Articles filed under Political Figures
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Rauner effectively kills bill targeting Lake County chief assessment officerAug 28, 2018 1:00 am - Gov. Bruce Rauner has issued an amendatory veto effectively killing legislation that would have let Lake County voters decide how their chief assessment officer is hired...
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'Do not despair of our present difficulties:' John McCain's last statementAug 27, 2018 1:00 am - Much like the last year of his life, Sen. John McCain's, R-Ariz., final words were full of both subtle and not-so-subtle rebukes to President Donald Trump. McCain, who b...
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Trump rejected plans for a White House statement praising McCainAug 26, 2018 1:00 am - WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump nixed issuing a statement that praised the heroism and life of Sen. John McCain, telling senior aides he preferred to issue a tweet b...
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Lawyer backs off claims about information Cohen has about what Trump knewAug 26, 2018 1:00 am - An attorney for Michael Cohen, President Donald Trump's former lawyer, is backing away from confident assertions he made that Cohen has information to share with investi...
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World leaders remember Sen. John McCain as 'a great defender of liberty'Aug 26, 2018 1:00 am - BERLIN - If anyone ever doubted John McCain's global stature, the outpouring of condolences from across the world proved the very opposite on Sunday. To world leaders, t...
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Trump to enter divided Republican Party in battleground OhioAug 24, 2018 1:00 am - COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) - President Donald Trump's mission is to rally Republicans behind GOP candidates in the nation's premier swing state. But when he steps into battlegr...
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Trump continues feud with Attorney General Sessions, urging investigations of 'other side'Aug 24, 2018 1:00 am - WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump continued to publicly spar Friday with Attorney General Jeff Sessions, urging him in early morning tweets to investigate a long list ...
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One hates Trump. The other loves him. Two West Virginians wait for the president to come to town.Aug 24, 2018 1:00 am - CHARLESTON, W.Va. - From the driver's seats of their county school buses, longtime friends Paul Black and Paul Cochran have an almost identical view of the struggling co...
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Black and white and red ink all over: The Trump tariff that's strangling newspapersAug 24, 2018 1:00 am - Print isn't dead. But the soaring cost of newsprint is contributing to the slow death of America's newspapers. A months-long spike in the price of paper, driven by feder...
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A president who demands loyalty finds it fleeting in WashingtonAug 24, 2018 1:00 am - WASHINGTON - Et tu, Michael Cohen? Loyalty has long been a core value for President Donald Trump. But he's learning the hard way that in politics, it doesn't always last...