusively to instill patriotic admiration for “our incredible nation,” it would seem these events and others will somehow be lumped together as DEI topics and forgotten. The results will be catastrophic.
Trump is destroying so much in America, it is almost easy to ignore what he is trying to do to education. We shouldn’t let him.
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Good morning, Chicago.
Christopher Carter was 20 when he took part in the murder, armed robbery and kidnapping of a man whose body he helped dispose of on Chicago’s West Side in March 2001.
He was the youngest of three suspects charged in the crime. He argued that his role was comparatively limited and that he didn’t commit the actual killing, but at trial testified that he participated in the murder because he was afraid of the two older men, according to court records. All three were convicted, and Carter was sentenced to 100 years in prison.
More than 20 years into his incarceration, criminal justice reform advocates say Carter is among roughly 1,200 people in prison in Illinois who, under legislation being considered in Springfield , could be eligible for resentencing by a judge who takes into consideration their age and maturity level at the time the crimes were committed.
The proposal would apply to people in prison for crimes they committed when they were under 21. It marks one of the latest efforts by lawmakers to allow retroactive sentencing reforms that would give long-term prisoners, some essentially locked away for life, a chance at freedom.
Read the full story from the Tribune’s Jeremy Gorner .
Here are the top stories you need to know to start your day, including: how the city will handle “teen takeovers” returning downtown, State Sen. Emil Jones III going on trial today on bribery charges and Chicago’s connection to “The Great Gatsby.”
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Cook County and state officials approved the cascade of taxpayer dollars even as the company struggled with software crashes, bungled rollouts and allegations of incompetence, while Tyler pointed the finger back at government officials for various missteps, an investigation by Injustice Watch and the Chicago Tribune found.
The Trump administration’s decision to close a regional Head Start office in Chicago this week has raised questions about how the program, which serves more than 28,000 children and low-income families in Illinois, will continue to operate in coming weeks and months.
A federal judge has determined that Itasca won’t have to face the U.S. Department of Justice as part of a disability discrimination lawsuit filed by behavioral health provider Haymarket Center after the western suburb rejected its proposal for a drug treatment facility.
Thousands rallied and marched around downtown Saturday afternoon to take part in a national day of action to say “hands off” to President Donald Trump’s administration.
So-called Hands Off! demonstrations were organized for more than 1,200 locations in all 50 states. In Chicago, a flood of people swarmed Daley Plaza, with hundreds filling the surrounding streets by noon. The crowd then began an hourlong march making a loop around to State Street and then back to Daley Plaza.
When Khalil Cotton was growing up on Grand Boulevard on the city’s South Side, he and his friends often struggled to find places to hang out outside of school. A hoop with a crate on a pole was a replacement for a basketball court because there wasn’t one nearby, he said.
Hundreds of young adults like Cotton have attended what are now commonly called “teen takeovers” over the past few years in the city’s downtown neighborhoods. Videos of these gatherings — including two notable ones just last month, which ended with a 15-year-old boy sustaining a graze wound and a tourist being shot as she walked back to a hotel with her son — have circulated across social media, generating debate in the City Council and neighborhood groups alike as summer approaches.
Chicago Democrat Emil Jones III was made a state senator in 2008 in a classic Illinois way, on a path paved by his powerful father that left little to chance. Now, Jones is rolling the dice with a federal jury that could send him packing in equally time-honored Illinois fashion: as a convicted felon.
Jones, 46, whose father, Emil Jones Jr., led the state Senate for years before orchestrating having his son replace him, goes on trial today on bribery charges alleging he agreed to help a red-light camera company alter legislation in exchange for $5,000 and a job for his legislative intern.
The Cook County state’s attorney’s office announced Friday that it is expanding a pilot program allowing Chicago police officers to bypass prosecutors and directly file charges in some low-level felony gun cases, a move the office says will ease backlogs and free up police officers and assistant state’s attorneys for higher-priority work.
Is new closer Ryan Pressly the next Mitch Williams or a Hector Neris’ clone? Will the Cubs re-sign Kyle Tucker, or should fans just enjoy his presence for now and worry about that come November? And if the torpedo bats really work, why don’t they make every Cubs hitter use one instead of just Dansby Swanson and Nico Hoerner?
Those were but a few of the questions Paul Sullivan heard at Wrigley on day one of the home season as Cubs fans returned to their home away from home.
Chicago Bulls coach Billy Donovan was a first-ballot selection for the Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame, one of eight individuals named to its 2025 class Saturday. His selection was predicated on a heralded career as a collegiate coach for leading Florida to consecutive national championships in 2006 and 2007. He remains one of only three men’s coaches to accomplish the feat.
Former Chicago Sky star Sylvia Fowles also was named to this year’s Hall class as a first-ballot selection. The Sky drafted Fowles with the No. 2 pick in 2008 after she led LSU to four consecutive Final Four appearances. She was a three-time All-Star and won two Defensive Player of the Year awards with the Sky before being traded in 2015 to the Minnesota Lynx, with whom she won two WNBA championships and an MVP trophy in 2017.
This week marks the 100th anniversary of the publication of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s “The Great Gatsby.” It was destined to be the definitive literary monument of the Roaring ’20s, a decade of fortunes made and lost on Wall Street. Prohibition gave booze the lure of the illicit.
But the novel’s debut on April 10, 1925, was a dud.
Aurora Mayor-elect John Laesch told The Beacon-News in a recent interview that he has no intention of pursuing the City of Lights Center project.
The 4,000-seat theater and 600-person event space called the City of Lights Center proposed for downtown Aurora, which Laesch previously spoke out against and said Thursday as a project is “pretty much dead” under his incoming administration, would have cost the city between $100 million and $120 million, according to past reporting.
Three upcoming, monumental dance events, all with deep ties to Chicago, are on a collision course with your calendar. But it is possible to see the Joffrey Ballet, Twyla Tharp and Parsons Dance next weekend. And you should, writes Lauren Warnecke .