Chicago Tribune: A top Palestinian official said on Tuesday a framework agreement being crafted by U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry to buttress troubled Israeli-Palestinian peace talks may be doomed to fail. Nabil Abu Rdeineh, spokesman to Palestinian President Mahmoud
When New Jersey Governor Chris Christie visited Florida shortly after the revelation that his staffers had caused a traffic disaster for political retribution, no Republican would be seen in public with the RGA chairman. Last week, the same happened in
Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel wants the Windy City to host the Super Bowl and the NFL Draft. “I would say that there are two things in pro football I would love to see in Chicago, either one of them or
In 2012, terrorist and activist Chicago professor Bill Ayers told his followers that the left had “absolute access to the community, the school… the classroom,” and that is where it should do its “movement-building.” In October of 2009, when speculation
In January, a bill was introduced in the Illinois state legislature that would require schools to teach kids all about the marvels of unions. Senate Bill 2682 was introduced by the 19th District’s Michael E. Hastings, a south suburban Chicago state
A French newspaper has accused officials from the United States and Russia of colluding to fix the ice dancing competition at the Sochi Games to squeeze out the Canadians. The deal allegedly would involve a U.S. ice dancing pair winning
Outside of a honeymoon cruise to the Caribbean, a few days in Canada, and a weekend in Santa Monica, I have never traveled outside of America. That all changes this week, as the wife and I begin to make our
NEW YORK, Feb. 5 (UPI) — A major winter storm advancing across the U.S. midsection Wednesday brought heavy snow, heavy ice accumulation and heavy rainfall to two-thirds of the country. At least 115 million people in more than a dozen
PETERSBURG, Ky. (AP) — TV’s “Science Guy” Bill Nye and the leader of a Kentucky museum who believes in creationism debated a question Tuesday that has nagged humankind: “How did we get here?” Ken Ham, the founder of the Creation
This winter has been one for the record books as temperatures in the lower 48 states have been lower than they have been even in Alaska, with the Frontier State being close to the warmest it’s been in 70 years.
Microsoft said Tuesday that founder Bill Gates was stepping down as chairman to become a technology adviser to the tech giant as Indian-born Satya Nadella was named chief executive officer. Gates “will devote more time to the company” in his
Marisa Gerber of the Los Angeles Times has an interesting piece Tuesday about how the gentrification of the Los Angeles neighborhood of Echo Park has forced the gangs out of what was once a notorious crime-ridden neighborhood. Normally, that would be
In an obvious admission that the end is near, President Barack Obama’s friends have launched a planning committee for the official Barack Obama Presidential Library. The group is fronted by Obama’s former campaign treasurer, Marty Nesbitt; Obama’s fundraiser and deputy
A new movie called “College Republicans” is set to star Harry Potter himself, Daniel Radcliffe, as a young Lee Atwater and Dane DeHaan of “Chronicle” as Karl Rove. (Evidently the stars are only “considering” the roles, according to The Wrap.)
A billboard in Chicago along I-55 shows the image of a baseball mitt, an apple pie, and an AR-15 rifle. Under the images are the words, “Pure American.” The actual billboard is owned by Lamar Advertising and the AR-15 advertisement
NEW YORK (AP) — Peyton Manning made his fifth MVP award a family affair. Manning’s record-setting season earned him The Associated Press NFL MVP award Saturday night in a landslide. No other player has won more than three. Denver’s record-setting
After twelve hours of deliberations, an Italian appeals court convicted former exchange student Amanda Knox and her ex-boyfriend Raffaele Sollecito on murder charges, Thursday night. They were found guilty for the second time of the 2007 murder of Meredith Kercher,
DENVER (AP) — Using evidence obtained under the National Security Agency’s warrantless surveillance program would violate a terror suspect’s constitutional protection against unreasonable search and seizure, the suspect argued Wednesday in a court document filed with help from the American
Though he never mentioned the controversial Common Core State Standards by name, President Obama took credit for funding the initiative in his State of the Union address Tuesday night, promising to urge expansion of the funding to include pre-K students,
Though the authors and supporters of the Common Core standards have repeatedly stated the standards are a “state-led” initiative, former Obama senior adviser David Axelrod was recorded speaking the truth at a University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) debate on
MILWAUKEE (AP)–A 300-year-old “priceless” Stradivarius violin was stolen from the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra’s concertmaster during an armed robbery after a performance at a local Lutheran college, police said Tuesday. The rare violin was on loan to concertmaster Frank Almond. The
For the first time in history, college athletes will try to form a union a year after President Barack Obama suggested that college athletes should organize. On Tuesday, Northwestern football player Kain Colter informed the school that the football team
Global warming devotees, please take note; what some are calling a “once in a generation” ice storm is paralyzing the Deep South on Tuesday. It is not just the Deep South that is being crippled; the brutal cold temperatures across
It might work against a politician who doesn’t want to fight back, but the standard left-wing advice to President Barack Obama to “get angry” never works, and reinforces the same bad behavior that is the cause of most of his
For one night, an awards show understood what it meant to appeal to the masses. And then the 2014 Grammy Awards fired off a culture war missile aimed at those who believe in a traditional definition of marriage. While the
