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CT lawmaker's saucy pizza proclamation causes outcry in top pie outposts: 'There's only one original'

A Connecticut congresswoman’s pronouncement on the House floor officially declaring that New Haven is the nation’s pizza capital led to some lighthearted objections from lawmakers in other popular pie locales last week. Rep. Rosa DeLauro, D-Conn., announced on the that for several reasons, New Haven – the state’s second-largest city – is thereby recognized as “the Pizza Capital of the …

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5-year-old Chicago girl among 9 fatally shot over Memorial Day weekend, grandmother issues plea

A five-year-old girl was among nine people fatally shot in a bloody Memorial Day weekend in Chicago. Reign Ware, the young victim, was shot at around 3 a.m. Sunday while she was sitting inside a parked car with her father on the Near West Side in the 200 block of North Campbell Avenue, Fox 32 Chicago reports. According to reports, …

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Chicago man convicted of murder based on blind witness' testimony files lawsuit against city, police

A Chicago man convicted of murder a decade ago based in part on testimony from an eyewitness who is legally blind is suing the city and the police department. Darien Harris was convicted by a judge in 2014 in connection with a 2011 fatal shooting at a South Side gas station. He was 12 years into a 76-year prison sentence …

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United Airlines flight catches fire just before takeoff halting arrivals at Chicago O'Hare

A United Airlines flight aborted takeoff from Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport after an engine caught fire, temporarily halting arrivals amid busy Memorial Day travel. United Flight 2091, an Airbus A320, was about to take off from the airport around 2 p.m. when an engine caught fire, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has confirmed. A plane caught fire on the runway …

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My daughter's car got stolen. What happened next shows why minorities are trending Republican

WhyareBlacks and Hispanics warming toRepublicans? Democratic strategists desperately want to know after aslewofpollsshowwhatmay be the start of a political realignment. They may want to consider the conversations I recently had at a South SideChicago impound lot. I foundmyself in that unhappy place last month aftermydaughter’s Jeep wasstolenfrom the city’s north side – a common occurrence. The police found it after …

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Stefanik spars with head of top school over failing grade on antisemitism, stunning whistleblower claim

New York Republican Rep. Elise Stefanik sparred with the president of Northwestern University, Michael Schill, over his school earning an “F grade” for its handling of antisemitism, as well as whistleblowers’ claims regarding Schill allegedly looking to hire an anti-Zionist rabbi for the school. “Isn’t it true that you asked the Hillel director whether it was possible to hire an …

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Indiana beauty queen arrested in Mexican cartel bust that included one of feds' most wanted fugitives

An Indiana beauty queen was swept up in a sweeping drug bust with ties to a Mexican cartel that’s been years in the making. Glenis Zapata, 34, who was crowned Miss Indiana Latina in 2011, allegedly used her job as a flight attendant to move drug money from Chicago to the southern states and into Mexico, according to a federal …

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6 men charged with staging string of Chicago-area robberies to get immigration visas

Six men have been charged with staging a string of armed robberies across Chicago and its surrounding suburbs so that the victims of these allegedly fake crimes could apply for special U.S. immigration visas reserved for crime victims, federal authorities said Friday. The two men accused of organizing and carrying out the staged robberies were identified as Parth Nayi, 26, …

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Elite university journalism professor exposed for monthslong campaign justifying Hamas

A left-wing journalism professor who teaches at a top Chicago-area university has for months justified Hamas terrorists’ war on Israel and even joined anti-Israel student agitators on campus, Fox News Digital learned after reviewing his social media and blog posts. Steven Thrasher is an associate professor of journalism at Northwestern’s Medill School of Journalism and has been “regularly published in …

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Man accused of opening fire outside Chicago's Wrigley Field to be held without bail

A federal magistrate judge on Monday ordered a man accused of opening fire on a busy street outside Wrigley Field earlier this month to remain in custody without bail. Raphael Hammond, 37, has been charged with being a felon in possession of a handgun in connection with the shooting, the Chicago Tribune reported. Hammond was standing outside a bowling alley …

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