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Earthquake Rocks Parts of Tennessee and Georgia

Residents in Tennessee and Georgia were jolted on Saturday morning by an earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 4.1, according to the U.S....

Pope Leo the White Sox Fan: Something to Celebrate for Chicago’s South Side

Stanley Brown was up late on Thursday, monitoring all the news about the new pope, Leo XIV, including revelations that he grew up...

Pope’s Childhood in a Changing Chicago Tells a Story of Catholic America

Before he was Pope Leo XIV, or even Father Bob, he was the youngest of the three Prevost boys in the pews at...

Attacking Trump’s Tariffs, Democrats Focus on Small Business Struggles

Since President Trump unleashed an on-again, off-again whiplash of global tariffs, congressional Democrats have worked to shine a spotlight on small business owners...

Trump, Raking In Cash, Expands His Power in the G.O.P. Money World

President Trump is harnessing the Republican Party’s all-encompassing deference to him to exert even greater control over the G.O.P. big-money world, which had...

Has America Given Up on Children’s Learning?

What happened to learning as a national priority?For decades, both Republicans and Democrats strove to be seen as champions of student achievement. Politicians...

In Pope Leo, Some in MAGA Movement See an Antagonist

When Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost was selected as pope on Thursday, President Trump quickly offered the first U.S.-born pontiff a hearty congratulations.“It is...

Judge Temporarily Blocks Trump Plans for Mass Layoffs and Program Closures

A federal judge on Friday called for a two-week pause in the Trump administration’s mass layoff plans, barring two dozen agencies from moving...

A United Front for Pope Leo Among American Cardinals

American cardinals of the Roman Catholic Church described the historic papal conclave that concluded this week as relatively easy, with no arm-twisting or...

Does Trump Have the Power to Install Jeanine Pirro as Interim U.S. Attorney?

President Trump’s announcement that he was making the Fox News host Jeanine Pirro the interim U.S. attorney in Washington has raised questions about...

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