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US Navy flagship carrier USS Ronald Reagan leaves its Japan home port after nearly 9 years

A U.S. Navy strike group’s flagship aircraft carrier has left its Japanese home port, wrapping up nearly nine years of deployment in the Indo-Pacific, where it served a key role in the U.S. effort to bolster defense ties with Japan and other partners in the region

The Independent UK

David Pecker Testifies About 'Catch And Kill' Scheme Involving Trump

David Pecker's testimony reveals 'catch and kill' scheme to protect Trump's image before 2016 election.

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Shohei Ohtani’s Dog Gets a Giant Replica Visa From the U.S. Embassy in Japan

What an offseason for the Ohtani household.

Sports Illustrated

City’s top tourism official stepping down after less than two years on the job

Choose Chicago President and CEO Lynn Osmond announced Thursday she would resign effective Jan. 31, just 20 months into her four-year contract to focus her ‘time and energies on a family health matter.’

Chicago Sun-Times

Shohei Ohtani visits US Embassy in Japan and his dog gets mock visa

Shohei Ohtani has visited the U.S. Embassy in Tokyo

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Southwest Side needs a new police district, alderpersons say

Former Mayor Rahm Emanuel balanced his first budget in part by closing three district police stations. Now, Ald. Marty Quinn (13th) and six City Council colleagues want to build a new one at a cost of $30 million or more.

Chicago Sun-Times

To report on the impact of Chicago’s mass school closings, we turned to neighborhood residents

While City Hall and Chicago Public Schools put roadblocks in the way of reporting for the Sun-Times and WBEZ series, people who lived near the closed schools opened up with their stories.

Chicago Sun-Times

New Chicago Public Health Commissioner Ige calls mental health a top priority in 2024

Opioid deaths, HIV and infectious diseases, the racial life expectancy gap and social inequality are Chicago health challenges.

Chicago Sun-Times

US ambassador thanks Japan for defense upgrade and allowing a Patriot missile sale to US

U.S. Ambassador to Japan Rahm Emanuel has praised Japan’s contribution to their military alliance, particularly a decision to allow Japanese-made Patriot guided missiles to be shipped to the United States to make up for its decreasing inventory

The Independent UK

Prosecutors ‘didn’t have the decency’ to call their key witness in Ed Burke’s corruption trial, defense says in closing arguments

“They ran an undercover investigation on Mr. Burke for 30 months — with the star witness being Danny Solis — and they didn’t have the decency to bring him to you,” said attorney Joseph Duffy.

Chicago Sun-Times

Johnson urged to ‘find solutions that work for the airlines’ to salvage O’Hare expansion

Days after announcing his departure from the job growth agency known as World Business Chicago, Michael Fassnacht urged City Hall and the two major carriers to work out their differences on a massive project that started at $8.7 billion but has ballooned to $12.1 billion.

Chicago Sun-Times

After 8 years of ‘good trouble,’ Juanita Irizarry is leaving Friends of the Parks

Former Mayor Rahm Emanuel, furious over the legal battle that forced movie mogul George Lucas to cancel plans for a $743 million museum on the lakefront, derisively branded Irizarry’s organization “Friends of the Parking Lot.”

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What defines Pritzker-Johnson relationship so far? Tension

Don’t be fooled by the mayor’s winning smile and soaring, preacher’s son rhetoric, nor by the governor’s make-nice statements from the podium. There is real frustration and tension behind the scenes on both sides.

Chicago Sun-Times

Chicago must keep pushing forward on O’Hare expansion project

United and American Airlines want to scale back or slow down the massive project to replace Terminal 2. Both Illinois senators and former Mayor Rahm Emanuel, who forged the plan with the airlines, say a deal’s a deal.

The Independent UK

Search for military personnel continues after Osprey crash off coast of southern Japan

Japanese authorities say they have handed over pieces of the wreckage from an U.S. Air Force Osprey that crashed off southwestern Japan to the U.S. military, as the search continued for seven missing servicemembers

Chicago Sun-Times

Five years ago today: Butcher paper signals FBI raid on offices of ‘untouchable’ Ed Burke — and changes Chicago history

Reporters could only speculate about what prompted the raid, but ex-Mayor Lori Lightfoot admits she “rode that wave ‘till it crashed on the beach.”

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As O’Hare expansion price tag climbs, airport’s two biggest carriers want project scaled back – or grounded

United and American airlines are slated to share a new “global terminal” handling both domestic and international flights — a project funded in part by airlines. But now both carriers want Mayor Brandon Johnson to alter those plans.

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Spike in illnesses isn’t a new pathogen

The surge in respiratory sickness in China is caused by familiar viruses, Chinese health authorities claim

Chicago Sun-Times

Former Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s Michigan home spray-painted with the word ‘Nazis’

Rahm Emanuel, the U.S. ambassador to Japan, was not at the home in Gordon Beach in southwest Michigan. He thanked law enforcement for its handling of the incident.

Chicago Sun-Times

Brandon Johnson wasn’t supposed to take campaign money from city contractors, but he did

A campaign aide calls it an “oversight” and says $46,500 is being returned, agreeing that the ethics rule is “a sound and necessary policy to ensure a fair government.”

Chicago Sun-Times

Flooded basements in Chicago are increasingly common. What you can do.

When big storms hit, basements fill with stormwater and sewage. But there are steps that you and also government can take to help stay above water.

Chicago Sun-Times

Rahm or Ed? Expert quizzed on who had most clout in preview of possible Burke trial testimony

U.S. District Judge Virginia Kendall held Tuesday’s hearing to determine whether Elmhurst University political science professor Constance Mixon should be allowed to testify during ex-Ald. Ed Burke’s trial.

Chicago Sun-Times

Rahm Emanuel: ‘Frankenstein’ at Joffrey Ballet shows Chicago’s dedication to the arts

As pillars of the Chicago performing arts community, the partnership between the Joffrey and the Lyric Opera House has blossomed into something truly inspiring for our city, writes former mayor Emanuel, now the ambassador to Japan.

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