Articles filed under Political Figures
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Trump signs $1.3 trillion budget after threatening vetoMar 23, 2018 1:00 am - WASHINGTON (AP) - President Donald Trump signed a $1.3 trillion spending measure Friday averting a government shutdown at midnight, acting just hours after saying he was...
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5 take-aways from the Illinois governor primariesMar 21, 2018 1:00 am - How sweet it is. No more political commercials, no more robocalls, no more vicious attack mailers lurking in your mailbox. Tuesday's gubernatorial throwdown is over and ...
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Trump's advisers warned him not to congratulate Putin. He did it anyway.Mar 21, 2018 1:00 am - WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump did not follow specific warnings from his national security advisers when he congratulated Russian President Vladimir Putin Tuesday o...
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Illinois primary results show angry bases in both parties demanding more purityMar 21, 2018 1:00 am - The Republican governor of Illinois, Bruce Rauner, held off a primary challenge Tuesday from a largely unknown state representative on his right by just three points. A ...
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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...