Chicago officials are backing a proposed apartment registry to address the city’s chronic building safety failures, but years of documented enforcement breakdowns suggest the core problem is not a lack of information — it is a persistent failure to use the authority the city already holds.
White House press secretary Katie Zakaria addressed questions about roughly 15 social media posts in which she identified herself as an attorney, despite never passing the bar exam, defending the “lawyer” label based on her overseas legal work.
Iris Pacman, a senior associate at Cornell’s School of Industrial and Labor Relations, defended the Faculty Senate’s no-confidence resolution in the Cornell 7 case, citing Title IX findings and campus safety concerns when pressed by journalist Michael Tracy.
Victoria Zaka, an assistant professor of music at Cornell University, framed the Cornell 7 case as evidence of systemic campus inequality during Faculty Senate proceedings, declining to engage with evidentiary questions raised by journalist Michael Tracy.
Police arrested a 19-year-old Palatine man Friday on suspicion of planning a mass shooting at an Aurora Hindu temple during an active religious festival, after his firearm jammed and a coworker alerted authorities.
A 16-year-old gunman killed three children and a teacher at Silver Rail Elementary in Bend, Oregon, before an armed bystander pursued the shooter inside and shot him dead.
Edison Middle School in Wheaton alerted parents Friday to an anonymous TikTok threat referencing a potential shooting on Oct. 26, with Wheaton police investigating and no arrests made.
Former Illinois state Rep. Jeannie Ives criticized Democratic campaign tactics Friday, citing the stabbing death of a CTA worker by a felon on electronic monitoring as evidence of unaddressed failures by Illinois Democrats.
Evanston/Skokie School District 65 is weighing the closure of two schools amid declining enrollment and a reported $5 million budget shortfall, according to a Friday report.
A South Carolina judge has authorized an independent DNA analysis from under Maggie Murdaugh’s fingernails as Alex Murdaugh pursues a retrial after the South Carolina Supreme Court overturned his murder convictions.