Articles filed under Political Figures
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Highest one-day infection count in Illinois since early JuneJul 21, 2020 11:00 pm - State health officials announced Wednesday that 23 more Illinois residents have died from COVID-19, while an additional 1,598 people have been infected. That's the large...
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'This bloodshed must end': Trump deploys feds to Chicago under 'law-and-order' pushJul 21, 2020 11:00 pm - WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump announced Wednesday that he will send federal agents into Chicago and Albuquerque to help combat rising crime, expanding the administ...
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Trump says virus in US will get worse before it gets betterJul 20, 2020 11:00 pm - WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump sought to paint a rosier picture of the coronavirus for the nation Tuesday but conceded the pandemic is likely to get worse for a tim...
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Trump to send federal agents to Chicago, maybe other citiesJul 20, 2020 11:00 pm - WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump is planning to deploy federal agents to Chicago and possibly other Democrat-run cities as he continues to assert federal power and us...
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'Call a special session': Republicans want Pritkzer to act on corruption probeJul 20, 2020 11:00 pm - Republican lawmakers pressured Democrats and Gov. J.B. Pritzker Tuesday to reconvene the General Assembly to address the corruption scandal engulfing ComEd and implicati...
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Illinois reports 23 more deaths, 955 new COVID-19 casesJul 20, 2020 11:00 pm - Cases of COVID-19 rose by 955 and deaths from the respiratory disease increased by 23, the Illinois Department of Public Health reported Tuesday. That brings the statewi...
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Trump not ready to commit to election results if he losesJul 20, 2020 1:00 am - WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump is refusing to publicly commit to accepting the results of the upcoming White House election, recalling a similar threat he made week...
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Biden eyes GOP supporters while Trump focuses on his baseJul 20, 2020 1:00 am - In the four months since Joe Biden effectively won the Democratic presidential nomination, he has focused on consolidating the party's divergent and often warring factio...
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Lightfoot to Trump: Sending federal agents to Chicago is a 'bad idea'Jul 20, 2020 1:00 am - The war of words between Chicago's mayor and President Donald Trump escalated Monday after a weekend when 12 were killed in the city and dozens injured by gunfire, with ...
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Madigan's still in, leaving Democrats sending mixed messages about corruption probeJul 20, 2020 1:00 am - Despite bombshell allegations of political graft by federal agents, Illinois Speaker Michael Madigan is still standing but many Democratic lawmakers he led with an iron ...