China announced Tuesday it is banning exports to the United States of gallium, germanium, antimony and other key high-tech materials with potential military applications, as a general principle, lashing back at U.S. limits on semiconductor-related exports.
South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol declared an “emergency martial law,” Tuesday accusing the country’s opposition of controlling the parliament, sympathizing with North Korea and paralyzing the government with anti-state activities.
Chicago firefighters responded to a call of a fire at an abandoned building Monday night and found a woman on fire and unresponsive in the Englewood neighborhood, Chicago police said.
A 14-year-old boy was found fatally wounded Tuesday night in an apartment building in the Little Village neighborhood, Chicago police said. Shortly after midnight, officers responded to a call of a person shot at an apartment building in the 2200 block of South Christiana Avenue and found a boy with a gunshot wound to the chest, police said. Officers began life saving measures and when paramedics arrived the boy was taken to Stroger Hospital where he was pronounced dead. No one was in custody for the fatal shooting and detectives were investigating.
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President-elect Donald Trump will attend the reopening celebration for Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris this weekend, his first foreign trip since the election.