Articles filed under Politics
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FBI agent testifies wiretap request misstated informant's recordMay 30, 2014 1:01 am - An FBI agent has testified at a Chicago Democrat's bribery trial that an application asking permission for an informant to wear a wire greatly understated his criminal b...
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No House vote on new eavesdropping rulesMay 30, 2014 1:01 am - SPRINGFIELD - The Illinois House has adjourned without taking up new proposed eavesdropping rules approved by the Senate earlier in the day. Earlier this year, the Illin...
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Illinois shelving $100 million gift to Obama libraryMay 30, 2014 1:01 am - SPRINGFIELD - A plan to offer $100 million in tax dollars to lure Barack Obama's presidential library to Illinois is on the shelf, with lawmakers prepared to wrap up the...
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House OKs small-business tax creditsMay 30, 2014 1:01 am - SPRINGFIELD - Illinois lawmakers have advanced a plan to expand tax credits to small businesses with the goal of creating jobs in areas of high unemployment and poverty....
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Kirk voices new allegations from Hines hospital staffMay 30, 2014 1:01 am - U.S. Sen. Mark Kirk says he's met with doctors from Edward Hines Jr. VA hospital who tell him "boxes and boxes" of echocardiograms went unread for weeks and that some pa...
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Report: Clinton defends response to Benghazi in bookMay 30, 2014 1:01 am - Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) - Hillary Rodham Clinton dismisses her critics and defends her handling of the deadly 2012 terrorist attack in Benghazi, Libya, in her n...
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Shinseki resigns amid veterans' health care uproarMay 30, 2014 1:00 am - WASHINGTON — Veterans Affairs Secretary Eric Shinseki resigned Friday in a personal meeting with President Barack Obama, shortly after publicly apologizing for deep prob...
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Legislators OK plan to erase juvenile arrestsMay 29, 2014 1:01 am - SPRINGFIELD - The legislature has advanced a plan that would erase some arrest records for children who weren't charged or convicted of the alleged crime. The state Sen...
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State closes health centers, abandons patient recordsMay 29, 2014 1:01 am - SPRINGFIELD - Gov. Pat Quinn's administration closed three health facilities in 2012 but left behind tractors and a forklift, an unidentified medical specimen and boxes ...
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Obama: Too little info about youth concussionsMay 29, 2014 1:01 am - WASHINGTON - President Barack Obama called Thursday for more robust research into youth concussions, saying there remains deep uncertainty over both the scope of the tro...