In the latest case to be settled, the Chicago City Council agreed Wednesday to pay $15.4 million to Robert Smith Jr., who ...

Incredibly unusual, the use of U.S. forces to seize a merchant ship was a sharp escalation in the Trump administration’s pressure campaign on President Nicolás Maduro, who has been charged with ...

Conflict in the Caribbean escalates as the U.S. seizes an oil tanker. And the new Cook County chief judge on his vision for the future.

Cook County has its first new chief judge in more than two decades after Charles Beach was sworn in to the position earlier this month.

The president has urged GOP-led states to gerrymander their U.S. house districts ahead of the midterms to create more ...

The Department of the Interior, which oversees national parks, announced recently it was unveiling “commemorative new designs ...

After a career spent largely in the shadows, Field Museum ornithologist Dave Willard is enjoying a moment in the spotlight ...

Senators rejected a Democratic bill to extend the subsidies for three years and a Republican alternative that would have ...

The family of Chicago police Officer Krystal Rivera, who was fatally shot in the line of duty this year by a fellow officer, says the shooting came after she broke off a romantic relationship with her ...

Top military officials faced questioning over the deployments for the first time at the hearing before the Senate Armed ...

Judge Debra Ann Seaton denied a 60-day extension request saying “it would be inhumane for this court not to relocate people as quickly as possible,” citing gas leaks and plumbing issues. Many ...

The legislation was designed to favor GOP candidates in the next year’s midterms. Republicans control the state Senate, but many have been hesitant or openly opposed to the idea of mid-decade ...