National
2 hours ago
Is Outlook down? Widespread outage hits Microsoft email and other apps
A widespread outage hit Microsoft platforms including Outlook on Thursday, with many users encountering trouble using their email accounts and other errors across the tech giant's suite of apps.
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Jensen Huang built the company that powers AI. Now Nvidia must find a way forward without him
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang resigned Thursday, capping a spectacular downfall for a poster boy of the artificial intelligence boom whose exit following reports of extramarital affairs now thrusts the chipmaker into an uncertain future.
3 hours ago
Aetna, WashU Physicians reach deal to maintain access for Illinois retirees
The agreement follows a similar deal between Aetna and BJC HealthCare.
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Policing the police
First discretionary decertification of an officer takes place five years after the SAFE-T Act.
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Blackhawks GM Kyle Davidson defends coach Jeff Blashill amid the team’s lackluster start
“With the maturation of young players and the players we’ve drafted and bringing in the league, we have to get through these rough times that they’re experiencing in their development in order to get to the other side,” Davidson said.
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Illinois’ 4-game surge meets No. 4 UCLA’s unbeaten run in a Rose Bowl showdown
“This is a very confident football team we’re playing. They’ve had nothing but great results,” Illini coach Bret Bielema said.
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Richard Posner, prolific legal scholar and outspoken appeals court judge, dies at 87
The University of Chicago Law School, where he served as a senior lecturer and one of his sons, Eric Posner, is a professor, said Posner died Tuesday.
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New ALPLM acquisition details Lincoln’s dry-goods purchases
New clothes would "shed the image of the rough-and-tumble frontiersman and adopt a more formal personage."
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Mississippi elects Democrat Scott Colom as state’s first Black US senator since Reconstruction
Democratic nominee Scott Colom defeated Republican Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith on Wednesday in Mississippi's closely contested U.S. Senate race after a prolonged ballot counting process, giving the state its first Black U.S. senator since post-Civil War Reconstruction.
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Lame, suffocated and dead: The drug supersizing America’s cattle
Approved by the FDA to reduce pollution from feedlots, Experior has become a lucrative drug in the beef industry’s pursuit of bigger animals. Our investigation reveals troubling safety findings, reports of cattle deaths, and questions about industry influence on the FDA and research universities.
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Illinois Republicans assess damage from nationwide ‘blue tsunami’
Party members offer different paths forward, highlighting internal divisions.
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Cubs pitcher Ben Brown has neck surgery, likely out until midseason
General manager Carter Hawkins said the 27-year-old right-hander was operated on Monday in New York because of a stress fracture in his neck.
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Milwaukee’s Pat Murphy first to win 3 straight Manager of Year awards. Will Venable takes AL honor
Will Venable won AL Manager of the Year after his Chicago White Sox became the first major league team to reach the playoffs following consecutive 100-loss seasons.
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More than a dozen key races remain too early to call one week after Election Day
The size of Democrats' majorities in the House and Senate remained undetermined one week after Election Day as more than a dozen races were still too early to call Tuesday.
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Woo Hoo! ‘Simpsons’ writers to talk Saturday in Springfield — yes, THIS Springfield
Writer Dan Greaney is a Republican running for President.
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Illinois police with credibility issues have arrested hundreds of people and testified in court at least 1,700 times
Meet the “Brady bunch.”
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Bears say they didn’t play up to their standards during a sloppy win over the Bucs
The Bears hit their bye week with a four-game win streak and a 7-2 record.
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Press Forward completes nearly $600M in journalism investments about 2 years early
In addition to accepting traditional donations, Press Forward Chicago has established a pooled fund, which uses donations from multiple organizations to support specific initiatives.
3 days ago
With new Democratic Congress incoming, Pritzker calls for federal AI regulations
Governor says new action should build on what states like Illinois have already done.
3 days ago
IDOC worker who embezzled $125K sentenced to 2 months in prison
Federal government sought prison time given the “the brazenness" by which the former Pinckneyville Correctional Center payroll tech committed her crimes.
