“Many people who have lived for years and years and years, never causing problems, have been deeply affected by what is going on right now,” Chicago-born pope says.

Three high-profile organizations representing Chicago’s business community issued an unusual joint statement over the weekend rapping President Donald Trump’s plan to deploy Illinois National Guard tr...

Utah Gov. Spencer Cox wants more help from local leaders on his starter home initiative.

The immigrants who have requested a reversal and been reinstated in Social Security databases include a Haitian asylum seeker and a minor child.

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Politicians, activists and residents criticize the White House’s handling of Ukrainian president’s visit.

President Donald Trump’s administration has begun terminating grants to organizations that enforce the Fair Housing Act by taking complaints, investigating and litigating housing discrimination cas…

As Republicans weigh deep cuts, these congressional districts — some red, some blue — have the most to lose.

The State Department claimed a plan to buy thousands of armored Teslas was left over from the Biden administration. A document obtained by NPR shows the Biden plan was far smaller.

The Department of Housing and Urban Development is expected to be slashed in half, according to an internal memo obtained by The Washington Post.

Public health teams are being gutted, imperiling efforts to safeguard organ donation and prevent maternal and infant death. Many workers expressed fear at what would happen to the work they left behin...

Highlighting the real people whose lives have been ruined, the good American jobs that are being destroyed, and the important public goods being lost.

Avian influenza spreads in birds, cows and other animals, and it can sometimes spread to people. In the United States, there has been 68 total reported human cases and one death.

GOP lawmakers try to intervene with the Trump administration as local fallout grows.

That's according to a public State Department procurement document. It comes as ethics experts raise conflict of interest questions about the chief executive of Tesla, Elon Musk, who is a top White Ho...

Yes. And You Can Too.

If enacted, the new US Department of Transportation memo would prioritize funding to whiter, higher-income, more car-dependent areas over communities of color and people who walk, bike, or take public...

The order came in response to a lawsuit filed by 19 attorneys general accusing the president of failing to faithfully execute the nation’s laws when he let DOGE comb through federal computer systems.

The billionaire’s DOGE team has launched an all-out assault on federal agencies, triggering numerous legal objections.

In a letter to the Treasury secretary, the Democratic senator warned against meddling with a system that processes trillions of dollars of transactions.

Look closely at the first two weeks of Donald Trump’s second term and you’ll see something very different than what he wants you to see.

A new order revives an old battle about how much an administration is allowed to coerce cities and states by withholding money.

The temporary federal freeze has shut Illinois out of Medicaid, according to Gov. JB Pritzker's office. The government-funded health insurance program covered about 3.9 million people in Illinois in 2...