Articles filed under Political Figures
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Rebooted Roseanne is a proud 'deplorable' - can she be the Trump era's Archie Bunker?Mar 20, 2018 1:00 am - They wake in their creaky bed, as if thawed from cryogenic storage, and immediately begin telling jokes in a 2018 context. Mostly about age. He's wearing a CPAP mask for...
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Rauner to veto bill requiring licenses for gun retailersMar 13, 2018 1:00 am - Gov. Bruce Rauner vetoed legislation Tuesday that would have required gun retailers to be licensed by the state of Illinois, calling it "unnecessary, burdensome regulati...
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Trump fires Tillerson. CIA's Pompeo set to become next secretary of stateMar 13, 2018 1:00 am - WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump said Tuesday he has ousted Secretary of State Rex Tillerson and plans to nominate CIA Director Mike Pompeo to replace him as the nati...
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GOP congressional candidates critical of Trump's tweetsMar 12, 2018 5:30 am - None of the three Republican candidates for Illinois' 10th Congressional District seat are happy with how President Donald Trump uses Twitter to communicate with America...
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White House vows to help arm teachers, backs off raising age for buying gunsMar 12, 2018 1:00 am - WASHINGTON - The White House on Sunday vowed to help provide "rigorous firearms training" to some schoolteachers and formally endorsed a bill to tighten the federal back...
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Search is on for the best summit site for Trump, KimMar 10, 2018 6:00 am - WASHINGTON (AP) - Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev chose Reykjavik, Iceland. Franklin Roosevelt, Winston Churchill and Josef Stalin huddled at Yalta. Dwight Eisenhowe...
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14 of the best known leaders from IllinoisMar 10, 2018 12:00 am - The Gettysburg Address. Hull House. The nation's first African-American president — and first lady. All of these are due to Illinois' bumper crop of political figures an...
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Dennis Rodman to Trump: 'Please send my regards' to Kim Jong UnMar 09, 2018 12:00 am - In another bizarre twist in modern politics, former NBA player Dennis Rodman is praising President Donald Trump after the White House announced Trump had agreed to meet ...
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A conservative Parkland student's whirlwind trip to D.C. ends in the Oval OfficeMar 09, 2018 12:00 am - WASHINGTON - Kyle has five AP exams to take and five U.S. senators to meet. English, history, calculus, statistics, physics. Schumer, Murphy, Hatch, Rubio, Cruz. Right n...
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What could go wrong? Pitfalls pose risks in Trump, Kim talksMar 09, 2018 12:00 am - TOKYO - So President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un are planning a summit. What could possibly go wrong? The two countries haven't had significant, hig...