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A federal judge in Washington has allowed President Donald Trump’s mass firings of federal workers to move forward

“I cannot imagine a worse choice,” Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., told colleagues before the 51-49 vote

Trump undercut the Senate GOP’s efforts on Wednesday, calling on both chambers to pass the House budget resolution

President Donald Trump’s restrictions on foreign aid and targeting of a key agency funding programs around the world may be offering an opening to America’s biggest adversary — China

The Trump administration is falsely claiming tens of millions of dead people over 100 years old are receiving improper Social Security payments

The Trump administration has designated eight Latin American crime organizations as “foreign terrorist organizations,” upping its pressure on cartels operating in the U.S. and on anyone aiding them

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has accused President Donald Trump of living in a Russian-made “disinformation space.”

Kennedy’s remarks were delivered during a welcome ceremony for the new health secretary at the agency’s headquarters in Washington as a measles outbreak among mostly unvaccinated people raged in West Texas

U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan found that there are legitimate questions about Musk’s authority, but said there isn’t evidence of the kind of grave legal harm that would justify a temporary restraining order.

The Trump administration is giving America’s schools and universities two weeks to eliminate diversity initiatives or risk losing federal money

Will County craft breweries say the Trump administration's new tariffs on imported aluminum are likely to impact their bottom lines or force them to raise prices

The Trump administration has begun firing several hundred Federal Aviation Administration employees, upending staff on a busy air travel weekend and just weeks after a fatal mid-air collision in Washington

About 30 people gathered on the First Avenue bridge between Sterling and Rock Falls on Saturday, Feb. 15, 2025, to protest mass deportations.

French President Emmanuel Macron has called leaders from key European Union nations and the United Kingdom to his ornate Elysee Palace for an emergency meeting Monday

Cheryl Lee, president of Northern Illinois Home Builders Association and president of CL Design-Build, Inc., a custom home builder in the Chicago Western Suburbs, said the expanded Trump tariffs “will undoubtedly impact both consumers and the homebuilding industry."

The Trump administration has halted the firings of hundreds of federal employees who were tasked with working on the nation’s nuclear weapons programs, in an about-face that has left workers confused and experts cautioning DOGE’s blind cost cutting will put communities at risk

It's been nearly a month in office for President Donald Trump, and he's acted with dizzying speed to reorder the American economy and global diplomacy

President Donald Trump is taking a blowtorch to the rules that have governed world trade for decades

For some in DeKalb County, homeownership was only possible through Habitat for Humanity. But come March 1, if costs rise as expected on imported goods such as lumber, efforts to make housing more accessible could be thwarted, agency Executive Director Kim McIver said.

Many U.S. adults believe the federal government is overspending

President Donald Trump on Thursday rolled out his plan to increase U.S. tariffs to match the tax rates that other countries charge on imports, possibly triggering a broader economic confrontation with allies and rivals alike

With the TRUST Act in place statewide, non-sanctuary resolutions in Grundy County and throughout the state have little legal power, even in the wake of Trump’s changes to federal immigration policy

Russian officials and state media have taken a triumphant tone after President Donald Trump jettisoned three years of U.S. policy and announced he would likely meet soon with Russian President Vladimir Putin to negotiate a peace deal in the almost three-year-long war in Ukraine

The Senate on Thursday confirmed Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as President Donald Trump’s health secretary, putting the prominent vaccine skeptic in control of $1.7 trillion in federal spending, vaccine recommendations and food safety

Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker made a “special announcement” on Friday: Illinois is renaming Lake Michigan to “Lake Illinois” and annexing Green Bay, Wisconsin, “to protect itself against” the Green Bay Packers.

U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth says NATO membership for Ukraine is unrealistic and in sweeping remarks suggested Kyiv should abandon hopes of winning all its territory back from Russia

The Senate has confirmed Tulsi Gabbard as President Donald Trump’s director of national intelligence

President Donald Trump’s most powerful adviser, Elon Musk, has made a rare public appearance at the White House to defend the swift and extensive cuts he’s pushing across the federal government while acknowledging there may be mistakes

Excluding the volatile food and energy categories, core consumer prices rose 3.3% in January compared with a year ago

In the NIH lawsuit, 22 state attorneys general filed suit Monday to block enforcement of a new directive that sought to cap the administrative overhead costs. The move would have cost about $67 million annually to the University of Illinois System

President Donald Trump’s tariffs on steel imports this week could wreak havoc on American auto manufacturing, industry leaders say

Pope Francis has issued a major rebuke to the Trump administration’s mass deportation of migrants

Ukraine has offered to strike a deal with U.S. President Donald Trump for continued American military aid in exchange for developing Ukraine’s mineral industry

In 2020, researchers from Harvard University and the University of California, Davis, found that the tariffs created 1,000 jobs – but reduced employment elsewhere by 75,000

About 60 area residents, many holding homemade signs, turned out Sunday afternoon for a rally organized by local lawmakers to ensure Medicaid would maintain its current coverage levels.

The Trump administration has appealed a judge’s ruling finding the White House had not fully followed his order to unfreeze federal spending and must release billions of dollars in funding

The Republican president signed the pardon on Monday, calling the Democratic former governor “a very fine person.”

President Donald Trump says he has directed the Treasury Department to stop minting new pennies, citing the rising cost of producing the one-cent coin

Pope Francis’ point-man on migration and development has urged the Trump administration to remember Christian principles about caring for others

President Donald Trump says he'll announce on Monday that the United States will impose 25% tariffs on all steel and aluminum imports, including from Canada and Mexico, as well as other import duties later in the week

President Donald Trump said he is serious about wanting Canada to become the 51st state in an interview that aired Sunday during the Super Bowl preshow

In the three weeks since the Republican president has been back in the White House, Musk has rapidly burrowed deep into federal agencies while avoiding public scrutiny of his work

A federal judge has dealt President Donald Trump and billionaire ally Elon Musk their first big setback in their dismantling of the U.S. Agency for International Development, ordering a temporary halt to plans to pull thousands of agency staffers off the job

President Donald Trump says he's firing members of the board of trustees for the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts and naming himself chairman

Governor JB Pritzker also released a video satirizing President Trump where Pritzker promised to rename Lake Michigan to Lake Illinois, and also would annex Green Bay, Wisconsin "to protect itself against enemies foreign and domestic."

House Republicans have missed another deadline to produce a massive budget package of tax cuts and slashed spending

For the second legislative session in a row, state Sen. Willie Preston, D-Chicago, is pushing to ban several chemicals from Illinois food items.

The Trump administration sued Chicago and the state of Illinois on Thursday alleging that ‘sanctuary’ laws in the nation’s third-largest city “thwart” federal efforts to enforce immigration laws

Israel says it has begun preparations for the departure of large numbers of Palestinians from the Gaza Strip in line with President Donald Trump’s plan for the territory

A line of Mexican National Guard and Army trucks are rumbling along the border separating Ciudad Juárez and El Paso, Texas, among the first of 10,000 troops Mexico has sent to its northern frontier following tariff threats by President Donald Trump