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Afternoon Briefing: CTA to pay $6M to settle wrongful death lawsuit
Good afternoon, Chicago. The CTA will pay $6 million to settle a wrongful death lawsuit after a city bus struck a woman last year. Chicago resident Sherry Fisher, was struck by a CTA bus and pinned underneath it while she walked in a North Lawndale crosswalk last March, the lawsuit alleged. The crash caused her 'severe injuries,' which she died from nearly three months later, according to the lawsuit. Here's what else is happening today. And remember, for the latest breaking news in Chicago, visit and sign up to get our alerts on all your devices. Subscribe to more newsletters | Asking Eric | Horoscopes | Puzzles & Games | Today in History Chicago Public Schools interim chief Macquline King is resisting pressure from Mayor Brandon Johnson to make a controversial pension payment and borrow millions of dollars to settle the district's budget, a notable twist in what has become a deeply uncertain budget cycle for the fourth-largest school district in the nation. Read more here. More top news stories: A longtime business partner is suing Chicago-based Lettuce Entertain You and its co-founder Rich Melman for allegedly squeezing him out of his ownership interest in the chain's popular Joe's Seafood, Prime Steak & Stone Crab restaurants. Read more here. More top business stories: Coach David Braun was pleased with how quickly Preston Stone built relationships with his new teammates when he arrived on campus in January. Within three weeks, the Wildcats voted Stone onto their leadership council, well before it was publicly official that he would be Northwestern's starter this season. Read more here. More top sports stories: In 2022, the Floating Museum collaborated with Indian artist Kushala Vora to produce a second inflatable, entitled 'The Garden.' Vora looked at colonial plant histories between India and the United States and the impact the plants have in their respective landscapes. Read more here. More top Eat. Watch. Do. stories: The president's rhetoric echoed that used by conservative politicians going back decades who have denounced American cities, especially those with majority non-white populations or led by progressive politicians, as lawless or crime-ridden and in need of outside intervention. Read more here. More top stories from around the world:
Yahoo
5 hours ago
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New Analysis Finds Trump Family Has Raked in $3.4 Billion Off the Presidency
Even before Donald Trump officially began his second term in office, his family businesses were beginning the race to milk the presidency for every cent they could. Now, a new analysis from The New Yorker has put a potential dollar figure on how much Trump's crypto ventures, real estate deals, licensing agreements, and other grifts have netted America's first family over the course of Trump's time in politics: a staggering $3.4 billion. The total is an estimate, as the Trump Organization and its various auxiliary companies and ventures — which are largely under the control of the president's adult children — have not been entirely transparent regarding their finances. The New Yorker estimated that the president's various cryptocurrency had generated at least $2.37 billion in value, financial investments coordinated by Donald Jr. and Eric Trump have generated $339.6 million, and Trump's flagship Mar-a-Lago resort in Palm Beach, Florida, has raked in $125 million in extra profits. Tack onto that $127.7 million in legal fee collection and merchandise sales and a media empire estimated to be worth $116 million, and it becomes clear that the Trumps have built themselves a corporate empire on the back of their patriarch's public office. Just last month, the president took a detour from a state trip to Scotland, for which millions of taxpayer dollars were spent on travel and security, to inaugurate a new Trump golf course near Aberdeen, Scotland. On that same trip, Trump hosted British Prime Minister Keir Starmer at his private Turnberry golf club — which (as was the practice during Trump's first term) will likely profit off of the president's choice to use it as a venue. The same week, it was reported that Trump has privately discussed hosting the G20 summit of world leaders at his Doral golf club. As previously reported by Rolling Stone, the president has complained to his inner circle that it was 'stupid' of him to leave so much money on the table during his first term, and that he planned to rectify his mistake the second time around. The fact that the family's business deals making headlines around the world are being coordinated by Trump's children is a convenient loophole that allows the president to escape many of the disclosure and ethics laws that govern private investments by public officials. After years accusing his political opponents — and their sons — of leveraging the status of the White House to enrich themselves, the Trumps are engaged in an open campaign of open grift unlike any in the history of the Oval Office, and Americans are now just beginning to get a full picture of just how rich the People's House is making the president. More from Rolling Stone Jimmy Kimmel Says He Obtained Italian Citizenship to Flee 'Unbelievably' Bad Trump Administration 'Diversion': Judge Tears Apart Trump Admin Order to Unseal Ghislaine Maxwell Grand Jury Records D.C. Police Put Under Federal Control, Are Now 'Allowed to Do Whatever the Hell They Want' Best of Rolling Stone The Useful Idiots New Guide to the Most Stoned Moments of the 2020 Presidential Campaign Anatomy of a Fake News Scandal The Radical Crusade of Mike Pence
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The Number Of Migrants Crossing The Channel Has Hit A New Milestone. Is It Time To Make It Easier To Reach The UK?
Labour has been accused of creating a 'crisis over nothing' as the number of small boat crossings since the last election to reached 50,000. Home Office data confirmed that 474 asylum seekers made the perilous crossing yesterday, taking the total since Keir Starmer became prime minister 13 months ago to 50,271. According to the Daily Express, that is quicker than under Tory PMs Boris Johnson and Rishi Sunak. Shadow home secretary Chris Philp said: 'Labour has surrendered our borders, and the consequences are being felt in our communities, from rising crime to shocking cases of rape and sexual assault by recent arrivals. 'This is an invasion Labour are too cowardly to confront. Only the Conservatives will stop the crossings and restore control of Britain's borders.' The number of small boat crossings are a major source of embarrassment for Labour, which pledged during last year's general election to 'smash the people-smuggling gangs' responsible. And even government minister Jacqui Smith, who served as the home secretary under Gordon Brown, told BBC Breakfast this morning that number pf crossings under Labour was 'unacceptable'. But independent migration policy researcher Zoe Gardner, told HuffPost UK the government is focusing on the wrong issue. She said Labour should instead increase the number of legal immigration routes to the UK, thereby taking away the need for asylum seekers to risk their lives in the English Channel. She said: '50,000 people since Labour came to power corresponds to about 5 or 6% of all immigration during that period. 'If it wasn't coming on boats but through safe, regulated routes instead these numbers would not even register. 'By refusing to offer safe routes, the government has created a crisis out of nothing at all.' Net migration in 2024 was 431,000 – much lower than the historical high of 906,000 recorded in 2023, but still a number which dwarves how many arrived people arrived in small boats during the same period (37,000). The government has often been criticised over its lack of safe and legal routes for people to claim asylum in the UK. And, as human rights organisation Amnesty International explained, a 'safe and legal route' means a journey formally approved by the government. But, 'the government allows nobody to make a claim for asylum in the UK unless they are physically present in the UK' and 'it is impossible to come to the UK for the purpose of seeking asylum in any way permitted by the government's immigration rules'. The only exceptions apply to people from Ukraine and someone who has family in the UK or has a partner or child who has been granted asylum in Britain. There is also a visa route for some Afghans who have worked for the government. As Amnesty International noted on its website: 'Seeking asylum from persecution is lawful – refugees don't need anyone's permission to do so.' It concluded: 'It is a government choice to require refugees wishing to seek asylum in the UK to rely on dangerous journeys and people smugglers.' The government is desperate to bring the number of small boat crossings down and prove to voters it is dealing with the migration crisis. It announced a new 'one in, one out' returns scheme with France last week, which will allow the UK to return one person to France who entered the Britain via so-called 'illegal' means. The UK then has to accept someone with a greater claim to asylum in Britain from France. The first returns are expected to take place in the coming weeks, but the impact will likely be very small initially as the scheme is tested. Related... Almost Half Of Brits Are Getting An Essential Fact About UK Immigration Wrong Yvette Cooper Delivers Brutal Commons Slapdown To Chris Philp Over The Tories' Immigration Failures 'A Horrific Moral Failure': Campaigner Slams Labour And Tories Over Illegal Immigration
