Google Chrome Launches Default Ad-Blocker
Google has launched an ad-blocker for its Chrome web browser that is designed to prevent “annoying” and “intrusive” ads being shown to users. Google announced the move to curtail full-page...
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Google Chrome Launches Default Ad-Blocker
Google has launched an ad-blocker for its Chrome web browser that is designed to prevent “annoying” and “intrusive” ads being shown to users. Google announced the move to curtail full-page...
9-Year-Old Boy Among 11 Killed In Chicago Shootings
A weekend of bloodshed in Chicago left 11 people dead, including a nine-year-old boy, as police struggled to contain the gun violence plaguing the city in the US heartland. The boy was killed while...
Chicago’s Storied Sun-Times Newspaper Sold, For A Song
The Chicago Sun-Times, the city's oldest continuously published daily and winner of eight Pulitzer prizes, has been sold to an investor group, reportedly for $1. The newspaper, which traces its...
US Women’s Open Under Shroud of Trump Controversy
The shadow of President Donald Trump hangs over the US Women's Open golf tournament which takes place this week at the Trump National golf course in New Jersey. Brittany Lincicome said a couple weeks...
Activists Unfurl Huge Banner At Trump’s Chicago Hotel
Activists with the Greenpeace environmental group unfurled a huge banner across the facade of a Trump hotel in Chicago Friday, calling it an act of defiance against the US president's environmental...
Holiday Weekened Leaves More Than 100 Gunfire Victims In Chicago
The United States celebrated Independence Day with a long weekend of barbecues and fireworks, but in violence-plagued Chicago more than 101 were hit by gunfire, with 14 dying of their wounds, the...
Chicago Cops Charged With Cover-Up In Shooting of Black Teen
A Chicago prosecutor on Tuesday charged three former and current police officers with concealing the truth about the fatal shooting of a black teenager three years ago. David March, Joseph Walsh and...
Chicago Police Beef Up Force To Prevent Memorial Day Shootings
Chicago on Friday was bracing for the Memorial Day weekend by deploying an extra 1,300 police officers, hoping to prevent a repeat of last year's deadly street violence. The three-day weekend in the...
Pizza For Manchester, From Boston With Love
It was a small gesture that kept a fabled Boston newspaper fed during difficult times, one they thought frazzled reporters in Manchester would appreciate too. So they sent pizzas across the Atlantic....
Sinclair To Buy Tribune Media In $3.9 Bn Broadcast Deal
Sinclair Broadcast Group announced Monday a $3.9 billion deal to buy Tribune Media, in a major consolidation of local television operators in the United States. The deal gives Sinclair some 233...
1,000 Shot In Chicago So Far This Year
Chicago hit a grim milestone Tuesday, with more than a thousand people shot in the Midwestern US city since the beginning of the year. According to the Chicago Tribune newspaper 1,008 people have...
Obama Is Back For First Speech Since Leaving Office
After several months off largely out of the public eye, former US president Barack Obama returns to center stage Monday, giving a speech in his adopted hometown of Chicago that -- theoretically --...
Pulitzer Prizes Honor US Election Coverage
Campaign reporting that exposed misleading claims by now US President Donald Trump about charitable giving and commentary about last year's divisive US presidential campaign won Pulitzer Prizes on...
United Passenger Dragged Off Overbooked Flight
United Airlines found itself in the middle of a social media storm on Monday, after the US carrier forcefully removed a passenger from a flight due to overbooking. The airline said it had asked for...
Chicago Man Fatally Shoots Son Over Dog-Walking
More than 800 people have been shot in Chicago so far this year, according to a city newspaper A Chicago man fatally shot his 22-year-old son after an argument over who would walk the dog erupted...
Oath Is New Name For AOL-Yahoo Combined Company
Verizon plans to combine AOL and Yahoo into a new company called Oath, after completing the acquisition of Yahoo. AOL chief executive Tim Armstrong confirmed the move on his personal Twitter account...
Chicago Police Arrest 14 Year-Old In Facebook Rape Case
Police in Chicago arrested a 14-year-old boy in connection with the alleged gang rape of a teenage girl that was broadcast on Facebook Live, police and local news reported. "CPD arrested 1st of...
At Ultra Festival, Finding ‘best Energy’ Through EDM
Nick is usually known as a lawyer in Detroit but when he travels the world's electronic music festivals he takes on a new persona -- he shaves tribal figures into his hair and sprinkles glitter over...
Chicago Sexual Assault Streamed Live On Facebook
US police are searching for five or six men or boys involved in sexually assaulting a 15-year-old girl in Chicago and posting the act on Facebook Live. None of the roughly 40 people who watched the...