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Geneva High School teacher awarded $5,000 grant to promote civics education

By Brenda Schory
Feb 08, 2026 8:51 am - Geneva High School social studies teacher Lucas Rojas was the Illinois recipient of a $5,000 Teaching America250 Awards grant. It was given by The Jack Miller Center, a Philadelphia-based nonprofit “committed to solving the national crisis of uninformed citizenship by teaching America’s founding principles and history,” according to its website.
Trump claims Americans waiting ‘200 years’ for an arch

By Bob Oswald
Feb 08, 2026 4:00 am - In this week’s Facts Matter column, Bob Oswald examines claims that Americans have been waiting ‘200 years’ for an arch to be built in Washington, D.C.
Bringing the country together, one pancake at a time: Political discussion group disagrees agreeably

By Steve Zalusky
Feb 08, 2026 3:00 am - A group that meets regularly in Schaumburg is proving you can disagree politically without being disagreeable.
Police arrest protesters at Minneapolis federal building one month after woman’s death

Feb 07, 2026 8:57 pm - Several dozen protesters were arrested Saturday outside a federal building in Minneapolis, breaking up a protest marking one month since a Minnesota woman's death at the hands of an immigration officer.
Drone attack by paramilitary group in Sudan kills 24, including 8 children, doctors' group says

By SAMY MAGDY
Feb 07, 2026 8:51 pm - A drone attack by a notorious paramilitary group hit a vehicle carrying displaced families in central Sudan on Saturday, killing at least 24 people, including eight children, a doctors’ group said, a day after a World Food Program aid convoy was targeted.
‘We will pay,’ Savannah Guthrie says in desperate video plea to potential kidnappers of her mother

By CHRISTOPHER WEBER and TY ONEIL
Feb 07, 2026 8:48 pm - Savannah Guthrie told the potential kidnappers of her mother Nancy Guthrie on Saturday that the family is prepared to pay for her safe return, as the frantic search for the 84-year-old Arizona resident has entered a seventh day.
Appeals court affirms Trump policy of jailing immigrants without bond

By SAFIYAH RIDDLE
Feb 07, 2026 8:43 pm - President Donald Trump's administration can continue to detain immigrants without bond, marking a major legal victory for the federal immigration agenda and countering a slew of recent lower court decisions across the country that argued the practice is illegal.
Israel says Netanyahu will meet with Trump on Wednesday about Iran talks

By NATALIE MELZER
Feb 07, 2026 7:27 pm - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will meet with U.S. President Donald Trump in Washington on Wednesday about American talks with Iran, his office said Saturday, while Iran's foreign minister threatened U.S. military bases in the region a day after the discussions.
Pentagon cuts academic ties with ‘woke’ Harvard to focus on training ‘warriors’

By Victoria Craw and Susan Svrluga
Feb 07, 2026 7:23 pm - Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said his department will cut academic ties with Harvard University, claiming it is no longer the right place to develop military personnel, in the latest flash point in the Trump administration’s long-running battle with the Ivy League institution.
Trump turns to US military leaders for diplomatic efforts on Iran and Ukraine

By BEN FINLEY and KONSTANTIN TOROPIN
Feb 07, 2026 7:17 pm - President Donald Trump has taken the unusual step of tapping military leaders for high-level diplomacy, sending the top U.S. commander in the Middle East to talks over Iran’s nuclear program and positioning the Army secretary as a key negotiator on ending the Russia-Ukraine war.

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