Multiple videos posted to social media on Saturday morning apparently show Trump supporters in trucks and cars harassing a Joe Biden and Kamala Harris campaign bus in Texas, causing the campaign to cancel a planned event in Central Texas. A
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Obama: Trump failed to take pandemic, presidency seriously
Former President Barack Obama listens as Democratic Presidential Candidate Joe Biden talks with volunteers at a canvas kickoff at Birmingham Unitarian Church in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, on October 31, 2020. | Jim Watson/Getty Images Former President Barack Obama is campaigning
Trump and Biden Campaign in Pennsylvania and Michigan on Race’s Final Weekend
President Trump and former Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. crisscrossed two key Northern battleground states on Saturday in a string of campaign stops with Election Day just three days away. Mr. Trump had four rallies planned across Pennsylvania, beginning
Biden and Surrogates Hit Trump on Taxes in Closing Argument
As former Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. and his surrogates make their closing arguments in battleground states stressed by economic hardship amid the pandemic, they often focus on one number: $750. That’s the amount President Trump paid in federal
Durbin faces long-shot bid from ‘truly independent’ GOP challenger Curran, Willie Wilson and two others
Sen. Dick Durbin, left, speaks before the Senate Judiciary Committee earlier this month; Former Lake County Sheriff Mark Curran Jr., right, addresses the Sun-Times Editorial Board in February. | Susan Walsh/AP file; Tyler LaRiviere/Sun-Times file. Durbin, the Senate’s No. 2
He’s a Rare House Republican in a District Trump Lost. Can He Hold On?
Two years ago, a pair of House Republicans in Central New York became prime targets for the Democratic Party, which had hoped to unseat them in the midterm elections by exploiting voters’ unhappiness with President Trump. The strategy partially worked:
Democrats up and down the ballot stump for the ‘Fair Tax’
Gov. J.B. Pritzker urges people to vote for a major piece of his 2018 campaign platform — a move to a graduated income tax. | Screenshot The Zoom “rally” featured a who’s-who of Illinois politics, including Pritzker, Lt. Gov. Juliana
Health chief’s challenge to any who doubt staggering COVID-19 numbers: ‘Ask any hospital executive across the state’
Illinois Public Health Director Dr. Ngozi Ezike. | Screenshot of state live-stream Illinois’ record 6,943 daily coronavirus caseload on Friday pushed the year’s total past 400,000. It’s the fourth day in a week that new infections topped 6,000 — a
Why Chicago couldn’t avoid the state’s indoor dining restrictions
Tables sit empty outside Tavern On Rush and Carmine’s on a chilly Tuesday. | Tyler LaRiviere/Sun-Times How would, say, DuPage County respond if Chicago was given a special pass on indoor restaurant dining? Not well. For generations now, Chicago has
Top mayoral aide defends lowering speed camera threshold
Chicago Transportation Commissioner Gia Biagi | Fran Spielman/Sun-Times Ald. Anthony Beale (9th) demanded to know why the city is lowering the boom on more motorists when the city is leaving big money on the table because 50 speed camera locations
Illinois early votes already more than half 2016 turnout; polling officials say they’re ready for next COVID-19 test
Voters wait at the Dr. Martin Luther King Center Service Center in Bronzeville. | Ashlee Rezin Garcia / Sun-Times We’ve already seen record early voting. For those who wait till Tuesday, it will be a distinctly 2020 polling experience thanks
Cruise Ships May Set Sail on Sunday, but Only With Crew
Cruise ships can prepare to set sail again beginning Sunday under a conditional order issued by U.S. health officials that aims to mitigate the risk of Covid-19 transmission at sea by requiring a host of measures, including testing and quarantine,
Don’t kid yourself: The so-called ‘Fair Tax’ will lead to a tax hike for working people like me
Gov. J.B. Pritzker, back in March, rolls out his proposal for a progressive income tax in Illinois. | AP Photos I am a nurse. And I am grateful that leading opponents of the tax, like Ken Griffin, are standing up
Trump to America: ‘Right Now You Have It Made. You Are So Lucky I’m Your President’
Subtly was never something Trump seemed to take interest in and during his Friday rally in Michigan, the president took his abrasive act to farcical levels while trying to paint a bleak picture of American society with Joe Biden in
Can Democrats Retake the Senate?
For Democrats determined to solve America’s biggest problems, dislodging Donald Trump is only part of the challenge on Election Day. To advance legislation targeting climate change, pandemic relief, voting rights, higher taxes on corporations and the rich, and to begin
‘Useful Idiots’ Podcast With Krystal Ball and Saagar Enjeti on Election Day 2020 and the Future of Both Parties
In the latest socially distanced episode of our Useful Idiots podcast, hosts Matt Taibbi and Katie Halper are joined by friends of the show Krystal Ball and Saagar Enjeti, of The Hill’s “Rising.” For Republicans Suck, Matt submits a clip
Undecided Voters Could Still Decide the Election. They Tend to Dislike Trump.
John Holland, 74, is proud to call himself a political independent, and he has always made a point of voting for the candidate he prefers, not a party to which he had sworn allegiance. In mid-October he told a New
Trump-Biden presidential election race nears end, but America’s divide continues
Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden (left) and President Donald Trump. | AP / Getty Images No matter who wins, the underlying divide between the American people that brought us to this point will remain. The factors that are driving us
Voting feels pretty great this year, especially a vote for Joe Biden
The bigger the popular vote for Biden, the more difficult it will be for anyone, strictly as a matter of perceived fairness, to maneuver a false victory for Trump. | Getty We urge you to get out and vote for
NY planner hired to run Lightfoot’s Invest South/West
Claudia Herasme Alfonso | Provided Chicago’s Department of Planning and Development names Claudia Herasme Alfonso to a new role supervising a bureau for neighborhood programs. Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s administration has taken a bite out of the Big Apple to hire
Why Julián Castro Thinks Biden Can Win His Native Texas
More than 9,000,000 people have voted in Texas, already surpassing the entirety of the ballots cast in 2016. That had been an all-time record. The turnout is just one sign that this election is different, and Julián Castro is thankful
Some Older Voters Shift to Biden in Florida. Will It Be Enough for Him?
FORT MYERS, Fla. — For Joseph R. Biden Jr. to capture Florida, he would need a lot of voters like Dave Niederkorn, a retired businessman who cast his ballot for President Trump four years ago and soon came to regret
Illinois restaurant workers blast ban on indoor services
Jerome Baker, 29, a bartender at Emerald Lou, carries his daughter Shiloh, 2, during a news conference about the impact of Gov. J.B. Pritzker’s ban on indoor dining. | Pat Nabong/Sun-Times Restaurant workers and owners urged Gov. J.B. Pritzker to
Man who claimed he was Burge victim at 13 is freed after decades in prison for another murder
Marcus Wiggins. | Illinois Department of Corrections Marcus Wiggins said he was tortured into confessing to murder in 1991 when he was 13. That case was dismissed, but he was convicted of another murder. He says he was framed. One
Peter Secchia, Confidant of Ford and Bush, Dies at 83
This obituary is part of a series about people who have died in the coronavirus pandemic. Read about others here. Peter Secchia rarely boasted about his success, but he often marveled at it. At 25, he went to work as
What It’s Like to Be Queer in Trump’s America
Cathy Renna, the communications director for the National LGBTQ Task Force, has worked in queer rights for nearly 30 years, through three administrations and countless setbacks. But nothing was quite like the transfer of power to the Trump administration. “It’s
Walmart pulls guns, ammunition from displays at U.S. stores, citing “civil unrest”
A Walmart logo is seen outside a store in Washington, DC, on August 18, 2020. File photo. | Photo by NICHOLAS KAMM/AFP via Getty Images Walmart made a a similar move in the wake of the police killing of George
‘It Is Our Lifelong Duty to Work for Justice’: Ady Barkan on Medicare for All, Joe Biden, and Continuing the Fight
Ady Barkan spoke with just about all of them:: Elizabeth. Cory. Bernie. Kamala. Julián. Pete. The only Democratic presidential candidate Barkan hadn’t spoken with? Joe. But after Biden edged out the rest of his party’s competition, that changed. Eventually, everyone
How Donald Trump Plans to Overthrow American Democracy
Unless we awaken, the American people may well be sleepwalking into an electoral coup d’etat. If their own words are to be believed, Donald Trump and his operatives have been preparing for the election heist for some time. The rough
Will Chicagoans keep going to bars and restaurants now that they can offer only outdoor service?
What sort of drink would be good to order when you’re sitting outdoors at a bar, and it’s snowed? | AP Some people say they won’t mind — as long as they have plenty of heat going. Others say that,