Articles filed under Politics
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Ex-Gov. Edgar: Rauner shouldn't 'hold the budget hostage'Oct 19, 2015 1:00 am - Former Gov. Jim Edgar says Gov. Bruce Rauner shouldn't “hold the budget hostage” while calling for other state government reforms. Edgar was governor in the 1990s. The ...
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State owes suburbs millions in gambling taxesOct 19, 2015 1:00 am - Illinois gamblers lost more than $227 million to machines at bars, restaurants and gas stations in the first 90 days of the state budget impasse, but local governments h...
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Washington stands still despite drumbeat on high drug pricesOct 18, 2015 7:41 am - WASHINGTON - On the campaign trail, Hillary Clinton is proposing to force pharmaceutical companies to spend more on research. In California, the push is on for a law to ...
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A former Cubs prospect, Jesse White learned from Ernie BanksOct 18, 2015 7:30 am - When Secretary of State Jesse White was a young Chicago Cubs prospect in the early 1960s, legendary slugger Ernie Banks would hold court at spring training dinners with ...
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Smithsonian chief: Don't call it "The Nation's Attic"Oct 18, 2015 1:00 am - WASHINGTON - With millions of artifacts ranging from first ladies' dresses to the flag that inspired the national anthem, the Smithsonian Institution has been cheekily k...
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Aid group questions U.S. version of hospital bombingOct 18, 2015 1:00 am - KUNDUZ, Afghanistan - The head of an international medical charity whose hospital in northern Afghanistan was destroyed in a U.S. airstrike says the "extensive, quite pr...
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Schools finding alternatives to suspending studentsOct 18, 2015 1:00 am - DALLAS - The recent arrest of a 14-year-old Muslim boy whose teacher mistook his homemade clock for a bomb led to widespread ridicule of school officials and accusations...
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Thousands of migrants surge into Slovenia in new routeOct 17, 2015 1:00 am - PETISOVCI, Slovenia - Thousands of migrants surged into tiny Slovenia on Saturday as an alternative route opened in Europe for them after Hungary sealed its border for t...
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Justices mull appeal of Chicago suburb's assault weapons banOct 17, 2015 1:00 am - WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court has so far resisted elaborating on two landmark decisions that established a nationwide right to defend one's home with a gun. That could ...
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German mayoral candidate stabbed in anti-migrant attackOct 17, 2015 1:00 am - BERLIN - A candidate to be mayor of the German city of Cologne was stabbed and seriously wounded Saturday by a man who claimed anti-foreigner motives, an attack that Ger...