Good afternoon, Chicago. A fourth person has died after a suspicious fire erupted at an apartment building in the Austin neighborhood yesterday morning, the Chicago Fire Department said today.

During his Senate confirmation hearings, Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. suggested he wouldn’t undermine vaccines. “I am not going to go into HHS and impose my preordained opinions on anybody at HHS,” he said. “I’m going to empower the scientists at HHS to do their job and make sure that we have good science that is evidence based.”

The Department of Health and Human Services has taken unprecedented steps to change how vaccines are evaluated, approved, and recommended.

Retired U.S. Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy warned that the "tone of our political discourse" puts freedom at risk, as he expressed the need to protect judges from threats.

Kennedy, who stepped down from the bench in 2018, issued a dire warning about "freedom" in his nearly 10-minute-long remarks at an event Thursday.

Retired U.S. Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy on Thursday expressed concern about the "tone of our political discourse" as he defended the role judges play in a democracy and argued for the need to protect them and their families from threats.

A semi truck flipped over on the Kennedy Expressway on Chicago's North Side on Wednesday night. The semi truck, hauling meat, rolled off the inbound Kennedy at Belmont Avenue and ended up in the outbound express lanes around 11:30 p.

Commuters on the Kennedy Expressway have faced major delays early Thursday morning after a fatal crash late Wednesday night in which a refrigerated semi-truck carrying meat rolled over near Belmont Avenue.

The driver of a semi truck hauling meat has died after a crash on the Kennedy Expressway on the city’s Northwest Side. The truck overturned about 11:35 p.m. in the southbound lanes at Belmont Avenue blocking the local lanes,