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Good morning, Chicago. The risk of contracting COVID-19 in suburban Cook County, Lake County and DuPage County has jumped to the “medium” level under the latest national guidelines, officials announced Friday. Chicago’s top public health official said Friday she expects the city also will move to medium risk soon. Cook County’s senior medical officer Dr.…
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When it comes to spending your tax dollars, California holds a unique and unpleasant distinction: it’s the only state in the nation that does not share its line-by-line expenditures with the public.That needs to change. Each of the other 49 states respond to our open records requests by revealing what they spent and whom they…
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Singer-songwriter Luke Combs finished off the 2022 Stagecoach Country Music Festival in Indio with a roaring version of “Beer Never Broke My Heart.” The track was a fitting end to the three-day event, but unlike the other headliners — Thomas Rhett on Friday and Carrie Underwood on Saturday — Combs turn didn’t include a ton…
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There are a lot of things for the president of the United States to focus on. Entertaining student loan forgiveness shouldn’t be one of them. “I’m not considering $50,000 in debt reduction,” President Biden said Thursday amid an ongoing push by progressives to pressure him to use executive authority to magically erase student loan debts.…
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Kerri Raissian didn’t know what to do about her father’s guns when he died of COVID-19 in December at age 86 and left her executor of his estate. Her father, Max McGaughey, hadn’t left a complete list of his firearms and where they were stored, and he hadn’t prepared a realistic plan for responsibly transferring…
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The $150 million Disney Aspire program that has allowed thousands of Disneyland employees to get a free college education while taking courses online has always lacked one key thing: In-person classes. Now, Disneyland has partnered with California State University Fullerton and Fullerton College to offer free in-person education to Disneyland hourly employees through Disney’s Aspire…
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A teenage boy pulled out a gun and fired it during a fight at a Cinco de Mayo carnival in Anaheim Sunday night, May 1, killing a bystander, authorities said. The fight broke out among a group of juveniles just after 10 p.m. when the annual carnival at La Palma Park, at Harbor Boulevard and…
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Jimmy Butler and the Miami Heat each were fined $15,000 Thursday for a gesture made by the forward and the ensuing posting of the video of the gesture during Tuesday night’s series-clinching playoff victory over the Atlanta Hawks at FTX Arena. Amid a 17-2 Heat surge that closed the first half of that victory, Butler,…
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After his impressive major league debut, Orioles right-hander Kyle Bradish said that although he was nervous, he didn’t feel blown away by the stage. “At the end of the day, it’s the same game I’ve been playing,” he said. But that’s not entirely true. The pitch clock being tested in the upper minors has yet…
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