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Facts Matter: Canada isn’t banning older vehicles from its roadways

By Bob Oswald
May 09, 2025 10:42 pm - In this week’s Facts Matter column, Bob Oswald examines claims that FEMA has run out of money because of spending on migrants, Donald Trump is pictured wading through floodwater and more.
Judge pauses much of Trump administration’s massive downsizing of federal agencies

By JANIE HAR
May 09, 2025 9:08 pm - SAN FRANCISCO — The Republican administration must halt much of its dramatic downsizing of the federal workforce, a California judge ordered Friday. Judge Susan Illston i...
‘Don’t get in my way,’ the new acting head of federal disaster agency warns in call with staff

By GABRIELA AOUN ANGUEIRA and REBECCA SANTANA
May 09, 2025 7:36 pm - WASHINGTON — The new head of the federal agency tasked with responding to disasters across the country warned staff in a meeting Friday not to try to impede upcoming chan...
Supper with the pope: Wheaton restaurant hosted the future pontiff

By Christopher Placek
May 09, 2025 7:28 pm - A group of theologians from Loyola University Chicago met with then-Cardinal Robert Prevost, now Pope Leo XIV, last August at Ivy Restaurant in Wheaton.
ICE moves detainees to Texas facility where judge declined to halt deportations

By Jeremy Roebuck and Marianne LeVine
May 09, 2025 6:33 pm - As the Trump administration battles to use a wartime law to speed deportations of alleged gang members, it has moved dozens of detained Venezuelans to the one court distr...
American, United rivalry boils over in lawsuit on O’Hare gates

By Marni Pyke
May 09, 2025 6:32 pm - Here is what’s behind American Airlines’ lawsuit against Chicago and how United Airlines is reacting.
Trump revives, then discards, then revives again the idea of taxing the rich in big GOP bill

By LISA MASCARO and SEUNG MIN KIM
May 09, 2025 6:32 pm - WASHINGTON — After musing publicly and privately with the idea of raising the top tax rate for wealthy millionaires as Republicans draft his big bill in Congress, Preside...
Agreement would settle lawsuit, approve design for long vacant Liberty Theater in downtown Libertyville

By Mick Zawislak
May 09, 2025 6:17 pm - An impasse involving development of the long vacant Liberty Theater in downtown Libertyville could be solved with a proposed settlement agreement.
Traveling museum brings 9/11 history to Rosemont

By Joe Lewnard
May 09, 2025 4:44 pm - A traveling museum of artifacts from New York City on Sept. 11, 2001 was packed with visitors who came to learn about the events of that fateful day, shortly after opening Friday in Rosemont.
Even with DOGE cuts, the U.S. has spent $166 billion more than last year

By Jacob Bogage
May 09, 2025 4:16 pm - Even as President Donald Trump and the efficiency-geared U.S. DOGE Service seek to cut programs and dramatically reduce the size of the government workforce, the federal deficit increased by $196 billion so far this fiscal year, as spending on social safety-net services and defense programs continue to climb.

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