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A special education teacher was killed in the crossfire of a Chicago expressway shootout Tuesday evening as gun crime in the city continues to soar. Denise M. Huguelet, 67, was shot at around 10pm on the city's Dan Ryan Expressway, while she and her husband were on their way home from a White Sox game. The mother of five and grandmother of 11 was later pronounced dead at a hospital from a gunshot wound to the back. Her death came as shootings in the city have increased 12 percent this year, with 2198 reported as of August 17 compared to 1968 during the same period last year, according to city crime statistics.  On Wednesday a seven-year-old boy was shot in the stomach while sitting with his mother in a parked vehicle at 8.20pm Wednesday in the Chicago's East Ukrainian Village, Chicago police reported. He was listed as in stable condition.  Meanwhile Mayor Lori Lightfoot has remained largely silent on the latest shootings. Denise Huguelet with her Husband Michael. She was shot a

Teachers, bus drivers and other school workers in Washington and Oregon have two months to get fully vaccinated or lose their jobs, the governors of the Pacific Northwest states said.  Washington Gov. Jay Inslee said the vaccine mandate will apply to 155,000 educators, leaders and staff at private, public and charter schools statewide. They won't be able use negative tests in lieu of the vaccine. 'This will be a condition of employment,' Inslee said at a press conference Wednesday. On Thursday, Oregon Gov. Kate Porter followed suit by requiring all teachers, educators, support staff and volunteers in K-12 schools to get vaccinated. Teachers are the latest to be added to Oregon's growing statewide vaccine mandate — which also includes health care workers and state employees — that requires them to be fully vaccinated by Oct. 18 or six weeks after a COVID-19 vaccine receives full approval from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, whichever is later.  In Washington, more

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has said that social media is not to blame for lagging COVID-19 vaccination rates in the US, insisting that 'political leaders' and the media are responsible.   In an interview with CBS This Morning host Gayle King on Thursday, Zuckerberg rejected the notion that Facebook plays a significant role in discouraging vaccine uptake. It follows a war of words between Facebook and the White House, with President Joe Biden saying last month that the company is 'killing people' with misinformation, drawing a furious response from Facebook execs.  'If you look around the world in different countries - different countries are doing better or worse on getting their citizens vaccinated. And the US has a specific issue on this,' Zuckerberg argued. Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has said that social media is not to blame for lagging COVID-19 vaccination rates in the US, insisting that 'political leaders' and the media are responsible The US l

More than half of the entire US Senate is calling on President Joe Biden to 'immediately evacuate' thousands of Afghan nationals who applied for Special Immigrant Visas because of the 'increased danger at the hands of the Taliban' after they took over Afghanistan.  A group of 55 senators signed onto a letter to the president Thursday urging the 'immediate and full implementation' of legislation recently passed by Congress aimed at widening the path for Afghans who worked with US entities to flee the country. 'The Taliban's rapid ascendancy across Afghanistan and takeover of Kabul should not cause is to break our promise to the Afghans,' lawmakers write.  'American inaction would ensure they become refugees or prime targets for Taliban retribution.'  The bipartisan letter is spearheaded by Democrat Senator Jeanne Shaheen and Republican Senator Joni Ernst. The letter, spearheaded by Senators Joni Ernst and Jeanne Shaheen, has 55 bipartisan sig

A man who was seriously wounded by a hatchet-wielding attacker at an ATM in Manhattan has told how he begged people in the street outside for help - as horrifying photos emerged of the bloody aftermath of Sunday's attack. Miguel Solorzano, 50, had just gotten off his shift cooking meals at a luxury getaway on Governor's Island and went to deposit his check at a Chase Bank ATM on Broadway in Manhattan's Financial District when a man started swinging a hatchet at him. 'He didn't even rob me,' Solorzano told the New York Daily News in Spanish on Wednesday. 'He took nothing. Nothing. He was crazy.' He added: 'There were a lot of people in the street. I yelled "Help, help, help!" Another person talked to the police and another doctor came.'  Photos emerged on Thursday of the immediate aftermath of the assault as Solorzano sat, covered in blood, on the sidewalk while medics tended to him before he was put on a gurney and taken to hospital.