There are few technical institutes in the world that match the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. MIT is the gold standard for science, and Retsef Levi is one of the most respected professors there. That’s why it behooves everyone to pay attention to him when he says it’s “indisputable” that the
2 in custody after 3 Far South Side businesses robbed at gunpoint in under an hour
Published January 27, 2023 5:51AM
CHICAGO - Two men were arrested after three convenience stores on Chicago's Far South Side were robbed at gunpoint overnight.
Jan. 25 (UPI) -- One person is dead and nine injured after a fire at a high-rise apartment building in Chicago Wednesday morning left officials searching for its cause.
Authorities said the injured included one firefighter. The extra-alarm fire affected multiple floors in the building before the blaze was extinguished in the city's Kenwood neighborhood.
CHICAGO (WLS) -- Five people have been hospitalized after an incident at a Mount Greenwood bar Sunday, according to Chicago fire officials.
It happened at Lawlor's Bar in the 3600-block of W 111th Street, CFD said.
A 31-year-old man, a 45-year-old man and a 41-year-old woman were all transported to Little Company of Mary Hospital after snorting an unknown substance, Chicago police said.
Two other people were taken to Christ Hospital, fire officials said, but no other details were provided on them at this time.
Paul Craig Roberts
As readers know, I am a critic of Putin’s “limited military operation” in Ukraine. It was eight years late, and its limited objective is unrealistic. Putin needed to occupy Kiev the minute he saw the US coup unfolding. Failing this, he needed to reincorporate Donbass in 2014 prior to its partial occupation by neo-Nazi militias and Ukrainian military. He failed to act in a timely fashion because he was deceived by the West with the Minsk Agreement, which was a delaying tactic to keep Russia at bay until the US had built and equipped a Ukrainian Army.
I understand why the Kremlin limited its intervention last February to clearing the Independent Donbass Republics of Ukrainian forces. Putin did not invade Ukraine, because he did not want widespread death and destruction in Ukraine, long a part of Russia with extensive intermarriage and mixing of populations. Where the Kremlin failed was in not realizing that Washington would not permit the conflict to be limited to the clearing of Donbass.
Oops: Biden Torpedoes the Left’s Entire Jan. 6 ‘Insurrection’ Narrative
As Rick Moran noted on Tuesday, Old Joe Biden just boasted again about how powerless patriots are against his all-powerful and increasingly authoritarian federal behemoth. Biden practically thumped his chest as he declared: “I love my right-wing friends who talk about” – and here he mockingly imitated their dramatic tones – “‘the tree of liberty is water of the blood of patriots.’ If you need to work about taking on the federal government, you need some F-15s. You don’t need an R– AR-15.”
EXCLUSIVE: AWOL NAVY SEAL KILLED FIGHTING IN UKRAINE
Ukrainian soldiers shelter in the woods along a road outside of the strategic city of Bakhmut on January 18, 2023 in Bakhmut, Ukraine.
An American Navy SEAL was killed this week during Russia’s assault on eastern Ukraine while fighting alongside Ukrainian forces, a Navy official tells TIME.
Daniel Swift, a Navy Special Warfare Operator First Class who had gone AWOL, died after suffering injuries with a unit under attack by Russia, the official said.
Paul Craig Roberts
As a participant in the 20th century Cold War, I can tell you that the Cuban Missile Crisis had the effect of convincing the leaders of the US and the USSR that trust had to be created between the two nuclear superpowers in order resolve differences and prevent a reoccurrence of tensions at the level of the Cuban Missile Crisis.
President John F. Kennedy and Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev worked together independently of their military/security bureaucracies to resolve the issue. Both paid a price. President Kennedy was murdered by the CIA and Joint Chiefs of Staff who were determined not to lose the Soviet enemy that justified their power and budgets. Khrushchev was removed from power by Communist Party hardliners suspicious of accommodation to the capitalist enemy.
After President Johnson destroyed himself in the military/security complex’s Vietnam War, President Nixon renewed the tension reducing policy of President Kennedy. The Strategic Arms Limitations Talks (SALT) and arms limitations agreements followed. President Nixon topped them off by opening to China and replacing that tense relationship with the “one China” policy. This was again too much for the US military/security complex, and they orchestrated with the Washington Post the “Watergate” scandal to remove him from office.
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CHICAGO (CBS) -- Tuesday is Muhammad Ali Day in Illinois, celebrating the birthday of the greatest boxer of all time.
Ali would have turned 81 on Tuesday, and the Muslim Civic Coalition is celebrating his life with a screening of the documentary Ali's Comeback: The Untold Story and panel discussion at 6 p.m. at the DuSable Black History Museum and Education Center.
That's it folks. Everything else is a joke to this mayor.
Illinois Gaming Board OKs gaming license for clout-heavy lawyer James J. Banks in an about-face
But the state agency won’t say what new evidence prompted it to approve James J. Banks — an Illinois Tollway board member under five governors — for video poker machines and other gambling devices.
By Tim Novak and Robert Herguth
Jan 13, 2023, 5:30am CST
Nearly two years ago, the Illinois Gaming Board denied a coveted and potentially lucrative video gambling license sought by James J. Banks, a clout-heavy Chicago lawyer and banker who’d served on the Illinois Tollway board under five governors, saying his “associations” threatened to impugn the gaming industry.
Hunter Biden Lived at Biden Home Where Classified Documents Were Stashed, Records Show
Scandal-plagued presidential scion's apparent access to top secret materials raises national security concerns
Joe and Hunter Biden in the president's 1967 Corvette (Twitter).
Joseph Simonson and Andrew Kerr
January 12, 2023
The home where President Joe Biden improperly stored a number of classified documents was also Hunter Biden’s residency for a number of years, a Washington Free Beacon review of the younger Biden’s laptop concluded.
According to government documents stored on his personal computer, Hunter Biden lived in 2018 and 2019 at the Wilmington, Del., home where his father had classified materials stored in the garage. It is unclear precisely when the documents were put in the garage or when Hunter Biden began living at the residence, but in May 2018 the president's scandal-plagued son was issued a Delaware driver's license listing his father’s home as his primary residence.
The living arrangement raises serious questions following Attorney General Merrick Garland’s decision to appoint a special counsel to investigate President Biden’s mishandling of classified documents. Hunter Biden, who suffered from a crack cocaine addiction for years and had extensive ties to foreign business contacts, is facing a federal criminal investigation of his own for tax fraud and lying on a firearm application.
Neither the White House nor the Department of Justice responded to a request for comment.
In December 2018, Hunter Biden directed his Wells Fargo financial adviser to change his banking address to the Wilmington address. He also added the address to his PayPal account in January 2019. And a month later, Hunter Biden ordered a number of products from the auction site Tophatter to be shipped to the home, including a night vision monocular telescope, an anti-police GPS radar detector, a 5-megawatt laser pointer, a 360-degree USB webcam, and a $51 smartphone, according to shipping receipts found on his laptop.
Hunter Biden also used the home as his billing address for his Apple account, according to over a dozen receipts on the hard drive dated between January 2019 and March 2019. Digital items Hunter Biden purchased in that timeframe include subscriptions for various dating services, an app that makes calls and texts from a second phone number, and an audiobook of his father’s memoir, Promise Me, Dad: A Year of Hope, Hardship, and Purpose.
A notarized Quitclaim Deed located on the hard drive dated Feb. 20, 2019, identifies Hunter Biden as a "divorced man, residing" at his father’s Wilmington property.
Hunter Biden appears to also have had access to the property’s garage where the misplaced classified records from the Obama-Biden administration were stored, according to a report from RealClearPolitics. Then-Vice President Joe Biden said on CNBC’s Jay Leno’s Garage in 2016 that Hunter had rebuilt the engine on his 1967 Chevrolet Corvette Stingray along with the president’s deceased son, Beau.
Joe Biden cited his beloved Corvette in a press conference Thursday as he assured the public the classified documents he kept in the garage were secure.
Chicago U.S. Attorney John Lausch to leave office by early March
Lausch has been Chicago’s U.S. Attorney since late 2017 and has overseen major public corruption investigations. They culminated with the indictment of former Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan — and ultimately re-shaped Chicago politics.
By Jon Seidel 
U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Illinois John Lausch Jr. speaks during a news conference in the courtyard of the Dirksen Federal Building in the Loop on Friday afternoon, July 17, 2020.
Chicago U.S. Attorney John Lausch plans to leave the Justice Department “in early 2023” for the private sector, Attorney General Merrick Garland told reporters Thursday.
US President Joe Biden's aides have found a fresh batch of classified government records at a second location, in a growing political embarrassment for the White House.
The first cache was found at a private office in Washington DC that Mr Biden used after his vice-presidency.
The matter is under review by the US Department of Justice.
The affected system sends flight hazards and real time restrictions to pilots.
Four people were killed and three others were wounded in shootings across Chicago Monday.
