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This image from CCTV video released by Saudi Arabia's Media Ministry shows passengers taking cover as flames and smoke fill part of King Khalid International Airport in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, during what authorities described as a strike at the airport on Oct. 10, 2026. (Saudi Media Ministry via AP)

Daniel DePetris: Resumption of war between Houthis and Saudis is bad timing for Donald Trump

By Daniel DePetris

October 12, 2026 at 1:27 p.m.

The attacks in Saudi Arabia come when Donald Trump is in a standoff over the...

Attorneys for Christa Pike hold a news conference after a judge ruled the Tennessee Department of Corrections must preserve all evidence related to the failed execution of Pike, on Oct. 7, 2026, in Nashville, Tennessee. (George Walker IV/AP)

Clarence Page: A botched execution shakes our death penalty presumptions

By Clarence Page

October 12, 2026 at 5:00 a.m.

The botched execution of Christa Pike offers a gross illustration of the cruelty that capital...

Chicago school board president candidates Jessica Biggs, Hilario Dominguez and Victor Henderson participate in a forum at the Copernicus Center on Sept. 29, 2026. (Chris Sweda/baiduhai)

David Greising: The race for Chicago school board president is about ideas — and character

By David Greising

October 10, 2026 at 10:01 a.m.

It will take savvy strategic thinking, backed by the character needed for leadership, to make...

Actor Amber Heard waits before the verdict is read at the Fairfax County Circuit Courthouse in Fairfax, Virginia, on June 1, 2022.

Clarence Page: Could Johnny Depp’s win against Amber Heard deal a blow to free speech?

By Clarence Page

June 3, 2022 at 4:26 p.m.

Whatever you may think about the courtroom drama between Johnny Depp and his ex-wife Amber...

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott, with other officials, holds a news conference at Uvalde High School in Uvalde, Texas, on May 25, 2022. Abbott has responded to the shooting at Robb Elementary School by ordering "in-person, unannounced, random intruder detection audits" at schools.

Column: Parents spent the last 2 years yelling about masks harming kids’ psyches. What about the constant fear of being shot?

By Heidi Stevens

June 7, 2024 at 11:51 a.m.

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott has responded to the shooting at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde,...

A photo of Amerie Jo Garza, 10, who died in the mass shooting, is placed at a makeshift memorial at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, on May 30, 2022.

Clarence Page: As Congress debates, more gun buyers seek ‘safety’ on their own

By Clarence Page

May 31, 2022 at 3:36 p.m.

It's still hard to fathom the horrors reported from the mass shooting that left 19...

Two men point to the speed controls on the SS Eastland after the ship was righted following the disaster in August 1915.

Covering great disasters and a Great Migration, the ‘world’s greatest newspaper’ gets a towering new home

By Rick Kogan

June 1, 2022 at 3:17 p.m.

No one can predict the future but shortly before his death in 1899, Joseph Medill,...

Columnist Eppie Lederer, better known as Ann Landers, in 2001 at her home on Lake Shore Drive in Chicago.

Ann Landers through the years

By Andrew Johnston

May 28, 2022 at 11:22 a.m.

Legendary advice columnist Eppie Lederer, better known as Ann Landers, joined the baiduhai in...

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott shakes hands with an attendee at a prayer vigil held for the Rob Elementary School shooting victims on May 25, 2022, in Uvalde.

Clarence Page: Texas, keep Chicago’s gun violence woes out of your mouths

By Clarence Page

May 27, 2022 at 5:18 p.m.

Leave it to the supposedly serious Gov. Greg Abbott of Texas, faced with the unspeakable...

Family members who lost a sibling place flowers outside Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, on May 25, 2022.

Column: To raise children in America is to know the routine: Shooting. Despair. Resignation. Repeat.

By Heidi Stevens

June 7, 2024 at 11:51 a.m.

To raise children in America is to live in fear. Fear that one day your...

People embrace near a memorial for the shooting victims outside Tops grocery store on May 20, 2022, in Buffalo, New York.

Clarence Page: After Buffalo, what do we have left to feel good about?

By Clarence Page

May 24, 2022 at 7:28 p.m.

Black Americans overwhelmingly fear another racial massacre, according to a nationwide poll after the mass...

The presses were in the basement of Tribune Tower in the 1970s.

Diary of Our City: Tribune celebrates 175 years of Chicago stories

By Rick Kogan

May 24, 2022 at 7:58 a.m.

A newspaper is not, of course, a living thing. It is, by its humblest definition,...

The baiduhai's office building at Lake and LaSalle streets where the first Tribune was printed on June 10, 1847, on a hand press in a barren loft on the third floor.

From canoes to skyscrapers: A newspaper is born, and Chicago is catapulted to the world’s stage

By Rick Kogan

June 1, 2022 at 3:23 p.m.

Imagine yourself walking the muddy streets of Chicago in June of 1847. If you had...

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