Category Archives: Chicago's Election Headquarters
North Korea threatens to sink US aircraft carrier
By Junko Ogura and Susannah Cullinane North Korea on Sunday threatened to sink an American aircraft carrier that is beginning joint drills with two Japanese destroyers in the western Pacific Ocean. Th...
Apr 23, 2017
Ann Coulter isn’t letting Berkeley off easy for messing with her speech
By Emanuella Grinberg and Kyung Lah The showdown continues between the University of California, Berkeley, and Ann Coulter over whether the conservative firebrand will speak at the famously progressiv...
Apr 22, 2017
OMB head Mulvaney says no shutdown, even with border ask
By Jim Acosta and Theodore Schleifer Office of Management and Budget Director Mick Mulvaney says he believes the Trump administration and Republican leaders in Congress will be able to avert a governm...
Apr 22, 2017
House Republicans near potential breakthrough on health care, source says
By MJ Lee, Deirdre Walsh and Lauren Fox Top House Republicans may be nearing a significant breakthrough among some key players on efforts to repeal and replace Obamacare, one month after a Republican ...
Apr 20, 2017
Reports: ICE does bad job of overseeing deportable immigrants
By Alicia A Caldwell, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) - An internal government watchdog says Immigration and Customs Enforcement deportation officers aren’t doing a very good job of keeping tra...
Apr 20, 2017
Trump declares Georgia Democrats are ‘failing’
WASHINGTON (AP) - President Donald Trump says Democrats in Georgia are “failing” after a congressional election that’s now headed to a runoff. Democrat Jon Ossoff, a 30-year-old form...
Apr 19, 2017
Federal judge issues injunction to halt Arkansas executions
By Ray Sanchez and Ralph Ellis A federal judge in Arkansas issued an injunction Saturday halting the execution by lethal injection of nine inmates. The injunction represents the latest legal setback i...
Apr 15, 2017
US drops ‘mother of all bombs’
[van id=”politics/2017/04/13/us-largest-non-nuclear-bomb-ip-starr.cnn”] According to military officials, the US has dropped the largest non-nuclear bomb in Afghanistan. WASHINGTON (AP) - T...
Apr 13, 2017
Trump says US, Russia ‘not getting along’
WASHINGTON (AP) President Donald Trump says the U.S. is “not getting along with Russia at all” and relations between the two global powers are at an “all-time low.” Trump says ...
Apr 12, 2017
Trump celebrates Supreme Court success with Gorsuch
By Dan Merica Donald Trump, in possibly his biggest win to date as president, celebrated Neil Gorsuch’s ceremonial swearing-in to the Supreme Court at the White House on Monday, nodding to the f...
Apr 10, 2017
