Senator Barack Obama was in Chicago Tuesday calling for a major change in foreign policy.

“Here’s what I’ll say as president: ‘America seeks a world in which there are no nuclear weapons,’” Obama said.

He also spoke five years ago, in 2002, just before the U.S. invaded Iraq. He warned then that the war would have dreadful consequences.

As CBS 2 Political Editor Mike Flannery reports, Obama’s message to students at DePaul University was that he has the “judgment to lead.”

While he promised to quickly withdraw most American troops, he said an undetermined number would have to stay behind to fight terrorists.

“I am gonna get all our comba…

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Republican John McCain is accusing Democratic rival Hillary Rodham Clinton of indecisiveness and wanting “to have it both ways” on foreign policy, having voted for the Iraq war and now opposing it.

In prepared remarks, the GOP presidential candidate assails the Democratic front-runner and indirectly singles out former President Clinton. During his presidency, some advisers urged Clinton to make policy decisions by splitting the differences on opposing views, which became known as “triangulation.”

The Associated Press obtained excerpts of McCain’s remarks Tuesday from his campaign.

Later Tuesday, McCain said he had not yet seen the remarks. “But I will look at…

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A 42-year-old woman in East Chicago, Ind., is struggling to recover from a bad crash and her health insurance is tapped out.

The victim was a waitress in a popular caf?. As CBS 2 Northwest Indiana Bureau Chief Pamela Jones reports, the woman’s family is hoping the community will serve up some generosity to help with skyrocketing medical bills.

Lourdes Malagon’s only wish is to go back to a normal life.

She’s recovering at the Lake County, Ind. Nursing and Rehabilitation Center after a car crash in August caved in her skull and crushed her chest.

“The most important is the injury in my head, my lungs, my jaw because I’m not able to eat anything,” …

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Two provisions of the USA Patriot Act are unconstitutional because they allow search warrants to be issued without a showing of probable cause, a federal judge ruled Wednesday.

U.S. District Judge Ann Aiken ruled that the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, as amended by the Patriot Act, “now permits the executive branch of government to conduct surveillance and searches of American citizens without satisfying the probable cause requirements of the Fourth Amendment.”

Portland attorney Brandon Mayfield sought the ruling in a lawsuit against the federal government after he was mistakenly linked by the FBI to the Madrid train bombings that killed 191 people in 2004.

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Wednesday marks the 47th anniversary of the first debate between John F. Kennedy and Richard M. Nixon, a momentous event in the history of both television and broadcasting hosted by CBS 2.

Kennedy and Nixon appeared for the first-ever televised presidential debate on Sept. 26, 1960, at CBS 2 studios, at 630 N. McClurg Ct.

Nixon arrived first, and a few moments later, Kennedy walked into CBS 2’s Studio 1, which is now used for the news.

Video shot before the debate shows both Kennedy and Nixon in a relaxed mood, chatting with each other while posing for newspaper photographers. Neither was aware of the cameras, except in reference to the instructions given by…

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Dispatch recordings reveal that police knew two victims of a violent crash in Gary, Ind., were unaccounted for less than 10 minutes after the first 911 call.

“He says he had two other guys with him,” an unidentified officer says at 1:43 a.m.

“They might still be in the car. You might want to check.”

The recordings, made Sept. 15, were released Tuesday by the Gary Police Department, which has been criticized for failing to find those victims.

The tapes are an incomplete snapshot of police conversations on the morning that 18-year-olds Brandon Smith and Dominique Green died.

But they reveal that police were aware of them early on.

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An Aurora man was sentenced to life in prison Wednesday following his second murder conviction.

Matthew A. Quigley, 22, of the 1100 block of Superior Street in the western suburb, was sentenced to life by Kane County Circuit Judge Patricia Golden for his conviction in a 2002 murder, according to a release from the Kane County State?s Attorney?s office. Nearly four months earlier, he was sentenced to 64 years in prison after being convicted of murder in an unrelated shooting.

On Friday, May 25, Quigley was convicted by Judge Golden of first-degree murder in the Oct. 16, 2002, shooting death of David Morales of Aurora, the release said. Quigley had waived his right to a j…

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