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JD and Usha Vance welcome a baby boy, the first child born to a sitting VP in more than 150 years

By DARLENE SUPERVILLE
Jul 19, 2026 7:36 pm - WASHINGTON (AP) — Vice President JD Vance and his wife, second lady Usha Vance, on Sunday announced the birth of their fourth child, the first born to a sitting vice pres...
Trump budget proposal could threaten airline service from O’Hare to downstate airports

By Ben Szalinski
Jul 19, 2026 5:09 pm - Funding for commercial flights to small airports around the country, including to three communities in Illinois, could be reduced under President Donald Trump’s budget proposal.
Data centers have united Americans of both parties in a shared hatred

By Shira Ovide
Jul 18, 2026 7:28 pm - Kyle Schmidt ticked through what makes him irate about the massive Google data center slated for construction about a mile away from his home near Sand Springs, Oklahoma.
Rally promoting voter turnout brings ‘Good Trouble’ to Arlington Heights

By Joe Lewnard
Jul 18, 2026 6:33 pm - The Chicago Northwest suburbs chapter of Indivisible, Northwest Suburbs Organizing for Action held a rally at the Clock Tower mall in downtown Arlington Heights Saturday to promote voter turnout.
US and Iran trade strikes over Strait of Hormuz. Kuwait suffers infrastructure damage

By JON GAMBRELL and TOQA EZZIDIN
Jul 18, 2026 7:34 am - The United States and Iran exchanged strikes aimed at infrastructure and military targets on Saturday as their battle over the Strait of Hormuz intensified.
The US and Iran have blown past red lines as they lurch back toward all-out war

By JOSEPH KRAUSS
Jul 18, 2026 7:33 am - The United States and Iran are crossing each other's red lines, one after the other. The latest hostilities began with an Iranian drone attack on a cargo ship in the Strait of Hormuz on June 25, a week after they had signed an interim deal aimed at ending the war.
Mullin pushes states to comply with election demands, echoing Trump’s claims about midterm risks

By ALI SWENSON and COLLIN BINKLEY
Jul 17, 2026 6:58 pm - Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin on Friday warned that state officials could lose funding or face investigations if they fail to go along with President Donald Trump's election security demands, part of the Republican president’s longstanding attempt to undermine Americans’ confidence in the vote.
What to know about the Save America Act that Trump is pushing

By Theodoric Meyer
Jul 17, 2026 6:51 pm - President Donald Trump has demanded for months without success that Congress pass the Save America Act, a voting bill that he has claimed would “guarantee the midterms” for Republicans.
Trump says ABC, NBC licenses should be revoked over refusal to air speech on election integrity

By Scott Nover
Jul 17, 2026 6:39 pm - President Donald Trump lit into ABC and NBC for refusing to interrupt regularly scheduled programming to air his speech Thursday night on election integrity.
Trump says these documents prove his false claims of election fraud. Here’s what they really say

By JILL COLVIN and ERIC TUCKER
Jul 17, 2026 6:15 pm - President Donald Trump released a trove of documents during a primetime address to the nation that allies had hyped as a smoking gun that would prove his long-debunked allegations of mass voter fraud.

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