Articles filed under Political Figures
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Biden issues order to strengthen gun background checksMar 14, 2023 1:00 am - SAN DIEGO - President Joe Biden signed an executive order on Tuesday aiming to increase the number of background checks to buy guns, promote more secure firearms storage...
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Former Rep. Pat Schroeder, pioneer for women's rights, diesMar 14, 2023 1:00 am - WASHINGTON - Former U.S. Rep. Pat Schroeder, a pioneer for women's and family rights in Congress, has died. She was 82. Schroeder's former press secretary, Andrea Camp, ...
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Pritzker donation raises concerns of partisan influence on school board racesMar 13, 2023 5:30 am - With significant financial support from Gov. J.B. Pritzker, Illinois' Democratic Party is getting involved in contests for school and library board seats this spring to ...
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Cohen testifies before grand jury in Trump hush money probeMar 13, 2023 1:00 am - NEW YORK - Donald Trump's former lawyer and fixer Michael Cohen testified Monday before a Manhattan grand jury investigating hush money payments made on the former presi...
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Alaska's Willow oil project is controversial. Here's why.Mar 13, 2023 1:00 am - JUNEAU, Alaska - The Biden administration is approving a major oil project on Alaska's petroleum-rich North Slope that supporters say represents an economic lifeline for...
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Illinois enacts mandatory paid leave 'for any reason' - but not in Cook CountyMar 13, 2023 1:00 am - Illinois will become one of three states to require employers to offer paid time off for any reason after Gov. J.B. Pritzker signed a law on Monday that will take effect...
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Biden OKs Alaska oil project, draws ire of environmentalistsMar 13, 2023 1:00 am - WASHINGTON - The Biden administration said Monday it is approving the huge Willow oil-drilling project on Alaska's petroleum-rich North Slope, a major environmental deci...
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A presidential campaign preview? Former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo visits Lake ZurichMar 12, 2023 1:00 am - Former U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has yet to announce a presidential run, but he gave an audience in Lake Zurich a preview Sunday of what might be to come if he...
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Biden unveils his budget plan, challenges GOP to follow suitMar 09, 2023 12:00 am - PHILADELPHIA - As political gridlock puts the government at risk of defaulting, President Joe Biden on Thursday made an opening bid with a budget plan that would cut def...
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'I hate him passionately': Tucker Carlson's scorn for Trump revealed in court papersMar 08, 2023 12:00 am - NEW YORK - A defamation lawsuit is revealing scornful behind-the-scenes opinions by Fox News figures about Donald Trump, including a Tucker Carlson text message declarin...