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Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle said law enforcement groups have been prepping for more than a year and have coordinated with 15 public safety entities — including the Chicago Police Department.
It’s part of a critical voter outreach plan in place since President Joe Biden’s 2020 campaign and extended into the halls of the White House — as Biden combats Donald Trump and his army of online supporters.
During a three-and-a-half–year tenure, state GOP Chairman Don Tracy proved unable to stanch a hemorrhage of Republican support in Chicago’s suburbs, a once-reliable well of fiscally conservative, socially moderate GOP votes that’s dried up with the rise of Donald Trump.
Speculation about President Biden stepping aside has reached a ridiculous fever pitch. Forget it: It’s Biden vs. Trump.
Despite preparations being made in Chicago for former President Donald Trump to stay at the Trump Tower during the GOP convention, the campaign on Tuesday announced an apparent change in plans.
Biden anuncia protección contra la deportación y permisos de trabajo para los cónyuges de ciudadanos
Cerca de 490,000 cónyuges de ciudadanos estadounidenses tendrán la oportunidad de solicitar un programa de “libertad condicional” que les protegerá de las deportaciones y les ofrecerá permisos de trabajo si han vivido en el país durante al menos 10 años.
Nearly 490,000 spouses of U.S. citizens will have an opportunity to apply for a ‘parole in place’ program that would shield them from deportations and offer them work permits if they have lived in the country for at least 10 years.
Ald. Matt Martin (47th) wants to start small, with a public financing program confined to candidates for City Council. That limits the cost to roughly $10 million over four years.
Prosecutors want a judge to give Chicago’s longest-serving City Council member a 10-year prison sentence for corruption. But defense attorneys hope to sway the judge to spare him any prison time with stories of Ed Burke’s good deeds.
Hunter Biden’s federal conviction can help shield President Joe Biden from Donald Trump’s assertions that Biden is manipulating the Justice Department against political foes.
The Obama Presidential Center and museum is “about 56%" complete, according to workers at the site, and the former president briefly spoke and shook hands with dozens to celebrate the structure hitting its full height of 225 feet.
Polls show Biden’s support is dissolving when it comes to border security and immigration matters, enough to cost him a second term.
Mexicans nationals turned out in record numbers, but hundreds in Chicago waited hours in line only to be told polls had closed.
The FBI arrested William Lewis in November, making him one of nearly 50 known Illinois residents to face federal criminal charges in connection with the attack.
La climatóloga y exjefa de Gobierno de la Ciudad de México dijo la noche del domingo que sus dos competidores le llamaron concediéndole la victoria.
Sheinbaum promised to continue the political course set by her populist predecessor, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, despite widespread discontent with persistent cartel violence and disappointing economic performance.
Former Mexico City Mayor Claudia Sheinbaum faces main opposition candidate Xóchitl Gálvez, a tech entrepreneur and former senator.
What’s 34 felony convictions for paying hush money to a porn star compared with Trump’s previous transgressions?
Other countries have had leaders who were convicted of crimes after leaving office. Ex-President Donald Trump’s conviction is a first for the U.S. Americans will have a far more consequential verdict to make in November: whether to send that felon back to office.