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McDonald’s plans to hire 375,000 U.S. workers this summer

McDonald's said Monday it plans to hire up to 375,000 U.S. restaurant employees this summer, its biggest hiring push in years. The Chicago burger giant said the beefed-up job openings at both company-owned and franchised stores are partly due to a U.S. expansion. The company, which has more ...

‘DA POPE!’ Leo XIV’s Chicago roots unleash spate of holy humor

A Chicago-born cardinal walks into a conclave. The rest of the joke tells itself. In the breathless day since Pope Leo XIV's election as the first American pontiff, the memes, doctored images and tongue-in-cheek references have piled up deeper than Chicago's pizza and more loaded than its hot ...

From Villanova to the Vatican: Alma mater is floored it taught the 1st US pope

VILLANOVA, Pa. (AP) — When Villanova University's president, the Rev. Peter Donohue, was nearing graduation as a theatre student, a future pope wasn't far away on campus, studying math two grades below him. On Thursday, church bells rang out for hours in celebration at the Augustinian school ...