Articles filed under Politics
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Voters back abortion rights, but some foes won't relent. Is the commitment to democracy in question?Nov 19, 2023 12:00 am - COLUMBUS, Ohio - The statewide battles over abortion rights since the U.S. Supreme Court overturned a constitutional right to abortion have exposed another fault line: t...
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Daily Herald opinion: Bill lifting moratorium puts nuclear power in the conversation and prioritizes safetyNov 19, 2023 12:00 am - Anyone nervous about the legislature's overwhelming nod toward nuclear power in the fall veto session can take heart in at least one reality. No new nuclear plants of an...
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Bidenomics 2023: Inflation down, prices upNov 19, 2023 12:00 am - The government announced Tuesday that the Consumer Price Index rose 3.2% in October from the same time last year. That is less than the 3.7% prices rose in September, le...
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Argentines vote in an election that could lead a Trump-admiring populist to the presidencyNov 19, 2023 12:00 am - BUENOS AIRES, Argentina - Voters in Argentina were heading to the polls Sunday in a presidential runoff election that will determine whether South America's second-large...
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Health workers evacuate 31 'very sick' babies from Gaza's largest hospitalNov 19, 2023 12:00 am - KHAN YOUNIS, Gaza Strip - Thirty-one premature babies were safely transferred from Gaza's main hospital to another in the south on Sunday, and will be moved to Egypt, he...
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Thousands of bodies lie buried in rubble in Gaza. Families dig to retrieve them, often by handNov 17, 2023 12:00 am - DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip - The wreckage goes on for block after devastated block. The smell is sickening. Every day, hundreds of people claw through tons of rubble with...
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Ukrainian marines claim multiple bridgeheads across a key Russian strategic barrierNov 17, 2023 12:00 am - KYIV, Ukraine - Ukraine's marine corps said Friday it has secured multiple bridgeheads on the eastern bank of the Dnieper River in the Kherson region in fighting it desc...
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'We're respecting the voters': Why land at heart of controversial real estate deal in South Barrington is headed back to auction blockNov 17, 2023 12:00 am - Undeveloped, publicly owned land in South Barrington at the heart of a controversial - and now-scrapped - real estate deal earlier this summer is headed back to the auct...
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Early-childhood efforts a key to success in lifeNov 17, 2023 12:00 am - As DuPage County state's attorney and a proud member of the executive committee of Fight Crime: Invest in Kids Illinois, I strongly support the wide-ranging value of ear...
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Biden and López Obrador are set to meet, with fentanyl, migrants and Cuba on the U.S.-Mexico agendaNov 17, 2023 12:00 am - SAN FRANCISCO - President Joe Biden and Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, two strong allies who don't always get along personally, will talk migration, fent...