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If there's one thing commuting on the CTA Blue Line has taught me, it's patience. I need it when I'm standing behind five rows of fellow commuters vying to get on the train. I need it when the next incoming train is runn...

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There's a logical explanation

A Markham man shot and killed a man during an argument this month at the victim's Dolton home after the two men met on a popular dating app, prosecutors said Sunday. Marvis Boyd Jr., 25, is charged with murder in the sho...

Mark Vallas, son of former Chicago Public Schools CEO Paul Vallas, died Saturday in the Los Angeles area, according to family members and authorities. Mark Vallas, 24, the youngest of Paul Vallas' three children, died Sa...

Despite the U.N. Security Council unanimously passing a cease-fire resolution Saturday, Syrian government forces continued air strikes in the rebel-held Eastern Ghouta area outside Damascus, killing at least 22 people on...

A man was beaten by a group of men in the Lakeview neighborhood on the North Side early Saturday, authorities said. Witnesses saw the assault take place in the 3200 block of North Halsted Street just before 3:40 a.m. Sat...

Michael McCormack, the veterans affairs minister, takes over from Barnaby Joyce, who was felled by scandals including an affair with a staff member.

Lawmakers have no clear consensus on even incremental changes to gun restrictions, let alone more sweeping legislation.

Michelle Obama will release her memoir, Becoming, on November 13, the former first lady announced Sunday. In a statement, Obama said writing the book "has been a deeply personal experience. It has allowed me, for the ver...

What has surprised Mexicans is not that President Donald Trump "lost his temper" in a telephone conversation with his Mexican counterpart, prompting President Enrique Peña Nieto to cancel a trip to Washington, but that ...

He has been accused of inappropriate behavior by more than a dozen women.

The U.S. Supreme Court will hear oral arguments on Monday in a case that’s being billed as a potentially devastating blow to organized labor in the U.S. In Janus v. American Federation of State, County and Municipal Em...

To invent a product, turn a profit or start a business is to be accomplished. To be successful is to maintain ethics, principles and self-awareness regardless of how your professional pursuits are going, and it is the la...

Ivanka Trump said it's "pretty inappropriate" to ask her about women who have accused her father of sexual misconduct.

The Latest on the meeting of the U.N. Human Rights Council (all times local): 1:15 p.m. Hungary's foreign minister has called for the resignation of the United Nations' human rights …

Man whose relatives lived in flat of destroyed building desperate to find four still unaccounted for A man is desperately seeking information about members of his extended family after the explosion that flattened a buil...

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Relatives of Ahed Tamimi, the Palestinian teen-turned-protest icon, say troops arrested 10 people from her West Bank village, including a 15-year-old cousin with a serious head injury. The teen, Mohammed, …

The Supreme Court refused Monday to review a federal judge's order that the Trump administration continue the DACA program.        

Despite their grief, these students have been eloquently and effectively insisting that we don't have to accept the world's horrors Anyone who has attempted public speaking, especially to a make contrary point to a room ...

Police in Guinea have used tear gas to disperse opposition supporters who burned tires and demonstrated in the capital to challenge the results of the country's first municipal elections in …