Articles filed under Political Figures
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Rauner visits FEMA investigators in Fox Lake flood areasAug 18, 2017 1:00 am - Gov. Bruce Rauner met with federal and state officials Friday in Fox Lake to get a quick, firsthand assessment on the flood damage that crippled the Chain O' Lakes area ...
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Trump decries Confederate monument removals, 'history ripped apart'Aug 17, 2017 1:00 am - WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump bitingly decried the rising movement to pull down monuments to Confederate icons Thursday, declaring the nation is seeing "the histor...
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Under pressure, Trump disbands business advisory councilsAug 16, 2017 1:00 am - NEW YORK (AP) — With corporate chieftains fleeing, President Donald Trump announced Wednesday he is ending a pair of advisory business councils in the latest fallout ove...
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Hillary Clinton's pastor plagiarized prayer at heart of bookAug 15, 2017 7:00 am - NEW YORK (AP) - Hillary Clinton's pastor has acknowledged he plagiarized part of the prayer commentary he sent her the day after she lost the presidential election, a de...
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Trump retweets - then deletes - image of train running over CNN reporterAug 15, 2017 1:00 am - President Donald Trump's war with CNN went off the rails Tuesday morning after he retweeted an image of a Trump train running over a CNN reporter, then quickly deleted i...
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Trump reiterates: Blame 'on both sides' in deadly Charlottesville violenceAug 15, 2017 1:00 am - President Donald Trump said Tuesday that counterprotesters at a white supremacist rally in Charlottesville acted violently and should share the blame for the mayhem that...
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Senate overrides Rauner's veto of school funding planAug 13, 2017 1:00 am - The Illinois Senate voted Sunday to override Gov. Bruce Rauner's amendatory veto of a bill to reform the state's school funding formula. Senate Bill 1, a Democratic plan...
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Trump warns North Korea: Military is 'locked and loaded'Aug 11, 2017 1:00 am - President Donald Trump on Friday offered a fresh threat of force against North Korea, writing on Twitter that "military solutions are now fully in place, locked and load...
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If Trump orders nuclear attack, his military advisers have few other optionsAug 11, 2017 1:00 am - The dueling threats issued by President Donald Trump and the North Korean military have prompted questions about U.S. procedures to launch a pre-emptive nuclear attack. ...
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Trump escalates rhetoric on threat from North KoreaAug 10, 2017 1:00 am - BEDMINSTER, N.J. - President Donald Trump escalated his rhetoric about North Korea's nuclear weapons program, threatening here Thursday that "things will happen to them ...