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Moon Alert Avoid shopping (except food and gas) or important decisions from 7 a.m. to 8 a.m. After that, the moon moves from Pisces into Aries.Aries (March 21-April 19) A dynamic day .HoroscopeStarbox { background: #f8f8f8; display: flex; align-items: center; } .HoroscopeStarbox_container { display: grid; grid-gap: 5px; grid-template-columns: 1fr 1fr 1fr 1fr 1fr; padding: 20px; width: 40%; min-width: 160px; max-width: 200px; } .HoroscopeStarbox_description { padding: 20px; font-family: var(--font-1); font-size: var(--body-2); } .HoroscopeStarbox_container svg { object-fit: cover; aspect-ratio: 1 / 1; width: 100%; } This is a powerful day for you because the moon is in your sign, dancing beautifully with Mars in the early morning, then Pluto, the sun, Mercury, and finally Venus by tonight. It's as if you won the lottery. Relations with others will be successful, upbeat, and endearing. Lucky you!Taurus (April 20-May 20) A positive day .HoroscopeStarbox { background: #f8f8f8; display: flex; align-items: center; } .HoroscopeStarbox_container { display: grid; grid-gap: 5px; grid-template-columns: 1fr 1fr 1fr 1fr 1fr; padding: 20px; width: 40%; min-width: 160px; max-width: 200px; } .HoroscopeStarbox_description { padding: 20px; font-family: var(--font-1); font-size: var(--body-2); } .HoroscopeStarbox_container svg { object-fit: cover; aspect-ratio: 1 / 1; width: 100%; } You make a fabulous impression on everyone today, in no small part because of something you might do behind the scenes. Either you are pulling the strings or someone else is. Whatever the case, five planets are casting you in a favorable spotlight. Bosses love you!Gemini (May 21-June 20) A dynamic day .HoroscopeStarbox { background: #f8f8f8; display: flex; align-items: center; } .HoroscopeStarbox_container { display: grid; grid-gap: 5px; grid-template-columns: 1fr 1fr 1fr 1fr 1fr; padding: 20px; width: 40%; min-width: 160px; max-width: 200px; } .HoroscopeStarbox_description { padding: 20px; font-family: var(--font-1); font-size: var(--body-2); } .HoroscopeStarbox_container svg { object-fit: cover; aspect-ratio: 1 / 1; width: 100%; } Grab every chance to travel or do anything that is a change of scenery that's exciting and adventurous! These opportunities are not the only ways you are blessed today. You can explore new avenues in publishing, the media, medicine and the law. Go for it!Cancer (June 21-July 22) A positive day .HoroscopeStarbox { background: #f8f8f8; display: flex; align-items: center; } .HoroscopeStarbox_container { display: grid; grid-gap: 5px; grid-template-columns: 1fr 1fr 1fr 1fr 1fr; padding: 20px; width: 40%; min-width: 160px; max-width: 200px; } .HoroscopeStarbox_description { padding: 20px; font-family: var(--font-1); font-size: var(--body-2); } .HoroscopeStarbox_container svg { object-fit: cover; aspect-ratio: 1 / 1; width: 100%; } You're high-viz today, which means people notice you more than usual. (Some actually know personal details about your private life.) Don't worry, though, because all the planets at the top of your chart are beautifully connected and supportive to you, especially in practical and financial ways.Leo (July 23-Aug. 22) A dynamic day .HoroscopeStarbox { background: #f8f8f8; display: flex; align-items: center; } .HoroscopeStarbox_container { display: grid; grid-gap: 5px; grid-template-columns: 1fr 1fr 1fr 1fr 1fr; padding: 20px; width: 40%; min-width: 160px; max-width: 200px; } .HoroscopeStarbox_description { padding: 20px; font-family: var(--font-1); font-size: var(--body-2); } .HoroscopeStarbox_container svg { object-fit: cover; aspect-ratio: 1 / 1; width: 100%; } Conversations with friends, partners and spouses are rewarding, stimulating and meaningful today. You might make plans to travel. Whatever you discuss will lead to something entertaining and rewarding. This is a favorable day for you — make the most of it!Virgo (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) A positive day .HoroscopeStarbox { background: #f8f8f8; display: flex;…

Under a dim moon, a team of five volunteers walked late Thursday through desolate parks on Chicago's North Side and trawled through alleyways in search of anyone they could find.In the first few hours, some volunteers struggled to find anyone amid the frigid cold, though by the end of the night they will have counted and surveyed thousands living on the street and in shelters as part of the annual “point-in-time” count.The “point-in-time” count is a snapshot of the number of people experiencing homelessness in a single night, conducted each year by the Chicago Department of Family and Support Services as part of a federal mandate from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development.The count determines how federal funds are distributed and can influence local policy, though it has caught flak nationwide from advocates who say it isn’t accurate.Between 7 p.m. and 9 p.m. shelter staff do a count, and then 550 city staff members and volunteers conduct the outdoor count from 9 p.m. until 3 a.m., offering snacks, hats, gloves, socks, hygiene kits and resource cards along the way. A specific youth search will be done over the next five days. Alexia Ramos, a drop in program coordinator at Lincoln Park Community Services, speaks Thursday with a guest during Chicago’s annual point-in-time count during dinner at the shelter. Tyler Pasciak LaRiviere/Sun-Times The count happened as the Chicago area braced for frigid wind chills that were expected to drop to as low as minus 35 by Friday. By the time volunteers headed outside Thursday night, wind chills had already dipped to minus 1, according to the National Weather Service.“To alleviate and end homelessness, we need to know the scope of the challenge,” Mayor Brandon Johnson said in a statement. “Behind every number is a neighbor who deserves dignity, safety, and a place to call their own. I want to thank all of our intrepid City workers and volunteers for braving the cold tonight and contributing to our work to address homelessness in Chicago.”But the point-in-time count isn’t always accurate, and recent funding cuts could make it less so.More than 58,000 Chicagoans experienced homelessness in 2024, according to a recently released report from the Chicago Coalition to End Homelessness. Meanwhile the city’s point-in-time count for that year was 19,000. City workers and volunteers spent Thursday night walking through parks and streets to count the number of people experiencing homelessness in Chicago. Tyler Pasciak LaRiviere/Sun-Times Officials with the advocacy group told WBEZ that volunteers may miss people living in abandoned buildings or in cars, or those couch surfing or staying at friends’ or relatives’ homes, what’s known as “doubled up” — particularly on the coldest night of the year. It’s nearly three times more common than those living on the street or in shelters in Chicago, per the report.Cheryl Hamilton Hill, chief executive officer of Lincoln Park Community Services, agreed with the coalition as her shelter was taking part in the count Thursday night.“If people are seeking shelter, they’re not going to be out there waiting for someone to count them,” Hill said. “They’re going to be taking cover in an abandoned building or under a viaduct, they may be couch surfing — but those people we won’t be able to count.”Some cities facing similar criticism have made it a dayslong affair or moved it to the morning, like San Francisco did this year.Hill said she would welcome a shift to July, and a multi-day approach so advocates could get a more accurate number, especially given how it affects funding.The houseless population has been on the rise in recent years. Nationwide it grew by more than 18% in 2024, according to federal officials, and is on track to grow more.A July executive order by President Donald Trump, billed as “ending crime and disorder on America’s streets,” aims to shift funds away from the harm-reduction approach and direct federal support to states and cities to…

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — A 5-year-old boy arriving home from preschool in Minnesota was taken by federal agents along with his father to a detention facility in Texas, school officials and the family’s lawyer said, making him the fourth student from his Minneapolis suburb to be detained by immigration officers in recent weeks.Federal agents took Liam Conejo Ramos from a running car in the family’s driveway Tuesday afternoon, Columbia Heights Public Schools Superintendent Zena Stenvik told reporters Wednesday. The officers told him to knock on the door to his home to see if other people were inside, “essentially using a 5-year-old as bait,” she said.The father told the child’s mother, who was inside the home and has not been named, not to open the door, Stenvik told reporters Thursday.School officials said the agents wouldn’t leave Liam with another adult who lives at the home or an official from the school district. But on Thursday, Department of Homeland Security spokesperson Tricia McLaughlin said in an online post that the father asked for the child to stay with him and that they are together at an immigration lockup in Dilley, Texas.The family, who came to the U.S. in 2024, has an active asylum case and had not been ordered to leave the country, Stenvik said.McLaughlin said in a statement Wednesday that “ICE did NOT target a child.” She said Immigration and Customs Enforcement was arresting the child’s father, Adrian Alexander Conejo Arias, who McLaughlin said is from Ecuador and in the U.S. illegally. He fled on foot, “abandoning his child,” she said.“For the child’s safety, one of our ICE officers remained with the child while the other officers apprehended Conejo Arias,” McLaughlin said, adding that parents are given the choice to be removed with their children or have them placed with a person of their choosing.Minnesota has become a major focus of federal immigration sweeps. Greg Bovino, a U.S. Customs and Border Protection official who has been the face of the crackdowns, said immigration officers have made about 3,000 arrests in Minnesota in the last six weeks.Others offered to take the childStenvik suggested that the father did not run. She said another adult who lives at the home was outside when the father and son were taken, but agents wouldn’t leave Liam with that person.Mary Granlund, school board chair for Columbia Heights Public Schools, told reporters Thursday that she had told agents she would take the child before they left with him.Rachel James, a Columbia Heights city council member who lives nearby the family, said she saw another neighbor from across the street tell the agents they had papers authorizing them to take care of Liam on behalf of the parents. The agents ignored them, James said.The family’s lawyer, Marc Prokosch, said Thursday that he assumes Liam and his father are in a family holding cell but that they have not been able to have “direct contact” with them.“We’re looking at our legal options to see if we can free them either through some legal mechanisms or through moral pressure,” he said at a news conference.Vice President JD Vance met with Minneapolis leaders Thursday and said he heard the “terrible story” but later learned the boy was only detained, not arrested.“Well, what are they supposed to do? Are they supposed to let a 5-year-old child freeze to death? Are they not supposed to arrest an illegal alien in the United States of America?” said Vance, noting that he’s the parent of a 5-year-old.Vance wasn’t asked about why immigration officers allegedly wouldn’t leave the boy with the other adult who lives at the home and offered to take him.Conditions at the Dilley lockupFamilies are reporting that children are malnourished, extremely ill, and suffering profoundly from prolonged detention at the Dilley lockup, where conditions are worse than ever, said Leecia Welch, chief legal counselor at Children’s Rights. Welch visited the facility last week as part of a lawsuit over the welfare of…

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