Articles filed under Politics
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DUI felony in Michigan halts Campton Hills trustee-elect from being seatedMay 05, 2023 1:00 am - Campton Hills trustee-elect Timothy Morgan did not take the oath of office and was not seated during Tuesday's village board meeting after he was warned he could be remo...
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Trump is accused in court of rape. Will it matter in 2024?May 05, 2023 1:00 am - E. Jean Carroll testified in sometimes searing detail about the day she says Donald Trump raped her in a department store dressing room two decades before he became pres...
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Syndicated columnist Jamie Stiehm: Springtime for Washington: A smorgasbordMay 05, 2023 1:00 am - After the parched seven-year famine of former President Donald Trump and the pandemic, the city let its hair down - or put it up - and donned black tie and party frocks ...
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Florida Republicans pass bills on pronoun usage at schools, ban on diversity programsMay 04, 2023 1:00 am - TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) - Florida Republicans on Wednesday approved bills to ban diversity programs in colleges and prevent students and teachers from being required to u...
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Columnist Jim Slusher: The news and biting dogsMay 04, 2023 1:00 am - A constant challenge for Daily Herald writers and editors is the need to manage bias in news coverage. I and other editors have written often about our efforts to presen...
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Guest columnist Keith Peterson: Nation's credit at mercy of bare-knuckles politicsMay 04, 2023 1:00 am - Does House Speaker Kevin McCarthy have President Biden right where he wants him? He has managed to pass a bill by a single vote in the House to raise the debt ceiling an...
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Syndicated columnist Michael Barone: How to stop lies begetting liesMay 03, 2023 1:00 am - Lies beget lies. That's one way to summarize nearly the past decade of presidential politics, as well as the potentially dismal presidential race under way. I leave to o...
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Guest columnists Alan Medsker and Angelica Oung: Unfounded fear of 'waste' should not slow our move to nuclear powerMay 03, 2023 1:00 am - We'd like to congratulate the Daily Herald on the recent timely and level-headed editorial in support of nuclear power as a way of helping Illinois decarbonize, gain ene...
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Hong Kong to slash elected seats in setback to democracyMay 02, 2023 1:00 am - HONG KONG (AP) - Hong Kong's leader on Tuesday stepped up a campaign to shut down further democratic challenges by unveiling plans to eliminate most directly elected sea...
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Three Des Plaines aldermen move to disregard term-limit vote but come up shortMay 02, 2023 1:00 am - Three Des Plaines aldermen tried to disregard April election results Monday by refusing to enact voter-approved changes to the city's term limits for elected officials. ...