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Park District Installs Mobile Surveillance Cameras To Monitor Ronan Park Homeless Encampment

The cameras, which are frequently seen outside retail stores and other private businesses, were installed over the weekend. They did not prevent a fire from…

Migrants given booklet telling them ‘not to rape women and girls’

A Very Peculiar Hearing about the Millionaire’s Tax Initiative

The initiative to repeal the millionaire’s tax, Initiative 645, carried a clunkily worded caveat which will appear on the November ballot.

Colorado is literally begging you to go fishing at these lakes and reservoirs

Extreme drought conditions have led to unrestricted fishing in several areas. The post Colorado is literally begging you to go fishing at these lakes and…

Is America Ready for Another New Deal?

ICE detains operator of boat that capsized in NY Harbor, killing mom and baby girl

Manuel Hernandez could face deportation to his native country El Salvador. [ more › ]

“Love Machines”: James Muldoon on How AI Is Changing Relationships & the Global Workers Fueling AI

James Muldoon is a sociologist who writes about the changing nature of human-technology relationships. Love Machines: How Artificial Intelligence Is Transforming Our Relationships investigates how…

Battle of Fallen Timbers, Narrated by Wes Siler

Chicago Punk Band Sludgeworth Returns With New LP After 35-Year Hiatus 

The ‘80s and ‘90s underground punk band released their aptly titled LP “Second Time Around” in June. Catch them at their Cobra Lounge release shows…

Variable Utility Fees Pose Problems For Seniors On Fixed Incomes, South Side Tenants Say

Residents of Oglesby Towers in South Shore are starting a union to get rid of their building's “ratio utility billing system,” or RUBS, which they…

Where Are the Climate Protests? Human Rights Group Warns Government Crackdown Is Silencing the Green Movement

Liberty says a slew of new anti-protest measures, including a ban on 'cumulative disruption' are silencing calls for government action to prevent catastrophic climate collapse

AI Superintelligence Is Not a Tool, It’s an Adversary Threatening Humanity: ControlAI’s Connor Leahy

Sixty-nine-year-old Wynd Kaufmyn, a retired teacher from Berkeley, California, is believed to be the first person imprisoned for protesting the development of artificial intelligence, after…

The DWP is not accessible to many – defeating its own purpose

Jeremy Clarkson recently argued in his Sunday Times column that benefit claimants should write weekly letters of thanks to randomly selected tax payers. This is…

Around 66% of Hong Kong upper primary students experience stress from testing overload – survey

Close to 70 percent of upper primary students in Hong Kong say they experience stress brought on by excessive school assessments and testing, a new…

MS NOW Highlights – August 19

5 Years After Taliban Takeover, Women & Girls in Afghanistan Have Disappeared from Public Life

Restrictions on women’s rights have expanded in Afghanistan since U.S. forces withdrew from the country five years ago, ceding control to the Taliban in the…

Delaney Hall detainees say they’re crime victims. They hope that lets them stay in the US.

ICE agents outside of Delaney Hall in June. They're asking New Jersey Attorney General Jennifer Davenport to certify their U visa applications, which are for…

Fox News JUST DID IT To THEMSELVES And The Internet is GOING WILD!

The Leftovers with Lukas Nelson

This week on The Leftovers, never-before-heard audio from award-winning singer-songwriter Lukas Nelson!