Sophia Tareen, Author at Concord Monitor

Concord Monitor

The Concord Monitor is a Pulitzer Prize winning daily newspaper and website located in the capital city of New Hampshire. The Concord Monitor is Central NH's dominant media with more than 70 percent household penetration. The Monitor is a key source of news and information for Concord, NH.

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Union shuts Chicago schools

by Sophia Tareen Associated PressJanuary 5, 2022

CHICAGO — Leaders of Chicago Public Schools canceled classes Wednesday after the teachers union voted to refuse in-person instruction and switch to remote learning due to the surge in COVID-19 cases, the latest development in an escalating battle over…

Adriana Perez, right, and her son, Sami, 12, are reflected in the glass window of Asthenis Pharmacy as they wait outside for a COVID-19 test in Providence, R.I., Tuesday, Dec. 7, 2021. Even as the U.S. reaches a COVID-19 milestone of roughly 200 million fully-vaccinated people, infections and hospitalizations are spiking, including in highly-vaccinated pockets of the country like New England. (AP Photo/David Goldman)

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COVID cases spike even as US reaches vaccine milestone

by Sophia Tareen Associated Press, and Jennifer McDermott Associated PressDecember 8, 2021

Juice WRLD was pronounced dead Sunday in Chicago.

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Rapper Juice WRLD dies after medical emergency in Chicago

by Sophia Tareen Associated Press, and Mesfin Fekadu Associated PressDecember 8, 2019

Demonstrators hold placards as Rey Wences, organizer at Organized Communities Against Deportations, addresses reporters outside the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services offices in Chicago on Thursday.

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Trump administration plans immigration enforcement operation

by Sophia Tareen Associated Press, and Colleen Long Associated PressJuly 11, 2019

This Jan. 29, 2019, image made from police body cam video provided by the Chicago Police Department purports to show Jussie Smollett, with a white rope wrapped around his neck, talking with police officers in his apartment in Chicago. Chicago police on Monday, June 24, released hundreds of files from the investigation into Smollett's claim he was attacked by two men, including releasing the video footage for the first time of the "Empire" actor wearing the thin white rope wrapped around his neck that he told detectives was a noose. The footage from the Chicago police blurred out Smollett's face because, police explained, he was considered a victim at that point. (Chicago Police Department via AP)

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Police release more than 1,000 files from probe of ‘Empire’ actor

by Don Babwin Associated Press, and Sophia Tareen Associated PressJune 25, 2019

Musician R. Kelly, right, arrives at the Leighton Criminal Court building for an arraignment on new sex-related felonies Thursday, June 6, 2019, in Chicago. Thursday's hearing comes a week after prosecutors announced the new counts, including four of aggravated criminal sexual assault. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast)

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R. Kelly to be arraigned on 11 new sex-assault charges

by Sophia Tareen Associated Press, and Michael Tarm Associated PressJune 6, 2019

In this Aug. 6, 2017 photo, Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel, accompanied by Police Superintendent Eddie Johnson, left, and U.S. Rep. Danny Davis, right, announces a lawsuit against the Trump Justice Department over withholding funding for sanctuary cities at City Hall in Chicago. At least six so-called sanctuary cities are suing the U.S. government, over immigration-related policies to avoid losing millions in public safety dollars the Trump administration has threatened to withhold. (Brian Cassella/Chicago Tribune via AP)

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Trump’s sanctuary city threat triggers confusion, changes

by Sophia Tareen Associated PressAugust 14, 2017

FILE- In this Jan. 15, 2017, file photo Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel speaks during a news conference in Chicago. Chicago will keep fighting President Donald Trump’s immigration policies with a federal lawsuit alleging it’s illegal for the federal government to withhold public safety grants from so-called sanctuary cities, Emanuel announced Sunday, Aug. 6. (AP Photo/Matt Marton, File)

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Chicago to file federal lawsuit over sanctuary cities threat

by Michael Tarm Associated Press, and Sophia Tareen Associated PressAugust 7, 2017

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From respected at elite universities to wanted for murder

by Sophia Tareen Associated PressAugust 7, 2017

Illinois Poet Laureate Gwendolyn Brooks holds a portrait of herself painted by Anne-Cressey McGraw-Beuchamp at a ceremony in Chicago in June 1989.

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Books, events mark late poet Gwendolyn Brooks 100th birthday

by Sophia Tareen Associated Press, and Errin Haines Whack Associated PressJune 7, 2017