Articles filed under Political Figures
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Democrat quits House leadership job amid harassment claimJun 01, 2018 1:00 am - SPRINGFIELD - The No. 3 Democrat in the Illinois House stepped down from his leadership post Thursday less than an hour after a legislative activist accused him of verba...
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Trump: 'Total double standard' that Samantha Bee's show hasn't been canceledJun 01, 2018 1:00 am - WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump, who once bragged that his celebrity status gave him a pass to grab women's crotches, asked Friday why comedian Samantha Bee wasn't f...
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President Trump says June 12 summit with Kim back onJun 01, 2018 1:00 am - WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump says his meeting with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un is back on for June 12. Trump says after an Oval Office meeting Friday with Nor...
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Trump breaks protocol, sends markets clear signal on jobs report before numbers releasedJun 01, 2018 1:00 am - WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump on Friday broke with decades of protocol and commented publicly about the highly anticipated jobs report data 69 minutes before they ...
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Illinois passes budget, moving to avert repeat of impasseMay 31, 2018 1:00 am - Illinois lawmakers approved a bipartisan spending plan, leaving the state poised to enact its first on-time budget in four years and avoid a repeat of the record impasse...
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Trump mulls commuting Blagojevich's sentence, pardoning Martha StewartMay 31, 2018 1:00 am - WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump said Thursday that he's considering commuting the sentence of former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich, who was convicted of corruption, ...
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Samantha Bee apologizes for calling Ivanka Trump a vulgar wordMay 31, 2018 1:00 am - Ivanka Trump sparked online outrage earlier this week when she tweeted a photo of herself with her younger son around the same time as reports that the U.S. government h...
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Fact-checking immigration spin on separating families and 1,500 'lost' childrenMay 30, 2018 1:00 am - "We have to break up families. The Democrats gave us that law. It's a horrible thing where you have to break up families. The Democrats gave us that law and they don't w...
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Trump says investigation of 2016 election is now interfering with 2018 electionsMay 29, 2018 1:00 am - WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump on Tuesday said that the ongoing special counsel's Russia investigation would amount to "MEDDLING" in this year's midterm elections, ...
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ABC cancels 'Roseanne' after racist tweet (but she returns to Twitter)May 29, 2018 1:00 am - NEW YORK - ABC canceled its hit reboot of "Roseanne" on Tuesday after star Roseanne Barr's racist tweet that referred to former Obama adviser Valerie Jarrett as a produc...