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The latest information on Illinois’ congressional delegation and how Washington politicians will affect your life, including insightful analysis from Sun-Times White House bureau chief Lynn Sweet.
“And I know like millions of Americans know — when you get knocked down, you get back up,” President Joe Biden said Friday at a campaign gathering in North Carolina after his dismal performance in his debate with Trump.
Each of the candidate stretched the truth to various degrees, according to an Associated Press fact check.
Biden lost ground not so much by what he said as the two exchanged verbal punches during Thursday’s historic presidential debate, but by showing his age.
Over 80 first-time young voters and future voters from around the country gathered at the McCormick Foundation Center in Evanston to watch the unprecedented early presidential debate.
A defense attorney predicted one of Chicago’s high-stakes public corruption cases, the ComEd bribery case, will get a new trial. Michael Madigan’s trial is set for October but could be delayed.
The term “double haters” burst into the political lexicon this year to describe voters who dislike both Biden and Trump. But that’s the choice before the nation.
Kinzinger said that “as a proud conservative, I am endorsing Joe Biden for reelection.”
The service was a celebration of Mrs. Robinson’s life, according to the office of the former president and former first lady Michelle Obama.
The subjects of abortion and reproductive freedom will come up Thursday, when former President Donald Trump and President Joe Biden face off in their first 2024 debate hosted by CNN in Atlanta.
The Platform Committee — some 200 Democrats from 57 states and territories — will hold a virtual hearing on July 9.
The justices ruled 8-1 Friday in favor of a 1994 ban on firearms for people under restraining orders to stay away from their spouses or partners.
Speculation about President Biden stepping aside has reached a ridiculous fever pitch. Forget it: It’s Biden vs. Trump.
The city is required to provide police escorts for all convention committee personnel who are “delivering credentials to state delegations and the media at their respective hotels.” It also must provide “special” security for “delegates and other dignitaries.”
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.
U.S. District Court Judge Harry Leinenweber, who died Tuesday, taught a one-man master class in life. A man of reason, a man in full, a husband, a father, a grandfather, a great-grandfather. A golfer, a raconteur, an intellectual who loved people, a teller of tall — but true — tales.
El programa de Acción Diferida para los Llegados en la Infancia (DACA, por sus siglas en inglés) fue lanzado hace 12 años por el entonces presidente Barack Obama. Su futuro es frágil e incierto.
A filmmaker and activist secretly recorded Alito at a dinner. Public officials, especially judges, won’t get into trouble if they maintain their composure and remember not to enlist in the culture wars.
The Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program was launched 12 years ago by then-President Barack Obama. It has a fragile, uncertain future.
U.S. District Judge Harry Leinenweber took senior status in 2002, but he continued to preside over blockbuster trials 20 years later. They included the trial of former R&B star R. Kelly in 2022 and a major corruption trial involving four political insiders tied to ComEd. “He was an honorable judge and an honorable man,” said Kelly attorney Jennifer Bonjean.