Katy Smyser

3 weeks ago | nbcchicago.com | Chuck Goudie |Katy Smyser

For Shayna Gould, "23 years of terror" started at a bus stop in Israel. It was during a torrential rain storm that the college student from Skokie, along with more than 40 other people, were hit by gunfire from a Palestinian terrorist armed with an automatic rifle. The confusion and carnage that day on Jaffa Street in Jerusalem included a young woman seen on news film being hauled away by emergency crews. She appeared to be dead.

3 weeks ago | nbcchicago.com | Chuck Goudie |Katy Smyser |Lisa Capitanini

It is a history-making alliance between the immigration agency known as "ICE" and the tax collection agency called IRS. A data-sharing arrangement being engineered by the White House is consider by some investigators as an ICE secret weapon. The agency behind mass deportations by the Trump administration is planning on using income tax records to track down undocumented immigrants.

4 weeks ago | nbcchicago.com | Chuck Goudie |Katy Smyser |Lisa Capitanini

The first shots were on a digital battlefield--an app called Signal, used by teenagers and adults to privately communicate and share videos with friends. It's a favorite app for sexting because it is encrypted. But it's not intended to be a government venue for anything sensitive such as the decisions about whether to wage a U.S. military attack against Houthi rebel strongholds in Yemen on the Arabian Peninsula.

4 weeks ago | ourcommunitynow.com | Chuck Goudie |Katy Smyser |Lisa Capitanini

Share U.S. officials say two high-ranking cartel operatives, now at the MCC Chicago and being held on drug trafficking charges here, were among 29 federal fugitives recently “transferred” over the border by Mexican authorities. The group is expected to be just the first flight of wanted drug fugitives by Mexican justice officials to the United States. “That's something the Mexican government can do if they don't object,” said former Drug Enforcement Administration official Jack Riley.

4 weeks ago | nbcchicago.com | Chuck Goudie |Katy Smyser |Lisa Capitanini

U.S. officials say two high-ranking cartel operatives, now at the MCC Chicago and being held on drug trafficking charges here, were among 29 federal fugitives recently “transferred” over the border by Mexican authorities. The group is expected to be just the first flight of wanted drug fugitives by Mexican justice officials to the United States. “That's something the Mexican government can do if they don't object,” said former Drug Enforcement Administration official Jack Riley.