Magnitude 6.2 Earthquake In Central Italy Kills At Least 247 People
Updated at 12:50 a.m. ET on Thursday: Officials in Italy say the death toll has risen to 247. The Associated Press quotes the country's civil protection agency, after it announced updated figures about...
View ArticleMexican President Says He Told Trump Mexico Would Not Pay For A Wall
Updated at 8 p.m. ET A softer-edged Donald Trump huddled with Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto in a hastily arranged meeting in Mexico City on Wednesday. Both men pledged a commitment to...
View ArticleNorth Korea Conducts Its 5th Test Of Nuclear Weapon
Updated 11:15 a.m. ET North Korea confirmed it has conducted its fifth test of a nuclear weapon, the second this year. The test occurred Friday morning local time and triggered a magnitude 5.3 seismic...
View ArticleBombing Suspect Drew FBI's Attention In 2014 After Domestic Dispute
A domestic dispute in 2014 triggered FBI scrutiny into New York-area bombing suspect Ahmad Khan Rahami. A law enforcement official said that Rahami's father, Mohammad R. Rahami, had called New Jersey...
View ArticleCongress Has One Week Left To Keep The Government Running Past September
Congress had just one thing to do this month before it left town for its October recess. That was to keep the government funded past Sept. 30. But with just under one week left on what was supposed to...
View ArticleShimon Peres, The Last Of Israel's Founding Leaders, Dies At 93
The last surviving leader of Israel's founding generation, Shimon Peres was a three-time prime minister, the architect of the country's secretive nuclear program and a winner of the Nobel Peace Prize...
View Article'The Situation ... Is Truly Catastrophic'; Hurricane Matthew Slams Into Haiti
Updated at 4:45 p.m. ET with further states of emergency in the U.S. Hurricane Matthew crashed into southwestern Haiti as a Category 4 storm Tuesday morning, dumping rain and scouring the land with...
View ArticleTammy Duckworth Sworn-In as Illinois' Newest U.S. Senator
Vice President Joe Biden has sworn in Tammy Duckworth as Illinois' new U.S. senator at a ceremony in Washington.
View ArticleWomen's March set for Saturday in Carbondale
Thousands of people from all over the country will march for women's rights as part of the Women's March on Washington movement. The movement, which started as one woman's idea, quickly grew to an...
View ArticleSIU Law Professor: Trump Immigration Order Faces Domestic, International...
An SIU Law School expert on immigration and refugee cases says President Donald Trump's executive order banning immigration and travel from certain countries may violate international treaties.
View ArticleSIU Law Professor Examines Trump's Supreme Court Nominee
A professor at the SIU School of Law says he believes President Trump's nominee to the U.S. Supreme Court will fit in nicely with the other eight members on the nation's high court. Assistant professor...
View ArticleTrump Meets Netanyahu (Annotated)
This week, the public will get an important glimpse of the relationship between the U.S. and Israel, when President Trump meets with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the White House for the...
View ArticleLocal Political Analyst Comments on U.S. Airstrike in Syria
The Trump Administration launched missiles at an airbase in Syria, the area believed to have released a chemical attack earlier this week. John Jackson with the Paul Simon Public Policy Institute said...
View ArticleSo. Illinois Lawmaker to Be Recommended for Ambassadorship
A state senator from southern Illinois has been recommended as the next U-S ambassador to Kenya. The seven Republicans in Illinois’ Congressional delegation sent a letter to President Donald Trump …...
View ArticleObama Library Center Won't Follow National Archive Model
The Obama Presidential Center will not be a part of the presidential library network operated by the National Archives and Records Administration. The Chicago Tribune reports the move will free the...
View ArticleSen. Durbin Not Ready to Talk Impeachment -- Yet
Several of Illinois' Democratic candidates for governor are calling for president’s Trump’s impeachment. But the state’s senior U-S senator, Dick Durbin, isn’t going there — yet. It began last week...
View ArticleIllinois Congressmen React to Shooting Incident
The shooter at the GOP congressional baseball practice this morning was from the Metro East. The Belleville News Democrat reports two days ago, 66-year-old James Hodgkinson of Belleville posted an...
View ArticleGov. Rauner Says Anthem Protests Are Insulting
Illinois Governor Bruce Rauner says athletes who are protesting during the National Anthem are insulting the country. Rauner’s most recent disclosure of where all his money comes from shows he’s a part...
View ArticleCarbondale Celebrates UN's 72nd Birthday
The United Nations was founded in October of 1945, in the aftermath of World War Two. Dr. John Jackson, of the Paul Simon Public Policy Institute, says the Organization has some good accomplishments to...
View ArticleSen. Duckworth Wants to Expand Firearm Background Checks
Democratic Sen. Tammy Duckworth of Illinois is backing an effort to expand background checks for firearms.
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