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Thank you for supporting our journalism. This article is available exclusively for our subscribers, who help fund our work at the Chicago Tribune. If there was going to be one final push, the time had arrived. Homewood-Flossmoor trailed Bolingbrook by 15 points at the start of the fourth quarter. Somebody needed to take the lead.…Continue Reading

Wednesday night’s images on CNN were at once familiar — flak-jacketed reporters standing on the roof of a hotel listening to shells and air-raid sirens — and profoundly shocking. These were early morning pictures coming from a European nation the size of France. It was the beginning of what former President George W. Bush rightly…Continue Reading

NFL free agency doesn’t begin for a few more weeks, however business is about to pick up when it comes to shuffling among the network broadcast teams with perhaps the biggest surprise of them all. Troy Aikman is expected to become the lead analyst on ESPN’s “Monday Night Football” after 22 years with Fox. The…Continue Reading

CNN’s Clarissa Ward has been in war zones throughout her career as a foreign correspondent. But reporting from an underground subway platform in a large European city filled with Ukrainians seeking refuge from a possible air strike was a throwback to another era.“It reminded me of World War II scenes we’ve been shown in the…Continue Reading

Donate to Ukraine’s army. Tell Russia what you think about its invasion of Ukraine. Get Russia’s verified account kicked off Twitter.These are some of the online messages in response to the crisis in Ukraine, being sent from a verified Twitter handle that says it is the official account of the embattled country. After several days…Continue Reading

The online meeting of the Ukrainian Culture Center in East Hollywood was filled with discussions of upcoming events — the annual celebration of a famed Ukrainian bard, planning a get-together to decorate traditional Easter eggs. But the gathering quickly adjourned Wednesday night as the Russian military began firing rockets at Ukrainian cities and the inevitability…Continue Reading

Europe is facing its greatest security crisis in decades after Russia launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine on Thursday. The conflict is threatening to destabilize regional political and military alliances and sparking fears that U.S. troops could be drawn into the fighting.What’s happening in Ukraine?Russia attacked Ukraine on Thursday, including airstrikes and shelling, as civilians…Continue Reading

6.44pm EST 18:44 Today in US Politics That’s it from us today in the nation’s capital. Here’s how the day unfolded in Washington, as the world offered its prayers to Ukraine in the face of a full-scale Russian invasion: Biden denounced Vladimir Putin’s decision to move forward with the invasion. In a speech at the…Continue Reading

For weeks, Joe Biden has issued urgent warnings that a Russian invasion of Ukraine could happen at any moment. The moment came overnight, when Russian troops began attacking Ukraine by land, air and sea.For the US president – increasingly embattled at home by a resurgent Republican party – it was evidence that the White House…Continue Reading