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CHICAGO — A WGN-TV video editor and producer was roughly detained by two Border Patrol agents during a highly visible rush hour enforcement action in Lincoln Square. Debbie Brockman, who has worked as a producer for WGN since 2011, according to her LinkedIn profile, was taken to the ground face...

President Donald Trump said he is considering providing Tomahawk missiles for Ukraine to defend itself against Russia in their three-year-old war, a move the Kremlin has warned would increase tensions with the West. Trump said he had a good conversation on Sunday with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, who asked for...

Four people were killed and at least 20 injured in a shooting at a restaurant in a South Carolina island town on Sunday, the Beaufort County Sheriff’s Office said. Deputies were called to Willie’s Bar and Grill on St. Helena Island just before 1 a.m. and found several people suffering...

ANTANANARIVO — Madagascar’s presidency said on Sunday that an attempt to grab power by force was underway in the African nation as more soldiers joined a youth-led protest movement that has rocked the former French colony for more than two weeks. Troops from the elite CAPSAT unit that helped President...

ISLAMABAD — Dozens of fighters were killed in overnight border clashes between Pakistan and Afghanistan, both sides said on Sunday, in the most serious fighting between the neighbours since the Taliban came to power in Kabul. The Pakistan military said that 23 of its soldiers were killed in the clashes....

WASHINGTON — The ongoing shutdown debate between Democrats and President Donald Trump’s Republicans is largely avoiding the difficult fiscal issues clouding the country’s future — the rising national debt and the long-term financial health of Social Security and Medicare. The fifteenth partial federal government shutdown since 1981 has been sparked...

A federal appeals court on Saturday rejected the Trump administration’s request to immediately allow the deployment of National Guard troops to Illinois, leaving in place a lower court’s order that blocked the mobilization temporarily. In a brief order, the 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said the federal government remains...

A 7.4 earthquake that struck near the Philippines was followed by a powerful second quake on Friday, Oct. 10, killing at least seven and damaging buildings, authorities said. The initial quake struck offshore from the Davao Oriental province in the southern Philippines at 9:45 a.m. local time on Oct. 10....

MEXICO CITY — Heavy rainfall in Mexico has left at least 27 people dead and more missing, authorities said on Friday, as downpours triggered several landslides, cut off power in some municipalities and caused rivers to burst their banks. Civil protection authorities in Hidalgo state reported 16 deaths and said...

GAZA — Thousands of Palestinians streamed north along the coast of Gaza on Saturday, trekking by foot, car, and cart back to their abandoned homes as a ceasefire between Israel and Palestinian militant group Hamas appeared to be holding. “It is an indescribable feeling; praise be to God,” said Nabila...

WASHINGTON — The Federal Aviation Administration said Friday air traffic control staffing issues delayed travel for a fifth straight day as major U.S. airlines urged air travelers to be patient during an ongoing government shutdown. More than 6,400 flights were delayed Friday, and 470 canceled, after 22,000 had been delayed...

ROME — A large white coral reef containing important species and fossil traces has been discovered at a depth of more than 1,640 feet in the Gulf of Naples, in a rare discovery for the Mediterranean, the Italian Research Council said Friday. Known as the “rainforests of the sea,” coral...

The Trump administration said on Saturday it would pay troops during the federal government shutdown by tapping unused funds that had been set aside for research and development. “I am using my authority, as Commander in Chief, to direct our Secretary of War, Pete Hegseth, to use all available funds...

Former U.S. President Joe Biden is receiving radiation therapy for his prostate cancer diagnosed in May, a spokesperson for him said on Saturday. “As part of a treatment plan for prostate cancer, President Biden is currently undergoing radiation therapy and hormone treatment, the spokesperson said. Biden, who turns 83 next...

WASHINGTON – Two weeks into a government shutdown with no end in sight, tensions are high and getting hotter among the people with the power to the end it. At the U.S. Capitol this week, two Democratic senators confronted the Republican speaker of the House outside his office, accusing him...

Nineteen people are unaccounted for after an explosion Friday at an explosive manufacturing plant in Tennessee. Humphreys County Sheriff Chris Davis initially said some people had died in the blast, later telling reporters 19 people were missing in wake of the explosion that occurred at 7:45 a.m., calling it a...

WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump’s administration has begun laying off federal workers on Friday during the government shutdown, with a White House budget office spokesperson characterizing the layoffs as “substantial” in number. The U.S. health agency confirmed that some of its workers have received layoff notices. “The RIFs have begun,”...

WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump threatened to hike tariffs on Chinese exports and cancel a meeting with President Xi Jinping, in a broadside against Beijing on Friday that sent markets and relations between the world’s largest economies into a spiral. Trump, due to meet Xi in about three weeks in...

Some older Americans, staring down potential Social Security benefit cuts, might look to access the program as soon as possible. Experts say that could be a mistake. Instead, potential beneficiaries should consider their health and life expectancy, what buckets of money they can pull from, if they’re done working for...

WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump’s dream of becoming a Nobel laureate did not come true this year, although the prizewinner dedicated the honor to him, in part, for supporting her cause. The Norwegian committee that determines the winner of the prestigious awards passed Trump over for the peace prize he...

LONDON -Oil prices declined to multi-month lows on Friday as the market’s risk premium faded after Israel and Hamas agreed to the first phase of a plan to end the war in Gaza. Brent crude futures were down $1.73, or 2.7%, at $63.49 a barrel at 1316 GMT. Earlier, they...

WASHINGTON -President Donald Trump’s administration on Thursday began airing a video at airports across the country that blames Democrats for a nine-day-old government shutdown that has prompted significant flight delays. Some 13,000 air traffic controllers and about 50,000 Transportation Security Administration officers must still turn up for work during the...

WASHINGTON — The Trump administration on Thursday proposed banning Chinese airlines from flying over Russia on routes to and from the United States, saying the reduced flight time this practice enables puts American carriers at a disadvantage. The proposal is another escalation of the trade war between the world’s two...