Articles filed under Politics
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How you can talk politics with U.S. Rep. Brad SchneiderAug 16, 2023 1:00 am - U.S. Rep. Brad Schneider will talk about the issues facing the nation with interested constituents Thursday in Gurnee. The session is set for 6 p.m. at Viking Middle Sch...
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Kansas prosecutor says police should return computers and cellphones seized in raid on newspaperAug 16, 2023 1:00 am - MARION, Kansas - A Kansas prosecutor said Wednesday that he found insufficient evidence to support the police raid of a weekly newspaper and that all seized material sho...
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Offshore drilling rig arrives in Lebanese waters ahead of work near the border with IsraelAug 16, 2023 1:00 am - BEIRUT - An offshore drilling rig arrived at its destination in the Mediterranean Sea off Lebanon's coast and will start operations in the coming weeks to search for gas...
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Lithuania to temporarily close two checkpoints with Belarus amid tensions on borderAug 16, 2023 1:00 am - VILNIUS, Lithuania - Lithuania on Wednesday decided to temporarily close two of its six checkpoints with Belarus later this week amid growing tensions with its eastern n...
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Russia hits Ukrainian grain depots again as a foreign ship tries out Kyiv's new Black Sea corridorAug 16, 2023 1:00 am - KYIV, Ukraine - Russian drones pounded grain storage facilities and ports along the Danube River that Ukraine has increasingly relied on as an alternative transport rout...
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Some abortion drug restrictions are upheld by an appeals court in a case bound for the Supreme CourtAug 16, 2023 1:00 am - NEW ORLEANS - New restrictions on access to a drug used in the most common form of abortion in the U.S. would be imposed under a federal appeals court ruling issued Wedn...
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Celebrating India's pluralist foundation, but also fearing for itAug 16, 2023 1:00 am - I celebrate and agonize over India's Independence Day that was yesterday. When the British left, India decided to constitute a nation that had a commitment to secularism...
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Books banned in other states fuel Vermont lieutenant governor's reading tourAug 16, 2023 1:00 am - WATERBURY, Vt. - On a recent Sunday afternoon, Vermont's lieutenant governor was at a local library, reading a book about two male penguins to a crowd of nearly two doze...
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After the U.S. credit downgrade, let's talk about a radical budgetary changeAug 16, 2023 1:00 am - Fitch Ratings just downgraded the U.S. government's credit rating due in part to Congress's erosion in governance. Indeed, year after year, we see the same political the...
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Judge sides with young activists in first-of-its-kind climate change trial in MontanaAug 15, 2023 1:00 am - HELENA, Mont. - Young environmental activists scored what experts described as a groundbreaking legal victory Monday when a Montana judge said state agencies were violat...