Articles filed under Politics
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Clerk candidate surfacesOct 28, 2013 2:19 pm - A Lake Forest attorney has announced her candidacy for Lake County clerk. Carla N. Wyckoff, an assistant state’s attorney in Lake County, is running for the Republican P...
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Editorial: Complex problems and the politics of distractionOct 27, 2013 5:00 am - Last week, we used this space to appeal for our leaders — and the rest of us, for that matter — to move past ideological boundaries and instead strive to work together t...
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Botched healthcare rollout raises questions about big governmentOct 26, 2013 5:43 pm - WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama has faced a persistent challenge in office. The advocate of big, bold actions to address large and seemingly intractable problems, h...
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Terror arrest at O’Hare may trigger surveillance court testOct 26, 2013 5:32 pm - WASHINGTON — The Justice Department says for the first time that it intends to use information gained from one of the National Security Agency’s warrantless surveillance...
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NSA spying threatens to hamper foreign policyOct 26, 2013 5:31 pm - WASHINGTON — Secretary of State John Kerry went to Europe to talk about Mideast peace, Syria and Iran. What he got was an earful of outrage over U.S. snooping abroad. Pr...
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21 nations line up behind U.N. effort to restrain NSAOct 26, 2013 4:18 pm - WASHINGTON — An effort in the United Nations by Brazil and Germany to hold back government surveillance is quickly picking up steam, as the uproar over American eavesdro...
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Health care website firm has cloudy connectionsOct 25, 2013 8:37 pm - WASHINGTON — The company chosen by the Obama administration to oversee the repair of the new federal health insurance website faced questions from lawmakers a year ago a...
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Germany, France want U.S. to agree to curb spyingOct 25, 2013 5:58 pm - BRUSSELS — Indignant at reports of U.S. electronic espionage overseas, the leaders of Germany and France said Friday they will insist the Obama administration agree by y...
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White House picks new boss to fix health care websiteOct 25, 2013 4:27 pm - WASHINGTON — Nearly a month into the dysfunctional rollout, the Obama administration acknowledged the wide extent of its health care website’s problems Friday and abrupt...
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Congressmen say bill would speed waterways projectsOct 25, 2013 8:35 am - EAST ALTON — A pair of Congressmen from central and southwestern Illinois say a U.S. House bill they helped pass would speed up urgent repairs on locks, dams and levees ...