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The Stephen A. Douglas statue on the east side of the Illinois statehouse

Speaker Madigan Calls For Douglas, Menard Statues At Capitol To Come Down

It was only a matter a time that recent events caused someone to focus in on Illinois State Capitol statues dedicated to those with racist pasts. Now,...

Even After Virginia's Passage, ERA Is On Uncertain Legal Grounds

Lawmakers in Virginia voted to make it the pivotal 38th state to ratify the Equal Rights Amendment, decades after the first deadline. The fight to get the amendment into the Constitution isn't over.

Speaker Madigan Calls For Douglas, Menard Statues At Capitol To Come Down

It was only a matter a time that recent events caused someone to focus in on Illinois State Capitol statues dedicated to those with racist pasts. Now,...

Bloomington Liquor Commission Approves Licenses For 3 New Restaurants

The Bloomington Liquor Commission approved three new liquor licenses Tuesday, including a tavern license for a restaurant going into the former Hooters…

Protesters demonstrate during a rally against Pennsylvania's stay-at-home order at the state Capitol in Harrisburg, May 15. While the public is temporarily banned from the capitol due to the coronavirus outbreak, lawmakers, including one who recently tested positive, are allowed to enter the building.

Pennsylvania Democrats Say They Weren't Told When GOP Member Tested Positive

Democrats in Pennsylvania's House say they were kept in the dark for a week when a Republican colleague, who had been working in the State Capitol, tested positive for the coronavirus.

President Obama meets with members of his national security team and cybersecurity advisers in February. Homeland security adviser Lisa Monaco and Office of Management and Budget Director Shaun Donovan are at right.

Obama Orders Sweeping Review Of International Hacking Tied To U.S. Elections

The review will go all the way back to the 2008 campaign and will look at "all foreign actors and any attempt to interfere with our elections," said White House spokesman Eric Schultz.

The bipartisan group of senators who are behind the infrastructure package talk to the press on July 28.

The Bipartisan Infrastructure Bill Advances In The Senate

The 67-27 vote clears the way for final Senate consideration and a looming showdown with progressive Democrats in the House.

The Senate has voted to overturn the Biden administration's rule that large private employers must require their workers to be vaccinated against COVID-19 or tested, or face losing their jobs.

In a largely symbolic move, the Senate votes to block Biden's vaccine-or-test mandate

The White House says the president will veto the bill if it reaches his desk. But GOP lawmakers pushed the measure as the political fight over vaccine mandates deepens.

Actor and comedian Bob Saget, pictured in November 2021, has died at age 65.

Actor and comedian Bob Saget dies at 65

Saget was a prominent presence on American television screens throughout the 1990s as the father Danny Tanner on Full House and the host of America's Funniest Home Videos.

Cassidy Hutchinson, a top former aide to Trump White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows, is seen in a video of her interview with the House select committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol on June 23.

Who is Cassidy Hutchinson, the surprise witness at Tuesday's Jan. 6 panel hearing?

NPR has confirmed that Cassidy Hutchinson is expected to be the witness for today's Jan. 6 hearing.

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