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‘The more I read it, the more skeptical I became.’ Political analyst Rich Miller says the lawsuit accusing Illinois gubernatorial candidate J.B. Pritzker’s campaign of discrimination looks “fishy.”
■ Embattled Illinois congressman Peter Roskam’s gotten a cash infusion from The National Republican Congressional Committee …
■ … as his Democratic challenger, Sean Casten, has been outspending him on TV.
■ They’ll debate live on Ch. 11 tonight at 7.
■ The Washington Post: Regardless of the winners, the House is fated for massive turnover.
■ The BBC: A Republican governor who changed his mind on gun-control has “has reaped a political whirlwind.”
■ Popular Science has ranked the most important science policy issue in every state, and Illinois’ is …
■ President Trump’s claims of U.S. jobs to be created by a Saudi arms deal are “getting ridiculous.”
■ A Turkish official tells CNN a member of the Saudi hit team suspected in Khashoggi’s death dressed up in Khashoggi’s clothes after the murder, as a decoy to be recorded by surveillance cameras.
■ NBC News: What we know after Saudi Arabia’s U-turn on the facts. (Cartoon: Keith Taylor—who’s just published a new collection.)
Spicer jar. Ex-Trump spokesman Sean Spicer is getting a podcast, courtesy of the company that also owns Chicago radio stations WXRT, WBBM-AM and -FM, WSCR and WBMX.
■ The career of Charlie Kirk, a rising conservative star known as “Kid Trump,” began at a Chicago-area high school.
■ Splinter: “Kirk Loses His S__t … Over a Question About His Salary.”
■ CNN’s Brian Stelter: “Trump’s profound dishonesty” was “on display all weekend long at rallies and on Twitter.”
■ Vox’s Matthew Yglesias: “The biggest lie Trump tells is that he’s kept his promises.”
■ Esteemed journalism professor Jay Rosen slams CNN for hiring talking heads: “It doesn’t make editorial sense to have a pundit who is defending Trump, right or wrong.”
Suspect in 2-year-old’s killing. Developing coverage: Chicago police have arrested a man in connection with the death of the city’s youngest homicide victim this year.
■ The New Yorker’s Jelani Cobb: “You cannot turn to Donald Trump to understand Chicago.”
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