Articles filed under Political Figures
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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.”
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Trump names Secretary of State Rubio as acting national security adviser, taps Waltz for UN envoyMay 01, 2025 10:48 am - President Donald Trump said Thursday that he’s naming Secretary of State Marco Rubio as acting national security adviser to replace Mike Waltz, whom he is nominating for United Nations ambassador.
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Schaumburg Business Association talks tariffs, sidesteps ideological issuesMay 01, 2025 8:56 am - Members of the Schaumburg Business Association were promised and received a non-ideological overview of tariffs and a history of their use by the U.S. on the 100th day of the second Trump administration Wednesday.
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Ukraine and the US have finally signed a minerals deal. What does it include?May 01, 2025 6:47 am - After months of tense negotiations, the U.S. and Ukraine signed a deal that is expected to give Washington access to the country’s critical minerals and other natural resources, an agreement Kyiv hopes will secure long-term support for its defense against Russia.
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Trump urges patience, blames Biden after weak economic newsApr 30, 2025 1:01 pm - President Donald Trump lashed out Wednesday morning at increasingly dim economic forecasts that have cast his policies in a harsh light and clouded what he has hoped would be a valedictory marker of his 100 days in office.