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A young woman reacts as she looks at her damaged home after Russia's night missile attack in Kyiv, Ukraine, on Oct. 14, 2026. (Efrem Lukatsky/AP)

Elizabeth Shackelford: Trump’s abhorrent Russian diesel deal defies US laws and won’t lower gas prices

By Elizabeth Shackelford

October 16, 2026 at 5:00 a.m.

Donald Trump has illegally undone sanctions efforts against Russia. For all of this, Americans won’t...

Saturday Night Live Host Shane Gillis during the monologue on Saturday, Oct. 10, 2026. (Will Heath/NBC/TNS)

Heidi Stevens: Shane Gillis ‘SNL’ opener misses the mark — and the moment

By Heidi Stevens

October 16, 2026 at 4:00 a.m.

The most disappointing thing about Shane Gillis’ shopworn, hackneyed, tone-deaf, retrograde, unfunny “Saturday Night Live”...

Former Indiana U,S. Rep. Lee Hamilton, who was co-chair of the Iraq Study Group, in his office at the Woodrow Wilson Center in Washington on Nov. 24, 2006. (Pete Souza/baiduhai)

John T. Shaw: We need Congress to ponder the long term with a new future-focused group

By John T. Shaw

October 14, 2026 at 5:00 a.m.

Half a century ago, many lawmakers viewed their responsibilities differently and created a forum to...

Sen. Tim Scott, R-S.C., walks through the U.S. Capitol on April 28, 2021, before he delivers the Republican response to President Joe Biden's address to Congress.

Column: On the wings of leftist trolls, GOP Sen. Tim Scott rises toward 2024

By John Kass

April 30, 2021 at 5:00 a.m.

Sen. Tim Scott, the Republican from South Carolina and the GOP's only Black senator, has...

Sen. Tim Scott of South Carolina delivered the Republican response to President Joe Biden's address April 28, 2021.

Column: Tim Scott and Kamala Harris agree the US isn’t racist. That’s not true, and they know it.

By Dahleen Glanton

April 30, 2021 at 7:12 p.m.

There is at least one issue on which Republican Sen. Tim Scott and Vice President...

A memorial on April 28, 2021, near where Anthony Alvarez, 22, was shot during a foot pursuit by Chicago police in the Portage Park neighborhood.

Column: Two days, not two months, ought to be enough time for the release of police bodycam videos

By Eric Zorn

April 29, 2021 at 6:49 p.m.

Sixty days? How about 60 hours? Since June 2016, policy guidelines in Chicago call for...

Eating disorders among adolescents are way up during the COVID-19 pandemic, says one expert.

Column: Eating disorders have ‘exploded’ among young people during the pandemic. What one expert says parents should be doing.

By Heidi Stevens

April 29, 2021 at 2:00 p.m.

Since March 2020, when lockdown orders went into effect all over the United States, the...

New York City police officers set up barricades to contain members of the media outside the building where Rudy Giuliani lives on April 28, 2021. Federal investigators executed search warrants at Giuliani's Manhattan residence and office.

Column: Look on the bright side, GOP. Maybe the raid on Rudy Giuliani will turn up dirt on Hunter Biden.

By Dahleen Glanton

April 29, 2021 at 12:51 p.m.

Federal agents conducted an early morning raid on Rudy Giuliani's Manhattan apartment and offices on...

Buona Beef general manager Peter Knipfer assembles the company's new plant-based Italian Beefless sandwich in Chicago on April 23, 2021.

Column: Fake Italian beef: What could go wrong?

By John Kass

April 29, 2021 at 5:00 a.m.

I know there's a lot of bad, terribly depressing news out there. You know it...

Former New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani, who was a lawyer for President Donald Trump, speaks during a news conference Nov. 19, 2020, at the Republican National Committee headquarters in Washington.

Column: Rudy Giuliani is INNOCENT. (Please ignore the file marked ‘Rudy’s List of Crimes He Did.’)

By Rex W. Huppke

April 28, 2021 at 5:11 p.m.

Federal investigators had the gall to execute a so-called search warrant on the New York...

The U.S. House of Representatives chamber in Washington. It's had 435 seats since 1911.

Column: The census is a reminder that we need a bigger Congress

By Steve Chapman

April 28, 2021 at 2:06 p.m.

The preliminary 2020 census count has been released and, as usual, it means that when...

Chicago police Superintendent David Brown holds a news conference April 22, 2021, at police headquarters.

Column: Chicago top cop’s inconvenient truth: Fathers in gang life bear responsibility when their kids get hurt

By John Kass

April 28, 2021 at 5:00 a.m.

With violence rising in Chicago, as children like 7-year-old Jaslyn Adams are gunned down in...

Motorcyclist strut their stuff during the 43rd Annual Gay Pride Parade on Chicago's North Side Sunday, June 24, 2012.

Column: Chicago’s Pride Parade is postponed again by COVID-19, but smaller celebrations will carry on.

By Heidi Stevens

April 28, 2021 at 9:06 a.m.

For the second year in a row, the last Sunday in June will come and...

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