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30+ min ago (461+ words) CORAL GABLES, Fla. " Mario Cristobal spent four seasons working under Nick Saban at Alabama and learned countless lessons, some of which stand out more than others. And when thinking about the College Football Playoff, one of Saban's quotes from Cristobal's time as an assistant with him stood out. "If you want to make everybody happy, don't coach and get involved in football. Go sell ice cream because the ice cream man makes everybody happy," Cristobal said, recalling the Saban line. "In football, not everybody's going to be happy." Notre Dame opts out of bowl games after being bounced from the College Football Playoff field A year ago, at 10-2 and snubbed by the CFP committee, Miami wasn't happy. This year, at 10-2 and headed to Texas A&M for a playoff game, the Hurricanes are thrilled. It ultimately came down to an…...

33+ min ago (164+ words) December 8, 2025 / 6:56 AM CST / CBS Chicago Thirty-five years after throngs headed to a theater near them to see "Home Alone," you can have a lovely cheese pizza, just for you, like Macaulay Culkin's Kevin McCallister character did. There is not really a Little Nero's Pizza in the north Chicago suburb of Winnetka, where the mansion that stood in as the McCallister family house is located. There wasn't such a place in 1990 either. But Prince Street Pizza, which has a Chicago location at 939 W. Randolph St. in the Fulton Market District, will be turning into a Little Nero's popup beginning Wednesday, Dec. 17, and continuing until Wednesday, Dec. 17. It will include Little Nero's pizza boxes, updated menus, and collectible packaging. The restaurant is also renaming its classic cheese pizza to "The Lovely Cheese Pizza." The Easy Street location at 711 Devon Ave. is featuring a movie-themed…...

50+ min ago (796+ words) With bated breath and a sense of cautious optimism, Bears fans braved the biting cold to descend on Chicago sports bars yesterday and see their team take on the Green Bay Packers " a match that would end in a loss'of the NFC North division lead for the Bears but still leave them in a strong playoff position during a surprising first winning season since 2018. Even after the Packers scored their second touchdown of the afternoon in the second quarter, Bears fan Rachelle Catayong wasn't too worried. She sat at the bar at Murphy's Bleachers in Wrigleyville, its walls covered in baseball memorabilia, ornaments and Christmas lights. "The fourth quarter is the only quarter that matters," she said. Catayong's cousin, Chicago native Mario Catayong, remembers watching the Bears win Super Bowl XX in 1986. He's unsure whether he'll see it happen again…...

59+ min ago (58+ words) Green Bay Packers cornerback Keisean Nixon (25) intercepts a pass intended for Chicago Bears tight end Cole Kmet (85) in the fourth quarter on the Bears" 4th-and-one at Lambeau Field in Green Bay on Sunday, Dec. 7, 2025, before the Chicago Bears play the Green Bay Packers. (Eileen T. Meslar/Chicago Tribune) More in Chicago Bears...

1+ hour, 4+ min ago (28+ words) The documents date back to the late 19th century. Officials say workers are drying them one page at a time. Water leak at Louvre in Paris damages documents...

1+ hour, 16+ min ago (512+ words) Las declaraciones del presidente del Consejo Europeo, Ant'nio Costa, respond'an a la nueva estrategia de seguridad nacional del gobierno de Trump, que se public' el viernes y describe a los aliados europeos como d'biles mientras ofrece un apoyo t'cito a partidos pol'ticos de extrema derecha. Es "bueno" que la estrategia describa a los pa'ses europeos como un aliado, se'al' Costa, pero "los aliados no amenazan con interferir en las elecciones pol'ticas internas de sus aliados". "No podemos aceptar la amenaza de interferencia en la vida pol'tica europea. Estados Unidos no puede reemplazar a los ciudadanos europeos en la elecci'n de cu'les son los partidos buenos o malos", expres' en Par's en declaraciones ante el Instituto Jacques Delors, un grupo de expertos. La estrategia critic' la pol'tica europea de libertad de expresi'n y migraci'n. Los aliados de Estados Unidos en Europa…...

1+ hour, 16+ min ago (66+ words) When a child has a meltdown, it's hard for parents and caregivers to regulate their own emotions so everyone doesn't end up mad. Dr. Debra Kissen, CEO and founder of Light on Anxiety, talks with Marie Saavedra about the power of a pause when kids are acting out, in this week's Mental Health Minute. The power of a pause when kids are acting out...

1+ hour, 20+ min ago (46+ words) The Federal Reserve is meeting to discuss a potential interest rate cut, with policymakers divided on the path ahead. As Lisa Rozner reports, this is happening as many Americans struggle to keep up financially. Americans are feeling an affordability crunch Americans are feeling an affordability crunch...

1+ hour, 25+ min ago (1176+ words) WASHINGTON " President Donald Trump on Sunday hosted the Kennedy Center Honors and praised Sylvester Stallone, Kiss, Gloria Gaynor, Michael Crawford and George Strait, the slate of honorees he helped choose, as being "legendary in so many ways." "Billions and billions of people have watched them over the years," Trump, the first president to command the stage, said to open the show. The Republican president said the artists, recognized with tribute performances during the show, are "among the greatest artists and actors, performers, musicians, singers, songwriters ever to walk the face of the Earth." Since returning to office in January, Trump has made the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, which is named after a Democratic predecessor, a touchstone in a broader attack against what he has lambasted as "woke" anti-American culture. Trump said Saturday that he was hosting "at…...

1+ hour, 27+ min ago (438+ words) December 8, 2025 / 6:02 AM CST / CBS Chicago A federal trial was set to begin Monday to decide if Chicago police officers violated a man's civil rights when they shot him at the Grand Avenue CTA Red Line station in 2020. An officer shot Ariel Roman twice at the Chicago Transit Authority station on Feb. 28, 2020. Officer Melvina Bogard was charged with aggravated battery and official misconduct in the incident. She was acquitted of all charges following a bench trial in November 2022. Bogard and her partner were trying to arrest Roman for walking between train cars, when they said he started to resist. Videos from several surveillance cameras on the train show Bogard and her partner, Officer Bernard Butler, talking to Roman on the train, before he walks away from them. Moments later, Bogard follows him and motions to him to get off the train....