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More Adams Associates and Supporters Are Said to Face Corruption Charges Among those expected to surrender in the coming days are Mayor Eric Adams’s closest adviser and a friend whom the mayor installed in a powerful city position.

Breaking News: More associates and supporters of Mayor Eric Adams of New York City are said to be facing corruption charges, including his closest adviser.

Sunday 11pm on WGN the BACKSTORY of baseball. Meet guys playing in a vintage baseball league - playing 19th c rules.

Hegseth reposts video on social media featuring pastors saying women shouldn't be allowed to vote The man who oversees the nation’s military has reposted a video on X, formerly Twitter, about a Christian nationalist church that included various pastors saying women should no longer be allowed to v...

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New Counterterror Chief Has Ties to Right-Wing Extremists Joe Kent is confirmed to run National Counterterrorism Center in 52-44 vote

New counterterror chief has ties to right wing extremists & conspiracy theories. www.newser.com/story/372757...

Epstein imported young women and children from Russia, Belarus, Turkey and Turkmenistan says @nytimes This trafficking was presumably expensive.Wire transfers added up to $1.1b associated with 1 of Epstein’s bank accounts.

WSJ: Trump writes bawdy letter for Epstein’s 50th bday-contains lines of text framed by outline of naked woman- squiggly “Donald” below her waist, mimicking pubic hair. “Happy Bday — may every day be another wonderful secret.” Trump denied it.

Louisiana Police Chiefs Accused of Fabricating Robberies in Immigrant Visa Scheme

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Florida airports ordered to report any ‘weather modification’ activities “We need your help to keep our state free and make sure the skies belong to the people — not to private contractors, corporate experiments, or climate extremists,” Florida Attorney Gene…

FL airports preferred to report “weather modification activities” under a controversial new law derided by critics as fueling conspiracy theories.

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Sunday at 11p on WGN the BACKSTORY of Ian Fleming’s creation of 007.

Backstory Sunday 11pm on WGN a photographer uses technology to bring us back to the past.

Over 2,000 senior staff set to leave NASA under agency push The losses could endanger the administration’s plans for landing astronauts on the moon and Mars.

At least 2,145 senior-ranking NASA employees are set to leave as part of a push to reduce staff.

If you like Airplane! David Zuckerberg tells @WGNMorningNews he’s working on a love story spoof set in 1949.

RFK Jr. promoted a food company he says will make Americans healthy. Their meals are ultraprocessed Health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. raved in social media posts on Monday about the $7-a-pop meals that are delivered directly to the homes of Medicaid and Medicare enrollees.

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MAGA Candidate says
“This isn’t just “climate change.
It’s cloud seeding, geoengineering, & manipulation.”

WSJ: corporate winners&losers in new tax law.

Sunday BACKSTORY WGN 11pm A historian gets access to King George III’s archive for the backstory of how the American Revolution started. Also, a man catalogues ghost signs; what these fading murals teach us about the past.

Trump Withholds Nearly $7 Billion for Schools, With Little Explanation

www.nytimes.com/2025/07/01/u...

Mystery surrounds the Jeffrey Epstein files after Bondi claims 'tens of thousands' of videos Attorney General Pam Bondi’s comments about evidence the Justice Department is reviewing from its Jeffrey Epstein sex trafficking investigation have fueled anticipation about the expected release of m...

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Kristi Noem Secretly Took a Cut of Political Donations A dark money group paid $80,000 to Noem’s personal company when she was governor of South Dakota. She did not include this income on her federal disclosure forms, a likely violation of ethics requirem...

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Senate Republicans Reprise Push to Pay for Tax Cuts by Slashing Food Stamps

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Damning Report Exposes Stephen Miller’s Shady Ties to Palantir Palantir has been snapping up massive government contracts to increase surveillance capabilities.

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‘I’m hanging up’: Reality TV star Teresa Giudice abruptly ends interview amid question over fraud conviction CHICAGO — Reality TV star Teresa Giudice has been through a divorce, served prison time, and through it all, she raised four daughters, got re-married, and wrote several best-selling books. In addi…

Reality TV star Teresa Giudice joined WGN Morning News on Friday to discuss an event at Zanies in Rosemont, but the interview came to an abrupt end after one of the questions was not received well.

With only 8% built, Texas quietly defunds state border wall program Texas officials suggested the federal government could pick up construction. However, during President Trump’s first term, his administration built about one-third of what the state was able to put up...

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That’s a new one. Usual complaint is “media hates Trump.” Reality is-people see what they want to see.

There’s a new one- ‘media or liberal enough.’ Most complaints are about being Trump haters. In reality, people see what they want to see.

Trump nominates official with ties to antisemitic extremists to lead ethics agency President Trump nominated Paul Ingrassia to lead the Office of Special Counsel, a government agency that enforces ethics law and protects whistleblowers, despite Ingrassia's links to extremists.

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