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Preckwinkle bans ICE operations on Cook County property

By Charles Keeshan
Oct 16, 2025 4:28 pm - Federal immigration officials are banned from using county-owned property, resources and personnel for civil immigration enforcement activities, under an order signed Thursday by county board President Toni Preckwinkle.
ICE arrests Hanover Park police officer, says he’s in the country illegally

By Eric Peterson
Oct 16, 2025 2:06 pm - U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials Thursday announced the arrest of a Hanover Park police officer from Montenegro, accused of being in the country illegally.
JD Vance dismisses bipartisan outrage over racist and offensive Young Republican group chat

By MEG KINNARD
Oct 15, 2025 8:18 pm - The public release of a Young Republican group chat that included racist language, jokes about rape and flippant commentary on gas chambers prompted bipartisan calls for ...
Judge temporarily blocks the Trump administration from firing workers during the government shutdown

By JANIE HAR
Oct 15, 2025 8:13 pm - SAN FRANCISCO — A federal judge on Wednesday temporarily blocked President Donald Trump’s administration from firing workers during the government shutdown, saying the cu...
Democratic governors form state public health alliance to counter RFK Jr.

By David Ovalle and Lena H. Sun
Oct 15, 2025 4:44 pm - Fifteen Democratic governors on Wednesday announced the formation of a state public health alliance designed to counter turmoil at federal agencies under the Trump administration.Leaders of the Governors Public Health Alliance said it will serve as a hub for governors and public health leaders to monitor disease outbreaks, establish public health policy guidance, prepare for pandemics and buy vaccines and other supplies.
Supreme Court seems inclined to limit race-based electoral districts under the Voting Rights Act

By MARK SHERMAN
Oct 15, 2025 4:29 pm - The Supreme Court on Wednesday appeared ready to gut a key tool of the Voting Rights Act that has helped root out racial discrimination in voting for more than a half century, a change that would boost Republican electoral prospects, particularly across the South.
On National Mall, ‘Democracy’ drips in daylight

By Joe Heim
Oct 15, 2025 3:55 pm - What weighed 3,000 pounds at dawn’s early light in Washington and will virtually disappear by sundown?The correct guess is a large ice sculpture of the word “Democracy” placed on the National Mall on Wednesday morning in direct view of the U.S. Capitol as a vanishing reminder, its creators said, of rapidly eroding rights and an existential threat to the freedom on which America was founded.
Top Cook County judge bars civil immigration arrests at courthouses

By Violet Miller and Sophie Sherry
Oct 15, 2025 10:46 am - Cook County Circuit Chief Judge Timothy Evans has signed an order barring civil arrests of people while at county courts — a common tactic used by federal immigration agents to detain people.
Pennsylvania man pleads guilty in arson attack at governor’s mansion while Shapiro’s family slept

By MARK SCOLFORO
Oct 14, 2025 9:20 pm - HARRISBURG, Pa. — A man who scaled an iron security fence in the middle of the night, eluded police and used beer bottles filled with gasoline to ignite the occupied Penn...
‘We’re not just figures in this tall tower — we’re real people’: O’Hare controllers worry about shutdown, no pay

By Marni Pyke
Oct 14, 2025 7:43 pm - Federal employees like air traffic controllers at O'Hare International Airport are struggling financially due to the government shutdown, missing paychecks and concerned about paying bills.

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