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A spectator looks on as Jack B. and Seth M. loaded guns at a shooting range in the Chicago, Ill. suburbs.

Left wing gun owners look for ‘a healthy amount of detente’

By Jason Flynn, Staff Reporter
May 12, 2021
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Turbulence through time: 50 years separate canceled commencements

By Rana Schenke, Editor
November 25, 2020
Ray Liss, of Marion, is pushed onto the water on Saturday, Aug. 31, 2019, on Little Grassy Lake at SIU’s Touch of Nature for the Team River Runner Southern Illinois Kickoff. Greg Nejmanowski, with SIU Veteran Adventures, says, “Research has shown, and I’ve seen it with my own eyes, that [these events] help veterans with their life at home.”

Southern Illinois chapter of Team River Runner starts with a big splash

By Jacob Lorenz, Staff Reporter
September 4, 2019
Demonstrators raise their hands while chanting Hands up, dont shoot as they march across campus May 2 during a protest organized in part by the May 2 Strike Committee. During the protest, demonstrators yelled, We have a duty to fight for our freedom, we have a duty to win. The protest, which consisted of more than 100 participants, was in response to such issues as the Illinois budget impasse, student loan debt and racism at SIU. — May 2, 2016, Carbondale, Ill. (

Politics and protests make the university what it is today

By Kallie Cox, Staff Reporter
March 4, 2019
US President Donald Trump ahead of a meeting with Chinas President Xi Jinping outside the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on Nov. 9, 2017. (Artyom Ivanov/Tass/Abaca Press/TNS)

Trump delivers ‘America First’ trade message to Asia conference, says U.S. will only cut deals with individual nations

By Noah Bierman | Los Angeles Times
November 10, 2017
Chinese President Xi Jinping, right, meets with his U.S. counterpart, Donald Trump, in the latters Florida resort of Mar-a-Lago on April 6, 2017. (Lan Hongguang/Xinhua/Sipa USA/TNS)

North Korea, trade, business deals: High Asia stakes for Trump

By Justin Sink and Andy Sharp | Bloomberg News
November 2, 2017
Hours before Tuesdays deadline, Congress and the White House had yet to begin serious negotiations over next years budget, threatening a government shutdown that could delay Social Security payments, shutter national parks, museums and monuments and furlough hundreds of thousands of employees, Sept. 30, 2013. The Senate flatly rejected a House of Representatives proposal to keep the government funded through Dec. 15 but delay implementation of the contentious federal health care law. (Olivier Douliery/Abaca Press/MCT)

U.S. Rep. Darin LaHood addresses tax reform, NAFTA status and the national opioid crisis

By Jared DuBach | Canton Daily Ledger
October 19, 2017
Henry C. Ruth III, of Springfield, Tenn., points to another hunting group Wednesday, Nov. 30, 2016, during a Wounded Warriors duck hunt at Grassy Lake Hunting Club in Jonesboro. “I think it’s very healing for those who are wounded to come out and be with their own soldiers that are just like them,” said Ruth, who retired from the Army after 28 years of service. “Being able to do that makes them normal.” (Ryan Michalesko | @photosbylesko)

Southern Illinois hunt unites wounded veterans (PHOTOS)

By Tyra Wooten
December 4, 2016
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Obama declares end to arms sale embargo for Vietnam

By Christi Parsons, Tribune Washington Bureau
May 23, 2016
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