Articles filed under Politics
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Rauner effectively kills bill targeting Lake County chief assessment officerAug 28, 2018 1:00 am - Gov. Bruce Rauner has issued an amendatory veto effectively killing legislation that would have let Lake County voters decide how their chief assessment officer is hired...
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GOP slows efforts to rename Senate building for McCainAug 28, 2018 1:00 am - WASHINGTON (AP) - A proposal to rename the Senate's oldest office building for John McCain has received bipartisan support, but the effort appeared to slow Tuesday as Se...
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Texan says he's selling 3D-printed gun plans, despite rulingAug 28, 2018 1:00 am - AUSTIN, Texas (AP) - The owner of a Texas company that makes untraceable 3D-printed guns said Tuesday that he has begun selling the blueprints through his website to any...
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U.S. and Mexico tentatively set to replace NAFTA with new dealAug 27, 2018 1:00 am - WASHINGTON (AP) - The Trump administration and Mexico have reached a preliminary accord to end the North American Free Trade Agreement and replace it with a deal that th...
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Trump rejected plans for a White House statement praising McCainAug 26, 2018 1:00 am - WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump nixed issuing a statement that praised the heroism and life of Sen. John McCain, telling senior aides he preferred to issue a tweet b...
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Lawyer backs off claims about information Cohen has about what Trump knewAug 26, 2018 1:00 am - An attorney for Michael Cohen, President Donald Trump's former lawyer, is backing away from confident assertions he made that Cohen has information to share with investi...
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The juror who could save AmericaAug 26, 2018 1:00 am - Juror No. 0302 may not have sought fame, but Paula Duncan will long be remembered in connection with Paul Manafort, whom she and 11 others convicted on eight counts of f...
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Brace for market volatility as populists take the wheelAug 26, 2018 1:00 am - Financial markets are godlike in their ability to shrug in the face of extreme policy shifts. The conflagrations of Donald Trump's election and the U.K. Brexit vote were...
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Church's failure to atone adds to struggles of the faithfulAug 26, 2018 1:00 am - The major disgrace of America's Catholic bishops was to foster a culture in which priests sexually assaulted children and were then sent on to new duties as their ungodl...
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1968 Democratic convention 'impossible to forget,' says reporter who covered itAug 25, 2018 1:00 am - Editor's note: Ed Murnane of Arlington Heights is retired president of the Illinois Civil Justice League and a former staff member for presidents Ronald Reagan and G...