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Cooling prices chill drive to add wheat acres in US Corn Belt
Reuters via Yahoo Finance Canada· 1 day agoA Biden administration drive to increase U.S. wheat plantings after the Ukraine war is faltering as...
Illinois’ beleaguered GOP portrays calm amid disarray at the Republican convention
The Raw Story· 2 days agoIllinois Republicans appeared upbeat and optimistic as the GOP’s national convention got underway Monday, calling for unity and showing little sign of the ...
Time for a reset? Illinois Republicans enter GOP convention with a new leader — and old divisions
Chicago Sun-Times· 6 days agoEleven months of intra-party squabbles later, Tracy is on his way out and Kathy Salvi is on her...
Donald Trump's VP pick, Sen. J.D. Vance, is the reason Chicago has no top federal prosecutor
Chicago Sun-Times· 3 days agoFormer President Trump wasn't going to repeat his Mike Pence mistake. He needed someone he could...
Biden refers to Zelenskyy as 'President Putin' and then calls Harris 'Vice President Trump'
National Post· 6 days agoThe news conference was meant to reassure a disheartened group of Democratic lawmakers, allies and...
AP News in Brief at 11:04 p.m. EDT
The Canadian Press via Yahoo Canada News· 2 days agoMichigan Republican Party Chairman Pete Hoekstra offered a blunt response when asked about Trump's pick minutes after it was announced: “We don't know him.” "If he’
Here's what to know about Chicago’s minimum wage increase and how it affects tipped workers
Chicago Sun-Times· 2 days agoTipped workers are now making more in Chicago. The city’s tipped minimum wage increase began July 1 after the City Council passed an ordinance in October ...
Alabama set to execute man for fatal shooting of a delivery driver during a 1998 robbery attempt
Winnipeg Sun· 12 hours agoA man convicted of killing a delivery driver who stopped for cash at an ATM to take his wife to...
Federal court issues split decision in Illinois inmates’ quest for greater mail and media access
Courthouse News Service· 3 days agoIllinois inmates at the Will County Adult Detention Facility won a partial legal victory Monday, with a federal judge in Chicago ruling that several of ...
A rallying cry to defend the rights of transgender people
Chicago Sun-Times· 3 days agoAs an Illinois state senator more than a decade ago, I was honored to draft the 2013 law ensuring same-sex couples have the right to marry. Since the < ...