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50-year mortgages? NFL kickoff rules? Here’s where some of Trump’s latest musings stand

By WILL WEISSERT
Nov 13, 2025 7:20 am - President Donald Trump loves offering outlandish ideas and then repeating them until they start to become mainstream — even if they don't always come to fruition.
Federal workers question whether the longest government shutdown was worth their sacrifice

By FATIMA HUSSEIN
Nov 13, 2025 7:16 am - With the longest shutdown ever coming to a close, hundreds of thousands of other federal workers who missed paychecks will soon get some relief.
‘Broadview Six’ plead not guilty to charges of ‘impeding’ agents outside ICE facility

By Hannah Meisel
Nov 12, 2025 10:06 pm - Six Chicago-area progressive candidates, officeholders and activists pleaded not guilty Wednesday on charges alleging they “impeded” a federal agent during a September protest outside of a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement processing facility in suburban Broadview.
Pritzker worries that Trump will go to extremes to distract from Epstein files

By JOEY CAPPELLETTI
Nov 12, 2025 8:04 pm - Gov. J.B. Pritzker says he’s worried about how President Donald Trump might respond to the growing controversy over documents tying him to Jeffrey Epstein.
Trump signs funding bill, ending shutdown

By KEVIN FREKING, JOEY CAPPELLETTI and MATT BROWN
Nov 12, 2025 7:33 pm - President Donald Trump signed a government funding bill Wednesday night, ending a record 43-day shutdown that caused financial stress for federal workers who went without paychecks, stranded scores of travelers at airports and generated long lines at some food banks.
House effort to force vote on releasing Epstein files can advance

By Kadia Goba and Hannah Knowles
Nov 12, 2025 7:26 pm - A bipartisan House effort to force a vote on releasing more files related to the federal government’s investigation into convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein can now move forward.
Catholic bishops launch new program in defense of migrants

By Michelle Boorstein
Nov 12, 2025 6:37 pm - The Trump administration has deported 400,000 people this year and detained some 60,000 others, part of a crackdown on undocumented immigrants that has also swept up some who are in the country legally. Immigration enforcement officials have blocked priests from offering Communion to some incarcerated immigrants.
Planned Parenthood closes 20 clinics after Medicaid cuts, warns of grim future

By Praveena Somasundaram
Nov 12, 2025 3:48 pm - Planned Parenthood has spent tens of millions of dollars providing health care to low-income patients and has closed 20 clinics in the months since the Trump administration blocked the group from billing Medicaid — but weathering the funding cut on its own will soon become untenable, its leaders say.
‘A day without fear’: Chicagoans buy out street vendors amid immigration crackdown

By CHRISTINE FERNANDO
Nov 12, 2025 10:52 am - The cyclists arrive at sunrise, rolling through Chicago’s Latino neighborhoods and stopping at tamale carts, elote stands and candy stalls. They buy out every last item — every tamale, every corn cob, every bundle of sweets. Then they load up the food and deliver it to shelters and families in need.
Epstein wrote that Trump knew of sexual abuse but didn’t participate

By Isaac Arnsdorf and Matthew Choi
Nov 12, 2025 9:50 am - Disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein wrote in a 2011 email that Donald Trump had “spent hours” at Epstein's house with a victim of sex trafficking and said in a separate message years later that Trump “knew about the girls,” according to communications released Wednesday.

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