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usa today reporter in chicago, mainly signal: mloria_usat.24
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Eduardo Cuevas
25 days ago
Quite a Black Friday afternoon from President Trump: Trying to strike down former President Joe Biden's executive orders; pardoning the former Honduran president convicted of drug trafficking; and wading in on Honduran elections, while telling Maduro to stay out.
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"When people withdraw themselves from the gears of the machine, that’s power, and service members need to know they have power to withdraw their consent," Aaron Hughes, a veteran, told
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. Here's a look at vets calling for troops to claim conscientious objection.
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Can National Guardsmen deployed to US cities claim conscientious objection?
Some veterans view National Guard deployments to U.S. cities as unlawful and argue soldiers better uphold American values by resisting the orders.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2025/10/03/vets-call-on-national-guard-to-refuse-deployment-orders/86243828007/
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Gregory Pratt
about 1 month ago
More than three weeks after Pritzker drew national attention for creating an “accountability commission,” aimed at Trump’s ICE raids, there is no apparent way for public to report allegations of misconduct yet. Story by
@petrellareports.bsky.social
www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/17/p...
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Gov. JB Pritzker’s Accountability Commission still ramping up as federal immigration surge starts to subside
More than three weeks after Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker created the commission, there is no apparent way for the public to report misconduct by federal immigration agents.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/17/pritzker-immigration-accountability-commission/?lctg=44748411C550B43F542FB4AA2B&utm_email=44748411C550B43F542FB4AA2B&utm_source=listrak&utm_medium=email&utm_term=https%3a%2f%2fwww.chicagotribune.com%2f2025%2f11%2f17%2fpritzker-immigration-accountability-commission%2f&utm_campaign=trib-chicago_tribune-breaking_news-nl&utm_content=alert
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Michael Loria
USA TODAY
about 1 month ago
Officials in Charlotte, North Carolina, are bracing for a surge of federal agents as President Donald Trump's crackdown on illegal immigration widens.
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Charlotte braces for surge of immigration agents as Trump's crackdown widens
Officials in Charlotte, North Carolina, are bracing for a surge of federal agents as President Donald Trump's crackdown on illegal immigration widens.
https://bit.ly/48gRfLi
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Michael Loria
Gregory Pratt
about 1 month ago
Bovino on Fox News: "I'll tell you what's gonna happen. We're gonna go even harder on the streets. If he releases those 650, we're gonna apprehend 1,650 on the streets of Chicago."
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Jon Seidel
about 1 month ago
“I was both astounded and mesmerized." Carl Sandburg’s ‘Chicago’ poem finds fresh relevance in a city occupied by ICE. From
@ericathompson.bsky.social
via
@chicago.suntimes.com
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chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...
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Carl Sandburg’s ‘Chicago’ poem finds fresh relevance in a city occupied by ICE
Known for praising the city with “big shoulders,” the beloved 1914 composition recently was recited in a ruling addressing federal immigration agents’ use of force. Literary scholars say they were “as...
https://chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/2025/11/11/carl-sandburg-chicago-poem-operation-midway-blitz-deportation-campaign-judge-sara-ellis
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Michael Loria
Gregory Pratt
about 1 month ago
Lori Lightfoot endorsing Melissa Conyears-Ervin is a good time to remind folks that Lightfoot fought hard to hide allegations of misconduct against Conyears-Ervin from the taxpayers. A real stain on her good government self-promotion
www.chicagotribune.com/2023/10/11/c...
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City settlement deal demands silence from whistleblowers fired by Chicago Treasurer Conyears-Ervin
In an extraordinary departure from usual practices at City Hall, the city’s $100,000 settlement agreement with whistleblowers who were fired by Treasurer Melissa Conyears-Ervin prohibits them…
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2023/10/11/city-settlement-deal-demands-silence-from-whistleblowers-fired-by-chicago-treasurer-conyears-ervin/
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Michael Loria
Neil Steinberg
about 2 months ago
Very proud of the work my colleagues are doing at the Sun-Times. Read this heartbreaking piece by Mary Norkol and Anthony Vasquez. The only change I would have made is to the headline, which I would have made: 'Daddy isn't coming.'
chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...
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After ICE detained her husband, Albany Park mom juggles care for 3 kids, including son with autism, newborn
Ingrid Guanume tells her children their dad will be home soon. But with her husband in federal immigration custody awaiting a court hearing later this month, she doesn't know if she believes what she'...
https://chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/2025/11/07/after-ice-detained-her-husband-albany-park-mom-juggles-care-for-3-kids-including-son-with-autism-newborn
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Gregory Pratt
about 2 months ago
This is the teacher federal agents grabbed yesterday at Rayito De Sol daycare in front of children. Attorneys for Diana Santillana have filed a petition in federal court to have her freed from ICE custody.
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Back at the federal courthouse in downtown Chicago today where a judge is expected to issue a ruling in a case over federal agents use of force as they carry out the White House’s Midway Blitz crackdown.
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about 2 months ago
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A major issue in the case is whether detainees are able to access their attorneys. On the stand now is a lawyer who represents detainees being held at the ICE facility in the suburbs.
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about 2 months ago
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A federal lawsuit describes an ICE facility in the Chicago suburbs as “filthy” and “cruel.” Two detainees named in the case are expected today in court where they hope a judge will order ICE to improve conditions at the site.
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'Black box in which to disappear people': Detainees describe ICE facility in lawsuit
ICE detainees have filed a lawsuit against Homeland Security saying conditions they were held in were aimed at "coercing" them to leave the country.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2025/10/31/chicago-ice-facility-is-flithy-black-box-detainees-say-in-lawsuit/87008644007/
about 2 months ago
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Michael Loria
Eduardo Cuevas
about 2 months ago
I spoke with Zohran Mamdani on Halloween about how he’s energized youth voters on a message of affordability. Asked if he had a costume, he said he was dressing as “just a tired politician.” Inside the hectic last few hours of New York City’s election for
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Gregory Pratt
about 2 months ago
Here’s a disturbing video from Evanston of a federal agent hitting a man on the ground as people yell that he can’t breathe.
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“There is a human rights emergency unfurling outside the city” in Broadview, says attorney for ICE detainees suing DHS over conditions at the main facility being used for the Midway Blitz crackdown on Chicago. Hearing ongoing.
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about 2 months ago
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Gregory Pratt
about 2 months ago
Ruben Torres reunites with his wife in Indiana after being detained by ICE for nearly two weeks. He is headed back to his daughter Ofelia
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In Gary, IN, where Homeland Security Sec. Kristi Noem is expected today to give an update on the status of the Midway Blitz crackdown on Chicago.
@usatoday.com
about 2 months ago
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Michael Loria
Gregory Pratt
2 months ago
Immigration agents took a man at Racine and Schubert, video from a source as the Feds raid Lincoln Park area
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USA TODAY
2 months ago
Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker established a commission to document abuses by federal agents carrying out President Trump’s Midway Blitz.
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'They will be held accountable': Chicago to create record of ICE Midway Blitz 'abuses'
Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker established a commission to document abuses by federal agents carrying out President Trump’s Midway Blitz.
https://bit.ly/3L1b00p
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Thousands of National Guard troops have now been deployed across the nation with even more deployment on the table if Trump gets his way. Are they a sign of raging crime or of overreach? I joined @USATODAY's The Excerpt to unpack it.
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SPECIAL | Is Trump's deployment of the National Guard about order or overreach?
Since June of 2025, thousands of National Guard troops have been deployed to four US cities – Los Angeles, Washington D.C., Chicago and Memphis. And, if President Donald Trump has his way, Portland, O...
https://art19.com/shows/5-things/episodes/18f0666d-4ecd-477c-bf38-779181615c9e
2 months ago
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Michael Loria
Lauren FitzPatrick
3 months ago
Federal immigration officers wear masks, no name tags — now some drive cars without license plates.
@chicago.suntimes.com
has documented 4 unmarked cars carrying federal officers without required plates. Federal officials say they’re meeting regulations.
chicago.suntimes.com/news/2025/10...
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Federal immigration officers wear masks, no name tags — now some drive cars without license plates
The Sun-Times has documented four unmarked cars carrying federal officers without required plates, offering another way to shield their identities. Federal officials say they’re meeting regulations.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/news/2025/10/09/federal-immigration-officers-ice-dhs-license-plates-immigration
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A Trump immigration blitz is upending life in Chicago. I discuss on today's episode of The Excerpt.
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Hamas and Israel set to sign deal on ceasefire and hostage releases
President Donald Trump says Israel and Hamas have agreed to implement the first phase of a White House peace plan aimed at ending Israel's onslaught in Gaza, and securing the release of hostages. USA...
https://art19.com/shows/5-things/episodes/cbda2c78-5a6b-4645-940b-dc176201cc9d
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Michael Loria
Eduardo Cuevas
3 months ago
"It feels like chemical warfare": ICE fires anti-crowd projectiles at Chicagoans aiming to shut down Trump’s Midway Blitz
@usatoday.com
's
@michael-loria.bsky.social
was there when federal agents used pepper spray and shot pepper balls on protesters and press.
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Michael Loria
The Washington Post
7 months ago
Pope Leo XIV, a Chicago native, stuns in a White Sox cap.
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Duane Gang
8 months ago
Really nice storytelling and reporting from
@usatoday.com
and
@chriskenning.bsky.social
and
@michael-loria.bsky.social
about Pope Leo XIV and his early years in Chicago.
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White smoke at Vatican, phones blowing up in Chicago: Their old classmate Robert is pope
Those who knew Pope Leo XIV as a younger man say his path to the papacy has prepared him well for the challenges ahead.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2025/05/10/pope-leo-xiv-chicago-classmates-st-mary-assumption/83523767007/
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Michael Loria
Jimmy (not one of those) Rothschild(s)
8 months ago
the eucharist is now a shot of malort and a tamale from the tamale guy
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Jason Pohl
12 months ago
Attn: Reporters covering the Los Angeles fires: My team built a page of UC Berkeley wildfire experts, contact info and research focuses. There's experts on WUI, urban fires, smoke dangers, air quality, forest management, wildfire modeling, and more!
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Wildfire experts - Berkeley News
UC Berkeley is home to numerous experts who can assist reporters cover wildfires and their health effects. Journalists needing additional sources or assistance: Email
[email protected]
.
https://news.berkeley.edu/expert-topic/wildfire-experts/
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Another side of the Mangione story— what experts fear his 3D-printed gun and silencer signal for ghost guns in America. in
@usatoday.com
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Mangione’s ghost gun: Are 3D printed weapons turning America into the Wild West?
Police found a 3D-printed gun on suspect Luigi Mangione, the latest in a troubling trend of growing use of the homemade weapons.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2024/12/12/mangione-ghost-gun-3d-printed-united-healthcare-ceo-shooter/76898175007/
about 1 year ago
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Michael Loria
Will Carless, USA TODAY
about 1 year ago
There's an online "manifesto" floating around that's being attributed to Luigi Mangione. It's almost certainly fake. Fair warning.
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Michael Loria
Will Carless, USA TODAY
about 1 year ago
A request: Does anyone have an archive of Mangione's Reddit posts? My DMs are open. My email is
[email protected]
and my Signal/Telegram is 415.416.5231 Much obliged.
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Michael Loria
Kwame Opam
about 1 year ago
Chicago to be ground zero for mass deportations, Trump border czar tells Illinois Republicans
chicago.suntimes.com/politics/don...
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Chicago to be ground zero for mass deportations, Trump border czar tells Illinois Republicans
President-elect Donald Trump’s designated "border czar" Tom Homan started his remarks at a Northwest Side GOP “holiday party” with some light ribbing: “Chicago’s in trouble because your mayor sucks an...
https://chicago.suntimes.com/politics/donald-trump/2024/12/09/border-czar-tom-homan-donald-trump-chicago-pritzker-brandon-johnson-immigration
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'Shocked and devastated': Family of suspected United Healthcare killer speaks out with
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in
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'Shocked and devastated': Family of suspected United Healthcare killer speaks out
The family of the suspected killer of CEO Brian Thompson, shared a statement about their son hours after police arrested him.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2024/12/09/family-of-suspected-ceo-killer-speaks-out/76875436007/
about 1 year ago
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Luigi Mangione's improbable path from valedictorian, engineer and Ivy League grad to McDonald’s goer with a 3-D printed gun. with
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in
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Luigi Mangione's path from valedictorian, engineer, Ivy League grad to person of interest
The person of interest in the killing of a New York CEO took a strange path, from valedictorian to McDonald's customer with a 3-D printed weapon.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2024/12/09/suspected-ceo-shooter-was-high-school-valedictorian-ivy-league-grad/76868979007/
about 1 year ago
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Ukrainian Americans take aim at Elon Musk’s satellites, fearing he is in Putin's pocket. via
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Ukrainian Americans take aim at Elon Musk’s satellites, fearing he is in Putin's pocket
A coalition of Ukrainian American groups fear Elon Musk will use his newfound power under President-elect Donald Trump to benefit Russia.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2024/12/06/ukrainian-americans-fear-elon-musk-will-use-doge-to-help-russia/76834045007/
about 1 year ago
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Erin Mansfield
about 1 year ago
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Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy may be exempt from ethics rules as Trump's advisors
Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy will lead an advisory committee to cut federal spending and regulations. But how will it handle conflicts of interest?
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/elections/2024/12/05/musk-ramaswamy-ethics-rules/76743727007/
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Will Carless, USA TODAY
about 1 year ago
ICYMI: wild story I worked on yesterday:
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Elon Musk has a history of cuts. What's that mean for Trump's Department of Government Efficiency? I discuss on today's episode of The Excerpt from @usatoday.
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President Biden pardons his son Hunter Biden
President Joe Biden has pardoned his son Hunter Biden. President-elect Donald Trump threatens BRIC nations with tariffs if they 'move away' from the U.S. dollar. USA TODAY Congress and Campaigns Rep...
https://art19.com/shows/5-things/episodes/b5f63e15-e70a-4350-a9b3-4c092f9580e7
about 1 year ago
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launching this new app with a story about the guy on the old one
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How Elon Musk cut costs at SpaceX, Tesla, X and what it means for DOGE
Elon Musk is known for making radical cuts. Here’s what his legacy as a maverick means for Trump’s Department of Government Efficiency.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2024/12/02/what-elon-musk-legacy-means-for-doge/76457744007/
about 1 year ago
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