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Pulitzer Prize-winning correspondent Peter Arnett, who reported on Vietnam and Gulf wars, has died

By JOHN ROGERS
Dec 17, 2025 10:15 pm - Peter Arnett, the Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter who spent decades dodging bullets and bombs to bring the world eyewitness accounts of war from the rice paddies of Vietnam to the deserts of Iraq, has died. He was 91.
Police: Former boyfriend charged in deadly Schaumburg stabbing

By Charles Keeshan
Dec 17, 2025 10:09 pm - A Niles man is set to appear in court Thursday on allegations he stabbed a former girlfriend to death Tuesday in Schaumburg.
Senate hopefuls Kelly, Krishnamoorthi, Stratton target Trump, talk affordability at first debate

By Marni Pyke
Dec 17, 2025 9:38 pm - About 1,000 people tuned into early virtual forum among Democratic candidates vying for outgoing Sen. Dick Durbin’s seat.
American Academy of Pediatrics loses HHS funding after criticizing RFK Jr.

By Lena H. Sun and Paige Winfield Cunningham
Dec 17, 2025 7:40 pm - The Department of Health and Human Services has terminated seven grants totaling millions of dollars to the American Academy of Pediatrics, including for initiatives on reducing sudden infant deaths, improving adolescent health, preventing fetal alcohol syndrome and identifying autism early, according to documents obtained by The Washington Post.
Trump taps Yale doctor who pushed unproven COVID treatment to lead US cancer effort

By Ariana Eunjung Cha
Dec 17, 2025 7:33 pm - Harvey Risch, a Yale public health researcher long respected for his work in cancer research but who has faced controversy for promoting an unproven COVID-19 treatment, has been selected by President Donald Trump to lead the nation’s cancer initiative.
FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino says he plans to resign next month as bureau’s No 2 official

By ERIC TUCKER
Dec 17, 2025 7:18 pm - FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino said Wednesday that he will resign from the bureau next month, ending a brief and tumultuous tenure in which he clashed with the Justice Department over the handling of the Jeffrey Epstein files and was forced to reconcile the realities of his law enforcement job with provocative claims he made in his prior role as a popular podcast host.
Pride and joy of Northwest Indiana? Bears president floats move as deal for Arlington Park stalls

By Christopher Placek
Dec 17, 2025 5:52 pm - Stymied by hopes of a property tax break and infrastructure dollars for a new stadium and entertainment complex in Arlington Heights, Chicago Bears officials Wednesday expanded their stadium search across state lines to Northwest Indiana.
Man charged in connection to recent Streamwood bomb threat

By Eric Peterson
Dec 17, 2025 5:39 pm - A Hoffman Estates man was arrested and charged Tuesday in connection with an unfounded bomb threat at a Streamwood Walmart on Dec. 1.
Investigators seek older video that might show the Brown campus shooter days before the attack

By KIMBERLEE KRUESI and LEAH WILLINGHAM
Dec 17, 2025 4:43 pm - With the search for the Brown University shooter in its fifth day Wednesday, authorities were asking the public to review any security or phone footage from the week before the attack in the hopes it might help investigators identify the person, believing the attacker may have cased the scene ahead of time.
Rob and Michele Reiner’s son appears in court on murder charges while siblings speak of their loss

By ANDREW DALTON and CHRISTOPHER WEBER
Dec 17, 2025 4:34 pm - Nick Reiner made his first court appearance Wednesday in Los Angeles on two counts of first-degree murder in the killing of his parents, actor-director Rob Reiner and his wife Michele Singer Reiner, while the couple's other two children made their first public statement on their crushing loss.

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