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Libertyville featured in holiday rom-com ‘The Exes of Christmas Past’Nov 16, 2025 7:27 am - “The Exes of Christmas Past,” a holiday rom-com with scenes filmed in April in Libertyville, debuted Sunday, Nov. 16, on Tubi.
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Obama doesn’t receive royalties from ObamacareNov 16, 2025 4:00 am - In this week’s Facts Matter column, Bob Oswald examines claims that former President Barack Obama receives royalties on Obamacare, MSNBC broadcast outdated images of a ‘No Kings’ protest and more.
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GPS American Education Week program to focus on school-parent partnershipsNov 15, 2025 10:21 pm - The School-Parent Partnership event by GPS Parent Series on Nov. 24 features award-winning principal Beth Houf, who will share strategies to enhance communication between schools and parents, especially when addressing tough topics like attendance, grades, and behavior.
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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.