Aldermen, Activists Call For City To Tear Down Christopher Columbus Statue In Grant Park
Mayor Lori Lightfoot says the city is planning a “comprehensive review of our public icons.”
Mayor Lori Lightfoot says the city is planning a “comprehensive review of our public icons.”
Lawmakers return to Capitol Hill this week with plans to tackle a long-awaited pandemic relief package. And a majority of Americans don’t trust the president for information about the coronavirus. The White House says it plans to return to daily briefings anyway.This episode: White House correspondent Tamara Keith, congressional correspondent Susan Davis, and national political correspondent Mara Liasson.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.
The Illinois Commerce Commission leader’s father-in-law is a retired alderman who the feds say benefited from the Springfield bribery scheme.
Mayor Lori Lightfoot said the city will reimpose some restrictions starting Friday on bars, gyms and other businesses as cases rise, especially among young adults.
Millions of Americans who lost jobs during the pandemic are in danger of having their incomes cut for a second time. The sudden halt in payments would be felt in households and throughout the economy.
House Speaker and Democratic Party boss Michael Madigan has been investigated by the feds before — and emerged unscathed. Here’s why this time could be different.
Lewis began his nearly 60-year career in public service leading sit-ins at segregated lunch counters in the Jim Crow-era South. He went on to serve in Congress for more than three decades.
The subpoena, dated Friday, is a veritable who’s who of the federal probe, but names new major institutions.
Congress has a lot it wants to take on when lawmakers return to Washington next week—police reform, Confederate names on military bases, and coronavirus relief. How likely are they to get any of it done? And the president has asked a new international development agency tasked with countering China to expand its responsibilities to include the US emergency stockpile of personal protective equipment. This episode: campaign correspondent Scott Detrow, congressional reporter Claudia Grisales, election security editor Philip Ewing, and White House correspondent Franco Ordoñez.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.
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