Brandon Wall

With great sadness, we share that Ryne Sandberg has passed away today.

Numbers are in and NYC congestion pricing is a big 'success,’ Hochul says The controversial program has trimmed traffic volume in the congestion zone by 11% daily, according to new data.

wow: "67,000 fewer vehicles are entering Lower Manhattan each day" gothamist.com/news/numbers...

The Tehran Dispatch CBS News foreign correspondent Imtiaz Tyab explained how his team gained access to Iran in the days after U.S. strikes—and what it was like reporting amid government surveillance and uncertainty.

CBS News foreign correspondent Imtiaz Tyab explained how his team gained access to Iran in the days after U.S. strikes—and what it was like reporting amid government surveillance and uncertainty.

Details in Status: www.status.news/p/cbs-news-i...

Gaming the Air Raids in Kyiv: A Night in a Capital at War People in the Ukrainian capital spend their evenings clinging to the normal things of life—for as long as the air-raid sirens allow.

For the first time in this war, I wrote in the first person.

Here is what it's like to experience an air raid in Kyiv, to negotiate between bombs and normality, and to come out of shelter into the smoky aftermath.

Free to read: www.wsj.com/world/gaming...

Vance Boelter taken into custody in lawmaker shootings in Minnesota, sources say A man who authorities believe shot two Minnesota lawmakers and their spouses in politically motivated shootings early Saturday morning is now in custody.

BREAKING: Vance Boelter, the man who authorities believe shot two Minnesota lawmakers and their spouses, is now in custody, multiple sources have confirmed to @WCCO. https://cbsn.ws/3HF5q1X

god I love these Mets so much, doing everything I can to not scream and wake up my significant other (or neighbors)

Lessons (and an apology) from the Sun-Times CEO on that AI-generated book list The summer section was intended to be a supplemental value to our subscribers alongside our own journalism. Instead, it detracted and distracted from our work.

Recently, a seasonal edition went out to Sun-Times newspaper subscribers. It was intended to be a supplemental value to our readers alongside our own journalism. Instead, it detracted and distracted from our work, Chicago Public Media CEO explains:

Very good condition 1992 Sears Christmas catalog discovered at Grandma's house... untold Reddit karma and social media engagement in the palm of my hands...

Froze my butt off at Sox Park with a 90 minute rain delay tonight but I got to see the Pope Leo 2005 World Series tribute wall AND a White Sox winner

Andor has been an incredible romp and a brilliant look into what Star Wars could be in the right hands, I am not ready for it to end tomorrow

It defied all expectations for the kind of mature storytelling you can do with a 50-year-old fantasy series for kids while still staying true to its roots ✨

It was a beautiful early afternoon for some Mets/Cubs baseball

These two pope posts are basically the same thing if you are familiar with Chicago Southland

I'm a lifelong Catholic and had to do a lot of soul-searching in my late teens to stick with it, Rerum Novarum/Catholic Social Teaching was a fundamental part of it. I was already tentatively excited for New Pope just based on the name and now here is 14 directly discussing it x.com/VaticanNews/...

I love the New Lenox dateline for this story about an AP reporter meeting with the pope's brother when Leo XIV called apnews.com/article/pope...

Pope on the Jumbotron

the mets are using the pope to troll the cubs

Pope Leo spotted on the 2005 World Series broadcast

We are reaching levels of Chicago Posting never before seen bsky.app/profile/benb...

Cardinal Robert Prevost (center, blue shirt) visited the flagship @AureliosPizza location in Homewood in August with friends and family. Who could've imagined what would happen less than a year later! wgntv.com/news/robert-...

thank you! the group chats have not stopped all day

Chicago high school cheers White Sox fan Pope Leo XIV — 'He's one of us' While Robert Francis Prevost didn’t attend St. Rita of Cascia High School in Ashburn, his connection to the school runs deep. In the 1980s, he was a substitute and summer school teacher at the school ...

The Sun-Times got this gem: "The Rev. Robert Prevost (from left corner) ... at a 2005 White Sox World Series game at U.S. Cellular Field" chicago.suntimes.com/religion/202...

I am so sorry for how annoying we're going to be

I remember that all too well, my mom's one condition is that I could see it at midnight but had to go to school the next day and I don't think I slept more than an hour or two lol

These are bonkers numbers, I am so excited to see Revenge of the Sith on Tuesday. Seeing it at midnight opening night with like, 10 of my BFFs in 2005 remains one of my all-time favorite movie experiences. I will never apologize for how much I nerd out over Star Wars!! bsky.app/profile/disc...

‘REVENGE OF THE SITH’ is now estimated to have the biggest opening weekend ever for a movie re-release

It is tracking to earn $25M-$30M domestically this weekend.

Gosh, this Mets team is so incredibly fun. It's not even May yet and they are playing every game like it counts (and more often than not, find a way) bsky.app/profile/trev...

A great first Mets game of the season, we even made it to the jumbotron in the first inning #LGM

looks like the Knicks had a pretty good game tonight

You are spot on! I remember the last one being a rather dull affair outside of the smoke

Gambling on papal conclaves - Wikipedia

I'm not looking forward to the intersection of papal conclave + people who screenshot betting markets like they mean anything, but this is a fun Wiki read -

"Gambling on papal elections has at least a 500-year history." en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gamblin...

FDA making plans to end its routine food safety inspections, sources say Food safety inspections would be left to state and local authorities under the plan being developed by the FDA.

"The FDA is drawing up plans that would end most of its routine food safety inspections work, multiple federal health officials tell CBS News, and effectively outsource this oversight to state and local authorities." cbsn.ws/3Y5MkHF