As Illinois nears the halfway point of the fiscal year, there are dark clouds forming in the state's financial picture.

A judge threw out a suit against Fox News by a former Trump supporter who said he got death threats when the network aired ...

Celebratory gunfire rang out in Beirut to mark the start of a ceasefire between Israel and the Iran-backed militant group Hezbollah to end almost 14 months of fighting.

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For the second time in the span of seven months, then-Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan called up Chicago Ald. Danny ...

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In a statement to NPR, a State Department spokesperson said all the "wrongfully detained" Americans in China are now home.

Haynes, who died Nov. 12, was a heavy hitter, whose limber beat could lift the bandstand. His 65-year recording career was studded with more classics than we have time to even hint at.

Football isn't the only thing Americans like to watch on Thanksgiving. The National Dog Show continues its decades-long run, ...

The analysis of hundreds of fossilized droppings (plus a little bit of petrified vomit) from roughly 230 million years ago ...

Tyreek Hill of the Miami Dolphins was cited for careless driving and failure to wear a seat belt in September. The citations ...

This holiday shopping season is poised to break spending records. A new survey finds people plan to spend $771 on average.