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Control over curriculum, teacher planning time and teacher evaluations are major sticking points nine months into talks between the Chicago Teachers Union and Chicago Public Schools officials.
Trump's company won't ban private foreign deals during his presidency a break with first term policy
“The scale of corruption will be orders of magnitude greater than what we saw in the first Trump administration,” said government ethics lawyer Kathleen Clark of Washington University School of Law in St. Louis. People trying to win Trump’s favor now could provide “massive influxes of cash through ‘investments’ in Trump crypto and real estate ventures.”
Justin LaGesse, 38, of downstate McLeansboro, pleaded guilty to breaking a window in the U.S. Capitol with his flagpole. He was sentenced to 11 months in prison and ordered to pay $43,315 in restitution.
The funding agreement ensures the $1.97 billion grant cannot be clawed back by a new presidential administration, Chicago Transit Authority President Dorval Carter said.
The real estate companies kept rents high with RealPage’s software and by sharing information, the antitrust complaint says.
The former president was honored with the pageantry of a funeral in the nation’s capital before a second service in his tiny Georgia hometown of Plains. The dual funerals Thursday conclude six days of national funeral rites for the 39th president, who died Dec. 29 at the age of 100.
Midway through Gov. JB Pritzker’s three-year plan to relocate 123 residents from the Choate Mental Health and Developmental Center, the state faces “significant barriers” to fixing a troubled system, according to a independent monitor.
The money would go to the estate of Lakisel Thomas, a working mom who was crossing a street in Englewood to pick up lunch for her son when she was struck by a vehicle fleeing police in February 2021.
The city says Bally’s can now resume the teardown of the Chicago Tribune’s former printing plant on Friday.
We’re entering — or returning to — an era where truth is whatever anybody can convince you is true.
John Lyons, 24, was killed in a shootout with police after fatally shooting three people downstate and then showing up at Fuentes’ apartment building, which had become a magnet for his critics after the address was leaked online.
Jon Burge, Ronald Watts and Reynaldo Guevara — former police officials implicated in scores of wrongful conviction cases — continue to haunt Chicago taxpayers.
The changes worry advocates for vulnerable groups, who say Meta’s decision to scale back content moderation could lead to real-word harms. Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg said Tuesday the company will “remove restrictions on topics like immigration and gender that are out of touch with mainstream discourse.”
Maxson, 63, was freed in 2016 after another man confessed to the grisly stabbing death of a 6-year-old boy and DNA evidence tied that man to the crime.
Replacing third-party fact-checking with user-written “community notes” similar to those on Trump backer Elon Musk’s social platform X is the latest example of a media company accommodating the incoming administration. It comes four years after Zuckerberg banned Trump from his platforms after the Jan. 6, 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol.
Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter will be honored with the pageantry of a funeral in the nation’s capital and second service in his tiny Georgia hometown that launched a Depression-era farm boy to the world stage.