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Dec 16 (Reuters) - President Donald Trump said on Tuesday that he is nominating Troy Edgar as the next U.S. ambassador to El Salvador. Edgar was most recently a deputy secretary at the Department of ...

Daisy Edgar-Jones and Emilia Jones are set to star in the film currently titled Bad Bridgets, from Kneecap director Rich Peppiatt, who will write and direct with sales being conducted at AFM. The ...

NEW YORK, NEW YORK - NOVEMBER 12: Frankie Edgar prepares to fight Chris Gutierrez in a bantamweight bout during the UFC 281 event at Madison Square Garden on November 12, 2022 in New York City. (Photo ...

Calling his impact on the state of Illinois "incalculable," hundreds came to Springfield in Saturday to say their final farewells to former Illinois Gov. Jim Edgar. The funeral service was held at ...

SPRINGFIELD — The late former Gov. Jim Edgar was memorialized Saturday as a man whose compassion, integrity, and honesty showed he put people above politics and led Illinois as a model of what ...

In the 1990s, he compromised with Democrats, backed abortion rights, increased spending for schools and used an income-tax hike to help tame a huge budget deficit. By Adam Nossiter Jim Edgar, a ...

Jim Edgar, a former Illinois governor who has gone down as one of the most successful and popular politicians in the state's history, has died. Edgar died on Sunday from complications of pancreatic ...

CHICAGO (WGN) — Former Illinois Gov. Jim Edgar died Sunday at the age of 79, according to multiple sources. Edgar, who served as Illinois’ 38 th governor from 1991 to 1999, was widely regarded as a ...

He risked the fate of Leon Spinks following Muhammad Ali or Michael Bilandic after Richard J. Daley — or Ralph Abernathy reaching for Martin Luther King Jr.'s mantle. Jim Edgar had a tough act to ...

Former Illinois Gov. Jim Edgar died at age 79, multiple sources, including NBC Chicago, reported on Sept. 14. Edgar and his wife, Brenda, had been living in Springfield for the past decade or so.

In May 2024, popular San Antonio restaurant El Camino stirred controversy on social media after posting a meme joking that guests sporting the notorious "Edgar" haircut wouldn’t be allowed inside. The ...