Articles filed under Political Figures
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Twitter unsurpassed as tyranny-fighting toolJun 21, 2009 11:00 pm - "I wouldn't know a Twitter from a tweeter, but, apparently, it is very important." Those were the inspired words of former first lady, former U.S. senator and current Se...
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Burris feels vindicated by probe's endJun 18, 2009 11:00 pm - SPRINGFIELD - U.S. Sen. Roland Burris said Friday he felt vindicated by a Sangamon County prosecutor's decision not to charge him with perjury, but he was not saying if ...
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Feds look for Blago role in university admissionsJun 17, 2009 11:00 pm - Federal prosecutors are investigating possible contacts between ousted Gov. Rod Blagojevich and his political allies involving admissions at the University of Illinois a...
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Burris interviewed by prosecutorJun 16, 2009 11:00 pm - SPRINGFIELD -- The Sangamon County state's attorney has interviewed Sen. Roland Burris in a probe into the senator's testimony before a legislative panel looking into hi...
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Blago joins cast of 'Rod Blagojevich Superstar'Jun 13, 2009 11:00 pm - Ousted Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich claims that while he was still in office, he liked to call up the Chicago Cubs coaching staff and give pitching advice. Or at least ...
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Blago: Phone conversation was not 'inappropriate'Jun 07, 2009 11:00 pm - Ousted Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich says a recently released phone conversation taped secretly by federal authorities shows his brother participated in "nothing inappro...
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At death camp, Obama says evil must be confrontedJun 04, 2009 11:00 pm - WEIMAR, Germany -- President Barack Obama witnessed the Nazi ovens of the Buchenwald concentration camp Friday, its clock tower frozen at the time of liberation, and sai...
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Patti Blagojevich makes her 'Get Me Out of Here' debutJun 01, 2009 11:00 pm - It's a pity the judge in Rod Blagojevich's corruption trial didn't allow him to take part in NBC's new edition of "I'm a Celebrity ... Get Me Out of Here!" Illinois' fo...
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Burris an outcast in clubby SenateMay 31, 2009 11:00 pm - WASHINGTON -- Even in a Senate club famous for how it ostracizes the unwanted, the shunning of Democratic Sen. Roland Burris is unprecedented. Tainted from the day he wa...
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Durbin aides: Blago weighed Madigan moveMay 31, 2009 11:00 pm - Just two weeks before his arrest on corruption charges, then-Gov. Rod Blagojevich floated a plan to give President Obama's former Senate seat to the daughter of his bigg...