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Son charged with fatally beating father in Schaumburg homeNov 30, 2025 12:15 pm - A 28-year-old Schaumburg man is charged with murder in the fatal beating of his father in the family home Saturday morning, authorities said.
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Person killed when struck by train in Downers GroveNov 30, 2025 10:28 am - Authorities are investigating the death of a person struck by a freight train early Sunday near downtown Downers Grove.
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Weather causing delayed paper delivery todayNov 30, 2025 8:08 am - Due to weather related issues, delivery of today's print edition of the Daily Herald is delayed.
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More snow, cold expected this weekNov 30, 2025 7:23 am - More snow and freezing temperatures are ahead for the suburbs, following a weekend snowstorm that made driving difficult and challenged best efforts to meet the onslaught with shovels and plows.
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Airlines work to fix software glitch on A320 aircraft and some flights are disrupted
Nov 29, 2025 9:23 pm - Airlines around the world reported short-term disruptions heading into the weekend as they fixed software on a widely used commercial aircraft, after an analysis found the computer code may have contributed to a sudden drop in the altitude of a JetBlue plane last month.
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Tom Stoppard, sparkling playwright who won an Oscar for ‘Shakespeare In Love,’ dies at 88
Nov 29, 2025 9:19 pm - British playwright Tom Stoppard, a playful, probing dramatist who won an Academy Award for the screenplay for 1998’s “Shakespeare In Love,” has died. He was 88.
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Senate committee vows ‘vigorous oversight’ in killing of boat strike survivors
Nov 29, 2025 9:15 pm - The head of the Republican-led Senate Armed Services Committee has pledged “vigorous oversight” after a Washington Post report that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth gave a spoken order to kill all crew members during the first U.S. strike against suspected drug smugglers in the Caribbean earlier this year.
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US halts all asylum decisions after shooting of National Guard members
Nov 29, 2025 9:05 pm - The Trump administration has halted all asylum decisions and paused issuing visas for people traveling on Afghan passports, seizing on the National Guard shooting in the nation's capital to intensify efforts to rein in legal immigration.
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Authorities probe corruption and negligence in Hong Kong’s deadliest fire in decades
Nov 29, 2025 7:55 pm - Hong Kong's deadliest fire in decades has raised questions about corruption and negligence in the renovations of the apartment complex where at least 128 people died.
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Blaming some child deaths on COVID shots, FDA vows stricter vaccine rules
Nov 29, 2025 7:25 pm - The nation’s top vaccine regulator on Friday laid out a stricter approach for federal vaccine approvals, citing his team’s conclusion, without detailing the evidence, that coronavirus vaccines had contributed to the deaths of at least 10 children, according to an internal Food and Drug Administration email obtained by The Washington Post.