Articles filed under Politics
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Obama, Clinton to attend Martha's Vineyard partyAug 12, 2014 1:01 am - EDGARTOWN, Mass. - President Barack Obama will spend a bit of his summer vacation with Hillary Rodham Clinton, a get-together that comes amid signs that the former secre...
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Rule would limit immigrant driver's license callsAug 12, 2014 1:01 am - SPRINGFIELD - Illinois wants to head off businesses that are swamping the secretary of state's office with robotic requests for appointments for special immigrant driver...
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Rauner keeps up property tax pressureAug 12, 2014 1:01 am - Republican governor hopeful Bruce Rauner has launched a website and enlisted a suburban homeowner for a robocall supporting his effort to freeze suburban property taxes....
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Iraq isn't Syria: Congress on board this timeAug 12, 2014 1:01 am - WASHINGTON - Little of the impassioned debate that fractured lawmakers last year over possible military intervention in Syria is happening now as American war planes str...
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Quinn signs Pace shoulder-riding program into lawAug 11, 2014 1:01 am - Legislation that allows a suburban Chicago bus agency's vehicles to ride on the shoulders of a major roadway is now law. Gov. Pat Quinn signed a plan on Monday that mak...
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Great-uncle of Obama dies at age 89Aug 11, 2014 1:01 am - Charles T. Payne, a World War II veteran and great-uncle of President Barack Obama who was briefly in the public eye during his nephew's first presidential bid, has died...
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Hawaii's governor ousted in stunning primary lossAug 10, 2014 1:01 am - HONOLULU - A 40-year political career came to a close after Hawaii Gov. Neil Abercrombie lost his bid for a second term in a stunning primary-election defeat by a fellow...
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Duchossois: Nixon was gifted, honest and 'brilliant'Aug 09, 2014 6:45 am - Forty years after Richard Nixon resigned the presidency and 20 years after he died, history still has not caught up to the real man, believes Richard Duchossois, chairma...
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Was Ebola reaction too slow?Aug 09, 2014 1:01 am - The international response to the Ebola outbreak that has killed almost 1,000 Africans has been slow and inadequate, and the World Health Organization is at least partly...
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Myanmar rules stack cards against Suu Kyi partyAug 09, 2014 1:01 am - BANGKOK, Thailand -- Aung San Suu Kyi's quarter-century quest to lead Myanmar is running out of time because of a legal roadblock, posing a dilemma for a party that was ...