Sean Sullivan

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks during a campaign stop on May 2, 2016, in South Bend, Ind.

Dilemma for anti-Trump Republicans: Should they help Clinton?

August 19, 2019 at 5:24 a.m.

Anti-Donald Trump Republicans are starting to consider whether their opposition to a Trump presidency is so strong that they would be prepared to fight him in the general election -...

FILE - In this Thursday, April 30, 2015 file photo, NFL commissioner Roger Goodell speaks during the first round of the 2015 NFL Football Draft in Chicago. Without the games to distract from the issues, football fans were left to ponder the NFL's policies, its commissioner and its overall credibility during an uncomfortable offseason for the league. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast, File)

14 ways NFL commissioner Roger Goodell can win us over during draft weekend

June 9, 2018 at 2:19 a.m.

The NFL Draft, aka the televised restriction of freedom of labor, is returning to the Windy City for the second year in a row. The nation's foremost concussion denialists will...

As Cruz hits Trump on the trail, he wages a quieter assault on Kasich

June 20, 2019 at 7:49 p.m.

The big political question in Wisconsin during the past week has been whether Ted Cruz can defeat Donald Trump in Tuesday's Republican presidential primary. The strategy Cruz and his allies...

Lovie Smith is introduced as Illini head coach at the Bielfeldt Athletics Administration Building in Champaign on Monday, March 7, 2016.

A little new job advice for Lovie’s eyes only

June 12, 2018 at 8:13 a.m.

Two worlds collided when Lovie Smith, the architect of the last competent Bears team, and Illinois' athletic director Josh Whitman, the architect of pretty much nothing yet, agreed to make...

Republican presidential candidate, Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., poses for a photograph at a campaign rally in Boise, Idaho on March 6, 2016.

Politically wounded Rubio confronts questions about quitting race at hometown rally

May 14, 2019 at 11:01 a.m.

It was not the homecoming party Marco Rubio probably envisioned when he launched his presidential campaign 11 miles from here last April.Politically wounded by a string of devastating losses in...

Democratic presidential candidates Hillary Clinton (L) and Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) field questions from moderators Lester Holt and Andrea Mitchell (R) during the Democratic Candidates Debate hosted by NBC News and YouTube on January 17, 2016 in Charleston, South Carolina.

Clinton attacks Sanders at last Democratic debate before Iowa vote

August 19, 2019 at 5:21 a.m.

Former secretary of state Hillary Clinton went on the attack repeatedly against Sen. Bernie Sanders (Vt.) at Sunday's Democratic presidential primary debate in South Carolina, hitting him on guns and...

Admit it, Star Wars superfan, you blew it – now get in line

June 16, 2018 at 3:10 p.m.

If you've been living under a giant "Star Wars" billboard and have a neck injury preventing you from looking up, you might not have seen that "Star Wars: The Force...

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, a Republican from Kentucky, center, walks through the U.S. Capitol towards his office in Washington, D.C.

Senate delays vote on $1.1 trillion spending bill

June 24, 2019 at 6:31 a.m.

The Senate moved closer Friday to passing a $1.1 trillion bill to fund almost all of the government through most of 2015. But detractors on the left and the right...

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