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There was heightened security at Monday night’s Dolton board meeting after a fight broke out at last week’s Thornton Township board meeting.    exclusive Tuesday, February 4, 2025 1:50AM The Dolton Village Board will meet Monday for the fist time since Lori Lightfoot’s report on Mayor Tiffany Henyard. DOLTON, Ill. (WLS) — Mayor Tiffany Henyard did not attend Monday night’s Dolton board meeting. She was also a no-show at last month’s regular board meeting, citing safety concerns, and last week, she said she would not attend this meeting unless security changes were made. ABC7 Chicago is now streaming 24/7. Click here…

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Chicago police issued a warning on Monday about a man accused of breaking into nine different businesses and stealing cash.    burglary ByABC7 Chicago Digital Team Tuesday, February 4, 2025 4:32AM Police issued a warning on Monday about Chicago burglaries in Portage Park, Lakeview, Irving Park, Irving Woods and Wrightwood Neighbors. CHICAGO (WLS) — Chicago police issued a warning on Monday about a man accused of breaking into nine different businesses and stealing cash. ABC7 Chicago is now streaming 24/7. Click here to watch Those burglaries have happened across the city’s North and Northwest sides between Jan. 16 and Jan. 21:…

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The calculated killing of a health insurance company executive in December was caught on surveillance cameras. In the hours after, panicked requests poured into security firms    CHICAGO (WLS) — The calculated killing of a health insurance company executive in December was caught on surveillance cameras. In the hours after, panicked requests poured into security firms. Some companies are hiring armed security officers to help keep C-suite execs safe. Others are relying on technology for personal safety. ABC7 Chicago is now streaming 24/7. Click here to watch This surge in security requests came after a weekday morning murder in midtown Manhattan.…

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Find hints, solutions, and everything you need to know about the New York Times game here.Find hints, solutions, and everything you need to know about the New York Times game here.    Image Credit: NurPhoto via Getty Images The popular word game “Wordle” from The New York Times has taken the world by storm. Every day, players have six attempts to guess the five-letter word of the day. So, what’s today’s Wordle answer? Find hints for the February 4, 2025, Wordle and the solution by scrolling down below! What Is Today’s Wordle Hint? The Wordle hint for February 4, 2025, is: Something you…

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Two Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority workers were arrested after allegedly leaking surveillance video to the media showing last week’s deadly mid-air collision of an American Airlines jet plane and a military helicopter. 21-year-old… ​Two Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority workers were arrested after allegedly leaking surveillance video to the media showing last week’s deadly mid-air collision of an American Airlines jet plane and a military helicopter. 21-year-old…    Getty/CNN Two Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority workers were arrested after allegedly leaking surveillance video to the media showing last week’s deadly mid-air collision of an American Airlines jet plane and a military helicopter. 21-year-old…

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Student walkouts and community rallies respond to threats of mass deportation.    Community members participate in a “A Day Without Immigrants” rally at the corner of Story Road and South King Road on Monday, Feb. 3, 2025, in San Jose, Calif. (Dai Sugano/Bay Area News Group) From Oakland to Gilroy, students and workers staged walkouts and rallies Monday to protest the Trump Administration’s threats of mass deportation that have instilled such deep fear in the Bay Area’s immigrant communities that some parents are keeping their children home from school. The “Day without an Immigrant” protests Monday were the latest of several…

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The victim suffered a broken nose and a fractured eye socket, prosecutors said.    SAN JOSE – A 49-year-old San Jose man is facing federal charges he assaulted and robbed a U.S. Postal Service letter carrier last year in Japantown, prosecutors said. Related Articles Crime and Public Safety | Sunnyvale: High school briefly placed on lockdown while police investigate gunshot nearby Crime and Public Safety | Man arrested after 5-hour standoff with Campbell police Crime and Public Safety | Monte Sereno is last West Valley city to install license plate readers Crime and Public Safety | AG clears way for ex-49er…

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Super Bowl 2025 kicks off almost a week before the big game with its opening night in New Orleans. Players and coaches from both the Kansas City Chiefs and the Philadelphia Eagles will have the opportunity to answer questions from reporters ahead of Sunday’s game. ___ Here’s the latest: Super Bowl opening night in New Orleans is closed The first night of Super Bowl week is over. The Chiefs and Eagles are gone from the Superdome. The next big media spectacle is Thursday: the Super Bowl 59 pregame and halftime show news conference featuring Kendrick Lamar, Jon Batiste, Trombone Shorty,…

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EXCLUSIVE: Secretary of State Marco Rubio is accusing USAID of “rank insubordination,” adding “we had no choice but to bring this thing under control.”  The top U.S. diplomat made the comments in an exclusive interview with Fox News in El Salvador, just after announcing he would take over as acting director of the humanitarian agency.   Rubio blasted USAID for being “completely unresponsive” telling Fox “they don’t consider that they work for the U.S., they just think they’re a global entity and that their master is the globe and not the United States, and that’s not what the statute says,…

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Dear Eric: My spouse and I are an older couple with some family members who live in the same town as us and some family who live out of state. The families who live near us only invite us to functions where a gift is needed, such as weddings and birthdays, etc. We feel very sad about this since we spend many holidays alone. May I add that my spouse and I are pleasant people and so are they, but they never reach out to us except when they send an invitation for a function. We are perplexed by this.…

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A White House executive order threatened to pull federal funding from hospitals that provide gender-affirming care for trans youths. But not providing the care could violate state law, Letitia James said in a letter on Monday. ​A White House executive order threatened to pull federal funding from hospitals that provide gender-affirming care for trans youths. But not providing the care could violate state law, Letitia James said in a letter on Monday.    The New York attorney general, Letitia James, has warned New York hospitals that complying with the White House’s executive order that seeks to end gender-affirming medical care for…

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SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador — U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio said late Monday that El Salvador’s president has offered to accept deportees from the U.S. of any nationality, including violent American criminals now imprisoned in the United States. President Nayib Bukele “has agreed to the most unprecedented, extraordinary, extraordinary migratory agreement anywhere in the world,” Rubio said after meeting with Bukele at his lakeside country house outside San Salvador for several hours. “We can send them and he will put them in his jails,” Rubio said of migrants of all nationalities detained in the United States. “And, he’s also…

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Dolton trustees learned Monday village employees have been without life insurance since the summer, but promised to restore coverage. The news caught trustees by surprise at their meeting while voting to renew health insurance coverage, although the cost for that has increased. Life insurance for more than 100 employees ended last August because premiums hadn’t been paid, trustees were told. A representative for the village’s employee insurance consultant said that message’s about the termination of life insurance had been relayed to village administration, including Mayor Tiffany Henyard. Henyard didn’t show up for the regularly scheduled Village Board meeting, where she…

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A North Miami megachurch has attracted thousands of followers and lots of attention for its size and $60 million price tag to build. The Haitian-born pastor says he has the power to heal people from deadly illnesses. The sprawling church campus spreads across six acres in northern Miami-Dade County. Every Sunday, in comes car after car as they arrive by the thousands. The Tabernacle of Glory is a non-denominational, multilingual megachurch boasting of more than 25,000 active members and capable of seating 2,500 in its new fellowship hall in North Miami. And the senior pastor, Bishop Gregory Toussaint, who knows…

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Officials in South Florida are speaking up against the end of the U.S. Temporary Protected Status for Venezuelans over fear that it will hurt their local economies. U.S. Rep. Carlos Gimenez; Maureen Porras, the Doral vice mayor; and Fabio Andrade, a Weston commissioner, are among the locals who disagree with ending TPS. Porras said he expects the new immigration policy to impact the local economy since businesses will close and there will be a workforce shortage. “We are also going to see some of the investments made into the community and the real estate, that will suffer as well,” Porras…

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Trayon White came up in local politics as a direct protege of iconic and infamous former Mayor Marion Barry. Now the D.C. councilmember is openly channeling his mentor’s defiant, populist playbook as he fights for survival in the face of a corruption trial and a looming vote by his own peers to kick him off the council. White, 40, was arrested by the FBI last August on charges of taking tens of thousands of dollars in bribes to influence city contract decisions. His federal trial won’t start until January 2026, but preliminary evidence shows White pocketing cash-stuffed envelopes from a…

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