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Sneed is told President Joe Biden was actually warned a year and a half ago by a top top Dem pollster that his re-election was in the doghouse with young voters. Gov. J.B. Pritzker was being urged to run in a primary in case Biden pulled the plug.
Taking away guns from people served with domestic violence orders of protection would be a lot of work. “There aren’t enough sworn officers to carry out what’s being asked here,” Pritzker said.
Bielema still needs to prove the Illini can win in a conference that just got even better with Oregon, USC, Washington and UCLA on board and has done away with divisions, the days of a weaker West now over.
With the Olympics underway, some of the central questions are what to make of, what to expect from and where to place this new team.
After two decades, a gang-related murder case could be crumbling.
Will the news media please call Trump out when he confuses Nikki Haley with Nancy Pelosi? And don’t give him a pass on all the lies.
Is Jim Harbaugh’s successor really ready for this? It’s what everybody wants to know.
JD Vance thinks childless Americans have no stake in society. He’s wrong.
Unbearable 14th century Italians flee deadly disease in Netflix series that’s not as edgy as it thinks it is.
At halftime of last season’s game against Minnesota, everything started to get better for the Wildcats. Braun was right at the heart of it.
Trump’s the old guy now. And the selection of JD Vance as Donald Trump’s running mate no longer seems wise.
The former Blackhawks GM was part of the management group that suppressed sexual-assault allegations by former player Kyle Beach.
The worst recent increase in crime came under Trump’s watch, but many Americans blame President Joe Biden.
Lisa Kudrow leads the bumbling marauders in Apple’s funny follow-up to 1981 film.
More money, more chaos, more excess. The Big Ten never has had more of all those things — or more juice within the sport.
Ryan Reynolds’ wisecracking antihero teams with Hugh Jackman’s surly mutant for a bloody, bombastic buddy-cop adventure that freely breaks the fourth wall.
From day one, President Biden’s administration has taken aim at systemic racism and created opportunities for Black America to prosper. One area where work remains: voting rights.
Prickly as always, the polarizing former Reds star looks back at his career over four episodes of the HBO docuseries.
One-third of American presidents were formerly vice president. Kamala Harris would be the 16th VP to ascend to the top spot.
Three-part doc has all the dirt on music mogul’s rise and fall — and one distracting gimmick.
Traveling abroad on a plane, going through customs, having her bags X-rayed and checked by foreign agents and drug-sniffing dogs no doubt brought back flashes of her 2022 arrest for “drug smuggling” in Moscow.
It wasn’t just one bad night but what that bad night represented.