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Filing seeks support for immigrants

January 30, 2019 at 7:34 a.m.

Saying the United States fails to uphold the rights of undocumented immigrant workers, the Chicago-based Interfaith Justice Network joined several labor groups Wednesday in filing a petition with a Washington-based...

New arrivals in court face steep cost pressure

August 22, 2021 at 12:21 p.m.

Delta Air Lines Inc. and Northwest Airlines Corp., two of the nation's largest carriers and storied names in commercial aviation history, set a new landmark Wednesday when they sought bankruptcy...

Swift victory sends shock wave across Middle East

March 29, 2019 at 5:50 a.m.

The news spread quickly by word of mouth Wednesday on the clogged side streets of Cairo where Ramzy Shaaban parked his cab: Saddam Hussein had lost control of Baghdad after...

Muslim leader kept from return to U.S.

August 19, 2021 at 7:40 p.m.

An outspoken leader of Chicago's Muslim community who has helped run a group allegedly connected to Palestinian militants has been barred from returning to the United States after visiting relatives...

GM POSTS RECORD LOSS OF $4.45 BILLION FOR `91

August 10, 2021 at 1:59 a.m.

Insisting the problems plaguing the U.S. auto industry were ''more acute than we thought'' and the plunge in consumer confidence ''more persistent than we expected,'' General Motors Corp. Chairman Robert...

JOBS CONTINUE TO DECLINE

August 10, 2021 at 5:18 a.m.

This is not the best of times, but factory workers have faced worse. Since the recession began in July 1990, about 4.5 percent of the nation`s manufacturing jobs have been...

O, LITTLE TOWN OF BETHLEHEM

August 8, 2021 at 12:35 p.m.

Come Christmas Eve, prayers will ring out in Bethlehem, the city on a ridge of the Judean Hills, high above timeless valleys, where Jesus Christ was born. In a field...

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