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Former GOP official Porter won’t run for Durbin’s Senate seat

By Russell Lissau
Aug 04, 2025 9:44 am - Former Illinois National Committeeman Richard Porter of Northfield on Sunday announced he wouldn’t seek the U.S. Senate seat now held by veteran Democrat Richard Durbin.
Texas governor threatens to remove Democrats who left state over Trump-backed redistricting

By JOEY CAPPELLETTI and ANDREW DeMILLO
Aug 04, 2025 7:25 am - Republican Texas Gov. Greg Abbott says he will begin trying to remove Democratic lawmakers from office Monday if they don’t return after dozens of them left the state...
‘They roll right over’: Many Democrats call their party weak and ineffective, AP-NORC poll finds

By STEVE PEOPLES, LINLEY SANDERS and HYOJIN YOO
Aug 03, 2025 6:48 pm - Many Democrats see their political party as “weak” or “ineffective,” according to a poll that finds considerable pessimism within Democratic ranks. Republicans are more complimentary of their party, although a small but significant share describe the GOP as “greedy” or say it is generally "bad."
Men charged in Tennessee case involving 4 dead family members of abandoned infant

Aug 03, 2025 4:26 pm - TIPTONVILLE, Tenn. — Authorities searching for a man wanted in the murders of the parents, grandmother and uncle of an infant found alone and alive in Tennessee have char...
What to know about the earthquake that shook the New York area Saturday night

By ALEXA ST. JOHN
Aug 03, 2025 4:21 pm - A relatively mild, 3.0 magnitude earthquake shook the New York metropolitan area Saturday night. Here’s what to know. What happened? The earthquake hit in the New Je...
Former US soldier suspected in shooting deaths of 4 in Montana remains at large

By SAFIYAH RIDDLE
Aug 03, 2025 4:17 pm - The former U.S. soldier suspected of killing four people at a Montana bar was still at large early Sunday and may be armed after escaping in a stolen vehicle containing c...
UN says 68 African migrants died when a boat capsized off Yemen

By SAMY MAGDY
Aug 03, 2025 4:13 pm - A boat capsized Sunday in waters off Yemen's coast leaving 68 African migrants dead and 74 others missing, the U.N.’s migration agency said.
Ukrainian drone attack sets Russian oil depot on fire as Zelenskyy announces prisoner exchange

Aug 03, 2025 4:08 pm - An overnight Ukrainian drone attack on an oil depot near Russia’s Black Sea resort of Sochi sparked a major fire, Russian officials said Sunday, as the two countries traded strikes and the Ukrainian president announced a prisoner exchange.
Pope Leo XIV tells 1 million Catholic youths that they are ‘the sign a different world is possible’

By COLLEEN BARRY and PAOLO SANTALUCIA
Aug 03, 2025 4:06 pm - ROME — Pope Leo XIV on Sunday told more than a million Catholic youths at a closing Mass for a weeklong encounter with the next generation of faithful that they are “the ...
Express lanes? Dynamic pricing? Here’s what tollway plan could mean for your commute

By Marni Pyke
Aug 03, 2025 4:00 pm - Trying to get your head around congestion pricing in Chicagoland? We have perspective on the Illinois tollway’s latest idea.

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