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BOSTON -- President John F. Kennedy's sister, Eunice Kennedy Shriver, who carried on the family's public service tradition by founding the Special Olympics and championing the rights of the mentally disabled, died early Tuesday surrounded by relativ...
Updated: Nov 08, 2021 at 03:01 PM
WASHINGTON -- The nation's drugmakers stand ready to spend $150 million to help President Barack Obama overhaul health care this fall, according to numerous officials, a staggering sum that could dwarf attempts to derail his chief domestic priority....
Updated: Nov 08, 2021 at 02:47 PM
ANCHORAGE, Alaska -- Sarah Palin made a weekend public appearance after keeping a low profile since she resigned as Alaska governor July 26.
The former GOP vice presidential candidate gave a speech on Second Amendment rights Saturday night at a banq...
Updated: Nov 08, 2021 at 01:59 PM
When Illinois chooses a new senator next year, voters will decide not only who wins an election but whether the overwhelmingly white U.S. Senate loses some of its diversity.
The seat up for grabs has produced three of the nation's four black senator...
Updated: Nov 08, 2021 at 09:12 AM
Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan, a rising star in the Democratic Party, resisted interest reaching all the way to the White House for her to run for higher office next year. One of the reasons: A campaign for U.S. Senate or governor would hav...
Updated: Nov 08, 2021 at 08:12 AM
ANCHORAGE, Alaska -- Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin's political action committee raised nearly $733,000 in its first five months, according to a report filed Monday with the Federal Election Commission.
Palin launched SarahPAC in late January. Receipts to...
Updated: Nov 08, 2021 at 07:57 AM
KOTZEBUE, Alaska -- Sarah Palin says she's not a quitter, she's a fighter, but adds that, politically speaking, "if I die, I die. So be it."
Sporting fishing waders and a T-shirt, Palin defended her decision to resign as Alaska governor in half a do...
Updated: Nov 07, 2021 at 10:36 PM
NEW YORK -- After years on the defensive during the Bush administration, the National Organization for Women is elated to have a president sharing many of its goals. Yet NOW heads into its own leadership contest -- a sharp contrast of age and race -...
Updated: Nov 07, 2021 at 07:57 PM
I'm writing about my concerns over the pretrial hearings on the Brian Dugan case in DuPage County Judge George Bakalis' courtroom. I learned through a Daily Herald article and subsequent editorial, "Transparency important in court," that Judge Bakal...
Updated: Nov 07, 2021 at 06:01 PM
WASHINGTON -- Dick Cheney and Rush Limbaugh contend the Republican Party needs less moderation and more conservative backbone to win back voters who have been abandoning it in droves.
Leaders of the party's 2010 election efforts are showing they don...
Updated: Nov 07, 2021 at 02:42 PM