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Politics chat: Hot issues see developments this week
This week promises to bring developments in the efforts to overturn the 2020 election, abortion, guns and more.
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Lawmakers unveil a $1.7 trillion U.S. spending bill as shutdown deadline looms
Leaders are racing to complete passage before a midnight Friday deadline or face the prospect of a partial government shutdown going into the Christmas holiday.
Illinois State Sen. Michael Hastings set to lose important committee chairman's post
Senate President Don Harmon will not re-appoint the south suburban Democrat to head a legislative panel after domestic violence accusations.
Reforms and heartbreak after final sentencing in Elijah McClain's death
Three police officers and two paramedics faced felony charges in death of McClain, a young Black man not suspected of a crime. Two cops were aquitted.
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Winds and lightning strikes stoke Oregon fire, now the largest in the U.S.
Smoke from the Durkee Fire in Oregon was choking the air in Boise, Idaho, and beyond. An air quality warning was in effect for the entire region on Wednesday.
8-year-old Shy'Kemmia Pate disappeared in 1998. Her family still hopes for answers
Shy'Kemmia Pate went missing from her home in Georgia more than 25 years ago, when she was eight years old. Her family is still hoping for answers.
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From Knee-To-Knee To CD: The Evolution Of Oral Tradition In Mountain Ballads
Mountain ballads have been a part of American mountain culture since the earliest English and Scottish settlers moved there more than 200 years ago. They were passed down through the oral tradition, as they were in reporter Laurin Penland's family --but that tradition is close to extinct in the U.S.
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In Peoria stop, Speaker Mike Johnson says this year's election is the most important of our lifetime
Republican Mike Johnson, speaking Saturday in Peoria, predicts victory for his party in November.
Las Vegas Shooting Returns Police Attention To Bundy's Ranch
Las Vegas police are now confirming that law enforcement officials made three prior contacts with the suspects of a recent shooting spree that left five people dead, including two police officers. Authorities found no indication during those visits that Jerad Miller and his wife, Amanda, planned to carry out violence. The couple's anti-government and anti-law enforcement sentiments continue to be the focus of the investigation.
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Man sentenced to 53 years in prison in attack on Palestinian American boy, mother
An Illinois landlord who killed a 6-year-old Muslim boy and severely injured the boy's mother in a brutal hate-crime attack days after the war in Gaza began was sentenced to 53 years in prison.
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