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Hinsdale-Clarendon Hills District 181 officials settling in at new offices
Hinsdale-Clarendon Hills Elementary District 181 staff is giving very positive reviews to its new offices, which employees moved into a few months ago.
All interior work has been completed at 133 Ogden Ave., Hinsdale. All that’s left is completing work on the parking lot and final landscaping over spring break, said Mike Duggan, the district’s director of buildings and grounds.
“While some of the final interior work took longer than anticipated — something not uncommon to renovation work — we were able to move in before the lease on our prior office expired (on June 30),” he said. “The disruption to staff during the completion of the work has been minimal.”
District 181 officials looked at several sites for purchase, after leasing space at 155 W. 55th St., Clarendon Hills for the previous nine years and before that having district offices inside Elm School and leasing space in Westmont. The board authorized the $3.05 million purchase of the new facility in June 2023
In its Clarendon Hills offices, the available space mandated that departments were located in different spaces, Duggan said,
“We now have collaborative space that we did not have at the old office,” he said. “The departments are also arranged for a more efficient workflow. The space more accurately reflects (our) culture.”
Duggan said he is very pleased with the new offices, which are home to 30 district employees
“The new space is a much more welcoming space for our students and families,” he said. “The design allows for meetings of different sizes for stakeholders and staff.”
Karen O’Connor, the district’s communications director, also lauded the functionality of the new space.
“All the details here are very intentional,” she said. “The downstairs professional development space has flexible seating and tables to accommodate a variety of groups. We recently hosted our monthly PTO president meeting here, and everyone loved the space.”
Gina Herrmann, assistant superintendent of human resources, said the new space reflects the pride staff takes in serving its schools.
“We are excited to welcome staff and community members to our new district office,” she said. “Our team did an exceptional job creating a warm, professional, and highly functional environment. It’s a wonderful place to greet new employees and to collaborate with colleagues.”
Along with the positive impression the new offices are making with staff, Duggan said owning the new offices vs renting at the previous location is a much more effective use of taxpayer money.
“We are grateful to have an asset that will benefit the district now and into the future,” he said, adding that the administration and School Board planned for the purchase of the new offices to be made out of operating funds so that taxpayers are not subject to an incremental debt service levy.
After 25 years in the new offices, the financial benefit of owning vs renting is estimated at $2,656,740.
The project’s renovation budget was $5.1 million. As of Nov. 30, $4.2 million has been spent, Duggan said.
“Administration believes that the project will be delivered at or below the project budget once all work has been completed,” he said.
Chuck Fieldman is a freelance reporter for Pioneer Press.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/12/15/hinsdale-clarendon-hills-school-offices/
Nativity smashed, Mary figure ‘beaten’ at Evanston church: ‘God’s on the side of the vulnerable’
Vandals decapitated and smashed the statue of Mary in an Evanston church’s outdoor Nativity scene Friday, and the church responded, according to an associate minister, by replacing it with a sign saying Mary was beaten and dragged away in front of her son and is being held in immigration detention.
Lake Street Church of Evanston began sparking discussion in late November when it created the immigration-themed Nativity scene, with masked Roman centurions dressed as U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents, Mary and Joseph wearing gas masks to protect against ICE tear gas and baby Jesus with zip-tied hands. The centurions were also destroyed in Friday’s vandalism, but the church rebuilt them.
Church leaders have said the Nativity is meant to draw a parallel between the Holy Family, who were immigrants or refugees to Egypt when they fled Bethlehem to escape King Herod’s bloodshed, in Biblical texts, and ICE’s “Operation Midway Blitz” this fall, in which agents pulled hundreds of immigrants and some citizens off Chicago-area streets, sometimes violently, detained them in harsh conditions and deported many.
“Having people respond negatively like this — I think (the Nativity display) is stirring people’s consciences,” said Rev. Jillian Westerfield, associate minister at the church. “We’re calling out what’s happening to God’s beloved people and they don’t like how that feels, so they respond by attacking the art.”
Friday’s vandalism of the Christmas scene was the second time the Nativity figures have been attacked. At the beginning of December, someone removed Mary and Joseph’s gas masks and the zip ties from baby Jesus’ hands. The heavy post-Thanksgiving snowfall also damaged the Joseph statue, Rev. Michael Woolf, pastor, said at the time, and the church removed it and replaced it with a memorial to victims of unjust immigration enforcement. They also put up a sign saying, “Joseph didn’t make it.”
On Dec. 12, Westerfield said vandals basically flattened the whole display, taking the ICE agents’ vests, leaving the Mary statue with its head and hair scattered on the ground and removing the baby Jesus figure’s zip ties and emergency blanket, though they left the figure in its cradle.
She and a volunteer worked to reassemble the centurions from the remains of the parts lying on the ground, she said. With the vests missing, they improvised by labeling the figures’ t-shirts with “ICE” and “BP” for U.S. Customs and Border Protection, another agency which seized and detained Chicago-area immigrants this fall.
The Nativity now contains only the centurions and baby Jesus, zip ties replaced.
The spirit of the display references the Christian prayer the Magnificat, known as the prayer of Mary, Westerfield said. It includes the verses, “He (the Lord) has cast down the mighty from their thrones, and has lifted up the lowly.”
After vandals flattened the Lake Street Church of Evanston’s Nativity scene Dec. 12, 2025, the church re-assembled the centurions portrayed as ICE agents, but replaced the Mary figure with a sign saying she had been beaten and was in immigration detention. The church has likened the Holy Family to the immigrants that federal agents have seized and detained, sometimes violently, during “Operation Midway Blitz” this past fall in the Chicago area. (Jillian Westerfield)
She added, “This is about God’s promises to the weakest and most vulnerable in the world…God is always on the side of the most vulnerable.”
The Nativity has received coverage in national news, and Westerfield said that is helping to shine a light on what has happened in the Chicago area with immigration enforcement.
After vandals flattened the Lake Street Church of Evanston’s Nativity scene Dec. 12, 2025, the church re-assembled the centurions portrayed as ICE agents, but replaced the Mary figure with a sign saying she had been beaten and was in immigration detention. The church has likened the Holy Family to the immigrants that federal agents have seized and detained, sometimes violently, during “Operation Midway Blitz” this past fall in the Chicago area. (Jillian Westerfield)
“Maybe it’ll help people take more action to protect the most vulnerable, and that’s what we really hope happens,” she said.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/12/15/nativity-smashed-mary-evanston-church/
Days after seeing Rob Reiner and wife, Gov. JB Pritzker mourns deaths and blasts Trump’s response to tragedy
Gov. JB Pritzker on Monday mourned the deaths of Hollywood filmmaker Rob Reiner and his wife this weekend, noting he was with both of them at their Los Angeles home just four days ago, as the governor also lambasted President Donald Trump’s reaction to the tragedy.
In addition to being a Hollywood A-lister who both made films and acted, Reiner was a well-known liberal activist and donor to Democratic candidates and causes. Pritzker last week headlined a Democratic fundraiser in Los Angeles that was co-hosted by Reiner and his wife, Michele Singer Reiner, a campaign spokesperson said, days before the couple was found dead Sunday at their home in the Brentwood neighborhood, The Associated Press reported.
Police said Rob Reiner’s younger son, Nick Reiner, was in police custody Monday for what investigators believe was a fatal stabbing of the couple, according to the AP.
“I was with them four days ago, and these are some terrific people. They care deeply about people. And they have political views, but they also were just people,” Pritzker said. “They’ve been philanthropic. They care about their community.”
Trump, a Republican who has often been harshly criticized by Rob Reiner, addressed the deaths in a post on his social media channel, Truth Social, in which the president referred to himself in the third person, insulted Reiner and said the actor and director had “driven people CRAZY by his raging obsession of President Donald J. Trump.”
“A very sad thing happened last night in Hollywood. Rob Reiner, a tortured and struggling, but once very talented movie director and comedy star, has passed away, together with his wife, Michele, reportedly due to the anger he caused others through his massive, unyielding, and incurable affliction with a mind crippling disease known as TRUMP DERANGEMENT SYNDROME, “ Trump wrote, adding a few more digs in Reiner before ending the post stating, “May Rob and Michele rest in peace!”
Flowers cover the Walk of Fame star for Rob Reiner on Dec. 15, 2025, in the Hollywood neighborhood of Los Angeles. (Damian Dovarganes/AP)
Pritzker on Monday criticized the president’s mocking comments.
“Today is yet another example of the — well, the terrible nature of our president, when he’s attacking Rob Reiner and Michele Reiner,” Pritzker said at an unrelated news conference in Springfield.
Reiner was a co-founder of the American Foundation for Equal Rights and chaired the campaign for Prop 10, a California initiative to fund early childhood development services through a tax on tobacco products.
Pritzker praised the couple’s work on early childhood development, one of his own policy interests, saying “probably the most important work, maybe in the nation, was done by them.”
“And to have the president of the United States attacking them, and really — I just, I don’t understand. I don’t understand. I don’t understand why the president has to do things like this,” Pritzker said. “What is wrong with him, that he has to attack people, especially when their families are suffering?”
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/12/15/jb-pritzker-reiner-deaths-response-trump/
Clinton Judge Orders Destruction Of Key Evidence In Case Against James Comey
Clinton Judge Orders Destruction Of Key Evidence In Case Against James Comey
A Clinton-appointed federal judge in Washington has stepped into the James Comey saga with an order that effectively tells the FBI to wipe a key evidentiary trail tied to the former director’s obstruction case, and to do it quickly. The move drops the Justice Department into a separation-of-powers storm at the same time it is trying to salvage its prosecution of the man who helped ignite the Trump-Russia hoax.
Former FBI Director James Comey was indicted in September on charges of making false statements to Congress and obstructing a congressional proceeding, stemming from his 2020 testimony about Operation Crossfire Hurricane. The indictment alleged that Comey lied when he denied authorizing anyone at the FBI to act as an anonymous source for media reports damaging to Donald Trump, and that he used Columbia Law Professor Daniel Richman as an outside conduit to leak material while Richman simultaneously worked as a government contractor. Emails between the two are critical to the case against Comey.
U.S. District Judge Cameron McGowan Currie, a Bill Clinton appointee, dismissed the indictments against Comey and New York Attorney General Letitia James last month, ruling that the appointment of Interim U.S. Attorney Lindsey Halligan, who pursued the charges, was unconstitutional, and thus the indictments were invalid.
Six years ago, a warrant approved by Judge James Boasberg allowed the FBI to seize Richman’s devices.
Today, another Clinton-appointed judge, Colleen Kollar-Kotelly, has ordered the FBI to destroy the emails by 4 p.m. on Monday. According to Michael R. Davis, the founder and president of the Article III Project, the ruling “threatens the separation of powers essential to the Republic, and either the D.C. Circuit or Supreme Court must intervene immediately.
Richman, who is not charged in the case and has no standing as a defendant, filed a motion under Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 41(g) to reclaim those emails, arguing that the government violated his Fourth Amendment rights. Rule 41(g) typically allows individuals to ask a court to return property obtained in an unlawful search.
Still, its use here departs from legal norms because Richman is not the target of the prosecution, and Comey himself lacks standing to challenge the warrant executed on Richman’s accounts. Judge Kollar-Kotelly granted the motion and, on December 13, ordered the Justice Department to return all data seized from Richman, concluding that prosecutors handled the material with “callous disregard” for Richman’s rights and had improperly used it to indict Comey. She directed that a copy of the emails be delivered to Biden-appointed Judge Michael Nachmanoff, who is presiding over the Comey case in the Eastern District of Virginia, but even with that copy preserved, the ruling bars the FBI and prosecutors from reviewing these emails as they pursue a new indictment.
“This salvation of a copy of the emails, however, does not lessen the impact of Kollar-Kotelly’s horrible ruling,” explains Davis.
“The FBI and the prosecution will be unable to review them in their efforts to seek a new indictment if Currie’s dismissal ruling survives on appeal.”
The statute-of-limitations law allows the government only six months after an indictment’s dismissal, suspended during the appellate process, to seek a new indictment. The inability to view this evidence would substantially increase the time necessary to seek an indictment. Even if a higher court reverses Currie, the government’s inability to review the emails to use as evidence and prepare for trial would massively hamper its case.
Kollar-Kotelly’s decision raises grave separation-of-powers concerns because it involves a judge outside the criminal case, and outside the district where it is pending, ordering the destruction of evidence that was lawfully obtained.
Usually, Rule 41(g) comes into play where a defendant has had property wrongly seized, and he moves to reclaim it,” Davis explains. “Here, Comey is not seeking to reclaim anything; Richman, a then-government contractor with whom Comey communicated extensively about government business, is seeking this evidence. Richman has run to a partisan Democrat judge not even involved in the criminal case — and not even in the same district — to procure the destruction of crucial evidence in that case in an obvious effort to assist his friend Comey.”
Ordinarily, the judge presiding over the criminal case decides whether to suppress evidence under the Fourth Amendment, not a different judge in another district using a third party as a vehicle to attack the warrant.
Comey cannot challenge the warrant against Richman because he lacks standing to do so. Incredibly, Kollar-Kotelly suggested that Richman could move to quash this evidence in Virginia. She’s going way out of her way to help Comey. Judges presiding over cases often have excluded evidence against defendants as having been obtained in violation of the Fourth Amendment. It is, however, extraordinary for a different judge — especially in a different district — to interfere in and dramatically hamper the prosecution’s case based on a claim by a third party of a wrongful search and seizure, especially when the evidence the government wishes to use consists of communications between that third party and the defendant — a defendant who was a senior government official.
The episode fits within a broader pattern in which left-leaning judges have allowed or intensified lawfare against President Trump and his allies while taking steps to shield alleged lawfare perpetrators, such as Comey, from accountability.
“If higher courts do not reign in these rogue judges, Congress must do so through oversight, withholding of funds from judicial appropriations, and impeachment,” argues Davis. “A system where the judiciary enables lawfare and then shields its perpetrators from legal consequences is unsustainable, and higher courts must put a stop to it.”
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Mon, 12/15/2025 – 18:00
Hammond Holiday parade kicks off the season
Hammond’s annual Holiday Parade helped jump-start the holiday season.
A crowd of spectators braved the freezing temperatures on Dec. 6, which didn’t dampen the festive spirit in the air.
Hammond residents Michelle Lee and her son, Elijah, 12, patiently waited for the parade to begin. (Sue Ellen Ross/Post-Tribune)
“We’ve been coming to this parade for more than 20 years,” said Chris Osikaof Crown Point, as she arrived with her husband and three children. “It’s become an important tradition for our
family.”
Her children, 20-year-old triplets Brandon, Allison and Caitlyn, agreed.
All of them are home on holiday break from college, and the parade was high on their to-do list.
“I remember all the years our family came to this event, it was always a lot of fun,” Brandon Osikaof said. “We’re here to continue the tradition.”
A trio of horses ridden by multiple Santa Clauses entertained the crowd. (Sue Ellen Ross/Post-Tribune)
More than 70 entries entertained the crowd.
Local college organizations, high school marching bands and colorful floats appeared between antique cars, community groups, and a live horse performance, as well as other attractions.
Hundreds of spectators joined in the fun along the parade route down Indianapolis Boulevard. Louis Goodman of Hammond had a bird’s-eye view of the procession from her living room window, since she lives along the parade route.
Although she stayed mostly in the warmth of her house, periodically she went on her front lawn to check on family members.
Bishop Noll Institute’s marching band performed during the parade. (Sue Ellen Ross/Post-Tribune)
“I love that we always can count on this parade every year,” she said. “My kids and grandchildren use this day to also come and visit since they live out of town. It’s really a good time.”
Waiting patiently for the parade to begin were Michelle Lee and her son, 12-year-old Elijah.
They attend every year, and Michelle has some fond memories of her own from when she was growing up in Hammond.
“I was in the Hammond High School Marching Band, and we would always perform in the holiday parade,” she said, “I played the trumpet, and it was always fun.”
The Hammond Holiday Parade began in the early 1930s and has grown to include various entertainment and themes to showcase the city’s mission of kicking off the holiday season.
The huge number of repeat attendees each year can attest to the accomplishment of that plan.
The Dones family of Hammond is one of those dedicated to watching each year.
“We’ve been here for more than 20 years,” Jeff Dones said, as his seven children and 11 grandchildren bundled up as the parade began. “No matter what the weather, we’re always here.”
Prior to the start of the parade, dozens of runners joined in the traditional free one-mile Santa Sprint Fun Run.
After the conclusion of the parade, many families continued celebrating the holiday season with activities at the Hammond Sportsplex.
Sue Ellen Ross is a freelance reporter for the Post-Tribune.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/12/15/hammond-holiday-parade-kicks-off-the-holiday-season/
Man United y Bournemouth empatan 4-4 en emocionante partido de la Liga Premier
MANCHESTER, Inglaterra (AP) — El Manchester United empató el lunes 4-4 con el Bournemouth en uno de los mejores partidos de la Liga Premier.
El entrenador del United, Ruben Amorim, afirmó antes del partido que “jugar contra Bournemouth nunca es divertido” y fueron palabras proféticas en una noche en la que su equipo tuvo la mayoría de las oportunidades. pero sólo se llevó un punto.
Los Cherries habían vencido al United 3-0 en sus dos últimas visitas a Old Trafford, pero parecía poco probable que eso volviera a suceder, ya que el equipo local tomó el control desde el principio y se adelantó en el marcador después de 13 minutos.
Un centro elevado de Diogo Dalot le cayó a Amad Diallo, quien cabeceó casi en la línea de gol.
El United dominó un primer tiempo vibrante, pero Antoine Semenyo igualó para Bournemouth después de 40 minutos. Una mala defensa hizo que el United perdiera el balón en la banda izquierda y Semenyo avanzó y envió un disparo angulado por debajo de Senne Lammens.
Casemiro restauró la ventaja del United al borde del descanso cuando remató de cabeza un tiro de esquina de Bruno Fernandes. El portero de Bournemouth, Djordje Petrovic, no pudo detener el esfuerzo del brasileño.
Fue una historia diferente después del descanso, ya que los visitantes anotaron dos veces en seis minutos para tomar la delantera por primera vez.
Evanilson finalizó de manera excelente tras un gran pase de Marcus Tavernier, y seis minutos después Tavernier curvó un disparo de zurda alrededor de la barrera del United para poner a Bournemouth 3-2 por delante y silenciar a la multitud local.
El United se recuperó y un magnífico tiro libre de Fernandes, tan a menudo un salvador, se coló en la esquina superior con 13 minutos restantes, antes de que Matheus Cunha aprovechara dos minutos después un rebote dentro del área y finalizara clínicamente para poner al equipo local de nuevo al frente 4-3.
Pero el Bournemouth resistió para para empatar. Con seis minutos restantes, Eli Junior Kroupi finalizó brillantemente con un control de un toque y un disparo superando a Lammens.
El resultado elevó al Manchester United al sexto lugar. Bournemouth, que sigue sin ganar en siete partidos de liga, está en el puesto 13.
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Demanda acusa a UPS de no pagar salarios completos a trabajadores temporales
Por MICHAEL R. SISAK
NUEVA YORK (AP) — UPS robó decenas de millones de dólares en salarios a trabajadores temporales que ayudan al gigante de envíos a entregar paquetes durante la ajetreada temporada navideña, obligando a algunos a registrar su entrada mucho después de que sus turnos comenzaran y deduciendo el pago por descansos para almorzar que nunca tomaron, alegó la fiscal general de Nueva York, Letitia James, en una demanda el lunes.
Presentada en un tribunal estatal en Manhattan, la demanda acusa a UPS de no compensar adecuadamente “repetida y persistentemente” a los ayudantes de conductores, que asisten con las entregas, y a los conductores de apoyo temporales, que utilizan sus propios vehículos para realizar entregas. James estimó que en los últimos seis años, UPS ha privado a decenas de miles de trabajadores temporales de salarios que suman aproximadamente 45 millones de dólares.
La demanda busca el pago retroactivo y sanciones, además de una orden judicial que obligue a UPS a poner fin al trabajo fuera de horario y a cambiar sus prácticas de registro de tiempo y nómina. La empresa, conocida por sus camiones y uniformes marrones, entregó un promedio de 22,4 millones de paquetes al día y generó 91.100 millones de dólares en ingresos el año pasado, según su sitio web.
“A menudo no pensamos en estos trabajadores cuando estamos abriendo nuestros regalos para las fiestas”, señaló James en una conferencia de prensa al anunciar la demanda. “Y estas personas están batallando cada día para llegar a fin de mes”.
En un comunicado, la empresa con sede en Georgia dijo que estaba al tanto de la demanda, “toma en serio todas las acusaciones de irregularidades y niega la acusación infundada de pagar intencionalmente menos a los empleados de UPS”.
“Ofrecemos salarios y beneficios líderes en la industria a nuestros más de 26.000 empleados en Nueva York, y seguimos comprometidos a cumplir con todas las leyes aplicables”, decía el comunicado.
James, demócrata, dijo que comenzó a investigar a UPS en 2023 después de que un sindicato de empleados, Teamsters Local 804, expresó preocupaciones sobre el trato de la empresa a los trabajadores temporales, los cuales son contratados de manera temporal de octubre a enero.
Josh Pomeranz, director de operaciones del sindicato, señaló que aunque no hay evidencia de que la dirección de la empresa estuviera involucrada, al tanto o consintiendo el presunto robo de salarios, “estas son solo ciertas prácticas que tienes que ignorar activamente para no ver que están ocurriendo”.
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Esta historia fue traducida del inglés por un editor de AP con la ayuda de una herramienta de inteligencia artificial generativa.
El Vaticano presenta el Nacimiento y enciende el árbol de Navidad en la Plaza de San Pedro
CIUDAD DEL VATICANO (AP) — El Vaticano develó su pesebre el lunes y encendió el árbol de Navidad de 25 metros (82 pies) que se alza sobre él en la Plaza de San Pedro, lo cual fue acompañado por una banda, un coro y bailarines con trajes tradicionales de la provincia más septentrional de Italia, el Tirol del Sur.
El abeto proviene de la provincia autónoma italiana de mayoría germanoparlante, en la frontera con Austria, mientras que el Nacimiento de tamaño real fue diseñado por la diócesis de Nocera Inferiore-Sarno en la provincia sureña de Campania, con elementos arquitectónicos de la región.
La vicegobernadora del Tirol del Sur, Rosmarie Pamer, subrayó que tres grupos lingüísticos conviven pacíficamente en el Tirol del Sur: italiano, alemán y ladino.
“Esto no debe darse por sentado, sino que es un gran regalo y una gran fortuna”, expresó.
La inauguración de la escena de la Natividad y el encendido del árbol forman parte de los eventos de la temporada navideña, que también incluirán la misa de Nochebuena y el tradicional discurso Urbi et Orbi —”A la ciudad y al mundo”— que pronuncia el papa el día de Navidad. Esta temporada festiva cerrará el Año Jubilar inaugurado por el difunto papa Francisco.
El papa León XIV no asistió a la inauguración vespertina del árbol y el pesebre. Sin embargo, durante una audiencia efectuada horas antes con los donantes de las decoraciones navideñas del Vaticano, denunció la violencia antisemita detrás de la masacre de Hanukkah en Sidney, Australia.
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Esta historia fue traducida del inglés por un editor de AP con la ayuda de una herramienta de inteligencia artificial generativa.
The killings of Rob and Michele Reiner shatters family’s gentle legacy
NEW YORK — Until Sunday’s shocking double killings, few families seemed more apart from the dark side of life than the Reiners.
For decades, Rob Reiner and his father, Carl, had embodied a gentle, hopeful spirit in American culture, whether Dick Van Dyke’s lovable antics on the show named for him and created by Carl, or the openly sentimental ending to Rob’s “When Harry Met Sally…”, now held up as the kind of romantic comedy they don’t seem to make anymore. Carl Reiner would call his son his favorite director, while Rob would recall being so awed by his father that he wanted to change his first name to Carl.
Rob Reiner’s son Nick arrested after director and his wife found dead at their Los Angeles home
It was a dynasty seemingly spared of jealousy, cynicism and rage, or ambulances and police tape and 911 calls. Carl Reiner was married to his wife, Estelle, for more than 60 years; Rob to his wife, Michele, since 1989. Few would have imagined that “booked for murder” would appear in a sentence about any of them. But on Monday, Los Angeles police announced that 32-year-old Nick Reiner was in custody on suspicion of killing his parents, Rob and Michele.
“They were among my closest friends,” Maria Shriver wrote on Threads. “We laughed together, cried together, played together, dreamed together. We had dinner this past week, and they were in the best place in the their lives.”
Actor-producer Rita Wilson wrote in an Instagram post that it is “impossible to reconcile the tragedy of their deaths with the beauty they offered the world.”
The Reiners never pretended to like everybody. Carl Reiner, who died in 2020, had appeared in an anti-Donald Trump ad two years earlier, urging like-minded citizens to vote during the midterm elections. Rob Reiner was a liberal who denounced Trump for years as a threat to democracy, and was labeled by the president Monday a victim of “Trump Derangement Syndrome.”
But the Reiners’ politics, even at their angriest, were rooted in persuasion and civic engagement, the belief that the right words could bring about justice and redemption. In “A Few Good Men,” Rob’s adaptation of the Aaron Sorkin play, an inexperienced Navy defense lawyer outwits a bullying commander into confessing his complicity with the death of a young private. “The American President,” a 1995 Reiner-Sorkin collaboration released during President Bill Clinton’s first term, was a kind liberal fairy tale about a wavering chief executive who rediscovers his principles — and finds love with an environmental lobbyist.
“Beneath all of the stories he (Rob Reiner) produced was a deep belief in the goodness of people — and a lifelong commitment to putting that belief into action,” former President Barack Obama wrote on X.
As the liberal Mike Stivic in “All in the Family,” Reiner argued constantly with his bigoted father-in-law, Archie Bunker (played by Carroll O’Connor), but never gave up on reconciling with him. After one especially heated exchange, Stivic’s mother-in-law, Edith (Jean Stapleton), explains to him that Archie’s anger comes out of resentment that Mike is young and his life is before him.
When he sees Archie again, Mike hugs him: “I understand,” he says.
Even the acknowledged struggles of Nick Reiner appeared to have been resolved. In his teens, he was in out of treatment facilities and was homeless on occasion. But by 2015, the two had worked together on the semi-autobiographical film, “Being Charlie,” about a young addict and his tensions with his famous father. Both would say the project brought them closer. Nick Reiner told People magazine at the time that movies proved a mutual passion. Rob Reiner told The Associated Press that he had confronted his mistakes as a parent.
“We didn’t go into it thinking this is going to be therapeutic or bring us closer, but it did come out that way,” Rob Reiner told the AP. “It forced us to understand ourselves better than we had. I told Nick while we were making it, I said, ‘you know it doesn’t matter, whatever happens to this thing, we won already. This has already been good.’”
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/12/15/reiner-familys-gentle-legacy/
Roma vence a Como y aprieta la lucha por el título de la Serie A
ROMA (AP) — El lateral brasileño Wesley França consiguió el único gol en la victoria el lunes 1-0 de la Roma ante el Como para colocarse a tres puntos del líder de la Serie A, Inter de Milán.
França, quien fue fichado este verano procedente del Flamengo, le dio a la Roma una ventaja merecida a los 60 minutos al recibir el pase de Matías Soulé y disparar un tiro raso que entró por el poste más alejado.
Hasta entonces, había sido un partido poco destacado en el Estadio Olímpico.
Las defensas dominaron durante un primer tiempo equilibrado, con Jean Butez del Como siendo el único portero que realizó una parada.
La segunda mitad fue ligeramente más emocionante y le anularon un gol a Bryan Cristante para el equipo local.
Pero hubo pocas oportunidades y no más goles, lo cual no molestará a la Roma, que rompió una reciente mala racha y se colocó en el cuarto lugar.
Como se mantuvo en el séptimo lugar, a seis puntos de distancia. Fue la segunda derrota consecutiva para el equipo de Cesc Fàbregas, aunque ambas pérdidas han sido contra equipos que están por encima en la tabla.
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