Articles filed under Political Figures
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Appeals court rejects Trump challenge of Pennsylvania raceNov 27, 2020 12:00 am - PHILADELPHIA (AP) - President Donald Trump's legal team suffered yet another defeat in court Friday as a federal appeals court in Philadelphia roundly rejected the campa...
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McHenry County state's attorney's office won't enforce governor's indoor dining banNov 25, 2020 12:00 am - The McHenry County state's attorney's office will not enforce the governor's ban on indoor dining, State's Attorney Patrick Kenneally announced Wednesday. The office wil...
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Q&A: Will Twitter, Facebook crack down on Trump?Nov 25, 2020 12:00 am - OAKLAND, Calif. - For the past four years, President Donald Trump has enjoyed the special status of a world leader on Twitter and Facebook, even as he used his perch ato...
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155 more COVID-19 deaths, 11,378 new casesNov 25, 2020 12:00 am - New COVID-19 cases totaled 11,378 Wednesday, the highest since Saturday, and 155 more people died from the respiratory disease, as Illinois moved to borrow $2 billion to...
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Traveling? 'Change your plans,' Pritzker urges as COVID-19 deaths up 137% from a month agoNov 24, 2020 12:00 am - Thanksgiving travelers on the brink of heading to O'Hare or Midway international airports should "change your plans, if you can," Gov. J.B. Pritzker urged Tuesday amid a...
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COVID-19 case counts per county, ZIP code as of Nov. 24Nov 24, 2020 12:00 am - Interactive map Suburbs' portion There have been 291,214 COVID-19 cases in the suburbs as of Tuesday. That's 43.2% of the state's total, according to the Ill...
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Biden transition gets government OK as Trump runs out of optionsNov 24, 2020 12:00 am - WASHINGTON - The federal government recognized President-elect Joe Biden as the "apparent winner" of the Nov. 3 election, formally starting the transition of power after...
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New York City's first Black mayor, David Dinkins, dies at 93Nov 24, 2020 12:00 am - NEW YORK - David Dinkins, who broke barriers as New York City's first African American mayor but was doomed to a single term by a soaring murder rate, stubborn unemploym...
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COVID-19 infections in children, teens more than double in last monthNov 20, 2020 12:00 am - COVID-19 infections in children and teens more than doubled in a month, state data showed Friday, as new cases of the virus reached 13,012 with 126 more deaths. The stat...
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Trump, allies make frantic steps to overturn Biden's victoryNov 20, 2020 12:00 am - WASHINGTON - Michigan state legislators headed to the White House on Friday as President Donald Trump made an extraordinary and sure-to-be futile attempt to block Joe Bi...