Articles filed under Politics
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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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The juror who could save AmericaAug 26, 2018 1:00 am - Juror No. 0302 may not have sought fame, but Paula Duncan will long be remembered in connection with Paul Manafort, whom she and 11 others convicted on eight counts of f...
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Brace for market volatility as populists take the wheelAug 26, 2018 1:00 am - Financial markets are godlike in their ability to shrug in the face of extreme policy shifts. The conflagrations of Donald Trump's election and the U.K. Brexit vote were...
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Church's failure to atone adds to struggles of the faithfulAug 26, 2018 1:00 am - The major disgrace of America's Catholic bishops was to foster a culture in which priests sexually assaulted children and were then sent on to new duties as their ungodl...
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1968 Democratic convention 'impossible to forget,' says reporter who covered itAug 25, 2018 1:00 am - Editor's note: Ed Murnane of Arlington Heights is retired president of the Illinois Civil Justice League and a former staff member for presidents Ronald Reagan and G...
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Thousands of Amazon workers receive food stamps. Now Sen. Bernie Sanders wants Amazon to pay up.Aug 24, 2018 1:00 am - Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., will soon introduce legislation that would require large employers like Amazon, Walmart and McDonald's to fully cover the cost of food stamps...
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Study finds governments spend, borrow, tax more when newspaper closesAug 24, 2018 1:00 am - When a newspaper closes, local governments in the area tend to borrow more, spend more, hire more workers and raise taxes, according to a study on the matter. The study ...
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Michael Cohen sets up GoFundMe page for legal costsAug 24, 2018 1:00 am - NEW YORK (AP) - Michael Cohen is sticking his hand out and asking the public for help paying for his legal defense, and one anonymous donor already has ponied up $50,000...
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A 'Galileo Moment' on birth control for the Catholic ChurchAug 24, 2018 1:00 am - Until last week, the predominant attitude of most of the American public about the problems of "predator priests" seemed to be that it was tragic, but limited in scope. ...