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The league ‘could also curtail the on-field access of live military and police honor guards’ The ongoing coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic is expected to severely limit, if not eliminate, fan attendance at NFL games during the 2020 season, but fans won’t … Read More

Nearly 20,000 counterfeit U.S. licenses were seized at Chicago’s O’Hare airport in the first half of 2020, according to a report. Counterfeit documents are giving criminals a license to commit a host of offenses, including terrorism, U.S. officials say — and young adults who are … Read More

Annexation still on the table, Netanyahu says, but the U.S. asked Israel to ‘temporarily postpone’ applying sovereignty to parts of West Bank in order to advance the peace agreement. U.S. President Donald Trump and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu shake hands … Read More

United Arab Emirates and Israel agree to ‘full normalization’ of diplomatic relations, Trump announces. President Trump on Thursday announced what he called a “Historic Peace Agreement” between Israel and the United Arab Emirates, saying they agreed to “full normalization of relations.” “HUGE … Read More

LONDON (Reuters) – Britain’s assessment is that a Brexit agreement can be reached with the European Union in September, the UK chief negotiator David Frost said on Thursday ahead of a round of negotiations with his EU counterpart Michel Barnier … Read More

Estimated 300,000 acres stripped bare by rodents and now browning in heatwave. Farmers say that the field mice have been tunnelling under fields and gnawing at the roots of crops. Photograph: Arterra/Universal Images Group/Getty Images Large swathes of Germany’s farmland … Read More

Interior Minister Horst Seehofer has blocked individual German states from rescuing migrants from Greek refugee camps. The state governments are up in arms and are considering legal action. Several of Germany’s 16 states are considering banding together to defy the … Read More

The number of immigrants arrested at the southwestern border has more than doubled since the spring, fueled by Mexico’s economic slump and a Trump administration policy that migrants say works in their favor. Men who had been returned to Nogales, … Read More

(David Dee Delgado/Getty Images) A Black Lives Matter organizer in Chicago is defending the violence that caused $60 million in damage and injured 13 police officers on Sunday, characterizing looting as “reparations.” Ariel Atkins, a BLM organizer, according to Chicago … Read More

A window is shattered at a Timberland store along Michigan Avenue after it was looted on August 10, 2020 in Chicago, Illinois. (Scott Olson/Getty Images) Chicago continues to brace for more looting as business owners fear the long-term impact of … Read More

A serious problem, or a pipe dream? Even before the so-called “Scramble for Africa” of the late nineteenth-century, many European powers had a well-established presence in Africa—including some with benign-sounding terms such as “interest” or “protectorate.” But after the Berlin … Read More

Illustration on attacking freedom of speech by Linas Garsys/The Washington Times ANALYSIS/OPINION: Frederick Douglass called freedom of speech “the dread of tyrants. It is the right which they, first of all, strike down. They know its power.” Back in the … Read More

Can the impoverished country pull through the pandemic if widespread outbreaks occur? North Korean state media has publicly admitted the likely presence of coronavirus in the country, reversing Pyongyang’s longstanding and widely doubted claim of no coronavirus cases within its borders. … Read More

Clean up at Best Buy Workers clean up merchandise boxes outside the Best Buy store on North Avenue in Chicago’s Lincoln Park neighborhood following looting on Aug. 10, 2020. (Antonio Perez / Chicago Tribune) Hundreds of people swept through the Magnificent … Read More