During Sunday’s season opener several restrooms at Chicago’s half-renovated Wrigley Field went out of service, causing long lines and forcing some fans to urinate in beer cups. Now the team has installed rows of porta-potties to serve as a back up.
Candidates in Illinois are jockeying for the position to replace now-resigned Congressman Aaron Schock in the Illinois 18th Congressional District. But one candidate, whose family is firmly entrenched in the Illinois GOP establishment, has a history of incompetence and, at least once, revealed anti-gun sentiments.
A federal panel has decreed that a diet heavy on vegetables is the best diet for the planet in this age of global warming.
The NBA announced the launch an exploratory clinic in Cuba to expand its reach into the once forbidden country in the wake of President Obama’s bid to normalize relations with communist nation.
Chicago’s runoff election has been decided with Mayor Rahm Emanuel winning his first re-election bid after losing February’s general, suffering early close returns, and enduring a race that often broke down on racial lines.
Jacksonville Jaguars defensive tackle Sen’Derrick Marks questions the NFL’s motives in hiring Sarah Thomas, its first female referee.
After sixteen days of testimony, the jury for Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev’s trial is ready to begin deliberations as the very life of the 21-year-old hangs in the balance.
A new poll by St. Leo University finds more people trust Fox News on climate change than they do President Barack Obama.
Despite the best efforts of Internet porn users to mask their web history, it may be possible for hackers to trace and expose every porn site visited.
On Sunday night, Rolling Stone magazine published a report from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism detailing the many failures of its University of Virginia rape story.
On Easter evening, Rolling Stone published the results of a long investigation into its blockbuster story of a gang rape on the campus of a major American university that was supposedly a fraternity initiation ritual.
Bradley Manning, now legally known as Chelsea Manning–the US soldier convicted of leaking thousands of pages of US secret documents to the Wikileaks website–is now tweeting from jail. On April 3, Manning began tweeting from jail through an intermediary by
Incumbent Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s challenger Jesus “Chuy” Garcia must unite the city’s minorities to topple him.
Comedienne and on–again, off–again TV show host Rosie O’Donnell has declared that “God gave us” HBO actress Lena Dunham to be the “embodiment” of feminist activist Gloria Steinem–despite the fact that Steinem is still very much with us.
As America continues the debate over laws securing religious freedom, several of the nation’s CEO’s are taking sides. Apple’s Tim Cook, for instance, excoriated Indiana over its law. But former Hewlett-Packard CEO Carly Fiorina is disgusted at how business leaders like Cook are acting.
As Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel makes his first bid for re-election in the Windy City, his opponent is running a populist campaign against Emanuel’s connections to the one percent. It is an easy argument to make with the big money donors Rahm has, especially his deep pocketed Republican backer, Billionaire Kenneth Griffin.
Surprising many, the giant, lighted letters that once spelled out “YANKEE STADIUM” atop the old Bronx ballpark failed to sell at auction last week.
Despite media uproar over the issue, Arkansas’s Republican Governor Asa Hutchinson has signed into law his own state’s version of the religious liberty bill that is bringing Indiana so much criticism.
New York’s NBC affiliate perpetrated what is becoming the worst sin in media today by using a clickbait-style headline on Twitter. Worse, it was a clickbait headline to sell the story of a 10-year-old’s suicide. Clickbait headlines are fast becoming
Government watchdog group Judicial Watch is suing the Department of Justice to obtain records about a suspicious explosion that leveled an apartment complex in a majority Muslim neighborhood in Minneapolis, Minnesota last year.
As the allegations and explanations of the charges of corruption against New Jersey’s Democrat Senator Robert Menendez come to light, some are calling on him to resign, including the “paper of record,” The New York Times.
The University of Connecticut men’s basketball head coach Kevin Ollie, who went from winning the final game of last year’s NCAA tournament to losing in the opening round of the NIT, boycotts the Final Four in Indianapolis this weekend.
The Department of Justice announced Wednesday that it will not charge former IRS chief Lois Lerner on criminal contempt charges after she refused to testify before the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee in March of last year.
Only days after a high-profile Democrat opponent announced a run to take his seat, Illinois Republican Senator Mark Kirk is coming out swinging. Not against his opponent, but against fellow Republican Mike Pence for signing Indiana’s Religious Freedom Restoration Act.
A black teenage suspect who died after slamming a stolen car into a pole during a high-speed chase with police in Roswell, Georgia received a heart transplant only two years ago — despite an extensive criminal background.
