Articles filed under Politics
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Duckworth whistle-blowing hearing collides with campaignAug 01, 2015 1:00 am - A whistle-blower lawsuit dating back to U.S. Rep. Tammy Duckworth's tenure as head of the Illinois Department of Veterans' Affairs is set for an initial hearing Tuesday ...
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Biden associates resume discussion about presidential runAug 01, 2015 1:00 am - WASHINGTON - Vice President Joe Biden's associates have resumed discussions about a 2016 presidential run after largely shelving such deliberations during his son's illn...
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Trump platform: Because I said soAug 01, 2015 1:00 am - Donald Trump wants to make America great again. This is how he wants to do it: If Trump were elected president, he says, he would launch the U.S. government into a massi...
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About 60 donors give a third of all '16 campaign cashAug 01, 2015 1:00 am - WASHINGTON - It took Ted Cruz three months to raise $10 million for his campaign for president, a springtime sprint of $1,000-per-plate dinners, hundreds of handshakes a...
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Despite bombing, Islamic State is no weaker than a year agoJul 31, 2015 1:00 am - WASHINGTON - After billions of dollars spent and more than 10,000 extremist fighters killed, the Islamic State group is fundamentally no weaker than it was when the U.S....
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Rand Paul coming to Niles Saturday; Scott Walker in DuPage County soonJul 31, 2015 1:00 am - Republican presidential hopeful Rand Paul is set to be in Niles Saturday afternoon as candidate visits to the area start to become more common. The DuPage County GOP ann...
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Munger deal with workers: $1,000 payment and no raiseJul 31, 2015 1:00 am - Illinois Comptroller Leslie Munger's office said Friday its 220 full-time employees will get a one-time $1,000 payment and no pay raise in the next year. Munger and the ...
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Cullerton drops congressional bid to run again for state SenateJul 30, 2015 5:00 am - State Sen. Tom Cullerton of Villa Park says he'll drop his bid for Congress in 2016 and run for re-election to the Illinois Senate instead. Cullerton was one of the Demo...
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Clinton Benghazi hearing will put suburban lawmakers in spotlightJul 30, 2015 1:00 am - The announcement this week that former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton will appear before the congressional Benghazi committee this fall stands to put two local lawma...
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State: No casino money for suburbs during budget impasseJul 29, 2015 1:00 am - Cities that host casinos won't get their latest shares of the taxes that come from gambling losses until Illinois has a full budget in place, state Comptroller Leslie Mu...