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Before Vonn's crash, Iranian coach called the skier her 'superhero' — and hoped to get her pinFeb 08, 2026 2:26 pm - CORTINA D'AMPEZZO, Italy (AP) — Before U.S. skier Lindsey Vonn's devastating crash on Sunday while racing on a badly injured left knee, Iran's Alpine women's skiing coach...
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Japanese prime minister's party secures supermajority in lower house in landslide victoryFeb 08, 2026 2:21 pm - TOKYO (AP) — The governing party of Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi secured a two-thirds supermajority in a key parliamentary election Sunday, Japanese media reported citin...
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State police investigating deadly officer-involved shooting in WaukeganFeb 08, 2026 9:13 am - The Illinois State Police Public Integrity Unit will head up the investigation into a deadly officer-involved shooting Saturday afternoon in Waukegan.
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Geneva High School teacher awarded $5,000 grant to promote civics education
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.
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Trump claims Americans waiting ‘200 years’ for an archFeb 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.
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Bringing the country together, one pancake at a time: Political discussion group disagrees agreeablyFeb 08, 2026 3:00 am - A group that meets regularly in Schaumburg is proving you can disagree politically without being disagreeable.
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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.
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Drone attack by paramilitary group in Sudan kills 24, including 8 children, doctors' group says
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.
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‘We will pay,’ Savannah Guthrie says in desperate video plea to potential kidnappers of her mother
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.
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Appeals court affirms Trump policy of jailing immigrants without bond
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.