"Chicago Tribune" Reader

"Chicago Tribune" Reader

Body found after South Side fire

Posted: 15 Sep 2012 05:02 PM PDT

Firefighters discovered the body of a "young male" in the front room of a South Side home this afternoon after putting out a blaze, officials said.

Chicago teachers rally after tentative labor deal

Posted: 15 Sep 2012 03:47 PM PDT

Chicago Teachers Union President Karen Lewis leaves a press conference on the fifth day of their strike in ChicagoCHICAGO (Reuters) - Thousands of striking Chicago teachers rallied on Saturday to keep the pressure on Mayor Rahm Emanuel to wrap up an agreement with their union to end a strike that has closed the nation's third largest school district for a week. The rally brought labor leaders, community activists and thousands of striking teachers to Chicago's Union Park for one of the largest demonstrations against Emanuel's education reforms since the strike began on Monday. ...

Egyptian police clear protesters near U.S. mission

Posted: 15 Sep 2012 01:47 PM PDT

CAIRO (Reuters) - Riot police stormed into Cairo's Tahrir Square and rounded up hundreds of protesters early on Saturday after four days of clashes sparked by a film denigrating the Prophet Mohammad. Security forces secured the square, just a few hundred yards from the U.S. embassy, and formed cordons in the surrounding roads. Plain-clothes officers patrolled the area, grabbing anyone they saw as suspicious. There was no sign of protests by mid-morning and traffic through Tahrir resumed. ...

Wisconsin AG aims to enforce union law during appeals

Posted: 15 Sep 2012 04:16 PM PDT

FILE - In this June 25, 2012 file photo, Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker speaks at a news conference in Chicago. A Wisconsin judge struck down Walker's law ending most collective bargaining for public workers. Dane County Circuit Judge Juan Colas ruled Friday, Sept. 14, 2012, that the law violates both the state and U.S. Constitution and is null and void. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast, File)Wisconsin's attorney general said Saturday he would seek court permission to keep enforcing a state law that effectively ended collective bargaining for public employees while his office appeals a judge's ruling striking it down.

With 7 weeks to go, Obama-Romney race still tight

Posted: 15 Sep 2012 08:45 AM PDT

FILE - In this Sept. 14, 2012 file photo, President Barack Obama, accompanied by Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, speaks during a Transfer of Remains Ceremony at Andrews Air Force Base, Md., marking the return to the United States of the remains of the four Americans killed this week in Benghazi, Libya. Middle East violence is shaking up a U.S. presidential race that otherwise looks stubbornly stable _ and tight: President Barack Obama holds a tiny edge, Republican Mitt Romney seeks a break-through message, and three debates loom in the campaign's final seven weeks. Republicans and Democrats agree the election is likely to be decided on Obama's jobs-and-economy record, and both campaigns are entering a new campaign week working to shift the focus back to that issue. But foreign policy leaped to forefront of the campaign in recent days, as protestors attacked U.S. diplomats and missions in the Middle East. It's unclear when it will abate. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster, File)Middle East violence is shaking up a presidential race that otherwise looks stubbornly stable, and tight. President Barack Obama holds a tiny edge, Republican Mitt Romney is seeking a breakthrough message, and three debates are ahead in the campaign's final seven weeks.

Afghan policeman kills two British soldiers

Posted: 15 Sep 2012 02:54 PM PDT

KABUL (Reuters) - An Afghan policeman killed two British soldiers from the NATO-led force in southern Afghanistan on Saturday before he was himself shot dead, security and coalition officials said. The incident brought to 47 the number of foreign military personnel killed in insider attacks this year. The gunman was returning from a security operation in Helmand with coalition soldiers when he turned his gun on them, a security source told Reuters. He killed the two soldiers and wounded three others. ...

Superbug kills 7th person at Maryland hospital

Posted: 15 Sep 2012 01:49 PM PDT

A deadly germ untreatable by most antibiotics has killed a seventh person at the National Institutes of Health Clinical Center in Maryland.

Sudan rejects U.S. request to send 50 Marines to country

Posted: 15 Sep 2012 11:28 AM PDT

Sudanese protesters chant slogans during a protest in Khartoum, Sudan, Friday, Sept. 14, 2012, as part of widespread anger across the Muslim world about a film ridiculing Islam's Prophet Muhammad. Germany's Foreign Minister says the country's embassy in the Sudanese capital of Khartoum has been stormed by protesters and set partially on fire. Minister Guido Westerwelle told reporters that the demonstrators are apparently protesting against an anti-Islam film produced in the United States that denigrates the Prophet Muhammad.(AP Photo/Abd Raouf)Sudan has rejected a U.S. request to send 50 Marines to that country to help boost security at  the American embassy in Khartoum, a U.S. official confirms. With the Marines en route to Sudan on Friday night, a U.S. official said at the time that...

Teen charged with trying to blow up Chicago bar

Posted: 15 Sep 2012 03:44 PM PDT

FILE-This Friday, June 15, 2012, file photo, shows the Chicago skyline. The Chicago area's jobless rate improved to 9.4 percent in June from 10.9 percent a year earlier. Sales of foreclosed homes have been climbing. The region's supply of bank-owned homes is now nearly 19 months. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)Undercover FBI agents arrested an 18-year-old American man who tried to detonate what he believed was a car bomb outside a downtown Chicago bar, federal prosecutors said Saturday.

Feds: Teen held in 'jihad' terrorist bomb attempt at Chicago bar

Posted: 15 Sep 2012 04:42 PM PDT

Allegations that Hillside resident Adel Daoud was arrested in a sting surrounding a car bomb and a downtown bar had his neighbors shaking their heads. "I never would have thought this was the way his mind was going," Dorothy Leverson said.

Al-Qaida praises Libya consulate attack and urges more killings

Posted: 15 Sep 2012 11:05 AM PDT

Al Qaeda Praises Libya Consulate Attack as Anti-American Protests SubsideAl Qaeda's branch in Yemen praised the killing of the U.S. ambassador to Libya as a "great event" today, and urged followers to kill other American diplomats across the Muslim world.

911 tapes of New Jersey supermarket shooting released

Posted: 15 Sep 2012 06:14 AM PDT

911 Tapes of New Jersey Pathmark Supermarket Shooting ReleasedEmployees Tell 911 Dispatcher They Hid From Shooter

California man linked to anti-Islam film may have violated probation

Posted: 15 Sep 2012 09:36 AM PDT

Nakoula May have Violated Probation by Making MovieFederal probation officers interviewed Nakoula Basseley Nakoula, a California filmmaker responsible for creating an anti-Islam film that sparked protests in more than 30 countries, late last night.

Egypt clears protesters from U.S. embassy area

Posted: 15 Sep 2012 05:11 AM PDT

Egyptian protesters run from the site of clashes with security forces, unseen, near the U.S. embassy in Cairo, Egypt, Friday, Sept. 14, 2012, as part of widespread anger across the Muslim world about a film ridiculing Islam's Prophet Muhammad. (AP Photo/Ahmed Gomaa)Egyptian police on Saturday cleared out protesters who have been clashing with security forces for the past four days near the U.S. Embassy as most cities around the Muslim world reported calm a day after at least six people were killed in a wave of angry protests over an anti-Islam film.

Al Qaeda in Yemen urges Muslims to kill U.S. diplomats over film

Posted: 15 Sep 2012 09:39 AM PDT

Protesters run as police use water cannons to disperse them at a crossroads leading to the U.S. embassy in SanaaThe Yemen-based branch of al Qaeda urged Muslims on Saturday to step up protests and kill U.S. diplomats in Muslim countries over a film denigrating the Prophet Mohammad which it said was another chapter in the "crusader wars" against Islam. Fury about the film, produced in California, swept across the Middle East after Friday prayers, with protesters attacking U.S. embassies. On Tuesday - September11 - an attack on the U.S. Consulate in the Libyan city of Benghazi killed the U.S. ambassador and three other Americans in related violence. ...

Friend: Prosecutor tried to fight off attack by teens in Lincoln Park

Posted: 15 Sep 2012 01:01 PM PDT

A Cook County prosecutor who was attacked by a pair of teens harassing two men they thought were gay tried to defend himself but "they got the best of him" and left him beaten and stabbed, according to the victim's friend.

Authorities: 50 involved in deadly Benghazi attack

Posted: 15 Sep 2012 07:46 AM PDT

Did Americans killed in Libya have enough security?Libyan authorities have identified 50 people who were involved in the attack on the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi in which the ambassador and three other Americans were killed, a security official said on Saturday. U.S. ambassador to Libya Christopher Stevens and three others died when gunmen attacked the consulate and a safe house refuge in the eastern city on Tuesday night. The attackers were part of a crowd blaming America for a film they said insulted the Prophet Mohammad. So far four people have been arrested and are being questioned, Libyan officials have said. ...

Pope Benedict: Time for Muslims, Christians to come together

Posted: 15 Sep 2012 10:24 AM PDT

Pope Benedict XVI stands next to Lebanese President Michel Suleiman as he waves to the crowd at Rafik Hariri international airport, in Beirut, Lebanon, Friday, Sept. 14, 2012. Pope Benedict XVI arrived in Lebanon on Friday to urge peace at a time of great turmoil in the Middle East, saying the import of weapons to Syria during the country's civil war is a "grave sin." The three-day visit comes at a time of turmoil in the region — the civil war in neighboring Syria and in the aftermath of a mob attack that killed several Americans in Libya, including the U.S. ambassador. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein)Pope Benedict XVI told Syrians at a rally for young people Saturday that he admired their courage and that he does not forget those in the Middle East who are suffering.

Talks resume to end Chicago teachers strike

Posted: 15 Sep 2012 10:26 AM PDT

Karen Lewis, president of the Chicago teachers union listens to a question after meeting of the union's House of Delegates Friday, Sept. 14, 2012, in Chicago. Lewis told the delegates that a "framework" was in place to end the teachers strike. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast)Union leaders representing thousands of striking Chicago public school teachers returned to the negotiating table Saturday with the school district to work out the details of a deal to end a week-long walkout in one of the nation's largest districts.

Israeli official signals no war is imminent with Iran

Posted: 15 Sep 2012 10:56 AM PDT

A senior Israeli official signaled on Saturday that there would be no unilateral attack on Iran in the coming weeks, saying that international pressure had kept Tehran's controversial nuclear program in check. Speculation that Israel might attack Iranian atomic facilities alone, and soon, has soared given an unusually public dispute with the United States about how much time to allow for negotiations and sanctions to run their course before considering military action. ...