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Jason Waitoa waits for his vaccination in Rotorua, New Zealand, Saturday, Oct. 16, 2021. New Zealand health care workers have administered a record number of vaccine jabs as the nation holds a festival aimed at getting more people inoculated against the coronavirus. (Andrew Warner/NZME via AP)

New Zealand dispenses record number of jabs at 'Vaxathon'

New Zealand health care workers have administered a record number of vaccine jabs as the nation holds a festival aimed at getting more people inoculated against the coronavirus
Damaged wall of a mosque is seen following a suicide bombers attack in the city of Kandahar, southwest Afghanistan, Friday, Oct. 15, 2021. Suicide bombers attacked a Shiite mosque in southern Afghanistan that was packed with worshippers attending Friday prayers, killing several people and wounding others, according to a hospital official and a witness. (AP Photo/Sidiqullah Khan)

Islamic State claims mosque bombing in south Afghanistan

The Islamic State group says its members are responsible for a deadly suicide bombing on a Shiite mosque in southern Afghanistan

Illinois police dog comforts grieving after loss of handler

URBANA, Ill. (AP) - As he approaches his annual employee evaluation, Winston has a lock on 'œexceeds expectations.' Consider that since December, the chocolate Labrador had to graduate from therapy-dog school, relocate from balmy Florida to chilly Champaign County, start a new job, acclimate to loving strangers, then abruptly be robbed of his 24/7 work partner and handler.
Proposed new congressional district map

Illinois Dems unveil proposed congressional map

Democrats in the Illinois General Assembly released the proposed new congressional map Friday, with the lines drawn to yield 14 Democratic and three Republican districts. The current House delegation is made up of 13 Democrats and five Republicans.
The Chicago Bears announced the signing of an agreement to purchase Arlington Park racetrack in Arlington Heights on Sept. 29, the latest step toward a move from Soldier Field in Chicago.
How Bears' purchase of Arlington Park happened, and what might happen next
While talk of a Bears move to the suburbs has been happening for years, the team's pending purchase of Arlington Park and its 326 acres makes a move feel more real than ever before. Here's a look at how we got to this point, and what might happen next.
Patrick Johnson of Des Plaines
Police seeking missing Des Plaines man
Des Plaines police are asking for help in locating a 56-year-old man who has been missing since Saturday afternoon.
FILE - A view of the densely populated Jalousie neighborhood of Port-au-Prince, Tuesday, Sept. 28, 2021. A group of 17 U.S. missionaries including children was kidnapped by a gang in Haiti on Saturday, Oct. 16, 2021 according to a voice message sent to various religious missions by an organization with direct knowledge of the incident. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd, file)
US religious group says 17 missionaries kidnapped in Haiti
A group of 17 U.S. missionaries including children has been kidnapped by a gang in Haiti, according to a voice message sent to various religious missions by an organization with direct knowledge of the incident
FILE - In this Nov. 9, 2020, file photo, Alan Hostetter speaks during a pro-Trump election integrity rally he organized at the Orange County Registrar of Voters offices in Santa Ana, Calif. Hostetter is one of at least five people charged in the riot at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, who have chosen to defend themselves in court, brushing aside federal judges' repeated warnings about the risks of trying to navigate their high-stakes cases without an attorney. (Paul Bersebach/The Orange County Register via AP)
Risky business: Some Capitol riot defendants forgo lawyers
At least five people charged in the riot at the U.S. Capitol have chosen to defend themselves in court
Edwina “Eddy” Mroz of Glenview was among 93 female veterans who took part in Illinois’ first-all women honor flight. Here, she is pictured at the Vietnam Women’s Memorial in Washington, D.C. She served in the Coast Guard Reserve for 30 years.
Good News Sunday: Women veterans recognized for their service on first all-female honor flight
Good News Sunday: Meet the 93 veterans who flew to Washington, D.C., on Illinois' first all-women honor flight.
Migrants navigate on an overcrowded wooden boat in the Central Mediterranean Sea between North Africa and the Italian island of Lampedusa, Saturday, Oct. 2, 2021, as seen from aboard the humanitarian aircraft Seabird. At least 23,000 people have died or disappeared trying to reach Europe since 2014, according to the United Nations' migration agency. Despite the risks, many migrants say they'd rather die trying to reach Europe than be returned to Libya. (AP Photo/Renata Brito)
Volunteers in the sky watch over migrant rescues by sea
A humanitarian effort seeks to monitor human rights violations and assist in the rescue of migrants fleeing Libya to Europe by boat on the Mediterranean Sea
In this undated photograph provided Wednesday, Oct. 13, 2021 by the The Toufah Foundation, Toufah Jallow, Gambia's face of empowerment for generations of women, poses for a portrait. Jallow first became popular as Gambia's scholarship winner in a contest for young women with academic promise. Now, she is the face of empowerment for a generations of women who, because of her, feel more emboldened to talk about sexual violence. (Toufah Foundation via AP)
Gambian Toufah Jallow tells of surviving rape by dictator
Toufah Jallow first became popular as Gambia's scholarship winner in a contest for young women with academic promise
In this photo taken from video footage released by Roscosmos Space Agency, actress Yulia Peresild sits in a chair shortly after the landing of the Russian Soyuz MS-18 space capsule, southeast of the Kazakh town of Zhezkazgan, Kazakhstan, Sunday, Oct. 17, 2021. The Soyuz MS-18 capsule landed upright in the steppes of Kazakhstan on Sunday with cosmonaut Oleg Novitskiy, actress Yulia Peresild and film director Klim Shipenko aboard after a 3 1/2-hour trip from the International Space Station. (Roscosmos Space Agency via AP)
Russian filmmakers land after shoot aboard space station
A Soyuz space capsule carrying a cosmonaut and two Russian filmmakers has landed after a 3 1/2-hour trip from the International Space Station
                                                                                                                                                                                                                       
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Benet Academy’s Clare Lopatka plays against Ottawa’s Ella Marvel in the second round of the Rolling Meadows girls tennis invitational at Fremd High School in Palatine on Saturday, October 2, 2021.
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The Daily Herald Archive, Assignment # 5,696, Bob Strawn photo: These girls are learning ballet techniques in an Arlington Heights Park District dance class in January of 1967.
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Rosalina Rosales, 2, of Des Plaines leans in to plant a kiss on a bull frog and turn him into a handsome prince, but Jim Galeno of JG’s Reptile Road Show pulls him away just in time during the Des Plaines Fall Fest at Lake Park Saturday, September 18, 2021d.
Bull frogs, cow pies, rescue dogs and race horses are all part of The Week in Pictures photo gallery for September, 18-24, 2021.
Antioch quarterback Quade Moll is tackled by Wauconda’s Colin Husko after losing his helmet in a football game in Wauconda on Friday, September 24, 2021.
Antioch visited Wauconda, Maine South played against Glenbrook North and Buffalo Grove played at Prospect on Friday night, September 24, 2021.
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