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Trump says he’s awarding former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani the Presidential Medal of Freedom
Sep 01, 2025 5:39 pm - WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump said Monday he will award former New York Mayor Rudolph Giuliani the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation’s highest civilian hono...
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Israel is committing genocide in Gaza, leading scholars’ association says
Sep 01, 2025 4:37 pm - Israel’s nearly two-year military campaign in Gaza, which has killed tens of thousands of people and left swaths of the enclave in rubble, meets “the legal definition of genocide,” the oldest and largest association of genocide scholars said in a resolution passed by the group’s members Sunday.
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Russia is suspected of jamming navigation on EU leader’s plane above Bulgaria, official says
Sep 01, 2025 3:37 pm - A plane carrying European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen was hit by GPS jamming over Bulgaria in a suspected Russian operation, a spokesperson said Monday. The plane landed safely at Plovdiv airport in central Bulgaria and von der Leyen will continue her planned tour of the European Union’s eastern front line nations, said commission spokesperson Arianna Podestà.
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1.2 million immigrants are gone from the US labor force under Trump, preliminary data shows
Sep 01, 2025 3:33 pm - As parades and other events celebrating the contributions of workers in the U.S. are held Monday for the Labor Day holiday, experts say President Donald Trump’s stepped-up immigration policies are impacting the nation's labor force. More than 1.2 million immigrants disappeared from the labor force from January through the end of July, according to preliminary Census Bureau data analyzed by the Pew Research Center. That includes people who are in the country illegally as well as legal residents.
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Vintage vinyl: New album digs up rare ’60s Chicago garage rock from Arlington Heights’ The CellarSep 01, 2025 2:01 pm - A new vinyl compilation highlights little-known songs by 1960s suburban garage bands that played at the renowned Arlington Heights teen music club The Cellar.
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Government shutdown looms as Congress returns after monthlong August recess
Sep 01, 2025 11:44 am - Congressional Republicans scored a massive victory this summer when they passed President Donald Trump’s tax and spending cuts without a single Democratic vote. But as th...
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From Jackson to McKinley: What Trump’s new choice of presidential hero says about his evolving goals
Sep 01, 2025 11:43 am - WASHINGTON (AP) — In his first term, Donald Trump's favorite president, other than himself, was Andrew Jackson, the hatchet-faced, self-made populist who relished turning...
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Army football player and his dad save a man from flames after a car crash near West Point
Sep 01, 2025 11:42 am - FORT MONTGOMERY, N.Y. (AP) — An Army football player and his father pulled a man from a crashed car just before it burst into flames near the U.S. Military Academy at Wes...
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Earthquake in eastern Afghanistan destroys villages and kills 800 people, with 2,500 injured
Sep 01, 2025 11:42 am - KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Desperate Afghans clawed through rubble in search of missing loved ones after a strong earthquake killed some 800 people and injured more than 2...
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‘Backbone of the digital world’: Karis details plans for Naperville data center developmentSep 01, 2025 11:18 am - Karis Critical is proposing a relatively “boutique” data center development on the north side of Naperville.