Articles filed under Politics
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Syndicated columnist Veronique de Rugy: One stat rarely tells the storyApr 25, 2023 1:00 am - Government debt as a share of the U.S. economy is falling. This must mean the Biden administration and Congress are practicing fiscal responsibility, right? No, it doesn...
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Prosecution paints ComEd Four as 'grand masters of corruption' before jury deliberationsApr 25, 2023 1:00 am - Attorneys for both the defendants and the government made the same appeal to a federal jury Tuesday before it was left to deliberate the fate of four former ComEd offici...
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Syndicated columnist Jamie Stiehm: Missing 'DiFi' in the Senate: A dilemma for DemocratsApr 25, 2023 1:00 am - Absence in the Senate makes no heart grow fonder, given a delicate balance of power, 51-49, with Democrats holding a knife edge. Consider "DiFi," Dianne Feinstein, a Dem...
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Prosecutor: Proud Boys viewed themselves as 'Trump's army'Apr 24, 2023 1:00 am - WASHINGTON - Ready for "all-out war," leaders of the far-right Proud Boys extremist group viewed themselves as foot soldiers fighting for Donald Trump as the former pres...
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Watchdog: World military spending up to an all-time highApr 24, 2023 1:00 am - STOCKHOLM (AP) - Global military spending grew for the eighth consecutive year in 2022 to an all-time high of $2.24 trillion, with a sharp rise in Europe, chiefly due to...
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Tucker Carlson, Fox News' most popular host, out at networkApr 24, 2023 1:00 am - NEW YORK - Fox News on Monday ousted prime-time host Tucker Carlson, whose stew of grievances and political theories about Russia and the Jan. 6 insurrection had grown t...
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Israeli police: 5 wounded in ramming near Jerusalem marketApr 24, 2023 1:00 am - JERUSALEM - A car ramming attack Monday near a popular Jerusalem market wounded five people and the Palestinian driver was shot and killed, Israeli police said, as the c...
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Supreme Court takes social media cases with echoes of TrumpApr 24, 2023 1:00 am - WASHINGTON (AP) - The Supreme Court said Monday it will decide whether public officials can block critics from commenting on their social media accounts, an issue that p...
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Arroyo, former jockey and steward, joins Illinois Racing BoardApr 24, 2023 1:00 am - Longtime Illinois horse racing official Eddie Arroyo is the newest member of the Illinois Racing Board. Arroyo, of Wheaton, attended his first meeting last Thursday foll...
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Fox's settlement with Dominion unlikely to cost it $787.5 millionApr 23, 2023 1:00 am - Fox Corp.'s $787.5 million settlement with Dominion Voting Systems over defamation charges is eye-popping, but the ultimate cost to the media company is likely to be muc...