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‘Do not come to Chicago’: Pritzker tells Trump the National Guard not needed in Chicago

By Marni Pyke
Aug 25, 2025 7:39 pm - Flanked by dozens of Chicago and suburban leaders, Gov. JB Pritzker rebuked President Donald Trump’s threat of deploying National Guard troops to the city, calling it “un-American.”
DOJ demands Illinois voter personal information by Sept. 1

By Peter Hancock
Aug 25, 2025 5:20 pm - SPRINGFIELD — Federal officials are continuing to press their demand for Illinois’ unredacted voter registration database, which includes sensitive personal information, and are now giving state officials until Monday, Sept. 1, to comply.
The President’s Cabinet: Defense can be offensive

By Bruce Simmons, Special to the Daily Herald
Aug 25, 2025 12:01 pm - The Department of Defense is responsible for national security and supervising U.S. military forces, employing 2.9 million people including active, reserve, and civilian personnel.
Kilmar Abrego Garcia faces new deportation efforts after ICE detains him in Baltimore

By BRIAN WITTE and BEN FINLEY
Aug 25, 2025 8:26 am - Kilmar Abrego Garcia, whose case has become a flashpoint in President Donald Trump’s aggressive effort to remove noncitizens from the U.S., was detained by immigration authorities in Baltimore on Monday to face renewed efforts to deport him after a brief period of freedom.
Israeli airstrike on southern Gaza hospital kills 20, including five journalists, hospital says

By WAFAA SHURAFA, SAMY MAGDY and SAM METZ
Aug 25, 2025 7:31 am - An Israeli strike hit a southern Gaza’s main hospital Monday, killing 19 people, including four journalists, said Zaher al-Waheid, the head of the Gaza Health Ministry's records department.
Trump expands cities targeted for possible military deployment to Baltimore in a spat with governor

By JONATHAN J. COOPER and LEAH ASKARINAM
Aug 24, 2025 3:57 pm - WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump on Sunday threatened to expand his military deployments to more Democratic-led cities, responding to an offer by Maryland's gover...
Maxwell denies Epstein kept ‘client list’ and other takeaways from interview

By Derek Hawkins, Jeremy Roebuck, Theodoric Meyer, Kim Bellware and Perry Stein
Aug 23, 2025 5:08 pm - The transcript of Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche’s interview of Ghislaine Maxwell spans more than 300 pages, the audio more than six hours. Upon releasing the materials Friday, Blanche said nothing about his July conversation with the imprisoned accomplice of deceased sexual predator Jeffrey Epstein had been removed “except for the names of victims.”
Texas Gov. Abbott says he’ll swiftly sign new maps on his desk that will boost GOP in 2026

By JIM VERTUNO, JOEY CAPPELLETTI and HALLIE GOLDEN
Aug 23, 2025 4:23 pm - Texas Gov. Greg Abbott on Saturday promised to quickly sign off on a new, Republican-leaning congressional voting map gerrymandered to help the GOP maintain its slim majority in Congress.
Kilmar Abrego García’s lawyers say threat to deport him to Uganda is coercion

By Maria Sacchetti and Jeremy Roebuck
Aug 23, 2025 4:16 pm - The night before Kilmar Abrego García was set to be released from a Tennessee jail, federal prosecutors urged him to strike a deal: Plead guilty to two counts of human smuggling, serve his sentence, and be deported to Costa Rica, a tropical, Spanish-speaking refuge regarded as the safest country in Central America.When he declined the offer in favor of awaiting trial with his family in Maryland, officials threatened to deport him within days to Uganda, an African nation to which the State Department has discouraged travel because of the ongoing risk of terror attacks, his lawyers wrote in a filing Saturday detailing their account of those exchanges.
Fed Chair Powell faces fresh challenges to Fed independence amid potential rate cuts

By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER
Aug 23, 2025 4:13 pm - Now that Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell has signaled that the central bank could soon cut its key interest rate, he faces a new challenge: how to do it without seeming to cave to the White House's demands.For months, Powell has largely ignored President Donald Trump's constant hectoring that he reduce borrowing costs. Yet on Friday, in a highly-anticipated speech, Powell suggested that the Fed could take such a step as soon as its next meeting in September

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