Ryan Zinke Is Leaving The Interior Department, Trump Tweets
Ryan Zinke is out as Secretary of the Interior.
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President Trump Names Mick Mulvaney As Acting White House Chief Of Staff
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.
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‘Dial-a-Carol’ Answers Calls For Holiday Songs From Around The Globe
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.
U Of I Trustees Dismiss Tenured Professor For Faked Research
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).
Local Food Producers Pleased Their Farm Bill Programs Made The Cut
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.
SIU Trustees Support Reorganization, Approve John Dunn as Interim Chancellor
In a unanimous vote, SIU Trustees say they support a reorganization of the Carbondale campus.
Giving Birth In Indiana Can Be Dangerous. It’s Worse If You’re Black
Indiana has one of the nation’s worst rates of mothers dying while pregnant or within a year after giving birth. About 41 women in Indiana die per every 100,000 live births, according to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The rate is even worse for black women.
Illini Volleyball Falls To Nebraska In National Semifinals
Illinois won the first two sets against the defending national champions, but couldn't hold on for the victory.
Pritzker Meets With Trump At White House
Illinois Gov.-elect J.B. Pritzker was in the White House Thursday, part of a group of newly-elected governors meeting with President Trump.
Supreme Court Upholds Defendant’s Health Care Privacy
The Illinois Supreme Court is upholding the medical privacy of a defendant in a lawsuit.
