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Attorney Ben Crump spoke with the family of George Floyd at a news conference held after the verdict in the murder trial of former Minneapolis police Officer Derek Chauvin, on Tuesday, April 20, 2021, in Minneapolis. (Carlos Gonzalez/Minneapolis Star Tribune/TNS)

[Photo] Floyd family says push for policing change cannot end after verdict

April 20, 2021
California Gov. Gavin Newsom has signed a law that would let athletes at California universities make money from their images, names or likenesses. [Dispatch]

[Photo] In the War Room with Warfel: Should college athletes be paid?

October 4, 2019
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[Photo] Padres land their Manny… Machado coming to San Diego

February 19, 2019
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[Photo] In the War Room with Warfel: The Free Agency Scandal

February 13, 2019
Photo: George H.W. Bush Presidential Library Foundation (Tribune News Service | MCT Direct)

[Photo] The 41st president will be remembered as a conservative moderate who embarked on his time in office with a sense of steady stewardship

December 4, 2018
After crossing the Rio Grande River at night with the help of smugglers, a group of mainly women and children from Central America are detained by U.S. Border Patrol agents before being taken into detention on Jan. 27, 2017. (Carolyn Cole/Los Angeles Times/TNS)

[Photo] Backlash builds against Trump’s policy splitting families at border, falsely blames Democrats

June 18, 2018
President Donald Trump holds a signed National Space Directive to establish a Space Traffic Management program to address the congestion of satellites and space vehicles in Earths orbit during a meeting with the National Space Council on Monday, June 18, 2018 in the East Room of the White House, in Washington, D.C. (Olivier Douliery/Abaca Press/TNS)

[Photo] Trump announces ‘Space Force’ plan as he signs space policy directive

June 18, 2018
North Koreas Kim Jong Un, third from left, shakes hands with U.S. President Donald Trump, third from right, in Singapore on Tuesday, June 12, 2018. (Kevin Lim/The Straits Times/Zuma Press/TNS)

[Photo] Trump-Kim Jong Un summit fails to produce disarmament plan

June 12, 2018
Illinois Gov. Bruce Rauner attends a bill signing on Thursday, Aug. 24, 2017 at the Safer Foundation North Lawndale Adult Transition Center. (Brian Cassella/Chicago Tribune/TNS)

[Photo] Opinion: 8 things more likely to happen than SIU closing campus for weather

January 30, 2019
Governor Bruce Rauner speaks out during a press conference for an announcement of a donation from AptarGroup and Adapt Pharma, Thursday, Feb. 8,2018. The donation will go to help prevent opioid deaths. (Antonio Perez/ Chicago Tribune)

[Photo] How local programs are affected by Rauner’s recently signed mental health bill

September 12, 2018
Map locating site of school shooting in Noblesville, Indiana

[Photo] Former Saluki lineman helped stop Indiana school shooting

May 25, 2018
Rep. Jeff Denham (R-Calif.), during a hearing on Capitol Hill on February 26, 2014, in Washington, D.C. (Pete Marovich/TNS)

[Photo] Allow 'Dreamers' to enlist in military for citizenship, House members urge

May 23, 2018
A vigil is held for victims of a deadly shooting at Santa Fe High school on May 18, 2018. Ten people were killed and 10 wounded in a shooting Friday morning at a high school south of Houston, authorities said. (Carolina Sanchez-Monge/Zuma Press/TNS)

[Photo] Texas school becomes latest casualty: 10 dead, 10 hurt in latest campus shooting

May 21, 2018
OxyContin, in 80 mg pills, in a 2013 file image. A recent trial suggests opioids had no pain-relieving adventage over common painkillers in a yearlong trial. (Liz O. Baylen | Los Angeles Times | TNS)

[Photo] New program will help pregnant women addicted to opioids

April 21, 2018
North Korean leader Kim Jong-un presides over a military parade on April 15, 2017. (Yonhap News/Newscom/Zuma Press/TNS)

[Photo] North Korea to suspend nuclear and missile tests

April 21, 2018
President Donald Trump announces military action against Syria for the recent gas attack on civilians, at the White House in Washington, D.C., on Friday, April 13, 2018. (Mike Theiler/Sipa USA/TNS)

[Photo] US fires missiles at Syria in retaliation for suspected poison gas attack

April 14, 2018
President Donald Trump hosts a joint news conference with Latvian President Raimonds Vejonis, Estonian President Kersti Kaljulaid and Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaite on Tuesday, April 3, 2018 in the East Room of the White House in Washington, D.C. (Oliver Contreras/Sipa USA/TNS)

[Photo] Trump pushes out Jeff Sessions as attorney general

November 7, 2018
Loyola head coach Porter Moser addresses fans as the team celebrates after a 78-62 win against Kansas State in an NCAA Tournament regional final at Philips Arena in Atlanta on Saturday, March 24, 2018. (John J. Kim/Chicago Tribune/TNS)

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Ice Cube performs during the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival in Indio, Calif., on Saturday, April 23, 2016. Ice Cube's BIG3 basketball league is preparing for its debut in Brooklyn. (Jay L. Clendenin/Los Angeles Times/TNS)

[Photo] Fat Joe, Kid Capri join Ice Cube at rap fest

March 26, 2018
Jessica Page, center, spends an evening with her relatives, some of whom she shares the home with, on Dec. 21, 2017 in their Milpitas home. Jessica Page shares a house in Milpitas with four relatives and wonders if she will be able to afford her own apartment in the coming years. (Dai Sugano/Bay Area News Group/TNS)

[Photo] House leasing workshop to advise students in renting off campus

March 8, 2018
Students head back to school at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School on Wednesday, Feb. 28, 2018 for the first time after a gunman killed 17 students in the school on Valentines Day. (Mike Stocker/Sun Sentinel/TNS)

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President Donald Trump, right, listens as Senator John Cornyn (R-Texas) speaks during a meeting with bipartisan members of Congress on school and community safety in the Cabinet Room of the White House on Wednesday, Feb. 28, 2018, in Washington, D.C. (Oliver Contreras/Sipa USA/TNS)

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Lucien Tschumy, 20, of Miramar, Fla. holds a single rose as she reads the names of the Pulse victims. Parents and students of Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla., and community members made a stop at the site of the Pulse nightclub attack on Wednesday, Feb. 28, 2018 on their way back home from Tallahassee. (Red Huber/Orlando Sentinel/TNS)

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A new study finds that when domestic violence offenders must relinquish their guns instead of being barred from owning firearms, the risk that they will kill their partners goes down. (Brian Cassella/Chicago Tribune/TNS)

[Photo] Gun control a top priority for an Illinois gubernatorial candidate, running mate

March 7, 2018
Convicted killer Drew Peterson, seen here in 2009, was sentenced in 2013 for murdering his third wife, Kathleen Savio, who was found dead in 2004. (Zbigniew Bzdak/Chicago Tribune/TNS)

[Photo] Illinois Supreme Court again upholds conviction of Drew Peterson for murder of his third wife

January 19, 2018
A file image from the government shutdown in 2013. If the government shuts down in the coming days, the Trump administration plans to keep many national parks and monuments open. (Olivier Douliery/Abaca Press/MCT)

[Photo] Trump invites Democratic leader Schumer to White House for last-minute shutdown talks

January 19, 2018
Jose Gonzalez with Granite Construction directs crews from the Olive Mill Road bridge as they work to clear the 101 Freeway, which remains flooded with mud and debris under the Olive Mill Road bridge in Montecito, Calif. on Tuesday morning January 16, 2018. Officials hope to reopen the 101 freeway by Monday, January 22, 2018. A rain storm hit one week ago as the Santa Ynez Mountains deposited mud and debris into Montecito neighborhoods, killing more than 20 people. (Al Seib/Los Angeles Times/TNS)

[Photo] Death toll in California mudslides rises to 20 as crews search for the missing

January 16, 2018
A container for Blue Bell homemade vanilla ice cream litters the side of Texas State Highway 105 on Thursday, April 23, 2015, in Brenham, Texas. Blue Bell recalled all of its products earlier in the week after more ice cream samples tested positive for Listeria. (Smiley N. Pool/Dallas Morning News/TNS)

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A man looks at his phone while driving down Woodall Rodgers Freeway on July 16, 2015 in Dallas. (Rose Baca/The Dallas Morning News/TNS)

[Photo] Chicago City Council considers ‘Textalyzer’ to catch texting drivers

January 12, 2018
U.S President Donald Trump signs an Executive Order on Supporting our Veterans during their Transition from Uniformed Service to Civilian Life on Tuesday, January 9, 2018 in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, D.C. (Olivier Douliery/Abaca Press/TNS)

[Photo] As new deadline looms, Trump is expected to stay in Iran nuclear deal despite reservations

January 11, 2018
AT&T has decided not to carry phones by Chinese smartphone maker Huaawei after concerns about security. (Dreamstime)

[Photo] AT&T drops plans to carry Huawei smartphones after concerns raised over Chinese spying

January 10, 2018
An old car passes in front of the U.S Embassy in Havana, Cuba, on March 17, 2016, prior to a visit by U.S. President Barack Obama. (Olivier Douliery/Abaca Press/TNS)

[Photo] State Department officials still can’t explain who or what sickened U.S. diplomats in Cuba

January 9, 2018
The war court headquarters at Camp Justice, as seen through a broken window at an obsolete air hangar at the U.S. Navy base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, on February 28, 2015, in an image approved for release by the U.S. military. (Carol Rosenberg/Miami Herald/TNS)

[Photo] Accused 9/11 plotter declares secret prison’s groin searches are sexual harassment

January 8, 2018
Golden bitcoins (Dreamstime/TNS)

[Photo] Should Illinois regulate Bitcoin? Lawmakers seek answers

January 8, 2018
What impact will the net neutrality repeal have on our students? (Dreamstime)

[Photo] Repeal of net neutrality rules rankles business community

January 6, 2018
U.S. President Donald J. Trump arrives on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., on Thursday, Nov. 16, 2017 to speak to the House Republican Conference. (Chris Kleponis/CNP/Zuma Press/TNS)

[Photo] House passes its tax plan as Senate version comes under new attack

November 16, 2017
A soldier with the Afghan army leaves the landing site as an Afghan Mi-17 takes off during training near Camp Shorab, in Helmand Province. (Marcus Yam/Los Angeles Times/TNS)

[Photo] The Marines returned to Helmand province. Is their mission a blueprint for Trump’s Afghanistan strategy?

November 16, 2017
Barbequed pork is sandwiched between layers of corn bread that is bolstered with cheddar, corn kernels and jalapeno. (James F. Quinn/Chicago Tribune/TNS)

[Photo] SIU student researching the origins of barbecue

November 15, 2017
US President Donald Trump ahead of a meeting with Chinas President Xi Jinping outside the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on Nov. 9, 2017. (Artyom Ivanov/Tass/Abaca Press/TNS)

[Photo] Trump delivers ‘America First’ trade message to Asia conference, says U.S. will only cut deals with individual nations

November 10, 2017
GOP candidate for U.S. Senate Roy Moore speaks during a forum in Valley, Ala., on August 3, 2017. The former Chief Justice of the Alabama Supreme Court prevailed in the special election to fill the seat vacated by Attorney General Jeff Sessions. The gun-toting, Bible-quoting, conservative firebrand will likely shake up the Senate whether he can wave his firearm around or not. (Bill Clark/Congressional Quarterly/Newscom/Zuma Press/TNS)

[Photo] Republican Roy Moore of Alabama is pressed to quit Senate race after allegations that he molested a 14-year-old girl

November 10, 2017
Keith Schiller, deputy assistant to the president and director of Oval Office operations, talks to President Donald Trump during a ceremony on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington, D.C., on June 12, 2017. (Olivier Douliery/ddp USA/Sipa USA/TNS)

[Photo] Ex-bodyguard testifies Russian operative offered to ‘send 5 women’ to Trump’s hotel room

November 9, 2017
Investigators work at the scene of a mass shooting at the First Baptist Church in Sutherland Springs, Texas on Sunday, Nov. 5, 2017. (Jay Janner/Austin American-Statesman/TNS)

[Photo] Texas church might be demolished and replaced by memorial after shooting

November 9, 2017
Rev. Jesse Jackson speaks on the third day of the Democratic National Convention at the Wells Fargo Center in Philadelphia on Wednesday, July 27, 2016. A journalist has accused Jackson of sexual harassment. (Clem Murray/Philadelphia Inquirer/TNS)

[Photo] Journalist accuses Rev. Jesse Jackson, director John Singleton of sexual harassment

November 8, 2017
U.S. President Donald Trump, center, and Shinzo Abe, Japans prime minister, walk past an honor guard at Akasaka Palace in Tokyo, Japan, on Monday, Nov. 6, 2017. (Kiyoshi Ota/Bloomberg (Kiyoshi Ota/Xinhua/ZUMA Wire/TNS)

[Photo] Trump touts solidarity with Japan but refuses to shy away from trade

November 6, 2017
Investigators work at the scene of a mass shooting at the First Baptist Church in Sutherland Springs, Texas on Sunday, Nov. 5, 2017. (Jay Janner/Austin American-Statesman/TNS)

[Photo] Sutherland Springs church massacre wasn’t random, Abbott suggests

November 6, 2017
Chinese President Xi Jinping, right, meets with his U.S. counterpart, Donald Trump, in the latters Florida resort of Mar-a-Lago on April 6, 2017. (Lan Hongguang/Xinhua/Sipa USA/TNS)

[Photo] North Korea, trade, business deals: High Asia stakes for Trump

November 2, 2017
Paul Manafort on hand as the New York Yankees plays host to the Houston Astros in Game 4 of the American League Championship Series at Yankee Stadium in New York on Tuesday, Oct. 17, 2017. President Donald Trumps former campaign chairman, has surrendered to federal authorities, according to multiple reports. (Howard Simmons/New York Daily News/TNS)

[Photo] Paul Manafort’s lawyers say he’s not a flight risk because he knew indictment was coming and didn’t run

November 2, 2017
An illustration of Facebook logo, on May 9, 2016. (Jaap Arriens/NurPhoto/Sipa USA)

[Photo] Facebook stumbles with early effort to stamp out fake news

October 30, 2017
Paul Manafort on hand as the New York Yankees plays host to the Houston Astros in Game 4 of the American League Championship Series at Yankee Stadium in New York on Tuesday, Oct. 17, 2017. President Donald Trumps former campaign chairman, has surrendered to federal authorities, according to multiple reports. (Howard Simmons/New York Daily News/TNS)

[Photo] Paul Manafort and former aide face multiple charges in Mueller probe

October 30, 2017
Richard Spencer, a white nationalist, takes a brief tour of Texas A&M campus on December 6, 2016, in College Station, Texas. On Saturday, Oct. 7, 2017, he led dozens of torch-wielding white supremacists in a rally at the Confederate statue in Charlottesville, Va., for the first time since a neo-Nazi attacked marching protesters, killing one. (Ralph Barrera/Austin American-Statesman/TNS)

[Photo] Current hysteria has parallels with early 20th century

October 25, 2017
Hurricane Irma flooded many coastal streets, including this one in Edgewater, which then drained into the citys stormwater system or into Biscayne Bay. (Emily Michot/Miami Herald/TNS)

[Photo] Hurricane sent foul water from the sewers into Biscayne Bay. What happens now?

October 25, 2017
Muslims and activists stand near a fence across the street from the White House to protest against the Trump administrations proposed travel ban on Wednesday, Oct. 18, 2017 in Washington, D.C. (Olivier Douliery/Abaca Press/TNS)

[Photo] Federal judges in Hawaii and Maryland block Trump’s new travel ban

October 19, 2017
Sen. Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn) talks with reporters on Nov. 29, 2016 before the Senate Policy Luncheons in the Capitol. (Tom Williams/Congressional Quarterly/Newscom/Zuma Press/TNS)

[Photo] Senators push forward with bipartisan Obamacare fix — and Trump’s encouragement

October 19, 2017
Farmer Jason Bean calls to locate a new belt for his cotton picker on Wednesday, Oct. 12, 2017, at his farm near Peach Orchard, Mo. Bean is busy harvesting his soybeans, rice, and cotton this month. The broken belt shut down his cotton picker for a short time until he got it replaced. The $49 belt is needed to keep the $800,000 cotton picker working. (J.B. Forbes/St. Louis Post-Dispatch/TNS)

[Photo] Missouri farmers wrestle with toll of widespread dicamba damage

October 19, 2017
Reese Witherspoon arrives at the 69th Primetime Emmy Awards at the Microsoft Theater in Los Angeles on Sunday, Sept. 17, 2017. (Kirk McKoy/Los Angeles Times/TNS)

[Photo] Reese Witherspoon, J.Law share Hollywood sex abuse stories at female-centric award ceremony

October 17, 2017
Gerry Miller, 81, hugs San Francisco Police Department Officer Gary Loo to show how grateful she is to find her home still standing as residents were allowed to return to their homes on Sunday, Oct. 15, 2017 in the Mark West Springs area in Santa Rosa, Calif. (Genaro Molina/Los Angeles Times/TNS)

[Photo] After evacuations are lifted in California fires, some residents return home to wreckage: ‘It’s gone’

October 17, 2017
Former Rep. Michael Grimm, a Staten Island Republican who went to prison on felony tax fraud charges, announced on Sunday, Oct. 1, 2017, he is running for his old job in New York City, N.Y. (Dennis Van Tine/Abaca Press/TNS)

[Photo] With Trump in office, do scandals matter anymore?

October 13, 2017
Meathead Movers worker Theo Stratigos, a former Bullard High football and rugby player, moves a bed into a home, Thursday, Sept. 28, 2017. (John Walker/Fresno Bee/TNS)

[Photo] Beaten by husbands or boyfriends, these women turn to male movers for new start

October 13, 2017
U.S. President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump welcome Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Sophie Gregoire Trudeau to the White House on Wednesday, Oct. 11, 2017 in Washington D.C. (Olivier Douliery/Abaca Press/TNS)

[Photo] Doubts about NAFTA talks grow

October 11, 2017
Rock legend Tom Petty jams for a sold out crowd, June 26, 2006, at Xcel Center in St. Paul, Minn. (Jerry Holt/Minneapolis Star Tribune/TNS)

[Photo] Final interview: Tom Petty’s death comes just days after an introspective interview

October 4, 2017
San Juan mayor Carmen Yulin Cruz, shown on Oct. 2, 2017, believes this is not the time for politics, including the discussion of statehood for Puerto Rico. She says all should come together to try to help the island recover. The debate over whether or not Puerto Rico should be given statehood has surfaced again with the attention hurricane Maria brought to the island. (Carolyn Cole/Los Angeles Times/TNS)

[Photo] Slow arrival of hurricane aid revives statehood debate in Puerto Rico

October 3, 2017
UNLV students hold a moment of silence for the victims of the mass shooting that killed 59 people and injured more than 525 on Oct. 2, 2017 in Las Vegas. (Marcus Yam/Los Angeles Times/TNS)

[Photo] Editorial: Horror in Las Vegas and our incredible power to forget

October 3, 2017
Police vehicles are seen near the site of shooting in Las Vegas, the United States, on Oct. 2, 2017. At least 50 people were killed and over 200 others wounded in a mass shooting at a concert Sunday night outside of the Mandalay Bay Hotel in Las Vegas, Nevada. (Huang Chao/Xinhua/Zuma Press/TNS)

[Photo] Las Vegas concert gunman identified as Stephen Paddock, 64; motive unknown

October 2, 2017
In downtown San Juan, Puerto Rico, some buildings have generator-driven lights, as there is no public electricity working anywhere on the island, on Thursday, Sept. 28, 2017. (Carolyn Cole/Los Angeles Times/TNS)

[Photo] ‘We don’t even know when we’re coming back’: Puerto Ricans evacuate to Florida on a cruise ship

September 29, 2017
Denver Broncos Brandon Marshall kneels during the national anthem before a game against the Atlanta Falcons on Sunday, Oct. 9, 2016 at Sports Authority Field at Mile High in Denver, Colo. (Mark Reis/Colorado Springs Gazette/TNS)

[Photo] NFL players kneeling during national anthem: How Colin Kaepernick started a movement and why

September 28, 2017
A teacher chats with students at Kendall Elementary School in Naperville in 2016. College and universities are trying to figure out how to attract more students into the education profession to reduce the nationwide teacher shortage. (Mike Mantucca/Chicago Tribune/TNS)

[Photo] ‘Salaries are still low’: Teacher shortage leaves schools searching for new ways to recruit

September 28, 2017
Nearly one week after hurricane Maria devastated the island of Puerto Rico, residents are still trying to get the basics of food, water, gas and money from banks. Much of the damage done was to electrical wires, fallen trees, and flattened vegetation, in addition to wooden home roofs torn off. (Carolyn Cole/Los Angeles Times/TNS)

[Photo] Puerto Rico: The urgency of now

September 27, 2017
The war court headquarters at Camp Justice, as seen through a broken window at an obsolete air hangar at the U.S. Navy base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, on Feb. 28, 2015, in an image approved for release by the U.S. military. Defense lawyers are asking a federal judge to intervene in a ccaptives Guantanamo medical care. (Carol Rosenberg/Miami Herald/TNS)

[Photo] Iraqi’s lawyers ask federal court for civilian medical oversight at Guantanamo

September 27, 2017
Residents of Loiza, Puerto Rico, such as Monica Pisarro, are anticipating a direct hit from Hurricane Maria, on Tuesday, Sept. 19, 2017. The hurricane is expected to pass over the island on Wednesday. (Carolyn Cole/Los Angeles Times/TNS)

[Photo] Hurricane Maria: Orlando families find helping Puerto Rico isn’t simple

September 26, 2017
Looters targeted a Walgreens in the shopping area where this man owns a cafe shop, shown on Sept. 25, 2017. His cafe was also looted. (Carolyn Cole/Los Angeles Times/TNS)

[Photo] Two members of campus deal with aftermath of Hurricane Maria, central Mexico earthquake

September 28, 2017
Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos in Seattle in a June 2014 file image. In a press release Thursday, Amazon announced it is planning to build a second, equal headquarters in another city. (Ken Lambert/Seattle Times/TNS)

[Photo] How much would you give for 50,000 jobs? Amazon wants to know

September 22, 2017
September 19, 2017 - Washington, District of Columbia, United States of America - United States Senator Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) speaks to reporters outside the US Senate Chamber following the Republican weekly luncheon caucus in the US Capitol on Sept. 19, 2017 in Washington, D.C. The GOP leadership is advocating for the passage of the Graham-Cassidy Act that would replace parts of the Affordable Care Act (also known as ObamaCare) with block grants for the individual states. Looking on from the right is US Senator Bill Cassidy. (Ron Sachs/CNP/Zuma Press/TNS)

[Photo] Healthcare.gov could be crippled under latest GOP Obamacare repeal proposal

September 22, 2017
People carry steel to be used to support the structure of the collapsed Enrique Rebsamen school in Colonia Nueva Oriental Coapa in Mexico City, on Thursday, Sept. 21, 2017. (Gary Coronado/Los Angeles Times/TNS)

[Photo] Mexico rescues continue; death toll reaches at least 274

September 22, 2017
Los Angeles Harbor College student Brenda Soriano, second from right, and her mother Edilbertha Martinez, left, participate in a rally in support of the Deferred Action for Child Arrivals, or DACA program in Los Angeles on September 5, 2017. Brenda and her sister Diana Martinez are in the Deferred Action for Child Arrivals, or DACA program. The Soriano family are originally from Oaxaca, Mexico. Diana is studying to be an aerospace engineer and Brenda is studying to be a journalist. The girls came illegally to the U.S. at ages 3 and 7 in the back of a van through Tijuana. (Genaro Molina/Los Angeles Times/TNS)

[Photo] ‘My daughters are going to be OK.’ Then Trump phased out DACA

September 20, 2017
President Donald Trump addresses world leaders at the UN General Assembly in New York on Sept. 19, 2017. (Olivier Douliery/Abaca Press/TNS)

[Photo] At UN, Trump rips Kim as ‘Rocket Man,’ threatens to ‘destroy’ North Korea

September 20, 2017
President Donald Trump addresses world leaders at the UN General Assembly in New York on Sept. 19, 2017. (Olivier Douliery/Abaca Press/TNS)

[Photo] Trump says he’s decided on Iran nuclear deal, but doesn’t reveal his decision

September 20, 2017
Rep. Bruce Franks Jr., D-St. Louis (third from right) leads a silent march on Market Street on Monday, Sept. 17, 2017. (Cristina M. Fletes/St. Louis Post-Dispatch/TNS)

[Photo] Monday morning protest in downtown St. Louis begins with silent march

September 18, 2017
An injured woman close to Parsons Green station in west London after an explosion on a packed London Underground train Friday, Sept. 15, 2017. (Dominic Lipinski/PA Wire/Zuma Press/TNS)

[Photo] London police say blast caused by ‘improvised explosive device’

September 15, 2017
Education Sec. Betsy DeVos listens as U.S. President Donald Trump speaks during a strategic and policy discussion with CEOs in the State Department Library in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building on April 11, 2017, in Washington, D.C. (Olivier Douliery/Abaca Press/TNS)

[Photo] SIU will continue current Title IX policies while DeVos overhaul remains murky

September 14, 2017
Volunteer Lisa Musgrave, of Palatine, Ill., left, calls over Robin Delapena, collections assistant and digitization specialist, to see a slide that is a double exposure. Volunteers at Chicagos Field Museum work in the back area of the museum helping digitize and archive specimens in the collections. (Nancy Stone/Chicago Tribune/TNS)

[Photo] In world of citizen science, amateurs and enthusiasts make real contributions

September 13, 2017
Consumer credit reporting agency Equifax, whose headquarters in Atlanta is seen here, said a breach of its computer systems had exposed the Social Security numbers and birthdates of up to 143 million U.S. consumers. (Dreamstime/TNS)

[Photo] Congress Targets Credit Reporting Sector and Cybersecurity After Equifax Breach

September 12, 2017
The name of a victim of the 9/11 attacks is seen adorned an American flag on the perimeter of a reflecting pool at a ceremony commemoratoing the 16th anniversary of the September 11th terrorist attacks at the World Trade Center site in New York, New York, NY, USA on September 11, 2017. (Albin Lohr-Jones/Sipa USA/TNS)

[Photo] Families gather at Ground Zero for 9/11 ceremony

September 11, 2017
A Florida Highway Patrol trooper inspects a closed segment of Interstate 4, near State Road 434, in Longwood, Fla. on Monday, Sept. 11, 2017, after a portion of the interstate highway northeast of Orlando washed away during Hurricane Irmas passing through central Florida on Sunday night. (Joe Burbank/Orlando Sentinel/TNS)

[Photo] Hurricane Harvey was ‘heartbreaking,’ SIU student from Houston says

September 13, 2017
Liz Hankins and James Kiernan, of North Lauderdale, fill trash bags with sand on Pompano Beach in preparation for Hurricane Irma on Friday, Sept. 8, 2017. (Amy Beth Bennett /Sun Sentinel/TNS) SOUTH FLORIDA OUT; NO MAGS; NO SALES; NO INTERNET; NO TV

[Photo] Former SIU student’s home destroyed by Hurricane Irma

September 8, 2017
A fence collapses on a car after an 8.1 earthquake hit southern Mexico Sept. 8, 2017. More than 30 people have died from the quake. (El Universal/Zuma Press/TNS)

[Photo] More than 30 dead in powerful Mexico earthquake, officials say

September 8, 2017
In this panoramic view, empty shelves show the depleted supply of bottled water at the Whole Foods store in Winter Park, Fla., as residents prepare for Hurricane Irma on Wednesday, Sept. 6, 2017. (Joe Burbank/Orlando Sentinel/TNS)

[Photo] Hurricanes Irma, Harvey restart debate on climate change and warmer oceans

September 7, 2017
Drivers wait in line for gasoline at the Costco in Altamonte Springs, Fla., ahead of the anticipated arrival of Hurricane Irma on Wednesday, Sept. 6, 2017. (Joe Burbank/Orlando Sentinel/TNS)

[Photo] Hurricane Irma makes landfall in the northeast Caribbean with Florida likely in crosshairs

September 6, 2017
While global warming didnt cause Hurricane Harvey, it certainly made it worse. (Texas.713/FlickrCC)

[Photo] Nearly a week after Harvey’s exit, floodwaters persist in some areas

September 5, 2017
Tom Kepner, left, stocks gas containers as shoppers buy hurricane items at The Home Depot in Lady Lake on Tuesday afternoon, Sept. 5, 2017. Buyers are preparing for Hurricane Irma. The store was out of generators and water early Tuesday. (Stephen M. Dowell/Orlando Sentinel/TNS)

[Photo] Officials: Time to prepare in Northeast Florida as Hurricane Irma becomes category 5 storm

September 5, 2017
Secretary of State Rex Tillerson attends a joint press conference between U.S. President Donald Trump and President Sauli Niinista of Finland in the East Room of the White House on Aug. 28, 2017 in Washington, D.C. (Olivier Douliery/Abaca Press/TNS)

[Photo] Top business leaders urge Tillerson to fill women’s rights role at State

September 1, 2017
At podium is Stacy Parks, Miller Centre County District Attorney, with James and Evelyn Piazza, parents of Timothy Piazza, 19, of Readington Township, N.J. during a press conference at Bellefonte courthouse on Friday morning May 5, 2017. (David Swanson/Philadelphia Inquirer/TNS)

[Photo] Penn State frat members cleared of most serious charge in pledge’s death

September 1, 2017
A military search and rescue helicopter is refueling mid-flight before resuming nighttime missions over areas flooded in the aftermath of Tropical Storm Harvey in Lumberton, Texas, on Thursday, Aug. 31, 2017. (Marcus Yam/Los Angeles Times/TNS)

[Photo] Harvey aid, seen topping Katrina and Sandy, may be in batches

September 1, 2017
It took two years of fighting red tape into months of excavating concrete and water, but Russ Nielsen was determined to find out what was inside this long-ago decommissioned missile launch complex in central Missouri. (Joe Ledford/Kansas City Star/TNS)

[Photo] New fears of nuclear war spark interest in Missouri Minuteman missile shelter

August 30, 2017
A Ku Klux Klansman, William Hagen, left, fights a counterprotester for an American flag after members of the KKK tried to start a White Lives Matter rally on Feb. 27, 2016 at Pearson Park in Anaheim, Calif. California might not seem an ideal place for the extreme-right and white-nationalist groups to make a stand. But the movement has increasingly targeted the state in recent years. (Luis Sinco/Los Angeles Times/TNS)

[Photo] Missouri-based white supremacist website continues to operate as others are shut down

August 29, 2017
Members of the Chicago Police Department investigate the area where two people were shot in the 6400 block of South Eberhart Avenue on April 24, 2017, in Chicago, Ill. (Armando L. Sanchez/Chicago Tribune/TNS)

[Photo] AG Madigan sues to enforce Chicago police reform; Emanuel pledges cooperation

August 29, 2017
Volunteers sort donated clothes as more than 9,000 and counting have gathered at the downtown evacuation center at the George R. Brown Convention Center on Tuesday, Aug. 29, 2017 in Houston, Texas. (Robert Gauthier/Los Angeles Times)

[Photo] Trump visits Texas with promise of help for those battered by Harvey

August 29, 2017
Cleveland Cavaliers forward LeBron James celebrates a foul with Kyrie Irving during the third quarter against the Boston Celtics in Game 4 of the Eastern Conference finals on Tuesday, May 23, 2017 at Quicken Loans Arena in Cleveland, Ohio. (Leah Klafczynski/Akron Beacon Journal/TNS)

[Photo] Former SIU graduate assistant putting his mark on the NBA

September 7, 2017
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