Articles filed under Politics
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Days after Pruitt resigned, several top aides are also calling it quits at EPAJul 11, 2018 1:00 am - WASHINGTON - Several top aides to former Environmental Protection Agency administrator Scott Pruitt are leaving the agency, less than a week after Pruitt resigned his po...
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Reagan: The real Crying Game involves American childrenJul 10, 2018 1:00 am - By Michael Reagan I understand why the national media is so obsessed over the story of children of illegal immigrants being separated from their parents at the Mexican b...
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Parker: At Marquette, conservatives got it wrongJul 10, 2018 1:00 am - WASHINGTON - Free speech won; decency lost. This has become such a common observation that it hardly merits a headline. But in a Wisconsin Supreme Court case resolved Fr...
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Lake County Board wants Rauner to alter legislation targeting chief assessment officerJul 10, 2018 1:00 am - After much debate, a divided Lake County Board voted Tuesday to ask Gov. Bruce Rauner to alter legislation that could change how the county's chief assessment officer is...
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Boris Johnson and 'Brexit minister' resign, leaving Theresa May's government in disarrayJul 09, 2018 1:00 am - LONDON - Prime Minister Theresa May struggled Monday to keep her government from imploding after the resignations of Foreign Minister Boris Johnson, a prominent face of ...
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State should follow Chicago's lead and raise the minimum wageJul 09, 2018 1:00 am - On July 1, the city of Chicago raised its local minimum wage to $12 an hour. The move is part of an incremental process the Chicago City Council initiated in 2014 to rai...
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Pompeo appeals for N. Korea to replicate Vietnam's 'miracle'Jul 08, 2018 1:00 am - HANOI, Vietnam - Undeterred by a blistering rebuke of his efforts to forge a denuclearization deal with North Korea, U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Sunday appeal...
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Solution to immigration crisis begins south of the borderJul 08, 2018 1:00 am - One of the insights a foreign correspondent like me gains quickly from history is that, strangely enough, the big problems in foreign policy often have their roots in sm...
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Catholics on the court: The historical struggle between canon and constitutional lawJul 08, 2018 1:00 am - In late 1972, while drafting the Supreme Court's landmark Roe v. Wade decision legalizing abortion, Justice Harry Blackmun asked fellow Justice William Brennan to review...
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Trump's economic gamble: Solid job gains vs. risky trade warJul 08, 2018 1:00 am - WASHINGTON - From the safety of a resilient U.S. economy, President Donald Trump lit the fuse Friday on a high-risk trade war with China. History suggests that a cycle o...