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The move comes after at least 15 people were wounded in a shooting outside of a funeral home on the South Side.

The pandemic has forced office workers to work from home, and many will continue to do so after the pandemic.

A record-low housing supply is pushing prices up and making the market to buy a new home more competitive than ever.

President Biden will bring all American troops home from Afghanistan by Sept. 11, 2021 — the 20th anniversary of the terrorist attacks that led to the war.

Home prices are at a record high and inventory is at a record low — but the Atlantic's Derek Thompson recommends waiting it out.

NPR's Anne Garrels reports that in an effort to keep the Republic of Chechnya in its fold... Russian forces have destroyed much of the capital city of Grozny and laid waste to the rest of the republic. Life in Grozny, is difficult for both Chechens and Russians who live in the region. Even the Chechens who earlier may not have wanted to go to war with Russia are now so bitter about the destruction of their homes that they see no resolution to the conflict but complete independence from Moscow.

NPR's Tom Gjelten reports from Sarajevo that the city is whole again. Grbavica ((gur-buh-VEE-tsuh)), the last of five suburbs, has been returned from Serb control to the Muslim-Croat Federation. Today's hand-over was more orderly than the others. However, Muslims returning to the suburb they'd left four years ago found buildings and homes devesated by fires set by departing Serb arsonists.

- Tom speaks with Ernie Allen, president of the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children about efforts by that organization to locate children who've been reported missing around the country. Allen says that police receive more than 800-thousand reports of missing children annually. Most of those kids are successfully reunited with their families, often with the help of pictures mailed to homes or on milk cartons.

between the Israelis and Palestinians over the future of Hebron with U.S. negotiator Dennis Ross on his way home, when Jordan's King Hussein stepped in and broke the deadlock. But no accord has been signed yet.

of buying a home computer for Christmas. As usual, the decision is rooted in the question of 'now versus later'... in which the buyer doesn't know exactly what 'later' will bring and how much new technology will cost when it arrives.