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This image provided by the Manhattan district attorney's office, shows a watercolor and pencil on paper artwork, dated 1916 and titled "Russian War Prisoner," by Austrian Expressionist Egon Schiele. The piece is one of three artworks believed to have been stolen from a Jewish art collector and entertainer during the Holocaust that have been seized from museums in three different states by New York law enforcement authorities on Sept. 13, 2023.

Art Institute of Chicago told to surrender drawing to heirs of man killed in Nazi concentration camp

April 24, 2025 at 4:23 p.m.

A judge in New York ruled on Wednesday that the Art Institute of Chicago must surrender a 1916 drawing by Egon Schiele to investigators who plan to return it to...

Early in the day, Google Maps showed Chicago’s Air Quality Index to be at hazardous levels. (Google)

It’s ok, Chicago, your air was actually fine on Wednesday

April 24, 2025 at 8:45 a.m.

Readings from several popular weather apps had people across Chicago spending much of Wednesday wondering whether their air was safe to breathe — until the dangerously unhealthy levels were revealed...

FILE — The Supreme Court in Washington, on March 26, 2025. The Trump administration is on course for a potential constitutional clash with the judiciary branch, which has issued several rulings countering executive orders. (Eric Lee/The New York Times)

What to know about the court cases challenging President Donald Trump’s immigration agenda

April 18, 2025 at 11:11 a.m.

A number of major cases challenging President Donald Trump’s initial moves on immigration are making their way through the legal system. Trump has moved aggressively to detain and deport migrants,...

People walk by the Arch on the Northwestern University campus on March 31, 2025, in Evanston. (Brian Cassella/Chicago Tribune)

Trump officials freeze $790 million for Northwestern and $1 billion for Cornell

April 8, 2025 at 10:03 p.m.

The Trump administration has frozen more than $1 billion in funding for Cornell University and $790 million for Northwestern University amid civil rights investigations into both schools, two administration officials...

The sign outside the Internal Revenue Service building is seen. May 4, 2021, in Washington. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, File)

IRS agrees to share migrants’ tax information with ICE

April 8, 2025 at 11:31 a.m.

The IRS has agreed to help homeland security officials find immigrants they are trying to deport, according to court records, committing to sharing information in what would be a fundamental...

FILE – Immigrants line up in the dining hall at a U.S. government holding center for migrant children, July 9, 2019, in Carrizo Springs, Texas. (AP Photo/Eric Gay, File)

Federal judge orders legal funds for solo migrant children to be restored

April 4, 2025 at 8:41 a.m.

A federal judge in Northern California ordered the restoration of legal funds for migrant children who enter the United States alone, temporarily reversing a Trump administration decision last month that...

White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt speaks during a briefing for reporters at the White House in Washington, on Tuesday, April 1, 2025. Leavitt asserted on Tuesday that the administration would continue with its deportation policies. (Doug Mills/The New York Times)

Some conservative voices raise alarm over President Donald Trump’s immigration tactics

April 3, 2025 at 12:20 p.m.

Influential figures on the right have largely cheered on the opening months of the Trump presidency. But the unified front in favor of the president's immigration purge is beginning to...

FILE — A young Inuit girl and her mother wait inside a bus shelter in Nuuk, Greenland, Jan. 13, 2025. President Trump’s plans to send representatives to Greenland this week have angered political leaders on the island territory, who see the group’s visit as an aggressive escalation of his threats to seize the area, by force if necessary. (Ivor Prickett/The New York Times)

Why does President Donald Trump want Greenland? Here’s what to know.

March 25, 2025 at 11:11 a.m.

Why is President Donald Trump so determined to have Greenland? Here’s a window into his thinking.

An aerial view of the Harvard Campus featuring Eliot House Clock Tower along Charles River, in Cambridge, Boston, Massachusetts.

Harvard will make tuition free for more students

March 17, 2025 at 1:09 p.m.

Harvard University announced Monday that it plans to offer free tuition for students whose families earn $200,000 and below, making it the latest elite school to expand financial aid after...

Security forces lead a man in gray sweatsuit away from a a military cargo plane that transported deportees from El Paso, Texas, to Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, Feb. 7, 2025. (Doug Mills/The New York Times)

ICE returns all migrants from Guantánamo to US facilities

March 13, 2025 at 11:46 a.m.

The Trump administration has abruptly cleared out a second group of migrants it brought to the U.S. military base at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba.

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