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Attorneys for the former U.S. House Speaker from Illinois say a possible plea deal has been reached in his hush-money case. A May indictment said Hastert agreed to pay someone identified as "Individual A" to keep them from identifying past misconduct.
Illinois is about to enter its fourth month without a budget. One of the state's top Democrats says the problem could be resolved within days, if the governor moved off his insistence that other laws pass first.
On Sunday night, a total lunar eclipse will coincide with a super moon and a blood moon for the first time in over three decades. When a super moon occurs the moon is at its closest point to the earth and can appear up to fourteen percent larger. The red tint of a blood moon is a side effect of the lunar eclipse where the moon passes into its own shadow. This combination won’t happen again until 2033.
John Frayne talks with Jim Meadows as he prepares to step away as host of "Classics by Request", heard on Saturday mornings on WILL-FM; Vincent Trauth will take over as host. Frayne continues to host "Classics of the Phonograph".
Conventional wisdom says there’s never been a better time to be a woman. For the first time in U.S. History, women make up half of the educated labor force and are earning the majority of advanced degrees. Not so fast. Caryl Rivers says if you look more closely, women now must fight what she dubs the “New Soft War on Women.” That’s the title of a new book she wrote with Rosalind Barnett, just out in paperback.
