5 people shot to death in small Illinois town Five people are dead and one injured as a result of a shooting in the tiny southern Illinois town of Manchester, the mayor confirmed in a television interview on Wednesday."We got five confirmed fatalities, one wounded and in the hospital, and the shooter's been apprehended," Mayor Ronald Drake said in an interview on the St. More
Six politicians plead not guilty in alleged NYC mayor's race plot New York State Sen. Malcolm Smith and five other politicians pleaded not guilty Tuesday to corruption charges in connection with an alleged plot to buy a line on New York City's mayoral ballot. The allegations revived public concerns about a documented culture of exploitation in Albany that has prompted officials to seek legal recourse to induce change. More
Sinkhole swallows three cars on Chicago's South Side A driver was hospitalized Thursday after a large sinkhole opened up in the middle of the street and swallowed three cars on Chicago's South Side, police said. The injured man was driving when the road buckled and caved in at 9600 South Houston Avenue near the Chicago Skyway, Chicago Police Department spokesman Mike Sullivan told NBCChicago.com. More
Wild weather: Floods, snow, tornadoes hit central USA Middle America was overwhelmed by weather Thursday, with snow in the north, tornadoes in the Plains, and torrential rains that caused floods and transportation woes - and a sinkhole in Chicago. More
Opinion: Here's how Mayor Johnson brings Chicago together on homelessness At a news conference after the ballot defeat of "Bring Chicago Home," Mayor Brandon Johnson told reporters: "The organizing doesn't pivot. . . .We get stronger, and whatever we didn't get the ... 04/10/2024 - 2:02 am | View Link
Lori Lightfoot hired to investigate Dolton Mayor Tiffany Henyard DOLTON, Ill. (WLS) -- Chicago's former mayor now has a front-row seat to the inter-workings of a much smaller municipal government. Less than a year out of public office, the former federal ... 04/8/2024 - 9:41 am | View Link
Chicago Mayor's Solution to Homelessness Fails to Convince Voters "I don't think people trust the Chicago government group, aldermen, mayor, or whatever, to use the money appropriately," said Aaron Del Mar, a GOP strategist and former Cook County Republican ... 04/5/2024 - 1:16 am | View Link
Chicago mayor urges Biden to grant work permits to half million illegal immigrants Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson on Thursday urged President Biden to grant work permits to nearly 500,000 illegal migrants living in the state. Johnson also said the city, which has roughly 2.7 ... 04/4/2024 - 10:03 am | View Link
Mayor Johnson to Biden: Let Chicago’s long-term immigrants work “This is an international global crisis that requires a federal response.” The Chicago-led call for help has already found support from big cities such as New York, Denver and San ... 04/3/2024 - 10:56 pm | View Link
“Jury selection is set to resume Friday morning in Donald Trump’s hush money trial in New York,” the Washington Post reports.
“Twelve jurors have been picked to hear the case, along with one alternate. Five more alternates are still being sought, and opening statements are expected to begin Monday.”
Associated Press: “One woman miscarried in the restroom lobby of a Texas emergency room as front desk staff refused to admit her. Another woman learned that her fetus had no heartbeat at a Florida hospital, the day after a security guard turned her away from the facility. And in North Carolina, a woman gave birth in a car after an emergency room couldn’t offer an ultrasound.
Republican voters should be absolutely furious with their elected leaders.
As I wrote in 2013 on the fight over Obamacare:
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“Speaker Mike Johnson’s sudden bid to deliver aid to Ukraine came days after fresh intelligence described the U. S. ally at a true make-or-break moment in its war with Russia,” Politico reports.
“It was exactly the kind of dire assessment that President Joe Biden and the White House had spent months privately warning Johnson was inevitable.”
“The Biden administration is considering more than $1 billion in new weapons deals for Israel including tank ammunition, military vehicles and mortar rounds, U. S. officials said, at a time of heightened scrutiny of the use of American-made weapons in the war in Gaza,” the Wall Street Journal reports.
“The proposed weapons transfers—which would be in addition to those in a military aid deal currently before the Congress—would be among the largest to Israel since it invaded Gaza in response to Hamas’s attack that killed 1,200 people, mostly civilians, on Oct.