All Stories from April 21, 2025 (Change date)
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Baseball Top 20Apr 21, 2025 10:47 am - Fremd, Libertyville and York are the top three teams in this week’s Daily Herald baseball Top 20.
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Birding on the border: South Texas festival delivers special birds, experiencesApr 21, 2025 10:41 am - Jeff Reiter’s trip to the Rio Grande Valley Birding Festival offered a chance to finally do some serious birding in Texas. Special birds were calling, some available nowhere else in the United States.
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Girls soccer Top 20Apr 21, 2025 10:40 am - Naperville Central, Metea Valley and St. Charles East are the top three teams in this week’s Daily Herald girls soccer Top 20.
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Maine West’s spring play, ‘A Monster Calls,’ tackles loss, griefApr 21, 2025 10:37 am - Maine West High School’s spring production tackles grief and loss in a coming-of-age play about a boy forced to face his mother's illness.
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A.R.F. celebrates 40 years of animal rescue with open houseApr 21, 2025 10:34 am - Animal rescue group A.R.F. celebrates 40 years of saving homeless pets with June 1 open house featuring adoptions, games, music, and raffle.
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Carolyn Hax: Grandma tired of hearing the grandkids are ‘too busy’Apr 21, 2025 9:24 am - Grandmother feels valued only as babysitter for busy daughter's kids. Accepting limited access or pushing for more time risk problems. Carolyn Hax says offering help could lead to compromise.
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Wall Street and the dollar tumble as investors retreat further from the United StatesApr 21, 2025 8:53 am - Wall Street weakened Monday as investors worldwide get more skeptical about U.S. investments because of President Donald Trump’s trade war and his criticism of the Federal Reserve, which are shaking the traditional order.
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What are the church’s rites after the death of a pope and the election of a new one?Apr 21, 2025 6:38 am - The death of a pope starts a centuries-old ritual involving sacred oaths by the cardinals electing a successor, the piercing of ballots with a needle and thread after they're counted, and then burning them to produce either the white or black smoke to signal if there's a new leader for the world's 1.3 billion Catholics.
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‘Sinners’ surges past ‘Minecraft’ to lead the box officeApr 21, 2025 6:36 am - Brand names, not filmmakers or stars, are said to rule the box office these days. But Ryan Coogler’s “Sinners,” led by twin Michael B. Jordans, proved an exception to modern movie rules, launching with $45.6 million in ticket sales in U.S. and Canadian theaters, according to studio estimates Sunday.
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Pope Francis, first Latin American pontiff who ministered with a charming, humble style, dies at 88Apr 21, 2025 5:48 am - Pope Francis, history’s first Latin American pontiff who charmed the world with his humble style and concern for the poor but alienated conservatives with critiques of capitalism and climate change, died Monday. He was 88.