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Missouri is next to answer Trump’s call for redrawn maps that boost GOP in 2026

By JIM VERTUNO and ANDREW DeMILLO
Aug 29, 2025 6:42 pm - Republican Gov. Mike Kehoe said Friday that he is calling Missouri lawmakers into a special session to redraw the state’s U.S. House districts as part of a growing national battle between Republicans and Democrats seeking an edge in next year’s congressional elections.
Appeals court strikes down Trump’s tariffs as illegal but leaves them in place

By Rachel Lerman and David J. Lynch
Aug 29, 2025 5:43 pm - President Donald Trump’s cornerstone economic policy was dealt another setback Friday when a federal appeals court ruled he did not have the authority to impose most of his sweeping tariffs on imports from dozens of trading partners.
‘We do not need you here’: Lake County officials reject Trump’s immigration push

By Mick Zawislak
Aug 29, 2025 5:39 pm - Lake County community and elected leaders pushed back Friday on the use of Naval Station Great Lakes to stage federal immigration and homeland security personnel.
Trump tries to wrest spending power from Congress as government shutdown looms

By Jacob Bogage and Emily Davies
Aug 29, 2025 5:33 pm - President Donald Trump says he will cancel nearly $5 billion in congressionally approved funding for U.S. international assistance and diplomacy, setting up a fresh confrontation in the White House’s attempt to wrest constitutional spending power away from lawmakers.The Republican chair of the Senate Appropriations Committee on Friday called the move an “attempt to undermine the law.”
Key US inflation gauge holds mostly steady though core inflation ticks higher

By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER
Aug 29, 2025 3:29 pm - The Federal Reserve’s preferred inflation gauge mostly held steady last month despite President Donald Trump’s broad-based tariffs, but a measure of underlying inflation increased. Prices rose 2.6% in July compared with a year ago, the Commerce Department said Friday, the same annual increase as in June. Excluding the volatile food and energy categories, prices rose 2.9% from a year earlier, up from 2.8% in the previous month and the highest since February.
‘Extremely unusual’: Former Illinois National Guard chief on Trump threat to dispatch troops to Chicago

By Marni Pyke
Aug 29, 2025 9:29 am - Sending a military force on a civilian mission upends U.S. code, Arlington Heights expert says.
What to make of Trump’s push to end cashless bail in Illinois

By Charles Keeshan and Susan Sarkauskas
Aug 29, 2025 4:15 am - Despite President Donald Trump’s threat to withhold federal funding, don’t expect the Illinois General Assembly to make wholesale changes to the SAFE-T Act this fall, a suburban lawmaker says.
Trump floats an unusual Republican National Convention before the midterms

By Patrick Svitek
Aug 28, 2025 7:35 pm - President Donald Trump suggested Thursday that the Republican Party host a national convention before next year’s midterm elections to highlight its talent, an unusual move that Democrats are also considering.
Federal judge blocks Trump administration from removing Voice of America director

Aug 28, 2025 7:34 pm - WASHINGTON — A federal judge on Thursday blocked the Trump administration from removing Michael Abramowitz as director of Voice of America, the government-run news outlet...
CDC leaders who resigned said RFK Jr. undermined vaccine science, risking lives

By Lena H. Sun, Lauren Weber and David Ovalle
Aug 28, 2025 7:24 pm - As the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reeled from the ousting of its director, three senior leaders who resigned in protest told The Washington Post they were...

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