Articles filed under Politics
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House speaker's staff could test limits of Workers' Rights AmendmentSep 14, 2023 1:00 am - SPRINGFIELD - Efforts by staff members in House Speaker Emanuel "Chris" Welch's office to form a union could provide an early and unexpected test of the new Workers' Rig...
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China says EU probe into Chinese electric vehicle exports, subsidies is protectionistSep 14, 2023 1:00 am - HONG KONG - China's Commerce Ministry has protested a decision by the European Union to investigate exports of Chinese electric vehicles, saying Thursday that it is a "p...
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Planned Parenthood to resume offering abortions next week in Wisconsin, citing court rulingSep 14, 2023 1:00 am - MADISON, Wis. (AP) - Planned Parenthood announced Thursday that it will resume offering abortions in Wisconsin next week after a judge ruled that an 1849 law that seemin...
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'Thunderdomes of controversy and strife:' Giannoulias testifies about Illinois' effort to block book bansSep 14, 2023 1:00 am - Illinois Secretary of State Alexi Giannoulias was in Washington, D.C., this week to testify before the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee regarding a new state law aimed at...
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Israel's finance minister now governs the West Bank. Critics see steps toward permanent controlSep 14, 2023 1:00 am - ASA'EL, West Bank - With attention focused on its contentious judicial overhaul, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's government has quietly taken unprecedented steps tow...
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No sign of Kim Jong Un on his Russian travels as Seoul expresses concern over meetings with PutinSep 14, 2023 1:00 am - SEOUL, South Korea - North Korean leader Kim Jong Un was expected to tour a Russian plant that builds fighter jets and visit the country's Pacific Fleet, but his exact w...
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In and out of the news, diverse interests defy stereotypesSep 14, 2023 1:00 am - Sometimes we think of it as cosmic injustice, that some people should be unusually gifted not in one arena of life alone but in many. Questions of divinity and fairness ...
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After two decades, Americans have reason for pride in 9/11 responseSep 14, 2023 1:00 am - The anniversary on Monday of the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, on the World Trade Center twin towers in New York City, the Pentagon in Washington, D.C., and in th...
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Biden's rules on clean cars face a crucial test as Republican-led challenges go to an appeals courtSep 14, 2023 1:00 am - WASHINGTON - Efforts by the Biden administration to limit pollution from automobile tailpipes - a major source of planet-warming emissions - face a crucial test as legal...
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To fight climate change, stop fighting China on electric vehiclesSep 14, 2023 1:00 am - Much of the banter surrounding the rise of China's electric vehicle industry and the implication for the global economy is misleadingly alarmist. When our government get...