Articles filed under Political Figures
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Political roundabout: Duckworth’s Senate pick, GOP on JB’s future, Dems plan a human chainMay 06, 2025 6:46 pm - Here’s a snapshot of developing political stories from the suburbs and beyond.
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Supreme Court allows military to ban transgender troops while case continuesMay 06, 2025 1:55 pm - A divided Supreme Court on Tuesday temporarily cleared the way for President Donald Trump’s executive order barring transgender troops from the military.
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Trump, Carney faceoff in Oval Office leaves gaping differences on tariffs, 51st stateMay 06, 2025 7:15 am - President Donald Trump welcomed Canada's new prime minister, Mark Carney, with a bit of menace on social media, only to then turn on the charm and hospitality once the two leaders were sitting together in the Oval Office on Tuesday.
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Federal Reserve likely to defy Trump, keep rates unchanged this weekMay 05, 2025 8:08 am - The Federal Reserve will likely keep its key short-term interest rate unchanged on Wednesday, despite weeks of harsh criticism and demands from President Donald Trump that the Fed reduce borrowing costs.
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Trump re-ups his threat to strip Harvard University’s tax-exempt statusMay 02, 2025 10:38 am - President Donald Trump on Friday re-upped his threat to strip Harvard University of its tax-exempt status, escalating a showdown with the first major college that has defied the administration's efforts to crack down on campus activism.
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Temu ditches Chinese imports model to avoid Trump’s tariffsMay 02, 2025 8:31 am - Temu is abandoning the model centered around cheap Chinese imports that catapulted it to success in the US, aiming to sell only goods from local merchants to American consumers for the foreseeable future.
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White House comes out with sharp spending cuts in Trump’s 2026 budget planMay 02, 2025 7:33 am - President Donald Trump's 2026 budget plan would slash non-defense domestic spending by $163 billion while increasing expenditures on national security, according to White House statements Friday.
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Did ‘stalker’ label keep Barrington murder suspect from getting a fair trial?May 02, 2025 5:30 am - Did testimony describing him as a “stalker” keep a Barrington man from getting a fair trial in the New Year’s Day 2021 killing of a woman he hoped to marry? A state appeals court has answered that with an emphatic “no.”
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‘We need to voice our concerns’: Suburbs join in on global May Day ralliesMay 01, 2025 9:22 pm - Gray skies and intermittent drizzle couldn’t dampen the enthusiasm of protesters attending suburban May Day rallies Thursday.
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Judge bars deportations of Venezuelans from South Texas under 18th-century wartime lawMay 01, 2025 12:56 pm - A federal judge on Thursday barred the Trump administration from deporting any Venezuelans from South Texas under an 18th-century wartime law and said President Donald Trump's invocation of it was “unlawful.”