Shimkus: On 9/11, don’t forget Afghanistan
By Jim Tankersley Updated: 1:15 p.m. Afghanistan is sometimes dubbed the forgotten front of the War on Terror – a reality driven home today, as the Iraq war dominates the...
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Obama, Davis boost new type of ‘black college’
by Jim Tankersley The Senate passed a broad higher-education bill today that included a small but important -- for a quarter million African-American students, anyway -- provision pushed by a...
Nicaraguan land deals raise questions for Weller
by Andrew Zajac, Oscar Avila and Jim Tankersley Rep. Jerry Weller (R-Ill.) might seem an unlikely international real estate developer: son of a Downstate hog farmer, agriculture major at the...
Inside Rep. Weller’s Nicaragua land deal
The rolling surf of the Pacific Ocean crashes onto white sand beaches below a lush hillside in southwest Nicaragua, a picture of tropical paradise by anyone's definition. These days, paradise...
Inside Rep. Weller’s Nicaragua land deal
The rolling surf of the Pacific Ocean crashes onto white sand beaches below a lush hillside in southwest Nicaragua, a picture of tropical paradise by anyone's definition. These days, paradise...
Schakowsky debates surge on PBS
Rep. Jan Schakowsky in 2006. AP photo by Charles Rex Arbogast. by Jim Tankersley President Bush isn't the only one fencing with Congress this week over the pros and cons...
Schakowsky: ‘The president’s surge has failed’
by Jim Tankersley Recently returned from a firsthand tour of Iraq, Rep. Jan Schakowsky (D-Ill.) declared the so-called troop surge "failed" and declared "there is no end in sight for...
Edwards takes shots at Clinton ‘nostalgia’
Democratic presidential hopeful John Edwards unleashed a thinly veiled populist broadside on his chief rivals -- particularly Sen. Hillary Clinton (D-N.Y.) -- on Thursday, casting the 2008 election as "a...
Deporting mother inflames emotions
The lightning-swift deportation of Elvira Arellano triggered an equally sharp debate Monday about whether her dramatic battle to stay in the U.S. will help or hurt attempts to liberalize immigration...
BP takes lumps on Hill
Executives from the oil company BP hit a bipartisan buzz saw on Capitol Hill on Tuesday, as Illinois lawmakers rebuked them in a private meeting and the House prepared to...