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Key alderman warns Mayor Brandon Johnson a vote on budget ‘premature’ • Indiana Senate calls off redistricting session due to lack of votes to pass maps
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Friday, November 14, 2025

US Sen. Dick Durbin says controversial shutdown vote could highlight partisan divisions on health care

Illinois’ retiring senior senator also acknowledged backing a Republican-led measure ending the nation’s longest government shutdown could exacerbate divisions between Democratic Party progressives and moderates.

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Key alderman warns Mayor Brandon Johnson a vote on budget ‘premature’

Ald. Pat Dowell told reporters she advised Mayor Brandon Johnson’s administration not to proceed with a budget vote in her Finance Committee.

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Indiana Senate calls off redistricting session due to lack of votes to pass maps

The Indiana Senate will forgo a two-week session to discuss mid-census redistricting because of a lack of votes, defying orders from the Trump Administration to change the state’s Congressional maps.

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Following Riverdale Mayor Lawrence Jackson’s perjury conviction, village faced with filling vacant seat

Following Riverdale Mayor Lawrence Jackson’s conviction, village trustees will select an acting mayor until April 2027.

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President Donald Trump drops tariffs on beef, coffee, tropical fruit as pressure builds on consumer prices

President Donald Trump signed an executive order Friday to get rid of tariffs on a broad swath of commodities, including beef, coffee and tropical fruits.

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USDA data casts doubt on China’s soybean purchase promises touted by President Donald Trump

New data the Agriculture Department released Friday created serious doubts about whether China will really buy millions of bushels of American soybeans like the Trump administration touted last month.

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Government will release September jobs report next week, ending data drought from federal shutdown

The Labor Department will release its numbers on September hiring and unemployment next Thursday, a month and a half late.

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Only 2.6% on list of 614 ‘Operation Midway Blitz’ arrestees had criminal histories, DOJ records show

Meanwhile, the other 598 people on the list had no listed criminal history at all.

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