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October 6, 2021 at 9:10 pm

With windfall, city tries to reach kids trapped in violence VIEW

The money flowing to cities and states from the American Rescue Plan is so substantial and can be used for so many purposes that communities...

September 30, 2021 at 11:39 am

Prisons, border wall: How GOP is looking to use COVID money

Republicans are using money from the $1.9 trillion coronavirus relief package for projects on conservatives' wish lists

Business

Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas speaks on Thursday, Sept. 16, 2021, at the University of Notre Dame in South Bend, Ind. The associate justice gave the Tocqueville Lecture for the Center for Citizenship & Constitutional Government at the university. (Robert Franklin/South Bend Tribune via AP) INSBE904 INSBE904

September 16, 2021 at 3:48 pm

Clarence Thomas criticizes judges for veering into politics VIEW

Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas criticized some in the judiciary for veering into the role of legislators and politicians, saying it is not the role...

September 2, 2021 at 9:05 pm

Seeing danger, some in GOP leery of Texas abortion law

Almost instantly after most abortions were banned in Texas, Democrats were decrying the new law as unconstitutional, an assault on women’s health that must be...

Nation & World

FILE – In this Thursday, May 23, 2019 file photo, Demonstrators chant slogans during a rally in support of abortion rights in Miami. Republican lawmakers in at least a half dozen GOP-controlled states already are talking about copying a Texas law that bans abortions after a fetal heartbeat is detected. The law was written in a way that was intended to avoid running afoul of federal law by allowing enforcement by private citizens, not government officials. Democratic governors and lawmakers are promising to take steps to protect abortion rights, after the U.S. Supreme Court allowed the Texas law to stand.(AP Photo/Lynne Sladky, File) NY119 NY119

September 2, 2021 at 4:23 pm

Seeing danger, some in GOP leery of Texas abortion law

Almost instantly after most abortions were banned in Texas, Democrats were decrying the new law as unconstitutional, an assault on women’s health that must be...

August 30, 2021 at 8:44 pm

Illinois Democrats OK new legislative maps over criticism VIEW

Illinois Democrats were poised to set new legislative boundaries over objections from Republicans and some community groups that the process was rushed and maps were...

August 29, 2021 at 11:23 am

‘As long as it takes’: FEMA, other agencies respond to Ida

Federal officials say hundreds of emergency responders are in place in Louisiana and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has power restoration experts and generators...

August 20, 2021 at 12:59 pm

Illinois Democrats to redraw political maps using census

Illinois Democrats say the Legislature will return to Springfield to redraw political districts that will be used for legislative elections over the next decade, this...

FILE – In this April 19, 2021 file photo, Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti, right, talks with Michael Tubbs, founder of Mayors for a Guaranteed Income, after holding his annual State of the City address from the Griffith Observatory, in Los Angeles. In experiments across the country, dozens of cities and counties, some using money from the $1.9 trillion COVID relief package approved in March, and the state of California are giving some low-income residents a guaranteed income of $500 to $1,000 each month to do with as they please, and tracking what happens. (Gary Coronado/Los Angeles Times via AP, Pool File) CER601 CER601

July 23, 2021 at 5:31 am

Free money for all? Mayors hope local tests bring big change

In experiments across the country, dozens of cities and counties and the state of California are giving some low-income residents a guaranteed income of $500...

July 9, 2021 at 2:28 pm

Illinois sues owner of plant where fire prompted evacuations

CHICAGO (AP) — Illinois prosecutors on Friday sued the owner of a chemical plant where a fire last month sent dark smoke and ash into...

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