Mexican cartels’ war on Americans: Fentanyl crisis should be atop Biden’s agenda at summit

Enough to kill every American. That’s the amount of lethal doses of fentanyl – a total of 379 million – seized by the DEA in 2022.

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Historic three-peat now in sight for Georgia as returning stars focus on avoiding entitlement entering 2023

LOS ANGELES — The confetti had not finished falling inside SoFi Stadium at the College Football Playoff National Championship before the pivotal question began to emerge: Now that Georgia has won back-to-back national championships, and doing so with a team that beat its opponents by a greater margin than anyone else in the country, can the Bulldogs do it again in 2023?

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2023 national championship: Georgia, Stetson Bennett overpower TCU for most dominant victory of title game era

LOS ANGELES — No. 1 Georgia won the 2023 College Football Playoff National Championship in record-setting fashion Monday night, overpowering No. 3 TCU in a gaudy 65-7 victory that marked the most dominant title-game performance in the sport’s history. The win, which featured the Bulldogs scoring the most points in any FBS national title game, makes Georgia the first back-to-back national champions of the CFP era and first at all since Alabama in 2011-12.

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Hamlin in their hearts, the NFL pays tribute to No. 3

ORCHARD PARK, N.Y. (AP) — Damar Hamlin’s old high school teammate clutched the ball he had just intercepted, jogged to the 30-yard line, gingerly placed the pigskin at the top of the red-outlined “3,” raised his hands over his head and formed them in the shape of a heart.

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Illinois lawmakers advance state government pay raises, Pritzker’s ‘closing fund’

SPRINGFIELD — Officials at the highest levels of state government appear set to receive substantial pay raises this month after the House and Senate passed a budget bill that would also advance a $400 million business incentive fund proposal pushed by Gov. J.B. Pritzker

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Jim Durkin, Illinois House GOP leader, resigning seat in legislature

When Illinois House Republican leader Jim Durkin was subjected to a rare challenge of a legislative leader in a primary five years ago, he summed up his job duties in three sentences

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More than 30,700 mail-in ballots in Illinois for November election were rejected

(The Center Square) – About 30,700 mail-in ballots in Illinois were rejected statewide in last year’s November election, according to preliminary data from the Illinois State Board of Elections.

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No gun-ban bill approved over weekend by Illinois General Assembly

A Senate proposal to regulate guns in Illinois is now on file, but there’s pushback from Gov. J.B. Pritzker that it’s too watered down.

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Daily Hope: You Can Relax in God’s Amazing Grace

Your failures don’t surprise God. In fact, he expects them!

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Editorial: Biden’s new border security plan won’t work. Here’s what will

President Biden just announced a plan to deal with the situation at the southwest border, which he attributes to “the broken immigration system.”

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