Chicago Weather For Today

Chicago Weather For Today

Yahoo USA Top Latest News - Two lines of severe thunderstorms raced towards the Chicago area Monday evening, bringing torrential rains and damaging straight-line winds. The first line of storms hit the Chicago area between 5 p.m. and 8:30 p.m. Monday night, while another line of severe storms raced in behind them. Tornado sirens blared Monday evening in west suburban Aurora after a possible funnel cloud was spotted, but no damage was reported. At the height of the storm, a west suburban house caught fire. ComEd increased its staffing and opened its emergency operations center Monday afternoon in advance of the severe weather. As of 8:30 p.m. Monday, ComEd reported 66,000 customers without power. The National Weather Service Storm Prediction Center (SPC) has issued a “Particularly Dangerous Situation Severe Thunderstorm Watch” for southeast Wisconsin, northeast Illinois, northwest Indiana and southwest Michigan until 9 p.m. central. - Weather For Chicago Today

Chicago Weather For Today - This includes Chicago and Milwaukee. Widespread damaging winds to 80 mph, large hail, and one or two tornadoes are possible in this area. “Numerous severe thunderstorms capable of large hail, tornadoes and swaths of damaging wind are expected today into tonight over much of the Corn Belt and Midwest,” SPC says. Already, thunderstorms have exploded over portions of Nebraska and Iowa today, with multiple reports of damaging winds and hail. One tornado watch covers a large chunk of Iowa and western Nebraska until 6 p.m. central time. A second tornado watch covers eastern Iowa, northwest Illinois and southern Wisconsin until 7 p.m. central. A concern is that these thunderstorms will evolve into a derecho, a rapidly moving storm complex featuring damaging winds along at least a 240 mile path. The line of storms could arrive in the Chicago and Milwaukee region between approximately 7 and 10 p.m. tonight (local time). - Chicago Weather For Today

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Weather For Today In Chicago

Weather For Today In Chicago

Yahoo USA Top Latest News - The Monday night flight to St. Cloud Regional Airport from Chicago O'Hare Airport was canceled because of weather issues in Chicago, a spokesperson for SkyWest said. Other flights were delayed. Those storms weakened a bit as they hit Chicago during the early evening with winds of about 60 mph. People in Chicago were thinking they escaped the worst, however a second line of storms developed and these were stronger as they hit Chicago late evening. - Weather For Chicago Today

Weather For Today In Chicago - Winds were measured at 87 mph in the southwest suburbs and the NWS warned of winds up to 100 mph over the southern sections of Chicago. The map above shows over 400 wind damage reports yesterday. A line of severe thunderstorms hit the Chicago area Monday, causing power outages, flight cancellations and delays and other problems. By late Monday, a second wave of storms was expected. At one point, a ground stop was issued for planes arriving at O’Hare Airport, where hundreds of flights were canceled. - Weather For Today In Chicago

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Weather For Chicago Today

Weather For Chicago Today

Yahoo USA Top Latest News - Traffic was solid between Mannheim and O'Hare Airport starting around 4 a.m. Tuesday due to a flooded entrance ramp at O'Hare. More than 100 flights scheduled for Tuesday were canceled at O'Hare Airport and a dozen others were canceled at Midway Airport, according to the Department of Aviation, as airlines play catchup from Monday's late storms. No majory deslays were reported Tuesday morning. The storms may also have spawned a tornado in rural LaSalle County. Lightning may have caused a house fire in the 600-block of High Street in Aurora Monday night.

Weather For Chicago Today - Not a lot of wind, but heavy rain and lightning and stuff," Aurora Fire Department Battalion Chief Mark Robinson said. Southwest Highway was shut down in Palos Hills after lightning hit a transformer. Power lines crashed down onto the street causing widespread outages. Firefighters were dispatched around 10:30 p.m. Monday. Damage is estimated at $100,000. A Naperville home in the 3600-block of Schillinger Court sustained an estimated $75,000 in damage after a storm-related attic fire. Power lines were leaning down into the street in Burbank on State Road at Cicero. - Weather For Chicago Today

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United States Supreme Court Cases

United States Supreme Court Cases

Yahoo USA Top Latest News - The owners of the businesses have religious objections to abortion, and according to their religious beliefs the four contraceptive methods at issue are abortifacients." "The owners of the businesses have religious objections to abortion, and according to their religious beliefs the four contraceptive methods at issue are abortifacients." The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled that employers can decide whether or not to cover their employees birth control and contraception. On Monday, June 30, the United States Supreme Court voted 5-4 that employers are not responsible for covering their employees birth control through company health insurance if it goes against the company owner’s religious beliefs. Should religious freedom be allowed to interfere with women’s rights? - The United States Supreme Court

United States Supreme Court Cases - U.S. Supreme Court Rules Against Employer-Covered Birth Control On Monday, June 30, the court ruled 5-4 that if birth control and contraception goes against a closely-held company’s religious beliefs, they can decide not to cover it through the health insurance they offer their employees. “Today’s decision jeopardizes women’s access to essential health care. Employers have no business intruding in the private health care decisions women make with their doctors. Hobby Lobby Under Fire For Fight Against Contraception The fight against birth control made headlines in 2013 when the privately owned Hobby Lobby franchise objected offering it’s employees birth control through their insurance plan. Hobby Lobby’s stance against birth control cited “religious freedom” as their defense, and unfortunately low-level courts were not able to come to a decision. - United States Supreme Court Cases

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Supreme Court of United States

Supreme Court of United States

Yahoo USA Top Latest News - In Obamacare’s second round before the nation’s highest court, Justice Samuel Alito wrote the opinion in the 5-to-4 rebuke of the Obama administration for violating the individual rights of American citizens, holding the so-called HHS Abortion Pill Mandate violates religious liberty protected by the Religious Freedom Restoration Act of 1993 (RFRA). Two Christian-owned companies—home retail giant Hobby Lobby and a much smaller business, Conestoga Wood Specialties—filed suit. Hobby Lobby is owned by the Green family, who are Evangelical. The first permanent residents who settled the United States came here for religious liberty, specifically to live their lives and conduct their business and public affairs consistent with their religious conscience. The Supreme Court ruled on Monday that requiring family-owned corporations to pay for insurance coverage for contraception under the Affordable Care Act violated a federal law protecting religious freedom. The 5-to-4 ruling, which applied to two companies owned by Christian families, opened the door to challenges from other corporations over laws that they claim violate their religious liberty. Justice Samuel A. - The United States Supreme Court

Supreme Court of United States  - Alito Jr., writing for the court’s five more conservative justices, said a federal religious-freedom law applied to “closely held” for-profit corporations run on religious principles. In dissent, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, joined on this point by Justice Sonia Sotomayor, said the court had for the first time extended religious-freedom protections to “the commercial, profit-making world.” The requirement has also been challenged in 50 other cases by almost 200 for-profit groups, according to the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty, which represented Hobby Lobby. Justice Alito said the requirement that the two companies provide contraception coverage imposed a substantial burden on their religious liberty. Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. and Justices Antonin Scalia, Anthony M. Kennedy and Clarence Thomas joined the majority opinion. Justice Ginsburg, writing for the court’s four-member liberal wing, said the contraception coverage requirement was vital to women’s health and reproductive freedom. “Although the court attempts to cabin its language to closely held corporations,” Justice Ginsburg wrote, “its logic extends to corporations of any size, public or private.” Josh Earnest, the White House press secretary, said the court’s decision “jeopardizes the health of women employed by these companies” and added that “women should make personal health care decisions for themselves, rather than their bosses deciding for them.” - Supreme Court of United States

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The United States Supreme Court

Yahoo USA Top Latest News - Both the Hobby Lobby case which concerned the intersection of women's rights, religious freedom, and Obamacare and the Harris case, about the future of labor unions, were 5-4 decisions. Five Republican appointees for the owners of Hobby Lobby (and against the unions). Monday's Supreme Courtdecision enabling some private companies to opt out of the federal health law's contraception coverage requirements ignited partisan dueling over not just the 2010 health-care law but over a 1993 religious-freedom law cited in the decision. The high court's decision in the Hobby Lobby case refocused attention on the Religious Freedom Restoration Act that passed Congress overwhelmingly in 1993, with the support of some lawmakers still serving in both the House and Senate. 

The United States Supreme Court - The Supreme Court's majority agreed, citing the religious-freedom law in its decision. Sen. Orrin Hatch of Utah, the lead Republican sponsor of the religious-freedom law when it passed the Senate in a 97-3 vote, said Monday's decision affirmed Congress' decision to pass the law in the first place. The 1993 law refers to "persons" and the Obama administration contended that the law doesn't include for-profit companies like Hobby Lobby. In the brief, the Democrats had urged the court to clarify that the religious-freedom law doesn't permit for-profit businesses to deny health coverage to their employees based on their owners' religious objections. Republicans had filed their own briefs supporting the challengers and arguing that the health law's mandate violated the religious-freedom law. The law in question was originally intended to nullify a decision from Justice Antonin Scalia in the early 1990s that denied religious exemptions from generally applicable laws. - The United States Supreme Court

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Google I/O: Android TV, Smart Cars, Wearables, and More

Yahoo USA Top Latest News - An Android update, "the ultimate smart TV," wearable gadgets and so-called smart home devices are just some of the innovations Google showed off today as its two-day developers conference, known as Google I/O (for Input/Output), got underway in San Francisco. In recent years, the conference has focused on smartphones and tablets, but this year Google's Android operating system is expected to stretch into cars, homes and smartwatches. The head of Google's Android division, Sundar Pichai, took the stage first to talk about the growing reach of Android phones and tablets. Dave Burke, director of engineering for Android, described highlights of Google's latest Android operating system update, referred to as "L." Android Wear will enable developers to offer health tracking, navigation apps, voice-activated ride sharing requests, step-by-step cooking instructions and other functions in an even more portable format. CNET has more on how Android Auto will work. Not satisfied with infiltrating cars, watches, phones and tablets, Google also made a play for the TV market, introducing Android TV. CNET's Tim Stevens' first reaction, as he live-blogged the announcement: "The power of Google search, plus Google voice recognition, on your TV, driven by your phone. The ultimate smart TV?" Android TV will be available in the fall. Driverless cars, Google Glass, smartwatches and thinking thermostats are just some of its more far-off bets. Google bought the company earlier this year for $3.2 billion. Opening the Nest platform to outside developers will allow Google to move into the emerging market for connected, smart home devices.

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