Australian Cardinal George Pell, the pope's powerful finance minister, is under fire on two fronts. For the outside world he is most notably accused of protecting paedophile priests. But closer to home he has made many Vatican enemies in his drive to shake up the secretive and archaic institution. © AFP / by Jean-Louis de la Vaissiere | Vatican finance chief Cardinal George Pell was picked in 2013 to be one of a key group of advisors to the pope set up to help the Argentine reform the unruly Vatican's administrative body, the C…
Three men have been shot to death on the West Side since mid-afternoon Wednesday, including one who a witness said was shot in a high-rise workout room, police said. In addition to those killed, at least seven other people have been wounded in shootings in Chicago since midmorning Wednesday, according to police. About 7:05 p.m., a 45-year-old man was shot multiple times in the 500 block of West Kinzie Street in the Fulton River District on the Near West Side, police said. He was taken to Northwestern Memorial Hospital in critical c…
A man has been shot to death in a Back of Yards park and at least four other people have been wounded in separate shootings since Tuesday morning, police said. A 20-year-old man was fatally shot in the 4400 block of South Hermitage Avenue about 6:15 p.m., said Officer Thomas Sweeney, a Chicago police spokesman. The address of the shooting is in Davis Square Park, which has an official address of 4430 S. Marshfield Ave. The man was walking in the area when a car drove up and someone got out and started shooting at him, hitting h…
Republican Donald Trump and Democrat Hillary Clinton have moved closer to winning their parties' nominations with a series of victories in the Super Tuesday elections . Clinton and Trump each won at least seven of 11 state races as they distanced themselves from party rivals and looked ahead to the November 8 presidential election. Trump and Clinton took a big step towards capturing their parties' nominations on Super Tuesday [Scott Audette (L), Javier Galeano (R)/Reuters Ted Cruz, a conservative senator, won his home state of Tex…
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