by Andrew Adams, Capitol News Illinois August 27, 2025 Article Summary Secretary of State Alexi Giannoulias alleged that Flock Safety, a police tech company, illegally shared data with federal border enforcement. This escalates an ongoing conflict between Giannoulias and the agency. Flock officials admit they didn’t create strong enough compliance […]
The Food and Drug Administration has approved updated COVID-19 vaccines for fall 2025, but limited their use to adults 65 and older and younger individuals with underlying health conditions. The decision eliminates the broad vaccination framework that recommended shots for all Americans aged 6 months and older. Health and Human […]
Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul announced a legal victory for Illinois schools on Wednesday, following his office’s July lawsuit challenging the Trump administration’s decision to freeze federal education funding. The lawsuit was part of a broader multistate action, with Illinois joining a coalition of states arguing that the administration’s move […]
President Donald Trump signed an executive order on August 25, 2025, directing federal agencies to withhold funding from jurisdictions that have eliminated or substantially reduced the use of cash bail for certain crimes. The executive order requires Attorney General Pam Bondi to compile within 30 days a list of states and local jurisdictions that have […]
This week, President Donald Trump made a series of unprecedented statements about dictatorship: alternating between denying he is one while simultaneously suggesting Americans might prefer authoritarian rule. Trump’s most striking comments came Monday during an Oval Office event where he signed executive orders related to federal takeover of the D.C. […]
by Ben Szalinski, Capitol News Illinois August 26, 2025 Article Summary President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Monday to block federal funding to states that eliminated cash bail. Illinois eliminated cash bail as of 2023 under the Pretrial Fairness Act. Trump claimed Illinois is less safe since cash […]
Nearly 200 current and former Federal Emergency Management Agency employees have issued a warning to Congress: leadership decisions under the Trump administration are undermining the agency’s disaster response capabilities and could lead to catastrophic failures similar to Hurricane Katrina. The letter, titled the “Katrina Declaration and Petition to Congress,” was released Monday […]
by Peter Hancock, Capitol News Illinois August 25, 2025 Article Summary The U.S. Department of Justice is seeking access to Illinois’ complete, unredacted statewide voter registration database, including voters’ personal information such as dates of birth, driver’s license numbers and partial Social Security numbers. The Illinois State Board of Elections […]
The House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform has issued a subpoena to the Jeffrey Epstein estate. Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.) signed the subpoena on August 25, targeting the estate’s co-executors, Darren Indyke and Richard Kahn. The subpoena demands 16 categories of documents spanning from 1990 through August 2019, including […]
The Congressional Budget Office projected that President Trump’s escalating tariff policies could reduce the federal deficit by $4 trillion over the next decade. While this substantial deficit reduction may appear as a fiscal victory, American consumers and businesses, not other countries, are footing the bill for this government revenue through […]
