Articles filed under Politics
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House adjourns after third day of failing to elect McCarthy or anyone as speakerJan 05, 2023 12:00 am - Even after concessions to holdouts, McCarthy fails to win enough GOP votes
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Guest columnist Ashbey Beasley: Within days, Illinois can act to protect against gun violenceJan 05, 2023 12:00 am - Six months ago this week, on July 4, 2022, I had just wrestled my 6-year-old son into an oversized tee shirt emblazoned with a cheerful sun and big block letters spellin...
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Syndicated columnist Byron York: Remember the hysteria over Trump's tax returns?Jan 05, 2023 12:00 am - By Byron York Democratic lawmakers had fought for years to get the documents. They claimed they needed them not for partisan political reasons but in order to oversee ...
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The U.S. Constitution: Amendments 1 to 10: Meaning of the Bill of RightsJan 04, 2023 5:00 am - This is the 11th in a series of essays about the U.S. Constitution. A historian could tell a significant portion of English and American Colonial history using the Bill...
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Des Plaines voters will have another say on term limitsJan 04, 2023 4:30 am - Des Plaines residents will have the chance to strengthen term limits for elected officials when they vote this spring. After a lengthy and occasionally acrimonious discu...
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EXPLAINER: What to expect on Day 2 of House speaker electionJan 04, 2023 12:00 am - WASHINGTON (AP) - What was expected to be a day of triumph for House Republicans coming into the majority turned into chaos Tuesday as interparty fighting over who shoul...
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McCarthy failing anew in bid for speakerJan 04, 2023 12:00 am - WASHINGTON - House Republicans flailed through a second day of multiple balloting Wednesday, unable to elect Rep. Kevin McCarthy as House speaker or to come up with a ne...
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Daily Herald opinion: If only there were more like Jesse White in Illinois governmentJan 04, 2023 12:00 am - To refer to Jesse White as Illinois' longest-running secretary of state feels like a disservice to a man who has lived more lives and done more things than many of us co...
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Twitter says it will relax ban on political advertisingJan 04, 2023 12:00 am - Twitter says it will ease up on its 3-year-old ban on political advertising, the latest change by Elon Musk as he tries to pump up revenue after purchasing the social me...
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Overdose prevention sitesJan 04, 2023 12:00 am - They call them "overdose prevention sites." I'd never heard of them until I saw the picture in the LA Times of a drug user literally falling down in the middle of a city...