More than a month after House Republicans surprised Washington by advancing their framework for Trump’s $4.5 trillion in tax breaks and $2 trillion in spending cuts, Senate Republicans voted Thursday to start working on their version.
President Trump’s expansive new tariff regime reverses a decades-long global trend of lower trade barriers that will likely raise prices for U.S. consumers and threatens to sharply slow the economy.
Democratic officials in Illinois and 18 other states filed a lawsuit Thursday against President Donald Trump’s attempt to reshape elections across the U.S., calling it an unconstitutional invasion of states’ clear authority to run their own elections.
Most incumbents to their municipal, park district and library board posts in an election cycle where most candidates ran unopposed.
A federal judge in Rhode Island says she’ll temporarily block the Trump administration from cutting billions in federal public health dollars.
Longtime Oak Park Public Library Board member Matt Furth and fellow incumbent Maya Ganguly appeared to lose their reelection bids.
Blue Island voters backed an advisory referendum to limit gaming cafes, but split on making Western Avenue to a two-way street.
President Donald Trump has moved to fire several White House National Security Council officials taking action soon after he was urged by a far-right activist to purge staffers she deemed insufficiently committed to his Make America Great Again agenda, several people familiar with the matter said Thursday.
Park Ridge Alderperson Richard “Rick” Biagi had decided not to seek reelection to be 6th Ward leader, creating a contest to replace him where, according to unofficial vote totals from the election Tuesday, Lauren Rapisand appears to have prevailed. “Having held elected office in Park Ridge for the past 16 years, I believe it is […]
Close to 150 protestors gathered outside a Tesla dealership in Northbrook, targeting Tesla CEO Elon Musk and his involvement with President Donald Trump’s administration.