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Rahm Emanuel Makes Surprise Decision About 3rd Term
Rahm Emanuel will not seek re-election to a third term as mayor of Chicago in 2019, he announced Tuesday. "This has been the job of a lifetime, but it is not the job for a lifetime," said Emanuel, who...
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Chicago Mayor: This Town Really Needs to Change
Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel is proposing far-reaching ethics reforms for the City Council in the wake of a federal attempted-extortion charge filed this month against a powerful alderman, the AP...
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The Next Chicago Mayor Will Be a Black Woman
Two women will face each other in a runoff to become Chicago's first African-American female mayor, reports the AP . Former federal prosecutor Lori Lightfoot, a political outsider as well as the first...
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Chicago Sends Smollett a Bill for Police Investigation Costs
Mayor Rahm Emanuel wants actor Jussie Smollett to pay one way or another for allegedly falsely claiming he was the victim of a hate crime. Emanuel wanted Smollett, who was indicted on 16 counts, to...
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In First Excerpt, Obama Recalls Weightiest Fight in Congress
The New Yorker is out with the first excerpt of former President Obama's forthcoming memoir, A Promised Land , and the focus is on how he and his team got ObamaCare passed. Before the legislative fight...
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Vandals Scrawl 'Nazis' on Rahm Emanuel's Vacation Home
The vacation home of Rahm Emanuel, former mayor of Chicago, current US ambassador to Japan, and, as the Chicago Sun-Times puts it, "one of the nation's most prominent Jewish political figures," was...
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Pecker Airs 'Catch and Kill' Stories About Other Celebrities
A lot of celebrity dirt was aired during day seven of Donald Trump's hush-money trial, only some of that being Trump's own. Former National Enquirer publisher David Pecker testified Thursday that Trump...
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Israel Wasn't Invited, So US Bails on Nagasaki Ceremony
The US, British, and French ambassadors to Japan will skip a ceremony to mark the 79th anniversary of the atomic bombing of Nagasaki over what is perceived as a slight against Israel. Nagasaki's mayor...
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Rahm Emanuel May Be Eyeing Presidential Bid
"I'm not done with public service, and I'm hoping public service is not done with me," Rahm Emanuel has said multiple times since returning from Japan, where he was the US ambassador during President...
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