Articles filed under Politics
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Doubled state gas tax just a start. New state law will cost you in other ways, tooJun 20, 2019 1:00 am -
State law will cost drivers in other ways, too
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Ex-Senate staffer sentenced to 4 years for 'doxing' GOP senatorsJun 20, 2019 1:00 am - WASHINGTON - A U.S. judge on Wednesday sentenced a former Democratic Senate staff member to four years in prison for a burglary and hacking campaign that culminated in t...
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Fact-check: Biden's claim that 'almost half' of Americans live in povertyJun 20, 2019 1:00 am - "We have ... almost half the people in the United States living in poverty." - Former Vice Pesident Joe Biden, in remarks at the Poor People's Campaign presidential foru...
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Editorial: More elections are not the answerJun 19, 2019 11:00 pm - John D'Astice is a good man with a bad idea. D'Astice, a Rolling Meadows alderman, lost the race for Rolling Meadows mayor in April, finishing second among four candidat...
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Departing state senator will become a judge FridayJun 19, 2019 1:00 am - SPRINGFIELD - John Mulroe is trading his state Senate seat for a judicial bench. After serving more than eight years in the General Assembly, the Chicago Democrat will b...
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5 takeaways from Trump's 2020 campaign launch speechJun 19, 2019 1:00 am - Midway through the speech officially launching his 2020 reelection campaign Tuesday night, President Donald Trump joked about his campaign staff. "They cost a fortune, a...
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As Trump's defense pick withdraws, he addresses violent domestic incidentsJun 19, 2019 1:00 am - WASHINGTON - In the months that he has served as President Donald Trump's acting secretary of defense, Patrick Shanahan has worked to keep domestic violence incidents wi...
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Fact-checking President Trump's reelection campaign kickoffJun 19, 2019 1:00 am - Here we are again, four years later, fact-checking a campaign kickoff speech by Donald Trump. The fact-checkable claims were different this time around, but history repe...
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Wings still flying over HaitiJun 19, 2019 1:00 am - PAWLEYS ISLAND, S.C. - Jonathan Nash Glynn - artist, pilot and philanthropist - never envisioned himself as a missionary, but, absent religion, that's what he has become...
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Three reasons Trump-Russia hasn't turned into WatergateJun 19, 2019 1:00 am - Why haven't efforts to impeach President Trump gained Watergate-style momentum? The lack of energy has created a sense of bafflement and disappointment among some of the...