The Transportation Secretary says air traffic controllers will be paid promptly as the government reopens. But after the last ...

Lawmakers voted to “decouple” state taxes from the federal tax code in certain areas to avoid revenue shortfalls because of ...

SPRINGFIELD — University students and faculty urged the Illinois Board of Higher Education to press Gov. JB Pritzker to ...

The Trump administration says that more than 1.6 million immigrants have self-deported. But there's also evidence of an ...

A new deal to end the government shutdown may briefly restore staff to U.S. Education Department offices that had been gutted ...

The first ever disruption to the nation's largest anti-hunger program came as a shock. It's shaken trust in the program for ...

"Every now and then you bump up against a part that presses you to the wall of your ability," Hawke says of playing lyricist ...

The House of Representatives was sent home for the duration of the government shutdown. Members returned to the Capitol ...

Last week's charts reflect the seven days immediately before Halloween — the "spooky season," you might say, but not the ...

November 13 is World Kindness Day. Its goal is to encourage acts of kindness. (After all, one kind day is better than none.) ...

The announcement follows harsh criticism from the Trump administration about California and other states granting licenses to ...

Israel deported more than 150 freed Palestinian prisoners last month. Some experts in Israel warn it could have long-term ...