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  Suspected gunman said he was willing to fight and die in Ukraine

  Chicago Tribune - The New York Times News Service Syndicate

  Ryan Wesley Routh, the 58-year-old man who was arrested Sunday in connection with what the FBI described as an attempted assassination on former President Donald Trump, had expressed the desire to fight and die in Ukraine. Routh’s posts on social media site X revealed a penchant for violent rhetoric …

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  FBI: Trump was the subject of an apparent assassination attempt at his Florida golf club

  Chicago Tribune - Colleen Long

  WASHINGTON — Donald Trump was the target Sunday of “what appears to be an attempted assassination” at his golf club in West Palm Beach, Florida, the FBI said, just nine weeks after the Republican presidential nominee survived another attempt on his life. The former president said he was safe and …

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  Days of preparation and one final warning. How Kamala Harris got ready for her big debate moment

  Chicago Tribune - Chris Megerian

  WASHINGTON — It was almost time for the presidential debate, but Kamala Harris’ staff thought there was one more thing she needed to know. So less than an hour before the vice president left her Philadelphia hotel, two communications aides got her on the phone for one of the strangest briefings of …

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  Vance doesn’t back away from false claims about migrants in Ohio even amid threats to the community

  Chicago Tribune - Colleen Long

  WASHINGTON — Republican vice presidential candidate JD Vance did not back away on Sunday from the false claims he and Donald Trump have been making that Haitians in an Ohio community are abducting and eating pets, even as the state’s GOP governor and other officials insist there is no evidence of …

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  ‘People are desperate’: Illinois harm reduction organizations await settlement funding in effort to reduce opioid overdoses

  Chicago Tribune - Olivia Olander

  Every two weeks, Abby Hampton gets a delivery to her home in rural Amboy, a little more than 100 miles west of Chicago’s Loop. On a recent Wednesday, she was able to choose from the supplies neatly packed into a minivan run by an organization called The Perfectly Flawed Foundation: syringes, boxes …

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  Dick Cheney was once vilified by Democrats. Now he’s backing Kamala Harris for president. Will it matter?

  Chicago Tribune - Eric Tucker

  WASHINGTON — Dick Cheney is a career Republican still vilified by Democrats for his bullish defense of the Iraq War as vice president. But his partisan loyalties were cast aside in extraordinary fashion last week when he endorsed Democrat Kamala Harris for the White House. Alberto Gonzales’ service …