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Trump gives second pardon to Jan. 6 participant and pardons two others
Nov 15, 2025 9:26 pm - President Donald Trump on Friday issued a second pardon to Daniel Edwin Wilson, whom he had previously pardoned for participation in the breach of the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, but was in prison on a separate gun charge. The action was announced Saturday morning.
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Atmospheric river hits Southern California with risks of flash floods and deaths on stormy seas
Nov 15, 2025 9:06 pm - LOS ANGELES — An unusually strong storm system called an atmospheric river doused Southern California on Saturday, prompting flood warnings in areas of coastal Los Angele...
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Naturalized US citizens thought they were safe. Trump’s immigration policies are shaking that belief
Nov 15, 2025 8:54 pm - NEW YORK — When he first came to the United States after escaping civil war in Sierra Leone and spending almost a decade in a refugee camp, Dauda Sesay had no idea he cou...
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Trump says stopping suspected drug boats doesn’t work. But the US reports record cocaine seizures
Nov 15, 2025 7:48 pm - In justifying American military strikes on boats suspected of smuggling drugs, President Donald Trump has asserted that the longtime U.S. strategy of interdicting such vessels at sea has been a major failure.
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The unpopular and politically weak 90-year-old Palestinian leader struggles for a role in Gaza
Nov 15, 2025 7:35 pm - Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas turned 90 on Saturday, still holding authoritarian power in tiny pockets of the West Bank, but marginalized and weakened by Israel, deeply unpopular among Palestinians, and struggling for a say in a postwar Gaza Strip.
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First strong winter rains soak Gaza’s makeshift shelters
Nov 15, 2025 6:29 pm - Winter's first strong rainfall sent water cascading through parts of Gaza's sprawling Muwasi tent camp on Saturday, as the territory struggles to cope with flooding and devastated infrastructure after two years of war.
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‘They were just arresting people’: Family seeks release of longtime Des Plaines resident detained by fedsNov 15, 2025 5:00 pm - A Des Plaines man detained by U.S. Border Patrol agents despite being an American citizen is fighting for his father’s release.
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Why do so many Democratic U.S. House members in the suburbs have primary challengers?Nov 15, 2025 5:00 pm - Reflecting what some experts see as a national trend, four of the six congressional representatives running for reelection in the North, West or Northwest suburbs next year are facing primary challenges.
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Once a shadowy dealmaker, former Zelenskyy associate is accused in Ukrainian corruption scandal
Nov 15, 2025 4:05 pm - Before the revelation of a multimillion dollar embezzlement and kickbacks scandal involving Ukraine's state nuclear energy company brought his name to the forefront, Tymur Mindich was a shadowy presence — navigating deals and moving behind the scenes with unseen influence, known to many, yet rarely spoken of.
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Marjorie Taylor Greene’s alliance with Trump breaks down in insults
Nov 15, 2025 3:45 pm - President Donald Trump has stunned Washington after he turned his back on one of his staunchest allies in Congress, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, calling the Georgia Republican a “traitor” and withdrawing his endorsement over what the congresswoman says is a form of backlash over her support of the release of files related to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.