Articles filed under Politics
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Editorial: Beware misinformation campaign about election reformSep 07, 2015 12:00 pm - A letter sent out last month challenging the drive for an Independent Map Amendment in Illinois would be funny if its origins weren't so steeped in Illinois' sadly parti...
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Germany opens arms to war-weary refugeesSep 05, 2015 1:00 am - BUDAPEST, Hungary - For weeks while they traveled a punitive road, Europe cast a cold and callous eye on their unwelcome progress. On Saturday, for the first time since ...
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Japan lifts evacuation order for town near doomed nuke plantSep 05, 2015 1:00 am - NARAHA, Japan - Japan's government on Saturday lifted a 4 1/2-year-old evacuation order for the northeastern town of Naraha that had sent all of the town's 7,400 residen...
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Rally to support defiant clerk jailed over marriage licensesSep 05, 2015 1:00 am - GRAYSON, Ky. - They stood chanting outside the jail house, "Thank you, Kim; Thank you, Kim," and prayed that the defiant county clerk locked inside could hear them. As ...
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Congress returns to weighty list of unfinished businessSep 05, 2015 1:00 am - WASHINGTON - Congress returns on Tuesday with a critical need for a characteristic rarely evident through a contentious spring and summer - cooperation between Republica...
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Clinton says family paid State Dept. employee for email workSep 05, 2015 1:00 am - PORTSMOUTH, N.H. - Hillary Rodham Clinton said Saturday that her family paid a State Department employee to maintain the private email server she used while secretary of...
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Riopell: Dold says 2016 will be different, better year for him than 2012Sep 04, 2015 5:35 am - U.S. Rep. Bob Dold is up for re-election in a presidential year - just like in 2012 when the Kenilworth Republican lost after his freshman term in Congress. But he argue...
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Rivers Casino fined $2 million for mishandling promotions, breaking rulesSep 04, 2015 1:00 am - The owner of Rivers Casino in Des Plaines, the most-visited gambling floor in Illinois, has been fined $2 million for mishandling promotions for its patrons and breaking...
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Durbin, Kirk polar opposites on Iran dealSep 04, 2015 1:00 am - U.S. Sen. Mark Kirk criticized Democrats Friday for finding enough Senate votes to likely keep President Barack Obama's Iran nuclear deal in place - a vote-gathering eff...
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Suburban Democrats say they wouldn't be swayed on Rauner vetoSep 03, 2015 1:00 am - Two suburban Democrats disagree with House Speaker Michael Madigan's suggestion that his party would have fallen in line to override Gov. Bruce Rauner's veto of controve...