Articles filed under Politics
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Pritzker flips on map promise, signs Democrats' versionJun 04, 2021 1:00 am - SPRINGFIELD - Gov. J.B. Pritzker on Friday signed a law establishing legislative district maps to govern elections for the next 10 years after promising as a candidate t...
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Why 'Black Wall Street' mattersJun 04, 2021 1:00 am - Buried in the annals of our history is a little-known catastrophic event in America called the Tulsa Race Massacre of 1921. Only recently brought to light, President Bid...
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Facebook suspends Trump for 2 years, then will reassessJun 04, 2021 1:00 am - Facebook said it will suspend former President Donald Trump's accounts for two years following its finding that he stoked violence ahead of the deadly Jan. 6 insurrectio...
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House Dems unveil $547B infrastructure bill amid Biden talksJun 04, 2021 1:00 am - WASHINGTON (AP) - House Democrats released a plan Friday for spending $547 billion over the next five years on road, mass transit and rail projects, a blueprint for what...
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'Law and order' gambit doesn't work anymoreJun 04, 2021 1:00 am - It worked for Richard Nixon, who won the presidency in 1968, redrawing the electoral map. The once-solidly Democratic South, which supported John Kennedy and Lyndon John...
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Can the U.S. sustain the international order?Jun 03, 2021 1:00 am - We don't often think that how the U.S. conducts itself at home has much impact on how we face the world, but it does. You'd be amazed at how closely people in countries ...
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The key lesson to take from Fauci's emailsJun 03, 2021 1:00 am - There is a valuable lesson in Dr. Anthony Fauci's just-released emails, and it has nothing to do with COVID-19. It involves two particular aspects of written communicati...
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Lawmakers pass follow-up criminal justice bill addressing police concernsJun 02, 2021 1:00 am - SPRINGFIELD - The General Assembly this week passed legislation addressing lingering concerns from law enforcement about a massive criminal justice reform omnibus passed...
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After George Floyd, what one year has broughtJun 02, 2021 1:00 am - By Byron York President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris met in the Oval Office last week with the family of George Floyd, the man who died a year ago in the ...
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Expanding the child tax credit ignores historical precedentJun 02, 2021 1:00 am - Marketing is everything in politics. It explains why a tax credit that benefits 90% of American families with kids - some of them with income higher than $400,000 - is m...