- Restaurant workers at O’Hare airport walk off the job on peak travel day (chicagotribune.com)
12/21/2017
- Why was train in fatal Amtrak wreck speeding? (apnews.com)Amtrak CEO calls fatal derailment a 'wake-up call' (cnn.com)Expert: New route may have distracted engineer before crash (apnews.com)
12/20/2017
- Mother gives birth to baby from frozen embryo almost as old as she is (cnn.com)
12/20/2017
- Court tosses out one-vote victory in recount that had briefly ended a Republican majority in Virginia (washingtonpost.com)
12/20/2017
- CA governor requests major disaster declaration for state’s second-largest fire ever (latimes.com)Thomas Fire on verge of becoming the biggest blaze in state history (sfgate.com)
12/21/2017
- Former cardinal Bernard Law, disgraced in Boston clergy sex scandal dies in Rome (usat.ly)Sex abuse survivors’ group urges against celebrating Law’s life, Vatican will honor with funeral (cnn.com)
12/20/2017
- As winds rise again, firefighters fear flare-up in what’s now second-largest fire ever in CA (npr.org)Wildfire evacuees worry about homes as holidays approach (apnews.com)
12/20/2017
- Puerto Rico governor vows midterm revenge for tax plan he says could further hobble the island’s economy (politico.com)
12/20/2017
- 12 dead, 18 injured in Mexico tour bus crash including American cruise ship passengers (cnn.com)8 Americans among the dead (chicagotribune.com)
12/20/2017
- Urban killings rise in clusters as many areas grow safer (apnews.com)
12/20/2017





