Новости за 09.02.2018

Shares of delivery companies FedEx and UPS slid before the opening bell following a media report that Amazon.com is readying its own air delivery service for businesses.

So there’s another vacancy in the outstandingly successful Trump administration. White House staff secretary Rob Porter either resigned or was fired this week following allegations he assaulted both of his former wives.

AbbVie notched a win late last month in its ongoing battle against thousands of lawsuits that claim AndroGel, a once-blockbuster drug marketed to treat low testosterone in men, causes heart attacks, strokes and other injuries.

In an extraordinary show of unexpected unity, North and South Korea sat side by side Friday night under exploding fireworks that represented peace, not destruction, as the 2018 Winter Olympics opened on a Korean Peninsula riven by generations of anger, suspicion and bloodshed.The sister of North...

As commuters skidded and banged their way to work Friday morning, the National Weather Service said the major winter storm that hit overnight was tapering off earlier than expected, with total accumulation averaging 8 inches instead of as much as 14.

President Donald Trump on Friday signed a $400 billion budget deal that sharply boosts spending and swells the federal deficit, ending a brief federal government shutdown that happened while most Americans were home in bed and most government offices were closed, anyway.

In Jim Crow America, it's no wonder that Jack Johnson was the most despised African-American of his generation. The first black boxing heavyweight champion of the world, Johnson humiliated white fighters and flaunted his affection for white women, even fleeing the country after an all-white jury...

An Evanston felon who brandished a loaded handgun during a live video post on Facebook and then was arrested by police who recognized the location where the video was being shot has been sentenced to three years in prison, according to court records.

From schools to courthouses, the following is a list of closings as Chicago gets battered by the snow. We’ll be updating the list regularly, so check back.

It was a snark and stormy night:

As the NBA trade deadline played out Thursday, it became clear that getting a first-round pick for Nikola Mirotic ranks as no worse than the second-best acquisition leading up to the league’s yard sale. Imagine, the Bulls being quick and smart. Gotta say this: The...

The questions and concerns keep pouring into my inbox.

If you have one, send it to me via email or Twitter. I’ll do my best to answer. And have a little fun.

So I have a few questions. Why is Brent Seabrook still on the ice? I understand he's a great guy, and an important clubhouse presence, but...

Photos from the opening ceremony of the 2018 Olympics on Feb. 9, 2018.

Part 5 in an 11-part review of the 2017 Bears season.

The Bears made a clear move to emphasize tight ends last offseason when they bucked up for Dion Sims to sign him away from the Dolphins in free agency and then invested a second-round pick in Adam Shaheen, choosing him 45th overall after trading...

Figure skating's team event didn't exist when Scott Hamilton won gold at the 1984 Sarajevo Olympics. Looking back, he wishes it had — not simply to have a chance to bring home a second medal from those Winter Games, but also to have a preliminary event to get the jitters out in his Olympic debut...

Snow pounded the Chicago area overnight, resulting in nearly five inches of accumulation so far, more than two dozen crashes on city expressways and hundreds of canceled flights.

Munch’s Make Believe Band has been together for four decades. Longer than Green Day. Longer than Public Enemy. Madonna first performed as Madonna in 1982. But Munch’s played its first show in 1977, at a San Jose, Calif., pizza parlor, and from day one the band was news, the main attraction, more...

Snow is expected to fall in Chicago until late morning on Friday, and is likely to snarl traffic and cause problems during the morning commute, according to the National Weather Service.

Here’s a tip for those politicians and bureaucrats backing a federal government plan that could allow employers to pocket the hard-earned tips of hourly workers: Forget about it.

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Open concept includes a living and dining room with fireplace and a den with built-ins. Sunny cook's kitchen with stainless-steel appliances, double ovens, a wet bar with beverage refrigerator and island for seating. Breakfast...

Dear Amy: A year after my mother died, I woke up to the sounds of my father and my married aunt (my mother's sister) having sex in the living room.

Congress moved to end a five-hour government shutdown early Friday morning after the House narrowly voted to support a massive bipartisan two-year budget deal that stands to add hundreds of billions of dollars in federal spending on the military, domestic programs and disaster relief.

The 240-to-186...

Snow pounded the Chicago area overnight, resulting in more than two dozen crashes on city expressways, hundreds of canceled flights and less than an inch of visibility at O’Hare and Midway.

Lawmakers were striving in the pre-dawn hours to reopen the federal government, shuttered since midnight after a rogue Senate Republican blocked a speedy vote on a massive, bipartisan, budget-busting spending deal.