Ukraine and its European allies signaled that key sticking points remained in U.S.-brokered peace talks even as senior officials hailed progress in winning more favorable terms for Kyiv from a proposal backed by President Donald Trump.

German Chancellor Friedrich Merz lauded a meeting in Geneva on Sunday, where Ukrainian and U.S. negotiators ...Read more

CHICAGO — As Mayor Brandon Johnson has shaken hands in church pews and given booming speeches in school auditoriums while selling his 2026 budget plan directly to Chicagoans, one color has been notably muted among his supporters: purple.

That’s the signature hue of the Service Employees International Union, whose local affiliates were ...Read more

CHICAGO — International enrollment dropped at nearly two dozen Illinois universities this fall, with some seeing dramatic declines after the Trump administration tightened student visa policies.

A Tribune analysis of 27 of the state’s largest universities found that foreign enrollment dipped at all but four institutions, including the ...Read more

Chile ultra-conservative presidential candidate José Antonio Kast secured a commanding double-digit lead in the first polls taken since he and a leftist rival advanced to the country’s runoff vote.

Kast was backed by 46% of respondents followed by Jeannette Jara, from the Communist Party, with 34%, according to a Cadem poll published late on...Read more

Philadelphia stands to lose tens of millions of dollars in federal funds intended to fight homelessness under a plan issued by the Trump administration that advocates say could significantly disrupt permanent housing programs and return formerly homeless people to the streets.

The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development released the ...Read more

Joanne Belknap bears witness.

She bears witness to the young families arriving at Denver immigration court in their Sunday best — baby girls in headbands, men in collared shirts. She notices the trembling hands accepting informational pamphlets she distributes outside the Byron Rogers Federal Building downtown. Among packed, wooden courthouse...Read more

The car wash hadn't yet opened for the day, but its owner was already on edge.

He scanned the street for law enforcement vehicles and hit refresh on a crowdsourced map that showed recent immigration sweeps.

"They were busy in our area yesterday," he warned his employees. "Be careful."

But except for staying home, there were few precautions ...Read more

Along with the occasional aches and pains, growing older can bring surprise setbacks and serious diseases. Longtime relationships with doctors people trust often make even bad news more tolerable. Losing that support — especially during a health crisis — can be terrifying. That’s why little-known federal requirements are supposed to ...Read more

Rates of pertussis, also known as whooping cough, are surging in Texas, Florida, California, Oregon, and other states and localities across the country.

The outbreaks are fueled by falling vaccination rates, fading immunity, and delays in public health tracking systems, according to interviews with state and federal health officials. Babies too...Read more

Martin Kulldorff, chair of the Trump administration’s reconstituted CDC vaccine panel, made a shocking — and misleading — statement as the group met in September. Referring to a clinical trial, Kulldorff, a biostatistician and former professor at Harvard Medical School, said eight babies born to women who received Pfizer’s COVID vaccine ...Read more

President Donald Trump’s formal designation of Venezuela’s Cartel de los Soles as a foreign terrorist organization will go into effect on Nov. 24, escalating tensions between the U.S. and Venezuela.

The U.S. government explicitly accuses the group, whose name translates to Cartel of the Suns, of being led by Venezuelan President Nicolás ...Read more

Japan’s defense minister, visiting a military base close to Taiwan, said plans to deploy missiles to the post would move forward as tensions smolder between Tokyo and Beijing over the East Asian island.

“The deployment can help lower the chance of an armed attack on our country,” Shinjiro Koizumi told reporters on Sunday as he wrapped up ...Read more

President Donald Trump said no television networks should be able to expand, citing the potential growth of what he considers left-wing news networks.

“If this would also allow the Radical Left Networks to ‘enlarge,’ I would not be happy. ABC & NBC, in particular, are a disaster - A VIRTUAL ARM OF THE DEMOCRAT PARTY,” Trump said in a ...Read more

General Dan Caine, chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff, will meet service members of the U.S. Southern Command on Monday in Puerto Rico, where the American military presence has swelled as the Trump administration weighs military action against Venezuela.

The Pentagon said in a statement that Caine and David L. Isom, a Navy SEAL and ...Read more

In a sea of dark-suited men and G-20 stalwarts, a bonding moment this weekend between two populist women stood out.

When Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi locked eyes with her Italian counterpart Giorgia Meloni for the first time on Saturday at the Group of 20 summit in Johannesburg, the enthusiasm on both sides was hard to miss.

Japanese...Read more

More Americans than ever are expected to travel over the Thanksgiving holiday period, and the lion’s share of the nearly 82 million people making a getaway will be going by car.

AAA predicts that 73 million people will drive to their destination, and that number could rise if those who originally opted to fly switch to driving after the ...Read more

The Alaska State Medical Board canceled its meeting Friday for the second consecutive month because it lacked the quorum to operate.

The board is tasked with adopting regulations governing the practice of medicine in Alaska, and takes disciplinary action against physicians accused of medical malpractice.

But it has been hampered for months as ...Read more