Politics News
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Trump says he 'never directed' Cohen to break the law in payments to women
Dec 13, 2018 9:09 AM - President Donald Trump on Thursday denied that he had directed his former personal lawyer Michael Cohen to break the law during the 2016 campaign by buying the silence of two women who claimed they once had affairs with the future president. In morning tweets, Trump, however, did not dispute that he had directed Cohen to make the payments.
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The path to success for Heather Nauert at the UN
Dec 13, 2018 1:00 AM - Guest columnist Keith Peterson: Those of us of a certain age can actually remember the high drama as America's Ambassador to the United Nations Adlai Stevenson confronted the Soviets with photographic evidence of their missiles in Cuba. -
Morrison-Trevor discovery recount scheduled
Dec 12, 2018 6:08 PM - The discovery recount in the narrow Tom Morrison-Maggie Trevor race for the 54th state House District is scheduled to take place over the course of three days next week. -
Editorial: Why do we still have pension double dipping?
Dec 12, 2018 6:04 PM - It's perfectly legal for a firefighter to retire, begin collecting a public pension, and move to a different town or fire district to begin a second career and work toward a second public pension. But it shouldn't be, a Daily Herald editorial says. -
'I felt it was my duty to cover up his dirty deeds': Ex-Trump lawyer Cohen gets 3 years in prison
Dec 12, 2018 1:41 PM - Michael Cohen, President Donald Trump's once-devoted lawyer and all-around fixer, was sentenced Wednesday to three years in prison for allowing what he said was his "blind loyalty" to Trump to lead him astray. "I felt it was my duty to cover up his dirty deeds," he said.
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Congresswoman to Google CEO: Why when I search 'idiot' do I get pictures of Trump?
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Pathogens couldn't care less about Italian politics
Dec 12, 2018 1:00 AM - Columnist Michael Gerson: It was in Florence, Italy, in 1614 that Tommaso Caccini preached a sermon in the church of Santa Maria Novella denouncing Galileo and other scientists who held the heretical view that the Earth circles the sun.
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Crowded village board races emerging across Northwest suburbs
Dec 11, 2018 11:09 PM - Contested village board and city council races are taking shape across the Northwest suburbs, with crowded contests already in Buffalo Grove, Elk Grove Village, Rolling Meadows and Des Plaines. -
Early contenders file in several Kane County school board racesDec 11, 2018 5:48 PM - Kane County will have several contentious school board races this spring. Early contenders submitted petitions on the first day of candidate filings Monday.
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Races set in St. Charles, Geneva, South Elgin after first day of filingDec 10, 2018 11:27 PM - Pingree Grove Village President Steve Wiedmeyer and Wayne Village President Eileen Phipps were among the incumbents to formally launch re-election efforts Monday, the first day candidates in many suburbs could file nominating petitions to run for municipal offices in the April 2 election.
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