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10+ min ago (48+ words) The Trump administration has changed its stance on whether a second strike on an alleged Venezuelan drug boat actually took place in September. The White House now says it did happen and it was legal. White House now says second strike on alleged Venezuelan drug boat did happen...

11+ min ago (412+ words) Updated on: December 2, 2025 / 4:57 PM CST / CBS Chicago A south suburban Little League football team needs your help. They're trying to raise funds to send more than 20 football players to the American Youth Football Championship in Florida. The Thunderbolts in Calumet City are looking for a miracle to raise $18,000 by Sunday. "All we can really do, when we go down to Florida, is just put on for the city," said running back Santana Eichelberger. The Thunderbolt 11U football coaches are struggling to find funds to get them to the championship in Naples, Florida, next week. Head coach Mikel McGowan said they were told they're able to qualify at the last minute. "We had about two weeks to plan, unfortunately, but we're doing our best, and we're going to keep on trying," McGowan said. The team has raised $2,000 so far through a GoFundMe…...

19+ min ago (298+ words) December 2, 2025 / 4:49 PM CST / CBS Chicago Attorneys for a group of protesters, clergy, and journalists have moved to drop a lawsuit seeking to restrict federal immigration agents' use of force in Chicago, even as an appeals court weighs an injunction a judge issued last month. In moving to dismiss their lawsuit on Tuesday, the group said it appears the Trump administration's immigration enforcement blitz in Chicago, dubbed Operation Midway Blitz, "has ended" for now. The plaintiffs' attorneys said they are willing to dismiss the case with prejudice " meaning they could not refile it later " given the reduction in immigraiton enforcement in Chicago in recent weeks. "With the Defendants no longer participating in Operation Midway Blitz, or other similar conduct under any moniker or other mission title in this District, this case is no longer needed to protect Class Members' interests," attorneys…...

22+ min ago (328+ words) La Casa de Subastas Christie's de Londres inform" que el Huevo de Invierno, al que se ha comparado con la ic"nica Mona Lisa, es uno de los siete de estos opulentos ovoides que permanecen en manos privadas. El huevo, de 10 cent'metros (4 pulgadas) de altura, est" hecho de cristal de roca finamente tallado, cubierto con un delicado motivo de copos de nieve elaborado en platino y 4.500 diminutos diamantes. Se abre para revelar una peque'a canasta removible de flores de cuarzo engastadas en joyas que simbolizan la primavera. El precio de venta, que incluy" una prima del comprador, super" los 18,5 millones de d"lares que se pagaron en una subasta de Christie's en 2007 por otro huevo de Faberg" creado para la familia bancaria Rothschild. El artesano Peter Carl Faberg" y su compa'a crearon m"s de 50 de estos huevos para la…...

23+ min ago (54+ words) The team has raised $2,000 so far through a GoFundMe link. They're hoping the community will step in to help raise the additional $16,000. Calumet City Little League football needs your help to make championship game in Florida Calumet City Little League football needs your help to make championship game in Florida...

24+ min ago (636+ words) The calendar has turned to the final month, and, as was the case last year at this time, Chicago's budget clock is ticking. Thanks to a pragmatic rump group of aldermen, though, there's now reason for hope when it comes to the birthing of the 2026 budget. As readers will recall, the budget chaos last year " which featured multiple rejections by aldermen of Mayor Brandon Johnson's proposals for property tax hikes " led to the first downgrade of Chicago's credit rating in a decade. It is an urgent priority, then, to forge a budget that preserves the city's credit, now sitting just two uncomfortable notches above junk status. The group of 26 aldermen (there could be more later) issued an alternative budget Tuesday to the mayor, and, with our pragmatic hats on, we liked most of what we read. But the justly loathed…...

31+ min ago (42+ words) After storms tore the roof of a condominium in Mount Prospect on the night on Aug. 16, Red Cross volunteers immediately sprang into action to assist those in need. Red Cross, area church help residents after microburst tore roof Mount Prospect apartment...

37+ min ago (545+ words) La iniciativa, cuyo contenido se desconoce, entrar'a en vigor luego de ser revisada y aprobada en una segunda discusi'n legislativa "en una fecha a'n por determinar" y ser promulgada por Maduro y publicada en la Gaceta Oficial. "Hay una posici'n sesgada de parte de la Corte Penal Internacional y por eso estamos proponiendo ante esta Asamblea la derogatoria de este instrumento, dijo el diputado oficialista Roy Daza al presentar el proyecto en el legislativo unicameral. Venezuela ratific' el Estatuto de Roma en junio de 2000 durante el mandato del entonces presidente Hugo Ch'vez (1999-2013). La CPI ejerce jurisdicci'n sobre los cr'menes cometidos en el territorio de Venezuela o por sus nacionales a partir del 1 de julio de 2002. La CPI es un tribunal de 'ltima instancia que investiga cr'menes de guerra, de lesa humanidad y otros delitos graves cuando las naciones no pueden…...

38+ min ago (394+ words) December 2, 2025 / 4:30 PM CST / CBS Chicago The opening days of December it may be, but it feels like midwinter in Chicago, with record snowfall in the past week and even colder temperatures on the way. Climate experts advise staying bundled up, because the cold and snow are not going anywhere." On the road after days of snowfall, Cook County salt truck and plow drivers have been working nonstop to keep it clear " with more than 40 trucks working round the clock before, during, and after what we now know was a record-smashing post-Thanksgiving storm. Saturday was the snowiest November day on record in Chicago, with 8.4 inches recorded at O'Hare International Airport. "I worked Saturday from 3 a.m. to Sunday at 6 p.m.," said Ed Tully, maintenance bureau chief for the Cook County Department of Transportation. The department has used 2,800 tons of salt since Saturday. "It's a…...

41+ min ago (565+ words) December 2, 2025 / 4:27 PM CST / CBS Chicago Hundreds of immigrants detained by federal agents in the Chicago area in recent months will remain in custody at least a little while longer while an appeals court weighs whether they should be released on bond. A three-judge panel of the 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Tuesday heard arguments on those immigrants' bid to be released while a lower court judge dtermines whether they were illegally arrested in violation a court order limiting immigration arrests without a prior warrant or probable cause. Attorneys for both sides had 20 minutes to make their case to the judges, answering questions about whether or not the original federal judge in this case had the authority to order the release of hundreds of people on bond. Last month, U.S. District Judge Jeffrey Cummings ordered hundreds of people detained by federal immigration…...