Articles filed under Political Figures
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'Larger than life': Illinois GOP icon James 'Pate' Philip Jr. has diedNov 22, 2023 12:00 am - Former state Senate President James Peyton "Pate" Philip Jr. was a powerful suburban Republican at a time when that really meant something in Illinois. Philip led the Se...
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Trump lawyers urge federal appeals court to revoke gag order in DC election caseNov 20, 2023 12:00 am - WASHINGTON - Lawyers for former President Donald Trump urged a federal appeals court on Monday to revoke a gag order in the federal case charging him with plotting to ov...
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Rosalynn Carter, former first lady and closest adviser to Jimmy Carter, dead at 96Nov 19, 2023 12:00 am - ATLANTA - Former first lady Rosalynn Carter, the closest adviser to Jimmy Carter during his one term as U.S. president and their four decades thereafter as global humani...
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President Joe Biden and Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez discuss migration through Mexico and fentanyl.Nov 18, 2023 12:00 am - SAN FRANCISCO — President Joe Biden and Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador pledged Friday to work side-by-side to confront illicit fentanyl trafficking into t...
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Biden signs a bill averting a government shutdown for now, with Israel and Ukraine aid still stalledNov 17, 2023 12:00 am - SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - President Joe Biden signed a temporary spending bill a day before a potential government shutdown, pushing a fight with congressional Republicans ov...
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Man who attacked Pelosi's husband convicted of federal assault and attempted kidnapping chargesNov 16, 2023 12:00 am - SAN FRANCISCO - A jury on Thursday convicted the man who broke into former U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's San Francisco home seeking to hold her hostage and attacked ...
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Biden tells Asia-Pacific leaders that U.S. 'not going anywhere' as it looks to build economic tiesNov 16, 2023 12:00 am - SAN FRANCISCO - President Joe Biden on Thursday made America's case to national leaders and CEOs attending the Asia-Pacific summit that the United States is committed to...
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Biden, Xi emerge from hours of talks, agree to curb illicit fentanyl, restart military dialogueNov 15, 2023 12:00 am - WOODSIDE, Calif. - U.S. President Joe Biden and China's Xi Jinping emerged Wednesday from their first face-to-face meeting in a year vowing to stabilize their fraught re...
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Trump's lawyers want a mistrial in his New York civil fraud case. They claim the judge is biasedNov 15, 2023 12:00 am - NEW YORK - Lawyers for Donald Trump asked for a mistrial Wednesday in the New York civil fraud case that threatens the former president's real estate empire. They accuse...
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The Biden administration is slow to act as millions are booted off Medicaid, advocates sayNov 14, 2023 12:00 am - WASHINGTON - Up to 30 million of the poorest Americans could be purged from the Medicaid program, many the result of error-ridden state reviews that poverty experts say ...