Former Republican Tennessee state Sen. Brian Kelsey, who pleaded guilty to conspiracy to violate campaign finance law, was ...

The pardon by Trump came after the top pardon attorney at the DOJ said she had been fired after restoring the gun rights of ...

Although Democrats are out of power in D.C., anxious Illinoisans want lawmakers to step up to block Donald Trump initiatives.

Some residents of rural Illinois and Oregon are hoping to ditch their states and either join neighboring ones or create whole ...

Here's what recent polls are saying in U.S. and Illinois, plus comparisons to approval for past presidents and Trump's first term.

The plan to fire about 1,378 employees will undermine the department’s ability to perform work mandated by federal law, the ...

U.S. President Donald Trump's tariffs on imports from Mexico carry an outsized risk for farmers in Jacksonville, Illinois, as ...

Peter Goldsmith received official notice late Wednesday afternoon that the moment he hoped to avoid had arrived. President ...

Sweeping layoffs announced this week are part of a dramatic downsizing of the Department of Education. Gov. JB Pritzker addressed the cuts at an education conference.

Illinois leaders largely followed party lines with starkly different responses to President Donald Trump's promise of ...

Democrats are trying to give a voice to those who have been harmed by Trump’s policies. That includes a U.S. Army veteran fired by DOGE from a veterans hospital, a special education teacher and the ...