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01/11/2026

Cellphone footage recorded by the ICE agent who fatally shot Renee Nicole Good captured Good's final words: "That's fine, dude. I'm not mad at you." The 47-second video, recorded by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent Jonathan Ross, was released by the Trump administration Friday in an attempt...

01/11/2026

The U.S. labor market stumbled to the finish line in 2025, adding 50,000 jobs in December, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics employment report released Friday. The December figures fell short of economists' expectations of 73,000 new positions. For all of 2025, employers added just 584,000...

01/11/2026

President Donald Trump announced on Friday that he is calling for a temporary one-year cap on credit card interest rates at 10%, effective January 20, 2026. This idea piggybacks off bipartisan legislation that has already been introduced by Independent Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont and Republica...

01/11/2026

by Maggie Dougherty, Capitol News Illinois January 9, 2026 Article Summary Nicor Gas submitted a rate request to the Illinois Commerce Commission on Friday, seeking a $221 million rate increase. If approved, Nicor customers can expect to see around $6 more per month on their bills in 2027. Utility w...

01/11/2026

The House of Representatives voted Thursday to extend enhanced Affordable Care Act premium tax credits for three years, passing legislation 230-196. Seventeen House Republicans joined all Democrats in supporting the three-year extension. The bill advanced after House Democrats used a discharge petit...

01/10/2026

President Donald Trump asserted that his power as commander in chief faces no constraints beyond his personal sense of morality and judgment, explicitly dismissing international law as a binding framework for his administration's global military actions. In an interview with the New York Times, Trum...

01/10/2026

by Nikoel Hytrek and Jerry Nowicki, Capitol News Illinois January 9, 2026 Article Summary A judge on Friday granted five states’ request for a temporary restraining order that will prevent the Trump administration from freezing $10 billion to their states for child care and family services program...

01/10/2026

The Republican-controlled House of Representatives fell short on Thursday in its attempt to overturn President Donald Trump's first two vetoes of his second term, despite dozens of GOP members breaking ranks to vote against the president. The House voted 248-177 to override Trump's veto of the Finis...

01/10/2026

President Donald Trump on Wednesday called for a massive increase in U.S. military spending, proposing a $1.5 trillion defense budget for fiscal year 2027. The proposed budget would mark an increase of roughly $600 billion over the current 2026 military spending level of $901 billion. This would be,...

01/10/2026

by Maggie Dougherty, Capitol News Illinois January 8, 2026 Article Summary The Clean and Reliable Grid Affordability Act incentivizes battery storage among other measures aimed at bolstering grid reliability. It creates “virtual power plants” aimed at harvesting wind and solar energy from homes ...

01/10/2026

Representatives Ro Khanna and Thomas Massie have asked a federal judge to appoint a special master to oversee the Department of Justice's release of documents related to convicted s*x offender Jeffrey Epstein. In a letter filed Thursday with U.S. District Judge Paul Engelmayer of the Southern Distri...

01/10/2026

President Donald Trump is proposing a two-pronged federal push on housing: a massive $200 billion government purchase of mortgage bonds to lower mortgage rates and a crackdown on Wall Street ownership of single-family homes. "I am instructing my Representatives to BUY $200 BILLION DOLLARS IN MORTGAG...

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