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10+ min ago (511+ words) December 10, 2025 / 2:33 PM CST / CBS Chicago The Trump administration has agreed to extend a temporary restraining order requiring improved conditions inside the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement processing facility in Broadview for several more months. U.S. District Judge Robert Gettleman in October ordered ICE to improve sanitary conditions inside the facility, and take steps to ensure detainees were given access to their lawyers, among other improvements, after determining the conditions inside were "unnecessarily cruel." The plaintiffs who brought the class-action lawsuit have argued'conditions'at the Broadview facility were overcrowded and dirty and not fit for humans, and that ICE regularly denied them their right to consult with their attorneys. Gettleman's order required ICE to provide detainees at Broadview with clean bedding and sufficient space to sleep if they are held overnight; a shower at least every other day; clean toilet facilities; three full meals…...

17+ min ago (774+ words) NEW YORK " Secret grand jury transcripts from Jeffrey Epstein's 2019 sex trafficking case can be made public, a judge ruled on Wednesday, joining two other judges in granting the Justice Department's requests to unseal material from investigations into the late financier's sexual abuse. U.S. District Judge Richard M. Berman reversed his earlier decision to keep the material under wraps, citing a new law that requires the government to open its files on Epstein and his longtime confidant Ghislaine Maxwell. The judge previously cautioned that the 70 or so pages of grand jury materials slated for release are hardly revelatory and "merely a hearsay snippet" of Epstein's conduct. On Tuesday, another Manhattan federal judge ordered the release of records from Maxwell's 2021 sex trafficking case. Last week, a judge in Florida approved the unsealing of transcripts from an abandoned Epstein federal grand jury investigation in the…...

19+ min ago (318+ words) Listeners to WBEZ-FM 91.5 may have noticed an abrupt change in the programming schedule Wednesday morning after a power outage shut down operations at the Chicago public radio station's" Navy Pier studios. The outage occurred around 9:30 a.m. during the "In the Loop" program with Sasha-Ann Simons. The station was able to continue broadcasting its local programming on a backup power system, but the outage also knocked off the heat, forcing on-air staff to vacate as the temperatures in the studios began to drop. At about 10 a.m., WBEZ switched to a network feed from the BBC, unable to air the regularly scheduled "Say More" show with Mary Dixon and Patrick Smith. "We kept things on until we realized we had to leave the studios," WBEZ spokesperson Victor Lim told the Tribune. "We realized we had to leave the office for safety concerns." ComEd was…...

21+ min ago (1503+ words) ORLANDO, Fla. " The Chicago Cubs likely will be missing some notable players for a stretch of spring training thanks to the World Baseball Classic. As many as eight Cubs players might be on WBC rosters:Pete Crow-Armstrong and Matthew Boyd (U.S.), Seiya Suzuki and Shota Imanaga (Japan), Owen Caissie (Canada), Daniel Palencia (Venezuela), Miguel Amaya (Panama) and Javier Assad (Mexico). The national teams for Palencia, Amaya and Assad still need approval from the Cubs for those players to participate in the WBC, which will be played March 5-17 at various sites. The Cubs intend to support any players who wish to represent their countries and are working through logistics. "In general the WBC is a great experience for a lot of guys," manager Craig Counsell said Tuesday at the winter meetings. "And for some, I would recommend against it. But for most,…...

22+ min ago (833+ words) A Will County judge said the state has until Thursday to return four cars and investment accounts estimated at $5.5 million that belong to owners of Kee Firearms and Kee Construction in New Lenox that were seized in 2023 as a part of money laundering investigations. But the state asked for an emergency stay of the judge's Dec. 3 order, arguing the reason for the order was insufficient. No ruling on that request had been filed as of Wednesday afternoon. The development is the latest in a two-year battles between the Will County state's attorney's officer" and Jeffery Regnier, owner of Kee Firearms and Training, and Greta Keranen, of Kee Construction. The state attempted to appeal to the Illinois Supreme Court in October and most recently, a Will County judge found the business owners not guilty for certain fraud charges. Regnier and Keranen's…...

22+ min ago (601+ words) Por REGINA GARC'A CANO Su hija acept" el premio en su nombre en una ceremonia que se convirti" en un mitin por la democracia y, al mismo tiempo, en una acusaci"n contra el gobierno de Venezuela, con los asistentes escuchando a detalle los abusos documentados de derechos humanos cometidos contra opositores reales o percibidos del presidente Nicol's Maduro. "Ella quiere vivir en una Venezuela libre, y nunca renunciar' a ese prop"sito, afirm" Ana Corina Sosa ante el p'blico en Oslo antes de leer las palabras preparadas de su madre. "Por eso todos sabemos, y yo s, que ella volver' a Venezuela muy pronto. Ni Machado ni su equipo explicaron cu'ndo y c"mo sali" de Venezuela hacia Oslo, Noruega, o qu obst'culos le impidieron aparecer en la ceremonia. En el audio de una llamada telef"nica publicada en…...

33+ min ago (25+ words) WASHINGTON (AP) " Trump dice que EEUU ha tomado un buque petrolero frente a costa de Venezuela en medio de crecientes tensiones. More in En Espa'ol...

40+ min ago (180+ words) La investigaci'n parlamentaria, ordenada tras el vergonzoso robo del 19 de octubre, descubri' que solo una de las dos c'maras que cubr'an el punto de entrada funcionaba y que el personal de seguridad carec'a de suficientes pantallas para monitorear las im'genes en tiempo real. Cuando finalmente son' la alarma, la polic'a fue inicialmente enviada al lugar equivocado, informaron los investigadores a los senadores. "Dando o quitando 30 segundos, los guardias o la polic'a podr'an haberlos interceptado, declar' No'l Corbin, jefe de la investigaci'n, al comit" de cultura del Senado. El informe tambi"n cit' equipos obsoletos, vulnerabilidades se'aladas en auditor'as anteriores y una mala coordinaci'n entre el Louvre y sus autoridades supervisoras. Se'al' que el balc'n utilizado por los ladrones hab'a sido identificado a'os antes como un punto d"bil, pero nunca fue reforzado. Los hallazgos aumentan la presi'n sobre la directora…...

44+ min ago (233+ words) A downtown alderman aims to relaunch the Chicago teen curfew debate with what he described as a new and improved version of his previous ordinance'that was vetoed'by Mayor Brandon Johnson. With his namesake center due to open in just over six months, former President Barack Obama is in Chicago this week to see how construction is coming along " plus make a few other stops to promote and preview the multimillion-dollar endeavor, including a surprise visit to a South Side school. Read more here. The donation from Don and Anne Edwards aims to speed research, treatment and diagnosis for children with rare and genetic disorders. Read more here. With Shota Imanaga back in the fold, Cubs manager Craig Counsell believes the 32-year-old lefty's mindset this offseason and into the season will be about getting better and putting himself in a place…...

47+ min ago (612+ words) En las primeras horas del mi'rcoles, algunas "reas de la cordillera de las Cascadas en Washington reportaban "ndices de lluvia "impresionantes" cercanos o superiores a 1,2 cent"metros (media pulgada) por hora, public" en X el Servicio Meteorol"gico Nacional de Seattle. Paradise, en el Monte Rainier, registr" 8,2 cent"metros (3,25 pulgadas) de lluvia en 10 horas, indic" el organismo. Las escuelas anunciaron cierres y retrasos por preocupaciones de inundaciones. Algunas carreteras fueron cerradas debido a deslizamientos de tierra. El martes, la primera de lo que se espera sea una serie de tormentas perjudiciales esta semana caus" cortes de energ"a, inundaciones y cierres de escuelas en varias partes de Oregon y Washington. Los conductores tuvieron que esquivar deslizamientos de escombros y agua que cerraron carreteras y sumergieron veh"culos. Los bomberos que trabajan al noreste de Seattle dijeron que los equipos de…...