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WASHINGTON (AP) - It's a tumultuous time for House Republicans, and leadership elections this coming week may only heighten the disarray. Dissatisfied lawmakers are casting about for new choices and a surprise longshot challenger is emerging in the ...
Updated: Oct 03, 2015 at 02:31 PM
CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) - Former President Bill Clinton said Friday that struggling rural regions like coal-dependent southern West Virginia, a once-Democratic stronghold now firmly red, should be the focus of new energy investments and infrastructur...
Updated: Oct 02, 2015 at 10:31 PM
WASHINGTON (AP) - Republican Rep. Jason Chaffetz of Utah plans to run for House speaker in a surprise longshot challenge to House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy, three Republican aides said Friday, injecting new turmoil into an unsettled House Repub...
Updated: Oct 02, 2015 at 09:31 PM
BARCELONA, Spain (AP) - Pro-secession parties pushing for Spain's northeastern Catalonia region to break away and form a new Mediterranean nation won a landmark vote Sunday by capturing a majority of seats in the regional parliament, setting up a po...
Updated: Sep 27, 2015 at 07:01 PM
A day after Illinois released its first round of PARCC test scores, Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Andrea Zopp said the exam might need some work.
Zopp, a former Chicago Public Schools board member and Chicago Urban League CEO, said she supports t...
Updated: Sep 18, 2015 at 11:36 AM
"We need to share more of our history, especially as it relates to the struggles and victories," said Jesús "Chuy" García, giving the keynote address Friday at Elgin Community College's Latino Heritage Month kickoff breakfast.
His visit marked the f...
Updated: Sep 17, 2015 at 10:50 PM
In the wake of a landmark Supreme Court decision that made same-sex marriage a right nationwide, a whopping 26 million people slapped a rainbow flag over their Facebook photos to “celebrate pride.”
The movement, fomented by a photo-editing tool that...
Updated: Jul 03, 2015 at 01:27 PM
In a sane world, the 2016 presidential election campaign would begin about this time next year. However, the political infotainment wing of our esteemed national news media seems intent upon pushing the contest ever earlier - whether voters like it ...
Updated: Jun 09, 2015 at 02:00 AM
The next president of Benedictine University in Lisle says he wants to build the institution into "a leading voice in Catholic higher education."
Longtime educator Michael S. Brophy, who was named Tuesday as the 11th president in Benedictine's 128-...
Updated: Jun 09, 2015 at 07:56 PM
How do you measure the impact of the man who changed late-night television? Simply put, you can't. But you can chart - year by year - the biggest moments of his career. Just before David Letterman signs off "Late Show" for good on Wednesday, May 20,...
Updated: May 21, 2015 at 07:11 AM