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CBS News
01-07-2025
- General
- CBS News
Name Chicago's newest piping plover chicks
Chicago's newest additions to the piping plover community need names. The parents, beloved Imani and Sea Rocket, laid their first egg of the season on the Montrose Beach dunes shoreline back in May. Now they need your help. Name suggestions can be submitted on the "Chicago Piping Plovers" Facebook page. The Chicago Ornithological Society wants names that reflect Chicago's heritage, culture, and diversity. The name submission deadline is July 7. The Montrose Point Bird Sanctuary attracts tens of thousands of migratory birds every year. It features a Magic Hedge — a 150-yard stretch of shrubs and trees — that attracts an especially large number of species. Piping plovers are found not in the Magic Hedge, but on the beach. Monty and Rose — named after the beach that is in turn named after the east-west street of which it serves at the mouth — were the first to nest at Montrose Beach in 71 years when they appeared in 2019. Pippin was hatched in 2023 in Cat Island, located in Lake Superior in the northernmost reaches of Wisconsin.
NDTV
17-06-2025
- Politics
- NDTV
Iranian Anchor Emerges Hero After Israeli Strikes, Her Gesture Goes Viral
Sahar Imani, one of the most prominent anchors with the Iranian state television, is being praised widely on social media for returning to broadcast immediately after an Israeli strike on the studio last evening. Dramatic footage showed yesterday the organisation's building on fire in Tehran as Israeli attacks grew amid heightened tensions in the Middle East. Imani was midway through the bulletin when an Israeli missile hit the compound of the Iranian TV studio. She had to get up and leave as the studio shook in the impact of the missile strike, showed visuals. She, however, returned and resumed her live broadcast shortly after. Social media posts from regime supporters lauded Imani's strength and courage, and her image was shared alongside senior leaders of the Shia-Iranian axis. "She is the face of Iranian women's courage," read one of the posts. With her image alongside Nasrallah, another was captioned: "You cannot destroy an idea by killing." Going viral is her gesture of pointing her finger while targeting Israel on television, just before the strike filled the studio with smoke. Her gesture has found her place in online posters alongside Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and former Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah, making similar gestures. Iran's Vice President for Women and Family Affairs, Zahra Behramzadeh Azar, also praised Imani in a post, calling her a symbol of Iranian women's courage and stating that she has become "the voice of all Iranian citizens in the face of aggression." Who is Sahar Imani? Sahar Imani is one of Iran's most famous news anchors. Trained in food engineering, she entered the media field with an anchoring role in 2010. Soon, she gained national prominence by presenting on Iran's official news channel. She is married and has a child. Following Monday's events, Arabic-language media praised her "calm demeanor and confident presence". Their coverage also noted her "simplicity and avoidance of heavy makeup." Condemnation of the Attack The attack on the Iranian State TV broadcasting headquarters sparked widespread condemnation from pro-Iran voices online. Hezbollah condemned it as a "Zionist crime", calling it a "heinous attack targeting Iran's broadcasting center". They labelled it "systematic terrorism" aimed at "suppressing opposition, erasing truth, and ending the Iranian people's revolution." The Iranian broadcaster issued a statement saying: "The Zionist entity brutally bombed the state media headquarters in Tehran. The enemy seeks to silence the great Iranian people's voice by targeting the news channel." The attack "reflects the impact of Iran's national media on Israeli media. This attack has not broken, and will not break, the resolve of Iran's journalists," said the head of Iran's broadcasting authority.
Chicago Tribune
19-05-2025
- Business
- Chicago Tribune
Afternoon Briefing: Supreme Court allows Trump to strip protections from some Venezuelans
Good afternoon, Chicago. The Supreme Court today allowed the Trump administration to strip legal protections from 350,000 Venezuelans, potentially exposing them to deportation. The court's order, with only one noted dissent, puts on hold a ruling from a federal judge in San Francisco that kept in place Temporary Protected Status for the Venezuelans that would have otherwise expired last month. The justices provided no rationale, which is common in emergency appeals. The status allows people already in the United States to live and work legally because their native countries are deemed unsafe for return due to natural disaster or civil strife. Here's what else is happening today. And remember, for the latest breaking news in Chicago, visit and sign up to get our alerts on all your devices. Subscribe to more newsletters | Asking Eric | Horoscopes | Puzzles & Games | Today in History Chicago's piping plover population may grow after Searocket and Imani laid their first egg of the season on the Montrose Beach Dunes shoreline Sunday morning, a little over a week since their reunion for Mother's Day weekend. Read more here. More top news stories: As doubts persist about Trump's economic leadership, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent pushed back against inflation concerns, praised the uncertainty caused by Trump as a negotiating tactic for trade talks and dismissed the downgrade of U.S. government debt by Moody's Ratings. Read more here. More top business stories: Thousands of people poured into downtown Sunday near Butler Field in Grant Park for the Life Time Chicago Spring Half Marathon. The event, in its 16th year, is an opportunity for Chicagoans to celebrate spring in the city — and for runners far and wide to test their abilities and mark new personal achievements. Read more here. More top sports stories: Later this month, Andy's celebrates its 50th anniversary with a special concert series that reads like a history of the club itself. Read more here. More top Eat. Watch. Do. stories: When caught early, prostate cancer is highly survivable, but it is also the second-leading cause of cancer death in men. About 1 in 8 men will be diagnosed over their lifetime with prostate cancer, according to the American Cancer Society. Read more here. More top stories from around the world:
CBS News
19-05-2025
- Science
- CBS News
Chicago's Piping plovers Imani and Sea Rocket lay first egg of season
Piping plovers Imani and Sea Rocket lay first egg of season Piping plovers Imani and Sea Rocket lay first egg of season Piping plovers Imani and Sea Rocket lay first egg of season The next generation of Montrose Beach's piping plovers are to be on the way. Chicago's beloved Imani and Sea Rocket laid their first egg of the season on the Montrose Beach dunes shoreline Sunday morning. Volunteers said they expect Sea Rocket to lay four eggs total. Along with Imani and Sea Rocket, volunteers said Pippin is also back at Montrose Beach for the season. It is now peak of migration season. The Montrose Point Bird Sanctuary attracts tens of thousands of migratory birds every year. It features a Magic Hedge — a 150-yard stretch of shrubs and trees — that attracts an especially large number of species. Piping plovers are found not in the Magic Hedge, but on the beach. Monty and Rose — named after the beach that is in turn named after the east-west street of which it serves at the mouth — were the first to nest at Montrose Beach in 71 years when they appeared in 2019. Pippin was hatched in 2023 in Cat Island — located in Lake Superior in the northernmost reaches of Wisconsin.
Yahoo
19-05-2025
- General
- Yahoo
Piping plover pair Searocket and Imani lay first egg of the season at Montrose Beach
Chicago's piping plover population may grow after Searocket and Imani laid their first egg of the season on the Montrose Beach Dunes shoreline Sunday morning, a little over a week since their reunion for Mother's Day weekend. Volunteer monitors said they are waiting on Searocket, the female plover, to lay three more eggs in this nesting attempt. This marks the second breeding season for her and Imani — the son of local celebrities Monty and Rose, who in June 2019 became the first of the species to return to Chicago and the larger Cook County area in 71 years. Last year, four eggs hatched to Searocket and Imani, but only one survived. Necropsies performed by the Lincoln Park Zoo determined they had died from a 'failure to thrive' — essentially of natural causes — according to Tamima Itani, lead volunteer coordinator for Chicago Piping Plovers. On average, 1.5 piping plovers in a nest of four in the wild make it to fledge, according to Michigan State University's W.K. Kellogg Bird Sanctuary. The surviving hatchling was named Nagamo, which means 'he/she sings' in Ojibwe, one of the languages spoken by the Anishinaabe people — whose traditional homeland the city of Chicago is located on. Nagamo hasn't returned yet, though this is not unusual for first-year returnees, which tend to come back in late May to early June. After migrating south for the winter, about a third of piping plovers hatched in the wild return to their birthplace during their first summer. Also at Montrose this year is 2-year-old Pippin, a returning male from Green Bay, Wisconsin, who is also looking for a female to nest with. The birds are known for pairing up to rear their young. The three-generation family at Montrose Beach is part of an ongoing effort to restore the Great Lakes piping plover population, a federally protected endangered species that reached an all-time low of 13 pairs in the 1980s after habitat loss due to beach development. Before the dramatic drop, 500 to 800 piping plover pairs nested in the Great Lakes, according to the National Audubon Society. Thanks to recent conservation efforts, their numbers have since rebounded to around 80 breeding pairs. adperez@
