An objection against the candidacy petitions of three-term congressman Raja Krishnamoorthi s Democratic primary challenger was withdrawn Thursday when its backers were confronted with evidence they d examined represented fewer than half the signatures submitted.
/PRNewswire/ Democrat Junaid Ahmed s grassroots campaigning efforts demonstrate that he s the most viable challenger in the Illinois 8th Congressional.
/PRNewswire/ Democrat Junaid Ahmed s grassroots campaigning efforts demonstrate that he s the most viable challenger in the Illinois 8th Congressional.
While Democratic congressman Raja Krishnamoorthi of Schaumburg will again face rivals in his party s June 28 primary, he could meet a Republican challenge for his 8th District U.S. House seat for the first time since 2018.
not such a bad day after all, kyra. futures are up 141 points on the dow, but couple things we re looking at here. jobless claims. you always want to see that fall below 400,000 and it did in the most recent week. 391,000, the number of people who, for the very first time, applied for unemployment benefits. it s been really at 400 or higher since april. that s really not conducive to cutting the unemployment rate but a good number this week. it fell to 391,000 and that s better than we had expected. another important report, the final read on how fast the economy grew in the second quarter. this is the gdp report. gross domestic product. the sum of everything that this economy puts out and it grew at 1.3%. so, for all those people who are talking about a double-dip recession, this number shows it isn t technically a double dip recession right now. in the second quarter you had economic growth and economists are telling me that for the third quarter there was growth there, a