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by Mark Silva President Bush is signing some big bills today before Congress leaves town at week's end: This morning, Bush signed the Housing and Economic Recovery Act, aimed at easing the home mortgage crisis but also making the federal......

by Mark Silva and updated President Barack Obama, attempting to spotlight several "agents of change,'' today announced that he will bestow the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the country's highest civilian honor, on a cast of living and deceased figures...

During his three decades in Elmhurst, John Morrissey has been comfortable being represented in Washington by a generation of conservative congressmen. Now the retired 61-year-old …...

For more than a half-century, federal appeals-court judge William J. Bauer has been a leader in the legal community both in DuPage County and beyond. …...

During last night's debate, Carol Moseley Braun claimed that Rahm Emanuel, when in the U.S. Congress "voted to allow people to sell meat from downed animals." What's this all about? I found "Mad Cow Case Renews Debate Over Food Safety,......

Posted by Rick Pearson at 6:16 p.m. Republican U.S. Rep. Peter Roskam of Wheaton says the new House GOP majority will use its leverage on Democrats who control the Senate and White House to get concessions in exchange for help......

The mayhem in Boston the week of April 15 was a reminder of how an American city can be paralyzed by a homemade bomb. The same kinds of improvised explosive devices that menaced U.S. troops in Iraq and Afghanistan can easily be deployed by freelance...

To thank Bill Maio for his years of public service, his former colleagues on the DuPage County Board named a street after him. County taxpayers are paying him back in far more lucrative ways. Capping a career in which he often called for fiscal...

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Indiana's decision to deny Planned Parenthood Medicaid funds because it performs abortions denies women the freedom to choose their health care providers, a federal hearing officer said. The state had asked the Centers for...

THE 2.2 MILLION Indian Americans in the U.S. constitute a model minority, highly educated and well paid. And now, following in the footsteps of earlier immigrant groups such as the Irish, the Jews and the Cubans, Indian Americans are emerging as an...

Glendale's worries about former Police Chief Randy Adams' extraordinary pension may be solved by a case California Atty. Gen. Jerry Brown filed Wednesday against Adams and two other former officials of the city of Bell. Adams more than doubled his...