Author: Voxtrend News
JERUSALEM — U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio says he will be seeking answers from Israeli officials about how they see the way forward in Gaza following Israel’s attack on Hamas operatives in Qatar that has upended efforts to broker an end to the conflict. Rubio told reporters on Saturday before leaving for Israel that President Donald Trump remained unhappy with the Israeli strike but that it would not shake U.S. support for Israel. “We’re going to talk about what the future holds, and I’m going to get a much better understanding of what their plans are moving forward,” Rubio…
Fox Sports came to Evanston on Saturday for its “Big Noon Kickoff” pregame show, showcasing Northwestern’s Big Ten opener against No. 4 Oregon for a national TV audience. Despite an early-morning monsoon that turned the Lakefill into a mud pit, all the gang was on hand, except for designated Ohio State-basher Dave Portnoy, who had a prior engagement at a pizza festival that obviously was more important than hyping a game everyone expected would be over by halftime. Still, it was NU’s first chance to host a big game at cozy Martin Stadium, its Instagrammable field on the shores of…
LOS ANGELES — “The Studio” looks like a runaway hit, the innies and outies of “Severance” could solidify a spot among the prestige TV elite, and Noah Wyle could finally have his big awards moment as the 77th Primetime Emmy Awards arrive. Comic Nate Bargatze will be a first-time host Sunday night when the ceremony at the Peacock Theater in Los Angeles airs on CBS Sunday night. Apple TV+ is poised to have a breakout Emmy year with the two most nominated shows, “Severance” and “The Studio,” which are the favorites to win the two biggest awards. How to watch…
ROME — Pope Leo XIV has marveled at the “huge learning curve” he has taken on as pontiff and likened some aspects of the job to jumping “in on the deep end of the pool very quickly,” in excerpts of an interview released Sunday on his 70th birthday. History’s first American pope said he had quickly found his footing as a pastor for the universal Catholic Church, but discovered the diplomatic job of being pope was more challenging. “The totally new aspect to this job is being thrown onto the level of world leader,” he was quoted as saying. “I’m…
SOUTH BEND, Ind. — After all of the wild, back-and-forth blows Saturday night at Notre Dame Stadium — from the first-quarter Irish blocked-punt-return touchdown to their botched extra point minutes earlier — it came down to this. Texas A&M had fourth-and-goal from the 11-yard line with 19 seconds to play. Aggies tight end Nate Boerkircher ran a wheel route and turned his body in front of Notre Dame linebacker Drayk Bowen. Quarterback Marcel Reed pumped once and let the football fly. Boerkircher tumbled into the end zone as he caught the pass, and with the extra point, the No. 16…
A Chicago day laborer arrested by immigration officials as part of the Trump administration’s “Operation Midway Blitz” campaign filed a petition in federal court Sunday asking a judge to bar his deportation and release him on bond. Willian Alberto Giménez González, who came to Chicago from Venezuela in 2023, was detained Friday when he went to a barbershop in the Little Village neighborhood, according to the petition filed in U.S. District Court. He’s being housed at the Department of Homeland Security’s processing center in west suburban Broadview, the petition stated. Kevin Herrera, Giménez González’s lawyer, said Saturday he believes the…
There are a couple unusual elements to an otherwise typical classroom on the fourth floor of Bloom High School in Chicago Heights. One is the fancy iron gridwork outside the windows that throws interesting shadows on the floor when the sun hits it just right. Then there’s the white painted door just to the right of the stout teacher’s desk. It could be mistaken for the entrance to a closet, except it’s always closed, always locked. “That’s for insurance purposes,” said Nancy Cavallo-Banolek, a 1972 Bloom graduate who volunteers overseeing the school’s extensive archives. Unbarred, the door would offer access…
Like most big American cities, Chicago has a homelessness problem. It is writ large in our public parks. Take the situation in the 39th Ward, where Ald. Samantha Nugent has grown so frustrated with burgeoning tent cities that she marched into our office with a multicolored timeline going back to 2022, reflecting her efforts to restore her constituents’ access to the grass and get a youth baseball program that plays in Gompers Park back onto the diamonds to play ball. Nugent, who was animated on this topic, noted a variety of problems in such parks as Gompers, Eugene Field and…
Tillie Edelstein, better known as Gertrude Berg, was one of the most fascinating cultural figures of mid-20th century America. And testament to the power of writing what you know. She developed a radio series in the late 1920s, based on family life in a Bronx tenement, starring herself as the matriarch, Molly Goldberg, that was credited with cheering up Americans during the Great Depression and integrating Jewish mores into mainstream America. Replete with its neighborhood call of “Yoo-Hoo, Mrs. Bloom,” archetypically accompanied by Molly leaning out her window, “The Goldbergs” became a seminal and famously affirmative CBS TV sitcom bringing…
The second-worst season in Chicago Sky history ended in protest Thursday night. The Sky fell to the New York Liberty 91-86, their 34th and final loss of the season in front of a Wintrust Arena crowd filled to the brim with frustration. The team’s in-house camera operators struggled to highlight fans on the jumbotron without catching glimpses of signs relaying negative messages to ownership, including “Free #5” and “We’re tired of mediocrity #selltheteam.” Midway through the third quarter, the entire arena rumbled with echoing chants from fans calling for general manager Jeff Pagliocca to be fired. The 10-34 (.227) finish…