money Our Chicago Part 1: How to navigate the Chicago area real estate market
Earlier in the pandemic, we saw a housing market boom. Now, we're tracking slower home sales, rising mortgage rates, and rent hikes.
Earlier in the pandemic, we saw a housing market boom. Now, we're tracking slower home sales, rising mortgage rates, and rent hikes.
Cyprus President Nikos Christodoulides held meetings with Israeli President Isaac Herzog and UAE Foreign Minister Abdullah bin Zayed on Thursday, the Cypriot presidency said, discussing with each how to reinforce regional security. A Cypriot government source said Christodoulides met separately with the two officials. Bin Zayed's visit to the island was not previously announced.
Jimmy Carter was remembered at his funeral Thursday at Washington National Cathedral as a man of “character” and “something of a miracle” with “prophetic” vision. Repeating “character” several times as Carter’s chief attribute, Biden said the former president taught him the imperative that “everyone should be treated with dignity and respect.” “We have an obligation to give hate no safe harbor,” Biden said, also noting the importance of standing up to “abuse in power.”
Jason Carter, the former president’s grandson who now chairs The Carter Center governing board, memorialized his grandfather with blend of personal touches and humor, recognition of Jimmy Carter's intensity and ambition, and his determination to help people whether through politics or out of office. The younger Carter painted the 39th president as a regular “PawPaw” from a “tiny village” who was able to connect with marginalized people across the world.
Add up their years: 379 to be exact, enough time to take you back into the mid-1600s, when the notion of the American nation was still more than a century away. Inside Washington National Cathedral on Thursday, the five men who have occupied the Oval Office since 1993 convened for a rare moment together at Jimmy Carter's state funeral. In that one act, they created a momentary timeline of American history, a strand that connects them to the Roosevelts, to Lincoln and to Washington, the first of them.
Uruguay’s former guerilla-turned-president, José Mujica, announced on Thursday that the cancer in his esophagus had spread to his liver, and that he had chosen to forgo further treatment. In what Mujica said would be his last interview, he told Busqueda, a weekly news magazine in Uruguay, that he was “doomed.” “Honestly, I am dying,” said the former leader, who governed the small South American nation of Uruguay from 2010 to 2015.
Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi on Thursday pledged Beijing's full support and military aid for the world's poorest continent as he wrapped up his Africa tour in Nigeria.Wang began an Africa tour on January 6, visiting Namibia, the Republic of Congo and Chad before winding up his tour in Nigeria, where he held talks with Nigerian President Bola Ahmed Tinubu and Foreign Minister Yusuf Tuggar in the capital Abuja.
Kentucky will receive $110 million to settle its lawsuit accusing one of the nation’s largest grocery chains of helping fuel the opioid epidemic, the state's attorney general said Thursday. The state will use the money it is getting in its settlement with The Kroger Co. to combat an addiction that has ravaged communities and given the state some of the nation’s highest overdose death rates. “This massive grocery chain that asked for our trust and our business allowed the fire of addiction to spread across the commonwealth, leaving pain and leaving so much brokenness in its aftermath,” Attorney General Russell Coleman said in announcing the settlement.
Economists expect the latest jobs report to show the labor market continued to cool in December but not enough to prompt a Federal Reserve interest rate cut in January.
Critics warn the transfer of a D.C. National Guard unit puts the nation’s capital in jeopardy.
A key dam in northern Syria has become a flash point in the conflict between Kurdish forces and Turkish-backed armed groups, which has intensified in the weeks since the fall of former Syrian President Bashar Assad in a lightning offensive. Over a thousand protesters from Kurdish areas in northeast Syria gathered Wednesday afternoon at the Tishrin Dam on the Euphrates River in Aleppo province, a critical source of both water and electricity that has been at the center of clashes.
Nonprofit groups are working to distribute essential supplies to those impacted.
Shell-shocked Los Angeles residents on Thursday surveyed the devastation from fast-moving fires that have claimed at least five lives, as officials warned the largest blazes remained totally uncontained.A National Weather Service bulletin said "significant fire growth" remained likely "with ongoing or new fires" throughout Thursday and into Friday.
Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass is facing criticism for being out of the country when the devastating wildfires began to ravage the city.
New York's highest court on Thursday rejected President-elect Donald Trump’s bid to halt his Friday sentencing, and prosecutors are urging the U.S.
See how large the wildfires have become. The Palisades Fire is already larger than the land size of Providence, Rhode Island.
Opponents of Venezuela's Nicolas Maduro took to the streets in their thousands Thursday in a last-ditch protest against his swearing-in for a third six-year term as president.Attempts by Trump to force Maduro out during his first term as US president by recognizing a parallel opposition-led government and imposing sanctions on Venezuela's oil sector came to naught. burs-cb/arb/aha
The Palisades Fire has forced thousands to flee, leaving many to return to find their homes destroyed. Among those impacted is a 9-year-old girl, whose home burned down while she was at school.
Kroger has agreed to pay $110 million to resolve a lawsuit by the state of Kentucky alleging the supermarket chain's pharmacies helped fuel a deadly opioid epidemic by flooding its communities with hundreds of millions of doses of addictive painkillers. The settlement was announced on Thursday by Kentucky Attorney General Russell Coleman, whose state had opted to not participate in a broader $1.4-billion deal Kroger finalized last year that resolved similar claims by 30 states as well as counties, municipalities and Native American tribes. In a lawsuit filed in state court in February, Coleman had alleged that Kroger's more than 100 Kentucky pharmacies had been responsible for over 11% of all opioid pills dispensed in the state from 2006 to 2019, or about 444 million opioid doses.
On June 15, 2018, Jermain Charlo never returned to her home on the Flathead Reservation near Missoula, Montana. Follow the timeline for a deep dive into the young mother's disappearance and how her family has kept her memory alive.
As thousands of acres burn across Southern California, wildfire smoke is causing poor air quality in the region and beyond.