Chicago, May 9 (EFE).- Aeromexico will add a third daily non-stop flight between Mexico City and Chicago starting on July 15, the Mexican carrier and the Chicago Department of Aviation said. The airline, which currently flies between Guadalajara and Chicago four times a week, will resume offering service from the Midwestern U.S. city to Monterrey, an industrial city in northern Mexico, in July. Department of Aviation Commissioner Rosemarie Andolino said Mayor Rahm Emanuel supported the expansion of Aeromexico's service to Chicago O'Hare International Airport.

CHICAGO - Visitors to the nation's third-largest city are usually spotted wandering the Magnificent Mile, snapping pictures of the Willis Tower and sampling Chicago-style deep dish pizza, but if some persistent Illinois lawmakers and Mayor Rahm Emanuel get their way, a glitzy casino would be on their agenda, too.

President Barack Obama on Tuesday defended the FBI from suggestions it might have prevented the Boston marathon bombing by acting on warnings about one of the suspects. Russia had advised US authorities about ethnic Chechen Tamerlan Tsarnaev in 2011 and the possibility he was slipping into the grips of hardline Islam, and the FBI probed and interviewed him, although the case was eventually closed.

US President Barack Obama on Monday nominated Anthony Foxx, the African-American mayor of the booming North Carolina city of Charlotte as his new transportation secretary. Foxx, if confirmed by the Senate, will take over from current transport supremo Ray LaHood, a former Republican congressman, who is retiring. "When Anthony became mayor in 2009, Charlotte, like the rest of the country, was going through a bruising economic crisis," Obama said at the White House.