Hong Kong police clear protesters from legislature building
July 1, 2019
HONG KONG (AP) — Hundreds of protesters in Hong Kong swarmed into the legislature's main building Monday night, tearing down portraits of legislative leaders and spray-painting pro-democracy slogans on the walls of the main chamber as frustration over a lack of response from the administration to opposition...
Harris gets personal, delivers civil rights blow to Biden
Will Weissert, Associated Press
June 28, 2019
WASHINGTON (AP) — Kamala Harris spoke slowly but bluntly as she stared at Joe Biden, then began treating him as a hostile witness. The former prosecutor turned California senator started by saying she didn't think the former vice president was racist. But she criticized him for recently defendi...
Health care, immigration top issues at Democrats’ 1st debate
Juana Summers and Steve Peoples, Associated Press
June 27, 2019
MIAMI (AP) — Ten Democrats railed against a national economy and a Republican administration they argued exist only for the rich as presidential candidates debated onstage for the first time in the young 2020 season, embracing inequality as a defining theme in their fight to deny President Donald Trump...
Federal prosecutors detail Chinese scholar’s brutal death in Illinois
Michael Tarm, Associated Press
June 12, 2019
PEORIA, Ill. (AP) — Federal prosecutors on Wednesday shared with jurors grisly details of how they claim a former University of Illinois doctoral student kidnapped a visiting scholar from China who aspired to return home and become a professor, then brutally beat and killed her. Opening statements...
Buttigieg’s high college debt draws attention to the issue
Michelle R. Smith, Associated Press
June 9, 2019
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — Democratic presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg knows firsthand the burden of six-figure student loan debt. He and his husband, Chasten, are far from alone, though, and their personal college indebtedness is helping to keep the issue on the national stage. With loans totaling...
Undone by Brexit, May steps down as Conservative leader
Jill Lawless, Associated Press
June 7, 2019
LONDON (AP) — British Prime Minister Theresa May's time as Conservative Party leader ended Friday, not with a bang but a whimper. May, who announced her departure two weeks ago after her career was undone by the Brexit mess, formally stepped down in a private exchange of letters with the party,...
D-Day at 75: Nations honor aging veterans, fallen comrades
Raf Casert, John Leicester and Elaine Ganley, Associated Press
June 6, 2019
OMAHA BEACH, France (AP) — Standing on the windswept beaches and bluffs of Normandy, a dwindling number of aging veterans of history's greatest air and sea invasion received the thanks and praise of a world transformed by their sacrifice. The mission now, they said, was to honor the dead and keep...
Mexican officials try to stave off tariffs at White House
Jill Colvin, Matthew Lee and Luis Alonso Lugo, Associated Press
June 5, 2019
WASHINGTON (AP) — Mexican and U.S. officials met late into the day Tuesday at the White House trying to stave off President Donald Trump's threatened tariffs on all Mexican goods flowing into the United States. The first tariffs — 5% taxes on imports from Mexico — are to go into effect next...
Prosperity, repression mark China 30 years after Tiananmen
Christopher Bodeen, Associated Press
June 4, 2019
BEIJING (AP) — Thirty years since the Tiananmen Square protests, China's economy has catapulted up the world rankings, yet political repression in the country is harsher than many who watched those events would have anticipated. Hundreds of thousands of Muslims are held in re-education camps without...
Illinois governor set to sign bill removing abortion restrictions
Mari Oliver, Contributing Writer
June 3, 2019
A controversial abortion bill which removes abortion restrictions in Illinois and criminal penalties for physicians who perform abortions passed in the state Senate on Saturday along party lines, with a 34-20 vote. The bill, which previously passed in the House on Tuesday, comes as a number of states...
Despite Smollett controversy, hate crime still a pervasive issue
Noah Festenstein, Contributing Writer
June 3, 2019
Amid the widely publicized Jussie Smollett controversy, in which the “Empire” actor claimed to have been the victim of a racially-motivated and homophobic attack, statistics show that hate crimes are on the rise nationally. According to the most recent statistics from the FBI, there were 7,175 incidents...
Poor countries take on debt with China’s Belt and Road Initiative
Cole Bursch, Contributing Writer
June 3, 2019
Since China introduced its plans to rebuild ancient trading routes in Eurasia in 2013, there have been billions of dollars poured into investments in Africa and Western Asia, with signed Memorandums of Understanding in a number of European countries like Italy. But while Chinese officials have touted t...
Herbert G. McCann, Associated Press
July 18, 2019 • No Comments
The Chicago Police Board on Thursday fired four police officers for allegedly covering up a white officer's...
Woman slashed in face, neck near DePaul Lincoln Park campus
July 18, 2019
A recent DePaul graduate was slashed in the face and neck early Thursday morning...
Chicago police investigators confirm alligator in lagoon
July 11, 2019
Chicago police investigators have cracked the case: A 4-5 foot alligator is...
DePaul College of Communication dean named interim provost
June 23, 2019
DePaul’s Board of Trustees voted to appoint Salma Ghanem, a professor and...