Democratic Illinois lawmakers are considering measures they say would protect the state against federal action under the Trump administration.
Democratic state lawmakers start to move on promise to ‘be a check’ on Donald Trump
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Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth had another Signal chat where he shared details of Yemen strike, New York Times reports
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth created another Signal messaging chat that included his wife and brother where he shared the same details of a March military airstrike against Yemen’s Houthi militants that were sent in another chain with top Trump administration leaders, The New York Times reported.
El Salvador President Nayib Bukele proposes prisoner swap with Maduro for Venezuelan deportees
El Salvador President Nayib Bukele proposed carrying out a prisoner swap with Venezuela on Sunday, suggesting he would exchange Venezuelan deportees from the United States his government has kept imprisoned for what he called “political prisoners” in Venezuela.
Justice Samuel Alito’s dissent in deportation case says court rushed to block President Donald Trump with middle-of-the night order
The Supreme Court acted “literally in the middle of the night” and without sufficient explanation in blocking the Trump administration from deporting any Venezuelans held in northern Texas under an 18th-century wartime law, Justice Samuel Alito wrote in a sharp dissent that castigated the seven-member majority.
This Midwestern city has long been a federal hub. The pain from DOGE’s cuts is everywhere
The impact of the cuts by Trump appointees and Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency can be found everywhere in the Kansas City metropolitan area, which has long been a major hub for federal agencies about 1,000 miles away from Washington, D.C.
JD Vance meets Pope Francis on Easter Sunday after tangle over migration
Vice President JD Vance met briefly with Pope Francis on Sunday to exchange Easter greetings, after they got into a long-distance tangle over the Trump administration’s migrant deportation plans.
Illinois looks to rein in drug intermediaries over high costs, but legislation is unresolved and industry says the efforts are flawed
Gov. JB Pritzker supports a proposal that would require pharmacy benefit managers to change how they do business.
With Cook County Jail’s population again on the rise, officials weigh the reasons
After a decline following statewide bail reform — and years of reductions prior to that — the county’s jail population has begun to tick up once again.
Three Hegseth aides ousted in leak investigation decry ‘baseless attacks’
Three former senior advisers to Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth decried on Saturday what they called “baseless attacks” after each was escorted from the Pentagon in an expanding probe on information leaks.
Supreme Court blocks, for now, new deportations under 18th century wartime law
In a brief order, the court directed the Trump administration not to remove Venezuelans held in Northern Texas “until further order of this court.”