The Illinois House investigation into possible Madigan misconduct reconvenes one hour after a hearing for ComEd’s former top in-house lobbyist, who is expected to plead guilty.
State Rep. Emanuel “Chris” Welch of Hillside is the chairman of the bipartisan panel investigating the powerful House speaker’s role in the ComEd scandal.
“Judge Barrett has a very unusual position on following [judicial] precedent,” law professor Doug Cassel said about the president’s Supreme Court nominee.
A New York Times investigation published on Sunday said that President Trump paid just $750 in federal income taxes each year in 2016 and 2017, which the president denied at a news conference using a familiar retort: “fake news.” This episode: congressional correspondent Susan Davis, White House reporter Ayesha Rascoe, senior editor and correspondent Domenico Montanaro, and chief economics correspondent Scott Horsley.Connect:Subscribe to the NPR Politics Podcast here.Email the show at nprpolitics@npr.org.Join the NPR Politics Podcast Facebook Group.Listen to our playlist The NPR Politics Daily Workout.Subscribe to the NPR Politics Newsletter.Find and support your local public radio station.
Chicago officials will allow for more capacity at bars and restaurants and loosen other restrictions on Oct. 1, saying COVID-19 case rates and deaths have improved.
A report that President Trump paid just $750 in federal income taxes in 2016 and paid no income taxes at all in many others provides a new opening for Joe Biden on the eve of the first presidential debate.
The focus on the court could help energize conservatives in key states. Progressives are fired up, too — immediately after Saturday’s announcement, Democrats tied Barrett to a fight for health care.