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Palatine High senior honored for artwork
Palatine High School senior Alyssa Froehling has won the 8th District title in the Congressional Art Competition, and her artwork will soon hang on Capitol Hill. U.S. Rep. Tammy Duckworth of Hoffman Estates announced Froehling's "Symbiosis" photo...
Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Judges, U.S. House of Representatives, Teaching and Learning, Justice System
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Duckworth makes first trip to war zone since copter shot down
Tribune reporterWASHINGTON — Making her first trip to a war zone since she was gravely injured in 2004, Rep. Tammy Duckworth visited Afghanistan last weekend with five other congresswomen. Duckworth, who lost her legs when her Black Hawk helicopter was shot down...Tags: Wars and Interventions, Politics, Martha Roby, Human Rights, Kabul (Afghanistan)
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Duckworth, other lawmakers visit Afghanistan
— Making her first trip to a war zone since she was gravely injured in 2004, U.S. Rep. Tammy Duckworth visited Afghanistan last weekend with five other congresswomen. Duckworth, who lost her legs when her Black Hawk helicopter was struck by a...
Tags: Wars and Interventions, Martha Roby, Politics, Human Rights, Kabul (Afghanistan)
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Saturday's TV Highlights and Weekend Talk Shows: 'The Confession'
Customized TV Listings are available here: www.latimes.com/tvtimes Click here to download TV listings for the week of May 12 - 18, 2013 in PDF format This week's TV Movies   -------------------- SERIES Orphan Black Paul (Dylan Bruce)...
Tags: Dennis J. Kucinich, Linda Sanchez, Mike J. Rogers, Tom Hanks, Darrell E Issa
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Benghazi attack tops Sunday morning news menu
Staff writerThe Benghazi attack will be the main topic this weekend on Sunday morning chat programs. Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., and Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Calif., talk to NBC's "Meet the Press" at 9 a.m. on WESH-Channel 2. They will discuss whether there was...Tags: U.S. Marine Corps, Linda Sanchez, Dennis J. Kucinich, ABC (tv network), Mike J. Rogers
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Boston bombing amputees face tough, costly recovery
BOSTON — Tammy Duckworth still remembers the anger she felt when well-wishers offered encouragement after she lost both legs when her helicopter was shot down over Iraq in 2004. "I thought, how the heck is my life ever going to get back to normal?...
Tags: Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, Health Insurance, Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, Military Equipment, Veterans Affairs
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The president's feeble gesture
"President Obama plans to give up 5 percent of his salary this year to draw attention to the financial sacrifice of more than 1 million federal employees who will be furloughed." -- The Washington Post, April 4 "Here's the plan. We get the warhead and...
Tags: White House, Politics, The Washington Post, Barack Obama, Polls
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Former Rep. Joe Walsh's radio show to start March 25
Clout StreetOutspoken former one-term Republican U.S. Rep. Joe Walsh, who teased his dedicated tea party supporters with the prospect of a possible run for governor in 2014, is now officially headed to radio. Walsh released a statement today confirming that he...Tags: Joe Walsh, Politics, Tea Party Movement, Elections, Medical Procedures and Tests
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Democratic congressmen support Illinois gay marriage, though they can't vote on it
Clout StreetA day after Speaker Michael Madigan pronounced the gay marriage bill 12 votes short, a group pushing the issue tried to recapture momentum by announcing support from seven Illinois Democratic congressmen --- even though they don’t get to vote in...Tags: Danny Davis, Illinois General Assembly, Politics, Mike Quigley, Minority Groups
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Kirk: Lock up the 'chuckleheads'
Change of SubjectTranscribed from a portion of the WBEZ-FM 91.5 interview with Republican U.S. Sen Mark Kirk of Illiniois Wednesday: Alex Keefe: Senator, you mentioned the murder of Hadiya Pendleton a moment ago. It seemed like things got pretty emotional in the...... -
This soldier's skill had nothing to do with gender
Lyudmila Pavlichenko was a hunter. She tracked men and she killed them. And no woman was ever better at it. She'd hide under bushes in the snow. Or she'd find a burned-out building and watch in the gray rubble in the cold, waiting for enemy soldiers....
Tags: Nursing, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Chicago Tribune, World War II (1939-1945), Minority Groups
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Kirk hailed upon return to U.S. Senate
Sen. Mark Kirk's halting, 18-minute climb up the Capitol steps Thursday came nearly a year after a major stroke left him so incapacitated that he was in critical condition for 10 to 15 days and had difficulty keeping his balance while sitting up. Those...
Tags: Physical Conditions, Mitch McConnell, Politics, Robert Dold, Joe Manchin III
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