The sympathy with Jussie Smollett was great, when the news came out at the end of January that this American actor had been beaten up. And there was indignation, because the perpetrators would...
A fired employee killed five people at a company on an industrial estate in the US state of Illinois. Six people were injured, five of whom were on the incident...
It will remain freezing cold in large parts of the United States in the coming days. The low temperatures in combination with the strong wind remain dangerous for vulnerable people, so warn the...
The harsh winter weather in the mid-west of the United States has killed more than ten people. Many people are forced to stay at home. Schools, shops and government agencies are...
In the United States, about 5000 flights have been canceled since Friday due to the winter weather conditions. American media report that Logan Airport in Boston is the heaviest Sunday...
A white cop in Chicago was sentenced to almost 7 years in prison on Friday after being found guilty of murder last year for killing a black teenager in 2014.
The Catholic Church in the American state of Illinois has withheld the names of at least five hundred priests accused of sexual abuse. There are also many reports of abuse...
A 19-year-old girl who lost his way at the Crown Plaza at night and accidentally landed in a freezer room at the hotel, has been frozen to death.
A man opened fire at a hospital in the American city of Chicago and killed at least three people. The archer himself was also killed. It is not known whether he has robbed himself of life or was shot dead by the police.
Six people have had the fright of their lives in a skyscraper in the American city of Chicago. The elevator they were in fell down more than eighty floors and stayed around the 10th floor, local media reports.
The family of a passenger of the crashed aircraft of Indonesian Lion Air has indicted Boeing. According to the survivors, there is an error in the automatic control system of the Boeing 737 Max, and the aircraft manufacturer failed to inform pilots about new adjustments to the system.
The CEO of Google, Sundar Pichai, has apologized to all employees for tackling intimidation within the company. 'We recognize that we have not always dealt with it properly in the past and we sincerely regret that. It is clear that we have to make changes ', Pichai wrote in a mail to the staff on Thursday.
A white cop in Chicago has been found guilty of murder because of the shooting of a black teenager in 2014. He can go to jail for up to twenty years, reports The Washington Post.
Amazon wants to open a store without cash register in New York. That reports techsite The Information. Amazon already has three such supermarkets in their home city of Seattle. In addition, there are branches of Amazon Go in Chicago and San Francisco.
In a fire in the American city of Chicago, eight people were killed, including six children.
Initially, 19-year-old Fredy Alanis did not want to tell what he had done when he was brought into a hospital in Chicago. His mother was there. Later on the monkey came out of the sleeve. He had had oral sex with a rather large partner in which his airways were damaged.
In the United States, tens of thousands of people across the country have taken to the streets on Saturday to protest against the immigration policy of the Trump government. The biggest demonstration was in Washington, where, according to the organizers, more than 30,000 people participated. But also in cities like New York, Philadelphia, Chicago and Los Angeles thousands of people came to the protest meetings, including celebrities like John Legend and Cher.
A United Airlines plane left for the nearest airport on Monday after discovering a disturbing 'message' on board. The captain of the aircraft, which was on its way from Rome to Chicago, made a stopover at Shannon Airport in Ireland.
Former President Barack Obama has condemned the decision of his successor Donald Trump to denounce the nuclear agreement with Iran. He called it 'ill-conceived' and a 'serious mistake'. Obama closed the Iranian deal in 2015 with support from the world powers France, Germany, Great Britain, Russia and China. The European Union also joined in.
A plane from the American airline Southwest Airlines had to make a precautionary landing after a problem had arisen with one of the windows in the plane. News channel CNN shows a photograph of one of the passengers on which a cracked airplane window can be seen.
Taxi app Uber stops delivering packages in the United States. The company raises its service Rush in fierce cities after fierce competition.
Hundreds of thousands of young Americans are on the clock in the US to demonstrate against the barely controlled distribution of firearms in the country. The mass protests follow a shooting in a high school in Florida, where 14 February an ex-student with a semi-automatic weapon shot seventeen people.
American survivors of an attack in Jerusalem have caught a bone before the American Supreme Court. The judges blocked a plan to enforce damages by confiscating Iranian cultural heritage that is being screened in Chicago.
Residents of a number of states in the north of the United States are preparing for a possible disruptive winter storm that is expected in the next 24 hours.
China prepares retaliatory actions after import duties on, among other things, its steel, solar panels and washing machines. American soy farmers can expect price increases for their exports.
The American newspaper Los Angeles Times is owned by billionaire Patrick Soon-Shiong. This amounts to half a billion dollars in cash for his new purchase and thus also acquires sister newspaper San Diego Union-Tribune and some smaller titles.
The American 'series stowaway' is back in the cell. Marilyn Hartman had to stay away from the court at O'Hare airport, but ran into the light again.
A 66-year-old woman who has repeatedly boarded aircraft on board without a ticket, is released. A US judge summoned the so-called serial steward Marilyn Hartman to stay away from airports, the newspaper Chicago Sun-Times reports.
The 66-year-old Marilyn Hartman has flown ten times long distances without a ticket and without a passport.
A United Airlines plane had to make a stopover in Anchorage in the US on Thursday night because of a passenger who behaved rather peculiarly. The man smeared poop everywhere. He had also pulled off his t-shirt and tried to put it in a toilet bowl.
