Articles filed under Politics
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Lawmakers seek lower price for bill on vets' careJul 11, 2014 1:01 am - WASHINGTON - Stung by sticker shock, members of Congress are scrambling to lower the cost of a bill to fix veterans' health care amid a growing uproar over long waits fo...
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U.S. given heads up about newspaper data destructionJul 11, 2014 1:01 am - WASHINGTON - The Obama administration knew in advance that the British government would oversee destruction of a newspaper's hard drives containing leaked National Secur...
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Roskam: Federal money could push Kerr-McGee cleanup forwardJul 11, 2014 1:01 am - Political Editor mriopell@dailyherald.com The U.S. House has approved money to push forward on the decades-long pollution cleanup at the site of the former Kerr-McGee fa...
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Kirk demands background checks on immigrant kidsJul 11, 2014 1:01 am - U.S. Sen. Mark Kirk is demanding criminal background checks on the unaccompanied children that have crossed the U.S. border with Mexico. According to Kirk, 429 unaccompa...
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Former Marine named Illinois veterans directorJul 11, 2014 1:01 am - A U.S. Marine veteran who served three tours of duty in Iraq and Afghanistan has been named acting director of the Illinois Department of Veterans' Affairs. Rodrigo Garc...
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Part of U.S. Capitol closed after asbestos incidentJul 10, 2014 1:01 am - WASHINGTON - House Republican leaders said Thursday they are delaying the start of business due to an accident involving asbestos. In a statement, House Speaker John Boe...
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Faster deportations? A possible border crisis dealJul 10, 2014 1:01 am - WASHINGTON - Outlines of a possible compromise that would more quickly deport minors arriving from Central America emerged Thursday as part of President Barack Obama's $...
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Illinois manages to send schools' checks on timeJul 09, 2014 1:01 am - Illinois schools have received promised grant payments from the state on time for the first time since 2007 - but in another sign of the state's precarious financial sit...
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10-year sentence for ex-New Orleans Mayor NaginJul 09, 2014 1:01 am - NEW ORLEANS - When Ray Nagin was elected mayor in 2002, there was real hope that he was a break from the city's sleazy past. Three years later, with his city awash in f...
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&A on push to treat young immigrants as refugeesJul 09, 2014 1:01 am - TUCSON, Ariz. - Pressure continues to mount on the federal government to treat as refugees the thousands of children traveling alone from Central America and crossing th...