,1,President Joe Biden, arguably the nation's biggest Amtrak fan, visited a train maintenance shop in his home state of Delaware on Monday to showcase more than $16 billion in federal investments for rail travel along the busy Northeast Corridor, saying of long-delayed improvements, “we're finally getting it done.”
READ MORE: https://wgntv.com/news/national/ap-amtrak-joe-biden-is-off-to-delaware-give-out-more-money-for-trains/
,1,Former President Donald Trump signed up for the New Hampshire presidential primary on Monday, becoming the first person who has served as president to file such paperwork in person more than once.
READ MORE: https://wgntv.com/news/politics/ap-trump-will-file-for-new-hampshire-presidential-primary-in-person-ahead-of-campaign-rally/
,1,A massive blast rocked a Gaza City hospital packed with wounded and other Palestinians seeking shelter Tuesday, killing hundreds of people, the Hamas-run Health Ministry said. Hamas blamed an Israeli airstrike, while the Israeli military said the hospital was hit by a rocket misfired by Palestinian militants. WGN's Jenna Barnes reports on the latest.
More info: https://wgntv.com/israel-hamas-conflict/israeli-airstrike-on-hospital-kills-hundreds-ministry-says/
,1,North Central College Political Science professor William Muck talks about the national security implications if classified documents aren't properly taken care of.
,1,WGN-TV invited in folks with zero meteorological skills to attempt to forecast the weather. Turns out its not as easy as it looks. Ilde was met with a fun surprise.
Suggested hashtags: #WGN #Chicago #Weather #Surprises #Meteorology #WGNTV
,1,A store owner in South Carolina charged with murder this week after shooting a teen he wrongly thought stole water has shot at suspected shoplifters two other times in the past eight years and not faced charges, authorities said.
READ MORE: https://wgntv.com/news/national/store-owner-charged-with-murder-in-teens-shooting-has-shot-at-suspected-shoplifters-before/
,1,Russia’s Interior Ministry has issued an arrest warrant for Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) after he praised U.S. military aid to Ukraine as “the best money we’ve ever spent.”
READ MORE: https://wgntv.com/news/russia-ukraine-crisis/russia-issues-arrest-warrant-for-lindsey-graham-after-ukraine-comments/
,1,Explosions rattled Kyiv during daylight Monday as Russian ballistic missiles took aim at the Ukrainian capital, hours after a more common nighttime barrage of the city by drones and cruise missiles.
READ MORE: https://wgntv.com/news/russia-ukraine-crisis/ap-russia-strikes-kyiv-in-daylight-after-hitting-ukraines-capital-with-series-of-nighttime-barrages/
,1,Target once distinguished itself as being boldly supportive of the LGBTQ+ community.
READ MORE: https://wgntv.com/business/ap-target-on-the-defensive-after-removing-lgbtq-themed-products/
,1,Buffalo Grove High School students are set to return to school on Friday. It will be the first time they return to school since a fire at the school on Tuesday evening and a deadly car crash on killed four students and injured another student late Tuesday night.
,1,A special prosecutor found that the FBI rushed into its investigation of ties between Russia and Donald Trump's 2016 campaign and relied too much on raw and unconfirmed intelligence as he concluded a four-year probe that fell far short of the former president's prediction that the “crime of the century" would be uncovered.
READ MORE: https://wgntv.com/news/national/prosecutor-ends-probe-of-fbis-trump-russia-investigation-with-harsh-criticism-but-no-new-charges/
,1,The U.S. Food and Drug Administration issued a safety warning against the use of some recalled at-home COVID-19 tests.
READ MORE: https://wgntv.com/news/recalls/do-not-use-fda-issues-warning-about-recalled-covid-19-tests-due-to-bacterial-contamination/
,1,Three Tennessee lawmakers who faced expulsion votes after participating in protests over last month's school shooting in Nashville will visit the White House to meet with President Joe Biden on Monday.
READ MORE: https://wgntv.com/news/national/tennessee-three-to-visit-biden-at-white-house-next-week/
,1,National Public Radio is quitting Twitter after the social media platform owned by Elon Musk stamped NPR's account with labels the news organization says are intended to undermine its credibility.
READ MORE: https://wgntv.com/business/npr-quits-elon-musks-twitter-over-government-funded-label/
,1,Vice President Kamala Harris made a last-minute trip Friday to Tennessee where she called for tougher firearm laws and criticized the Republican-controlled state House, which a day earlier expelled two Black Democratic lawmakers for their role in a protest calling for more gun control following a school shooting in Nashville.
READ MORE: https://wgntv.com/news/national/kamala-harris-to-meet-with-expelled-tennessee-lawmakers/
,1,Twitter has labeled National Public Radio as “state-affiliated media” on the social media site, a move some worried Wednesday could undermine public confidence in the news organization.
READ MORE: https://wgntv.com/news/nexstar-media-wire/npr-protests-as-twitter-labels-it-state-affiliated-media/
,1,LIVE | First Lady Jill Biden and Secretary of State Antony Blinken host the 17th annual International Women of Courage (IWOC) Award Ceremony. The ceremony takes place at the White House for the first time in the award’s history.
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,1,Storm-battered Buffalo braced Tuesday for fresh snow while still striving to recover from an epic blizzard that killed at least 34 people, stranded others in cars for days and shuttered the city’s airport.
,1,WGN's Mike Lowe catches up with conservative voters at a Trump rally in Waukesha ahead of Wisconsin's primary next Tuesday to see what issues are on the mind of attendees at the event.
,1,Parents around the U.S. hoping to buy baby formula are being met with empty shelves due to the shortage, which only got worse in February when a major baby food manufacturer, Abbott Nutrition, recalled powdered baby formula products manufactured at a Michigan plant.
,1,The families of nine victims of the Sandy Hook Elementary School have agreed to a $73 million settlement of a lawsuit against the maker of the rifle used to kill 20 first graders and six educators in 2012.
,1,They keep our kids safe in the water and rely on their training to kick in when they jump into action. Being a lifeguard comes with serious responsibility as three children die every day as a result of drowning. But there are countless rescues.
,1,A DuPage County judge has ordered a hospital to allow a comatose COVID-19 patient access to a drug the FDA says coule be unsafe, according to The Chicago Tribune.
,1,Federal prosecutors will not charge a police officer who shot and killed a woman as she climbed through the broken part of a door during the insurrection at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6.
,1,The former head of the FBI in Chicago, a man who oversaw corruption cases against two, Illinois governors, spoke to WGN News about Blagojevich`s commutation.
,1,Margaret Trudeau talks about her one woman comedy show, life in Canadian politics, mental illness, Studio 54, awakening of a feminist and her son…The Prime Minister of Canada – Justin Trudeau