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Illinois Gov. Bruce Rauner says he tried to get out of his failed re-election campaign.

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. (AP) — Trent Frazier scored 25 points on Saturday to lead Illinois past East Tennessee State 73-55.

Ryan Zinke is out as Secretary of the Interior.

President Trump said Friday evening that Mick Mulvaney, his director of the Office of Management and Budget, will be the acting White House chief of staff.

They’ve received calls from all over the world, including a classroom in China at 3 a.m., a New Zealand radio station and from people in other states from coast to coast.

​At a special meeting in Chicago Friday, University of Illinois trustees voted 7-0 with two abstentions to dismiss Fei Wang, a tenured biology professor on the Urbana campus, for falsifying research data on a federal grant application to the National Institutes of Health (NIH).

Programs aimed at helping smaller food producers and first-time farmers and ranchers will receive permanent, baseline funding under the 2018 Farm Bill passed by Congress earlier this week.

In a unanimous vote, SIU Trustees say they support a reorganization of the Carbondale campus.