News

TUE, 12/18/2018

Tuesday, December 18, 2018

Weather Conditions 25° Today's Forecast
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           
Today's Forecast Today's e-Edition
e-Edition Paper
FILE - In this Jan. 29, 2011, file photo, Saudi Arabian journalist Jamal Khashoggi speaks on his cellphone at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. Saudi Arabia issued an unusually strong rebuke of the U.S. Senate on Monday Dec. 17, 2018, rejecting a bipartisan resolution that put the blame for the killing of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi squarely on the Saudi crown prince and describing it as interference in the kingdom's affairs. (AP Photo/Virginia Mayo, File)

Saudi Arabia rejects US Senate's 'interference' in kingdom

Saudi Arabia rejects US Senate resolution blaming its crown prince for the killing of Saudi journalist Khashoggi
FILE — In this April 11, 2018 file photo, a high school student uses a vaping device near a school campus in Cambridge, Mass. Twice as many high school students used nicotine-tinged electronic cigarettes in 2018 compared with the previous year, an unprecedented jump in a large annual survey of teen smoking, drinking and drug use. Findings were released on Monday, Dec. 17, 2018. (AP Photo/Steven Senne, File)

'They can do it wherever, whenever': More teens are vaping and that has officials worried

Twice as many high school students used nicotine-tinged electronic cigarettes this year compared with last year, an unprecedented jump in a large annual survey of teen smoking, drinking and drug use.
In this Dec. 11, 2018, photo, President Donald Trump meets with Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., and House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

AP FACT CHECK: Trump's distorted reality in expanding probes

AP FACT CHECK: Trump keeps changing his story in the swirling investigations into Russia election interference and hush money payments to women who say they had affairs with him

Top of mind: 'Justice' is Merriam-Webster's word of the year

Common but top of mind in 2018: 'Justice' is Merriam-Webster's word of the year
FILE - In this Thursday, May 12, 2016 file photo, Uganda's long-time president Yoweri Museveni, left, and his wife Janet Museveni, right, attend his inauguration ceremony in the capital Kampala, Uganda. A new movement wants to find out whether President Yoweri Museveni's tentative embrace of a so-called "national dialogue", after a government showdown with opposition pop star Bobi Wine, can lead to one of Africa's longest-serving leaders being talked into giving up power. (AP Photo/Stephen Wandera, File)
Can we talk? Ugandans try to coax longtime leader to leave
Can we talk? On a continent of coups, Ugandans try to coax longtime president to step aside
People pass a commemorative memorial statue to perpetuating the memory of the 'Kindertransport' (children transport) near Friedrichstrasse train station in central in Berlin, Germany, Monday, Dec. 17, 2018. Germany has agreed to one-time payments for survivors, primarily Jews, who were evacuated from Nazi Germany as children, many of whom never saw their parents again. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)
Germany to compensate hundreds who fled Nazis as children
Germany has agreed to one-time payments to those still living from the thousands evacuated in 'Kindertransport' efforts in Nazi era, group says
Kashmiri protesters clash with Indian paramilitary soldiers in Srinagar, Indian controlled Kashmir, Sunday, Dec. 16, 2018. A security clampdown and a strike sponsored by separatists fighting against Indian rule shut most of Indian-administered Kashmir on Sunday, a day after chaotic protests and fighting killed seven civilians and four combatants in the disputed region. (AP Photo/Mukhtar Khan)
Indian troops enforce lockdown to foil Kashmir protest march
Soldiers and police are enforcing a security lockdown to foil a public march toward India's military headquarters in disputed Kashmir in protest of weekend killings
In this Nov. 29, 2018 photo, Mir Aman talks to The Associated Press, in Islamabad, Pakistan. Scores of Pakistani men, like Aman, whose Muslim Uighur wives have disappeared into internment camps in China feel helpless, fighting a wall of silence as they struggle to reunite their families. Political and economic factors, including concerns about losing out on vast Chinese investments, have kept Muslim countries like Pakistan quiet about the plight of their fellow Muslims, being weaned off their faith in so-called re-education camps. (AP Photo/B.K. Bangash)
Locked away, forgotten: Muslim Uighur wives of Pakistani men
Pakistani men whose Muslim Uighur wives are held in China's re-education camps struggle to reunite their families
Actor Geoffrey Rush accused of sexual misconduct
"Orange Is the New Black" actress Yael Stone alleges actor Geoffrey Rush engaged in sexually inappropriate behavior when they starred in "The Diary of a Madman" in 2010
Chicago police: 2 officers die after being struck by train
Chicago police say two officers investigating a shots-fired call on the city's far South Side have died after being struck by a train
This May, 2017, photo shows Japanese Maritime Self-Defense Force’s helicopter carrier Izumo. Japan has adopted new defense guidelines, calling for converting a destroyer into Japan’s first aircraft carrier to deploy advanced U.S.-made stealth fighters, as Japan seeks to increase defense spending and bolster arms capability in coming years. The new national defense plan, approved Tuesday, Dec. 18, 2018, by Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s Cabinet, calls for refitting an existing helicopter carrier into one that can deploy expensive F-35B fighters capable of short take-offs and vertical landings.(Kyodo News via AP)
Japan to spend more on defense, refit first aircraft carrier
Japan plans its first aircraft carrier and big increases in defense spending and weapons capability, according to defense guidelines that cite the need to counter threats from North Korea and China and other vulnerabilities
FILE - In this Sept. 19, 2017, file photo, Les Moonves, chairman and CEO of CBS Corporation, poses at the premiere of the new television series "Star Trek: Discovery" in Los Angeles. Moonves will not receive his $120 million severance package after the company's board of directors determined he was fired "with cause" over sexual misconduct allegations. The board said Monday, Dec. 17, 2018, it reached its decision after finding that Moonves failed to cooperate fully with investigators looking into the allegations. The board also cited what it called Moonves' "willful and material misfeasance," violation of company policies and breach of his contract. (Photo by Chris Pizzello/Invision/AP, File)
CBS denies former CEO Les Moonves $120 million severance
CBS denies former CEO Les Moonves $120 million severance citing failure to cooperate with misconduct investigation.
                                                                                                                                                                                                                       
Latest News
Recommended for You
                                                                                                                                                                                                                       
Latest Sales Flyers view all
                                                                                                                                                                                                                       
 
Photo Galleries
The Daily Herald archive, Assignment # 15,376, Bob Finch photo: One of the Medinah Clowns stops to greet a youngster during the Christmas Parade in Arlington Heights in December of 1969.
Through the Film Magnifier: Ernie Banks, Santa, Miss Universe, Fleetwood Mac, skateboarding and more.
Redheaded woodpecker in Lake County.
Suburban habitats: Readers' photos of local wildlife
Joe the Guardian, the troll overlooking I-88 in Lisle, is lit up with colorful lights, part of the Illumination at the Morton Arboretum.
It's a colorful time in The Week in Pictures
Daily Herald founder Hosea Cornish Paddock was in his 40s when he bought the Palatine Enterprise Weekly on December 15, 1898, for $175. He began a legacy that has evolved into today’s Daily Herald Media Group.
The Daily Herald's 120 years of Paddock leadership
Former President George W. Bush touches the flag-draped casket of his father, former President George H.W. Bush, after speaking during his State Funeral at the National Cathedral, Wednesday, Dec. 5, 2018, in Washington.
State funeral for George Herbert Walker Bush
The Daily Herald archive, Assignment # 46,831, Barry Jarvinen photo: Teen heartthrob Leif Garrett met fans at Flipside Records in Hoffman Estates in April of 1978.
Through the Film Magnifier: Leif Garrett, Magic Johnson, Vietnam Veterans Parade, Sammy Davis Jr. and more
School Graduations More Galleries
                                                                                                                                                                                                                       
 
Inside News
Trending News
    Top Jobs
    Today's Obituaries