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Needling Trump as 2028 looms: Inside JB Pritzker’s all-of-the-above media strategy

By Ben Szalinsli and Brenden Moore
Jan 12, 2026 1:37 pm - Amid clashes with President Donald Trump, JB Pritzker has shifted to an all-channels media strategy — national TV, podcasts and social creators — to shape perceptions of Chicago and raise his national profile heading into 2028.
DOJ investigation of Fed Chair Powell sparks backlash, support for Fed independence

By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER and JOSH BOAK
Jan 12, 2026 1:02 pm - WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration's criminal investigation of Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell appeared on Monday to be emboldening defenders of the U.S. cent...
Trump says Iran wants to negotiate as the death toll in protests rises to at least 599

By JON GAMBRELL and JULIA NIKHINSON
Jan 12, 2026 8:32 am - DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — U.S. President Donald Trump said Iran wants to negotiate with Washington after his threat to strike the Islamic Republic over its crackdown ...
Protests of ICE, Minneapolis shooting grow in the suburbs

By Steve Zalusky
Jan 11, 2026 6:43 pm - Suburban protesters joined counterparts nationwide Sunday to demonstrate against the killing of a Minneapolis woman by a federal agent last week and the immigration policies of the Trump administration.
Reference to Trump's impeachments is removed from the display of his Smithsonian photo portrait

By BILL BARROW and ANNA JOHNSON
Jan 11, 2026 3:46 pm - WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump's photo portrait display at the Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery has had references to his two impeachments removed, the l...
South Elgin rally protests fatal shooting of Renee Good by ICE officer in Minneapolis

By Eric Peterson
Jan 10, 2026 8:03 pm - A number of groups organized a roadside rally in South Elgin Saturday afternoon protesting the fatal shooting of Renee Good by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer in Minneapolis three days earlier.
The ICE agent’s cellphone video: Five key moments

By Jonathan Baran, Aaron C. Davis and Jarrett Ley
Jan 10, 2026 5:08 pm - Cellphone video recorded by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent as he fatally shot a woman in Minneapolis surfaced online Friday, revealing new details about the hotly disputed incident from a perspective rarely seen.
Anti-ICE protesters assemble across the US after shootings in Minneapolis and Portland, Oregon

By REBECCA SANTANA
Jan 10, 2026 2:49 pm - Minnesota leaders urged protesters to remain peaceful Saturday as thousands of people converged on a Minneapolis park to decry the fatal shooting of a woman by a federal immigration officer in that city and the shooting of two protesters in Portland, Oregon.
ExxonMobil CEO calls Venezuela ‘uninvestable’ without ‘significant changes’

By Evan Halper
Jan 09, 2026 7:05 pm - As President Donald Trump pushed U.S. oil companies to commit to invest $100 billion in Venezuela at a White House meeting on Friday, the CEO of ExxonMobil warned the company is far from enlisting.
Illinois, 4 other states targeted for child care funding freeze win restraining order

By Nikoel Hytrek
Jan 09, 2026 6:52 pm - Illinois and the four other Democratic-led states that were subject to the Trump administration’s freeze on $10 billion in federal funding for child care and family servi...

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