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Blue Jays fans hold signs during the eighth inning in Game 3 of the American League Championship Series against the Mariners, on Wednesday, Oct. 15, 2025, in Seattle. (Lindsey Wasson/AP)

Canadians set aside contempt for tariffs and President Trump’s rhetoric for the love of the Toronto Blue Jays

October 16, 2025 at 4:26 p.m.

Many Canadians who have been boycotting the U.S. amid the Trump administration's tariffs and heated political rhetoric made an exception for the ALCS this week.

FILE – An Amazon Prime driver makes a delivery outside an apartment building in Pittsburgh, March 10, 2025. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar, File)

Amazon to pay $2.5 billion to settle FTC allegations it duped customers into enrolling in Prime

September 25, 2025 at 10:51 a.m.

Amazon has reached a historic $2.5 billion settlement with the Federal Trade Commission, which said the online retail giant tricked customers into signing up for its Prime memberships and made...

FILE – An Amazon Prime truck is seen on April 5, 2024, in Portland, Ore. (AP Photo/Jenny Kane, File)

A jury will look at whether Amazon tricked customers into joining Prime — and made it hard to leave

September 22, 2025 at 3:45 p.m.

A federal trial in Amazon’s hometown will examine whether the online retailing giant tricked customers into signing up for its Prime service and made it difficult to cancel after they...

Havalah Hopkins, a single mother who lives in government-subsidized housing with her teenage son, poses for a portrait outside her apartment Thursday, July 10, 2025, in Woodinville, Wash. (AP Photo/Lindsey Wasson)

1.4M of the nation’s poorest renters risk losing their homes with President Donald Trump’s proposed HUD time limit

July 17, 2025 at 9:15 a.m.

Amid a worsening national affordable housing and homelessness crisis, President Donald Trump’s administration is determined to reshape HUD’s expansive role providing stable housing for low-income people, which has been at...

FILE – With the Capitol in the background, Kali wears a trans equality flag in her hair while attending a rally for the Trans Day of Visibility on the National Mall, March 31, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, File)

President Donald Trump is swiftly undoing transgender protections in HUD’s housing policies

May 5, 2025 at 8:16 a.m.

The Trump administration is swiftly remaking housing policy as the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development retreats from long-established fair-housing protections for transgender people.

FILE – Washington State Park workers put up a new Canadian flag in front of an American flag about to be replaced during scheduled maintenance atop the Peace Arch in Peace Arch Historical State Park Monday, Nov. 8, 2021, in Blaine, Wash. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson, File)

From Alaska to Maine, communities that border Canada worry US tariffs come at a personal cost

March 2, 2025 at 9:05 a.m.

The US-Canadian tariffs have touched off a range of emotions along the world’s longest international border, where residents and industries are closely intertwined.

In this photo taken Aug. 8, 2017, Kelsey Nellis, second from right, instructs employees in preparation for the start of the school year at the Mountain View Christian Schools in Las Vegas. More than a third of U.S. states have created school voucher programs that bypass thorny constitutional and political issues by turning them over to non-profits that rely primarily on businesses to fund them. But the programs are raising questions about transparency and accountability at a time when supporters are urging that it be expanded into a federal program.

DeVos says school vouchers could be part of federal tax overhaul discussions

August 22, 2019 at 5:27 a.m.

More than a third of U.S. states have created school voucher programs that bypass thorny constitutional and political issues by turning them over to nonprofits that rely primarily on businesses...

The rear seat reminder in the 2017 Chevy Colorado midsize pickup truck shows a text alert when turning off the ignition, as well as a series of quick chimes.

Child safety advocates push for rear-seat alarm law

August 18, 2019 at 9:22 p.m.

A proposed law that would require carmakers to build alarms for back seats is being pushed by child advocates who say it will prevent kids from dying in hot cars....

Arlington Heights limits garage sales after sexual assault

May 8, 2019 at 7:29 p.m.

Arlington Heights is now limiting garage sales, months after neighbors blamed an out-of-control number of such events for a home invasion and sexual assault in the Cedar Glen area. A...

Palatine police blotter: Men suspected of stealing cash from home

June 16, 2018 at 7:41 a.m.

The following items were taken from Palatine police reports: Palatine Cash was taken from a bedroom following a burglary on Jan. 23 in the 800 block of South Brockway Street....

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