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CHICAGO — Gov. JB Pritzker and Mayor Brandon Johnson on Tuesday ordered public buildings across the city and state to fly flags at half-staff in honor of the Rev. Jesse Jackson, who died at 84 after rising from an ...Read more

Outrage erupted last month when Oklahoma City residents learned of plans to convert a vacant warehouse into an immigration processing facility.

Making matters worse was the secrecy of the federal government: City leaders ...Read more

ST. LOUIS — Agri-chemical giant Bayer has agreed to a proposed $7.25 billion class-action settlement, a big step toward resolving thousands of lawsuits claiming that exposure to the weedkiller Roundup caused non-Hodgkin ...Read more

Penn’s graduate student workers have reached a tentative agreement on a first union contract, averting a strike.

The two-year tentative agreement includes increases to wages among other benefits.

“I am so proud of ...Read more

In Velasco, a town in the eastern Cuban province of Holguín, a man was buried in a cardboard box, his body carted on a wheelbarrow to the cemetery because of a lack of both of wooden coffins and fuel.

In the capital city...Read more

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — California’s 7th Congressional District has been represented by 81-year-old Doris Matsui since 2005. Matsui succeeded her husband, Robert, who served from 1979 until his death from cancer in 2005. ...Read more

Stephen Colbert blasted CBS for refusing to air his interview with Democratic U.S. Senate candidate James Talarico — which wound up being shared online anyway.

“We were told in no uncertain terms by our network’s ...Read more

Sen. Chuck Schumer is hitting back at President Trump as the pair escalate their feud over the $16 billion Gateway Tunnel rail project connecting New York and New Jersey.

After Trump denounced Gateway as a “boondoggle�...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump had himself a week, just not the kind political observers have become accustomed to, spending much of it behind closed doors while unable to broker a deal with Senate Democrats.

He ...Read more

After weeks of investigating the inner workings of a giant investment company with ties to Pittsburgh, Toni Caiazzo Neff said she tried to do the right thing.

The former securities regulator had pored over the New York ...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — Bruce Springsteen is coming back to Minneapolis. Sooner than you think. On March 31, he will kick off the Land of Hope and Dreams American Tour with the E Street Band at Target Center.

It’s been 27 years...Read more

Bed rest can go pound sand: Ray J gave his all on stage on Friday night, it seems, with fan videos showing his eyes appearing to bleed as he worked the crowd.

The singer also doffed the top of his orange jumpsuit to ...Read more

The grainy black-and-white image has become the center of the investigation into Nancy Guthrie.

At 1:47 a.m. Feb. 1, an individual appears at the door of her Tucson home. The person is wearing a balaclava, gloves and a ...Read more

Newly single Nicole Kidman may have a new suitor in due time, as MGM Resorts Chairman Paul Salem calls dibs on the Oscar winner following her divorce from Keith Urban.

Insiders told TMZ that the Chairman of the Board of ...Read more

When the contents of the bathtub first come into focus at the start of the premiere episode of “56 Days,” you’re not exactly sure what you’re seeing. It’s viscous, with a rainbow sheen not unlike an oil spill —...Read more

BOSTON —People are fleeing high-tax Massachusetts at a much higher rate than those moving to the Bay State, resulting in a net domestic out-migration of 182,145 over the past five years, according to a new watchdog ...Read more

Hours after another shooting claimed the life of a teenage boy on Monday, Leo Williams, mayor of Durham, N.C., slammed the “status quo” of the city’s anti-violence efforts.

“Whether the headlines report a fatality...Read more

NEW YORK — Mayor Zohran Mamdani is expected to propose raising property taxes to balance the city budget on Tuesday, in the face of Gov. Kathy Hochul’s continued resistance to raising taxes on the wealthy and ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Californians looking to resume their weekly commute Tuesday awoke to see several major roads closed after heavy rains drenched much the state Monday — with the expected precipitation far from over.

Among...Read more

When Michelle Eisen and her fellow baristas organized an upstart union at a Starbucks, she and others were frustrated by the messaging from the top.

It was late 2021 and Starbucks’ then-CEO Kevin Johnson was making the ...Read more