Articles filed under Politics
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House Dems unveil $547B infrastructure bill amid Biden talksJun 04, 2021 1:00 am - WASHINGTON (AP) - House Democrats released a plan Friday for spending $547 billion over the next five years on road, mass transit and rail projects, a blueprint for what...
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'Law and order' gambit doesn't work anymoreJun 04, 2021 1:00 am - It worked for Richard Nixon, who won the presidency in 1968, redrawing the electoral map. The once-solidly Democratic South, which supported John Kennedy and Lyndon John...
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Can the U.S. sustain the international order?Jun 03, 2021 1:00 am - We don't often think that how the U.S. conducts itself at home has much impact on how we face the world, but it does. You'd be amazed at how closely people in countries ...
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The key lesson to take from Fauci's emailsJun 03, 2021 1:00 am - There is a valuable lesson in Dr. Anthony Fauci's just-released emails, and it has nothing to do with COVID-19. It involves two particular aspects of written communicati...
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Lawmakers pass follow-up criminal justice bill addressing police concernsJun 02, 2021 1:00 am - SPRINGFIELD - The General Assembly this week passed legislation addressing lingering concerns from law enforcement about a massive criminal justice reform omnibus passed...
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After George Floyd, what one year has broughtJun 02, 2021 1:00 am - By Byron York President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris met in the Oval Office last week with the family of George Floyd, the man who died a year ago in the ...
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Expanding the child tax credit ignores historical precedentJun 02, 2021 1:00 am - Marketing is everything in politics. It explains why a tax credit that benefits 90% of American families with kids - some of them with income higher than $400,000 - is m...
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Without dirty mining, you can't make clean carsJun 01, 2021 1:00 am - Before the November election, candidate Joe Biden's campaign let it be known that the Democratic nominee would part ways with environmental activists by supporting minin...
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Illinois House passes $42.2 billion budgetJun 01, 2021 1:00 am - SPRINGFIELD — State lawmakers early Tuesday inched closer to implementing a spending plan for the next fiscal year, with the Illinois House approving a state budget prop...
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Two new state holidays approved: Juneteenth and Election Day. What do they mean for you?Jun 01, 2021 1:00 am - Two new state holidays approved by Illinois lawmakers last weekend will affect mostly state employees, and students and workers at public schools, if the bills are ultim...