All Stories from July 31, 2025 (Change date)
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Pritzker signs bill to implement mental health screenings in schoolsJul 31, 2025 4:28 pm - Illinois public school students could soon receive free mental health screenings each year.
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Feds charge Aurora man who bit Kane deputy during ICE arrestJul 31, 2025 4:25 pm - An Aurora man is facing federal charges of assaulting a law enforcement officer after authorities said he kicked, head-butted and bit local and federal officers trying to arrest him.
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‘Building bridges’: Halal Fest connects businesses with burgeoning marketJul 31, 2025 4:10 pm - Naperville’s growing Halal Fest is attracting more suburban businesses from across Northern Illinois seeking to cater to the burgeoning demand for halal food and products. The two-day festival is expected to draw roughly 20,000 attendees this weekend to Naperville’s Frontier Park, according to organizers.
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Bears’ Burden making up for lost timeJul 31, 2025 3:54 pm - After missing most of the preseason due to injury, Bears rookie receiver Luther Burden III is eager to make up for lost time.
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US envoy arrives in Israel to monitor Gaza food distribution as humanitarian crisis worsensJul 31, 2025 3:32 pm - DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip — U.S. President Donald Trump’s special envoy Steve Witkoff arrived in Israel on Thursday to discuss the worsening humanitarian situation in Gaz...
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Trump plans to revive the Presidential Fitness Test for American schoolchildrenJul 31, 2025 3:24 pm - President Donald Trump on Thursday plans to reestablish the Presidential Fitness Test for American schoolchildren, a program created in 1966 to help interest young people in following healthy, active lifestyles.
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Ukraine's Parliament approves law restoring independence of anti-graft watchdogs following backlashJul 31, 2025 3:13 pm - KYIV, Ukraine — Ukraine’s Parliament on Thursday overwhelmingly approved a bill presented by President Volodymyr Zelenskyy that restores the independence of two of the co...
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Russian missile and drone attack on Kyiv kills at least 13 people and injures more than 130Jul 31, 2025 3:10 pm - KYIV, Ukraine — Russian missile and drone attacks overnight on Ukraine's capital city killed at least 13 people, including a 6-year-old boy, and wounded 132 others, autho...
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Appellate judges question Trump's authority to impose tariffs without CongressJul 31, 2025 3:05 pm - WASHINGTON — Appellate court judges expressed broad skepticism Thursday over President Donald Trump’s legal rationale for his most expansive round of tariffs. Members of...
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Book Review: ‘The Sleep Room’ is the harrowing story of psychiatric care in the 1960sJul 31, 2025 3:03 pm - In “The Sleep Room: A Sadistic Psychiatrist and the Women Who Survived Him,” Jon Stock tells the harrowing history of the British doctor who subjected a ward full of women with mental disorders to medical abuse and gives voice to those who survived him.