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Bus carrying junior high football team crashes near Pittsburgh. 21 people are taken to hospitals

Aug 23, 2025 5:09 pm - A bus carrying a junior high football team to a game crashed Saturday north of Pittsburgh, sending 21 of the 28 people on board to the hospital, officials said.Twenty-five Aliquippa Junior High students and three adults were headed to a game in nearby Gibsonia. The crash occurred in Economy Borough, about 20 miles north of Pittsburgh.
Maxwell denies Epstein kept ‘client list’ and other takeaways from interview

By Derek Hawkins, Jeremy Roebuck, Theodoric Meyer, Kim Bellware and Perry Stein
Aug 23, 2025 5:08 pm - The transcript of Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche’s interview of Ghislaine Maxwell spans more than 300 pages, the audio more than six hours. Upon releasing the materials Friday, Blanche said nothing about his July conversation with the imprisoned accomplice of deceased sexual predator Jeffrey Epstein had been removed “except for the names of victims.”
Swimmer reported missing in Lake Michigan near Highland Park

By Russell Lissau
Aug 23, 2025 4:55 pm - Crews searched Lake Michigan near Highland Park for a missing swimmer Saturday.
Texas Gov. Abbott says he’ll swiftly sign new maps on his desk that will boost GOP in 2026

By JIM VERTUNO, JOEY CAPPELLETTI and HALLIE GOLDEN
Aug 23, 2025 4:23 pm - Texas Gov. Greg Abbott on Saturday promised to quickly sign off on a new, Republican-leaning congressional voting map gerrymandered to help the GOP maintain its slim majority in Congress.
Kilmar Abrego García’s lawyers say threat to deport him to Uganda is coercion

By Maria Sacchetti and Jeremy Roebuck
Aug 23, 2025 4:16 pm - The night before Kilmar Abrego García was set to be released from a Tennessee jail, federal prosecutors urged him to strike a deal: Plead guilty to two counts of human smuggling, serve his sentence, and be deported to Costa Rica, a tropical, Spanish-speaking refuge regarded as the safest country in Central America.When he declined the offer in favor of awaiting trial with his family in Maryland, officials threatened to deport him within days to Uganda, an African nation to which the State Department has discouraged travel because of the ongoing risk of terror attacks, his lawyers wrote in a filing Saturday detailing their account of those exchanges.
Fed Chair Powell faces fresh challenges to Fed independence amid potential rate cuts

By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER
Aug 23, 2025 4:13 pm - Now that Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell has signaled that the central bank could soon cut its key interest rate, he faces a new challenge: how to do it without seeming to cave to the White House's demands.For months, Powell has largely ignored President Donald Trump's constant hectoring that he reduce borrowing costs. Yet on Friday, in a highly-anticipated speech, Powell suggested that the Fed could take such a step as soon as its next meeting in September
Festival of the Arts in Glen Ellyn showcases variety of work

Aug 23, 2025 4:05 pm - The 56th annual Festival of the Arts returned to the shores of Lake Ellyn in Glen Ellyn, featuring at least 60 artists showing their work.
‘Everyone has fun’: Buffalo Grove pool season ends with cardboard boat regatta

By Brian Hill
Aug 23, 2025 3:53 pm - Willow Stream Pool’s season finished Saturday with Buffalo Grove Park District’s annual Cardboard Boat Regatta.
Man indicted in fatal shooting of daughter-in-law outside Schaumburg hotel

By Barbara Vitello
Aug 23, 2025 3:24 pm - A Cook County judge announced an indictment against a 76-year-old downstate man charged with fatally shooting his daughter-in-law outside a Schaumburg hotel.
Israeli strikes and gunfire kill 33 as Gaza City becomes focus of famine and a military offensive

By MARIAM DAGGA and SAMY MAGDY
Aug 23, 2025 2:59 pm - Israeli strikes and gunfire killed at least 33 Palestinians in Gaza on Saturday, including people sheltering in tents or seeking scarce food, local hospitals said as a famine in Gaza’s largest city puts new pressure on Israel over its 22-month offensive.

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