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WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump set a presidential record for activity on his favorite social media platform Wednesday, tweeting and retweeting at length about the Senate impeachment trial, the Democrats who want to replace him and much, much more.

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DUBAI, United Arab Emirates – The cellphone of Amazon founder and Washington Post owner Jeff Bezos was hacked in what appeared to be an attempt by Saudi Arabia’s crown prince to “influence, if not silence” the newspaper’s reporting on the kingdom, two U.N. human rights experts said Wednesday.

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Today’s consumers are becoming more thoughtful about their food purchases. People are interested in high-quality, locally-grown products; the farm-to-table movement and agritourism experiences are growing in popularity.

It's going to cost Kane County and Algonquin village residents to use the Longmeadow Parkway toll bridge when it opens in 2022. It just won't cost as much as it will for other people – unless you're a truck driver.

The Kane County Board's transportation committee gave preliminary approval to place a toll of 95 cents for most vehicles crossing the bridge over the Fox River.

Major U.S. stock indexes ended little changed Wednesday after an early rebound rally faded in the final minutes of trading.

The S&P 500 and Nasdaq composite eked out tiny gains, while the Dow Jones Industrial Average finished slightly lower. Gains in technology, financial and health care stocks outweighed losses in industrial, energy, real estate and other sectors.

Investors had their eye on an international effort by health authorities to monitor and contain a deadly virus outbreak in China that has spread to the U.S.

An Algonquin woman died in a car crash on Tuesday night in Lake Barrington, according to the Lake County Sheriff's Office.

Deputies were sent about 11:40 p.m. to a traffic crash with injuries on Kelsey Road in the area of Flint Creek Drive, Lake Barrington.

SPRINGFIELD – With federal regulatory changes looming and legislators one week away from a return to the Capitol, some clean energy advocates are looking to jumpstart a stalled proposal to bring major reforms to the state’s energy landscape.

Members of the Illinois Clean Jobs Coalition, including the legislative sponsors of the Clean Energy Jobs Act spoke Tuesday at the James R. Thompson Center in Chicago.

WASHINGTON (AP) — In opening arguments of the impeachment trial, President Donald Trump's defense misrepresented the findings of a special counsel's report on Russian interference in the 2016 election by claiming the president was cleared of obstruction of justice.

A look at some of his legal team's claims Tuesday during debate on the format of the Senate trial:

JAY SEKULOW, on special counsel Robert Mueller: “We had the invocation of the ghost of the Mueller report. I know something about that report.

An Algonquin woman died in a car crash in Lake Barrington Tuesday night, according to the Lake County Sheriff's Office.

Deputies were dispatched at about 11:40 p.m. to a traffic crash with injuries on Kelsey Road in the area of Flint Creek Drive, Lake Barrington.

BEIJING (AP) — Chinese health authorities urged people in the city of Wuhan to avoid crowds and public gatherings, after warning that a new viral illness that has infected more than 400 people and killed at least 17 could spread further.

The appeal came as the World Health Organization convened a group of independent experts to advise whether the outbreak should be declared a global emergency.

The number of new cases has risen sharply in China, the center of the outbreak.