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A badly burned body found on the floor of a River North parking garage early Tuesday has been identified as a 60-year-old real estate attorney, officials said. Louis S. Cohen, 60, was of the 200 block of Ivy Lane in Highland Park, according to the Cook County medical examiner’s office. An autopsy Wednesday was pending and did not determine a cause and manner for Cohen’s death, the office said. Just before 6 a.m. Tuesday, police and fire crews responded to a fire in the 11th floor of a parking garage in the 300 block of North LaSalle Drive and found...

Facebook investors have called on the company’s chief executive Mark Zuckerberg to step down as chairman, following reports that the company hired a public relations firm to smear its critics by drawing links to George Soros. The attack on Mr Zuckerberg is set to complicate the daunting challenge facing Sir Nick Clegg, Facebook's new global head of policy and communications, who joined last month and has been asked to conduct a review of Facebook's use of lobbying firms. Jonas Kron, a senior vice president at Trillium Asset Management, a US investor which owns an £8.5m stake in Facebook, last night...

By Joey Jones, Deputy Political Editor :: Follow the election results live on skynews.com, our mobile apps and on Sky News TV from 10pm. Voters are going to the polls across the country to decide who will form the next government. Polling stations opened at 7am and close at 10pm in the United Kingdom's 650 constituencies.

The Islamist militant group that has seized control of parts of Iraq has been outlawed in the UK. The Home Office said it would be a criminal offence to associate with or give financial backing to the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (Isis). The UK has ruled out a role in any possible military action but may give other support to the Iraqi government. Nick Clegg has warned that the turmoil in Iraq and Syria is a "very direct threat" to the safety of UK citizens.

Nigel Farage and Deputy Prime Minister Represent Opposite Ends of In/Out Argument LONDON— Nigel Farage, the leader of the small United Kingdom Independence Party, on Friday accepted a challenge from Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg to debate Britain's membership of the European Union, paving the way for the most ardent advocates of each side of the in/out argument to lock horns. Britain's future in the EU has become an increasingly open question after Prime Minister David Cameron pledged that if he wins a second term next year he will renegotiate Britain's ties with the bloc and then hold a national...

Cameron and Clegg give a free pass to racism By Melanie Phillips Last updated at 9:53 AM on 17th January 2012 ... Clegg should be condemned in the strongest possible terms for his support of racism. For he is supporting the ethnic cleansing of Jews from a future state of Palestine. Why does the expansion of Jewish housing in the suburbs of Jerusalem prevent a state of Palestine from being established? Only because Abbas and his cronies have said over and over again that not one Jew will be allowed to live in their state of Palestine. That racist agenda...

It is not so much that Berlusconi has been toppled. That had been coming for a long time. It is that he is to be replaced by a former EU Commissioner, (Mario) Monti, which demonstrates the extent of the power exerted by those Masters of Europe. It is the second coup d’état in less than a fortnight. “Who next?” we might well ask. Could it be us? Certainly not just now, but who would be Brussels’ man in London and how might they hope to get him into office? Despite the recent extraordinary posturing of Michael Heseltine, we can be...

Almost one million people will be stripped of their incapacity benefit payments and forced to look for jobs under major reforms to the welfare system over the next three years, research has found. The Coalition’s tougher rules on who can claim incapacity allowances will be felt most strongly in Labour’s heartlands of the north of England, Scotland and Wales, according to the study, which criticised the plan. The report from Sheffield Hallam University, in the Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg’s constituency, warned that that “vast numbers” of people will be impoverished and left in distress as a result of the...

President Barak Obama, while in conversation with Deputy Prime Minister of Britain, Nick Clegg on going on with his toast while the band played the British national anthem, “God Save The Queen” at the state dinner. President Obama also joked in returned that it was “out of the movies”. Give Deputy Prime Minister Clegg for his sense of humor covering for President Obama while he embarrassed both himself and the USA once again.

David Cameron today defended the Government's plans to limit housing benefit, saying it was not fair for working people to see their taxes used to fund homes 'they couldn't even dream of'. The Prime Minister dismissed reports there could be a climbdown over the proposals, telling Labour leader Ed Miliband: 'We are going forward with all the proposals we put in the spending review and in the Budget'.

Gordon Brown looks set to resign tonight and allow David Cameron to become Britain’s new Prime Minister after Labour talks with the Liberal Democrats collapsed. The Labour leader’s desperate bid to cling on to power fell apart after his own MPs responded with fury to the prospect of a Lib-Lab pact and there were clashes on policy with Nick Clegg. After five days of high drama following the election ending in a hung parliament, the deadlock appears to be over with the Tories on the verge of sweeping to power. Mr Brown is holed up back at Number Ten with...

The BBC reported the confrontation based on remarks by a "very senior Lib Dem source who is involved in the negotiations with the Conservatives". The source told the BBC's Jon Sopel that during the leaders' conversation last night, the tone went "downhill" at the mention of resignation. It was claimed Mr Brown's approach was to begin "a diatribe" and "a rant" and the source said the Labour leader was "threatening in his approach to Nick Clegg". Mr Clegg was said to have came off the phone assured that it would be impossible to work with Brown because of his attitude...

ICEJ says that despite Clegg's claims of support for Israel, both Israel's foreign ministry and Britain's Jewish community continue to harbor suspicions over his party, whose members have called for sanctions against Israel and dialogue with Hamas. According to ICEJ, Clegg refused to expel veteran MP Jenny Tonge from the party when she sympathized with suicide bombers and recently called for a probe into allegations Israel had stolen human organs during an earthquake rescue mission to Haiti.

Nick Clegg today said that he would push for "fundamental" reform of the British electoral system as he weighs up a power-sharing deal with the Conservative party after the election ended in a hung parliament. The Liberal Democrat leader is holding a series of meetings with senior members of his party today in which he will attempt to win their backing for his strategy on forming a new government with either the Tories or Labour. Arriving for the meeting with his frontbench MPs at the Local Government Association in Westminster this morning, Clegg insisted that the Lib Dems would be...

There is no real difference between the 'liberal democrats' of the UK (who, like every other party which tagged 'democrat' to their name ~100 years ago was doing so to differentiate themselves from the Totalitarian Left, like 'hey, it's OK, we're not like Lenin, even though we believe a lot of the same things'. Remember that context when you see 'democrat' in a party name), and the leftist Labor party, and they will together form a leftist government. They are acting now as if they might help the Conservatives into power: they will NOT. They benefit from acting as if...

The 2010 General Elections in the United Kingdom are underway, and the first results will trickle in in the next few hours. Post your observations here, and let's all root for the Tories!

Americans, chin-scratchers as a tribe, are nonplussed by what's happening this week with our cousins, the Great Brits. Here's a rough guide to make sense of what they're up to in the mother country (or Madre Patria, for those of you who live in Arizona)...

In a historic first and obviously influenced by the 2008 United States election campaign and debates, the UK broadcasted their very first election debate between their three political Parties, The Labor Party, the Conservative Party and the Liberal Party With the election called for 6th May, Britain broadcasted their first ever live television debate between the three Parties on April 14, 2010. Three men; Gordon Brown representing Labor, Nick Clegg representing Liberals and David Cameron representing Conservatives—three White men. Begs the question are there no qualified women in Europe or are their no qualified minorities in Europe? If one remembers...

Ben-Peter Terpstra isn't too impressed with the UK Liberal Democrats' policy on crime. In case, you’ve been sleeping in of late, there are some very informative and very British debates going on right now. Yes, election season is here - and the Liberal Democrats are reminding voters that jails create crimes. Did I use the word informative? Sorry, I meant idiotic.

NICK CLEGG, the Liberal Democrat leader who until a few days ago was little known to voters, is now the most popular party leader since Winston Churchill, a new Sunday Times poll reveals. Following his decisive victory in last week’s television debate, Clegg has surged to a higher approval rating than Tony Blair at the peak of new Labour’s popularity.