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A nasty court fight between film icon George Lucas and Chicago environmentalists over a proposed art museum in the city could have the Star Wars creator saying, "Help me, Obi-Rahm, you're my only hope." Lucas is fighting to build a futuristic art museum on the Chicago lakefront, and has enlisted the help of Mayor Rahm Emanuel to keep the project alive.
A Democratic senator ended a nearly 15-hour-long filibuster on the Senate floor early Thursday, part of an effort to force a vote on gun control legislation following Sunday's terror attack in Orlando. Sen. Chris Murphy, D-Conn., yielded the floor at 2:11 a.m., 14 hours and 50 minutes after he began speaking.
A Columbia University team published a paper this week on gun ownership rates around the country. The study finds that the highest rates of gun ownership comes in areas with a strong "gun culture."
Another Democratic superdelegate in Wisconsin has committed to Hillary Clinton. State Democratic Party Chairwoman Martha Laning announced her support for Clinton on Wednesday, the day after the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee capped her primary campaign on Tuesday with a win over Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders in the Washington, D.C., primary.
House and Senate lawmakers began negotiating to bridge a large gap in funding for the Zika virus, with lawmakers expressing a sense of urgency. "It is imperative that we complete these negotiations quickly," said Rep. Hal Rogers, R-Ky., during the opening of a conference between lawmakers from both chambers.
The nature of primary elections is that they're a waypoint along the path to the real contests for elected office in the general election, though on Tuesday, some of the results brought closure for seasoned lawmakers and a new trajectory for others. The two big winners for Democrats - Justin Chenette for a Saco-area Maine Senate seat and Ben Chipman for one of the Portland Senate seats - represent an up-and-coming young gun on one hand and a victory for someone who wasn't even a Democrat until nine months ago on the other.
Presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump on Wednesday called for surveillance of mosques as part of U.S. law enforcement efforts to prevent terrorism, and stood by his remarks on banning Muslim immigrants, which others in his party have criticized. Trump repeated his call for a temporary ban on the entry of Muslims into the United States after a U.S.-born Muslim, the son of Afghan immigrants, fatally shot 49 people at a gay nightclub in Orlando early on Sunday.
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An effort to fire a Chicago police lieutenant has failed after the investigating agency missed a five-year deadline by just a few weeks. The lieutenant, Glenn Evans, is one of the city's leading recipients of excessive-force complaints.
Thousands of retired coal miners rallied Tuesday in Kentucky to call on Congress to protect their benefits as the industry struggles and operators seek bankruptcy protection from debts. United Mine Workers president Cecil Roberts told the gathering in Lexington of about 4,000 members from seven states that miners spent their lives working in dangerous places to provide the nation's electricity and steel.
Many Northeast Mississippi residents joined millions of other Americans during the last few days in seeking to regain emotional and personal equilibrium after the early Sunday mass murder of 49 people in an Orlando night club. A sizable group, organized through social media, gathered in front of Tupelo's City Hall on Monday night to express grief and memorialize those killed in the club, whose clientele was predominantly gay and young.
Russian hackers managed to breach the computer network of the Democratic National Committee and stole opposition research on Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump. The hackers had access to email and chat traffic as far back as last summer, the Washington Post reported on Tuesday.
Hillary Clinton brought a close to the presidential primary season with a win in the nation's capital and a meeting with dispatched rival Bernie Sanders, hoping to set a tone of Democratic unity heading into next month's party convention in Philadelphia. Clinton's victory Tuesday in the District of Columbia, the final primary of 2016, had no bearing on her role as the presumptive nominee, but it nevertheless marked a transition in the lengthy primary fight between the two rivals.
New Balance's long battle with the federal government to supply the military with its athletic shoes cleared a major hurdle early Tuesday afternoon. The Senate passed the fiscal year 2017 National Defense Authorization Act on an 85-13 vote.
Sen. Chris Murphy, Conn., took to the Senate floor Wednesday vowing to speak as long as he can until Senate takes up gun legislation. Democratic senators stage 'filibuster' to demand action on gun bills Sen. Chris Murphy, Conn., took to the Senate floor Wednesday vowing to speak as long as he can until Senate takes up gun legislation.
In thisJune 3, 2016, file frame from video provided by KGW-TV, smoke billows from a Union Pacific train that derailed near Mosier, Ore., in the scenic Columbia River Gorge. Oregon's Multnomah County Chairwoman Deborah Kafoury and Portland, Ore., Mayor Charlie Hales are calling on Oregon Gov. Kate Brown to oppose oil-by-rail projects like the Tesoro-Savage terminal proposed in Vancouver, Wash., and to work for a permanent ban on oil-by-rail--a request that comes in the wake of the Mosier derailment.
Hillary Clinton brought a close to the presidential primary season with a win Tuesday in the nation's capital and a meeting with dispatched rival Bernie Sanders, hoping to set a tone of Democratic unity heading into next month's party convention in Philadelphia. Clinton's win in the District of Columbia, the final primary of 2016, had no bearing on her role as the presumptive nominee, but it nevertheless marked a transition in the lengthy primary fight between the two rivals.
People on the United States' terrorist watch list passed background checks and have been allowed to purchase firearms 91% of the time in 2015, updated federal data shows. An updated report by the Government Accountability Office, released Tuesday by Sen. Dianne Feinstein's office, shows individuals on the terrorist watch list were involved in background checks to purchase firearms 244 times - with 223 of those transactions, or 91%, allowed to proceed.
Even as the victims were bleeding out in Orlando early Sunday, City Council Speaker Melissa Mark-Viverito was tweeting her support for another terrorist, unrepentant bomber Oscar Lopez Rivera. The speaker is a fervent Puerto Rican nationalist, you see.