Nation and World Politics
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‘This was never the context’: Report on controversial Glenbrook South yearbook quote releasedJun 25, 2024 11:32 am - A report explaining how a Glenbrook South High School student’s comments about war in Israel and Gaza were published out of context so they appeared to be about last October’s Hamas terrorist attacks was released Tuesday morning.
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A potential Trump VP pick backs a controversial CO2 pipeline favored by the Biden White House
Jun 25, 2024 9:45 am - BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum is one of Donald Trump’s most visible and vocal backers, sprinting around the country to drum up support for the forme...
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Controversial yearbook quote about Palestinians and Israel was taken out of context, investigation revealsJun 24, 2024 10:04 pm - A student’s comment in Glenbrook South High School’s recent yearbook that subsequently created an emotional firestorm in the community was published out of context.
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‘We will not go back’: Two years after Roe’s fall, abortion rights advocates vow to keep fightingJun 24, 2024 7:27 pm - Two years after the fall of Roe. v. Wade, advocates for abortion rights fight back at events in Barrington and other suburbs.
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Trump spreads violent rhetoric by suggesting migrants should fight for sport
Jun 24, 2024 6:52 am - Former president Donald Trump expanded his portrayal of migrants as violent with a suggestion that they could be pitted in fights for entertainment. During a speech to Ch...
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Here’s the landscape 2 years after the Supreme Court overturned a national right to abortion
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Biden and allied Republicans are trying to rally GOP women in swing-state suburbs away from TrumpJun 22, 2024 3:56 pm - DOYLESTOWN, Pa. — Thirty miles north of Philadelphia, upscale subdivisions such as Colonial Commons interrupt dairy farms, centuries-old roadside stone houses and the win...
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Trump endorses Ten Commandments in schools, implores evangelical Christians to vote in NovemberJun 22, 2024 3:52 pm - WASHINGTON — Donald Trump told a group of evangelicals they “cannot afford to sit on the sidelines” of the 2024 election, imploring them at one point to “go and vote, Chr...
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Facts Matter: Woman arrested for violence, not prayerJun 21, 2024 9:00 pm - In this week’s Facts Matter column, Bob Oswald examines claims that a woman was arrested for protesting outside an abortion clinic, Biden wanted rules allowing him to sit during the coming debate, Trump proposed mandatory military service and more.
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Trump ally Bannon asks the Supreme Court to delay his 4-month prison sentence on contempt charges