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Democratic presidential candidates Sen. Elizabeth Warren, left, and Sen. Amy Klobuchar gesture to the crowd during a Martin Luther King Jr. event on Jan. 20, 2020, in Columbia, South Carolina.

Column: My mixed feelings about New York Times’ mixed message in endorsing both Elizabeth Warren and Amy Klobuchar

January 21, 2020 at 5:30 p.m.

Fittingly enough, I'm of two minds about The New York Times' controversial "we're of two minds ..." endorsement editorial. After conducting extensive interviews with the leading Democratic presidential contenders in...

FILE - In this Monday Nov. 27, 2017 file photo, Britain's Prince Harry and his fiancee Meghan Markle pose for photographers during a photocall in the grounds of Kensington Palace in London. As the British royal family wrestles with the future roles of Prince Harry and his wife Meghan, it could look to Europe for examples of how princes and princesses have tried to carve out careers away from the pomp and ceremony of their families' traditional duties. (AP Photo/Matt Dunham, File)

If the Queen is not amused, perhaps it’s because she’s yet to read this week’s top tweets

January 21, 2020 at 4:32 p.m.

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Striking Chicago Teachers Union members gather near Oscar Mayer School for a march on Oct. 29, 2019.

Column: In the calm between school strikes, state athletic officials should change their rules to put students first

January 17, 2020 at 4:56 p.m.

Whitney Young Magnet High School principal Joyce Kenner said she would have been a fine interim girls tennis coach last fall during the Chicago Teachers Union strike — if the...

Column: Dems should respond to the GOP threat by offering to turn Trump’s trial into a witnesspalooza

January 16, 2020 at 4:03 p.m.

Hunter Biden? Swear him in! Grill him for hours on every last detail of his lucrative position on the board of a Ukrainian energy company. His father, Joe Biden, the...

Defense attorney Jennifer Bonjean gestures toward private investigator Paul Ciolino during a 2016 news conference to announce a $20 million countersuit against State's Attorney Anita Alvarez, Alstory Simon, Simon's civil lawyers and those behind a documentary and book on the case.

Column: Glimmers of hope for more truth in two high-profile Chicago murder cases

January 14, 2020 at 5:43 p.m.

A pair of legal developments Monday have the potential to shine rays of sunshine into otherwise dark and dormant cases. The first was an Illinois Appellate Court ruling that paves...

It’s the new Tweet of the Week poll! Please clap.

January 14, 2020 at 5:28 p.m.

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An attendee listens to former Vice President Joe Biden speak during a bus tour campaign stop at Tilford Elementary School in Vinton, Iowa, on Jan. 4, 2020.

Column: It was a long time between presidential polls in Iowa. I didn’t mind the gap.

January 10, 2020 at 5:57 p.m.

The polling drought in Iowa ended last Sunday with the release of a CBS/YouGov survey of nearly 1,000 likely participants in the Feb. 3 Iowa presidential caucuses. It had been...

Then-national security adviser John Bolton, left, listens to President Donald Trump, far right, during a working lunch at Trump' s Mar-a-Lago club in Florida in 2018.

Column: The House should subpoena John Bolton now — we’re going to hear his Trump, Ukraine stories anyway

January 9, 2020 at 4:42 p.m.

There's a chance that former national security adviser John Bolton will thoroughly exonerate President Donald Trump when at last he tells his story. There's a chance that someday he will...

Portrait of Pulitzer Prize-winning American Poet Laureate Robert Frost (1874 - 1963), 1950s. (Photo by Bachrach/Getty Images) ** OUTS - ELSENT, FPG, CM - OUTS * NM, PH, VA if sourced by CT, LA or MoD **

Whose Tweet of the Week poll this is, I think I know. Taking it will make all the difference

January 7, 2020 at 6:08 p.m.

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U.S. Rep. Dan Lipinski speaks during a League of Women Voters candidate forum at Moraine Valley Community College in Palos Hills on Feb. 21, 2018.

Column: Dan Lipinski bravely, needlessly poked the pro-choice bear. Let’s see how that works out for him.

January 7, 2020 at 4:58 p.m.

Part of me admires the aggressive stance that Democratic U.S. Rep. Dan Lipinski of Western Springs just took in opposition to abortion rights, a move faithful to his own principles....

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