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President Donald Trump on Friday signed a $2.2 trillion rescue package, tossing a life preserver to a U.S. economy and health care system left flailing by the coronavirus pandemic.

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo hoped to persuade President Donald Trump to reverse a decision to boot New Yorkers from programs that allow travelers to avoid long lines at U.S. at the border. The Democratic governor and Republican president met Thursday to discuss their dispute over New York’s new “Green Light” law, which lets unauthorized immigrants obtain state driver’s...

A lawsuit seeking to return federal protection to the real bears that inspired teddy bears has been thrown out by a federal judge. The people and environmental groups who sued in 2018 didn’t provide any evidence to back up their claims that they would be hurt by the decision to remove Louisiana black bears from the “threatened” list, wrote District Judge John Bate...

Gov. J.B. Pritzker hopes to advance Illinois priorities while in Washington, D.C.

The “Bulletin of Atomic Scientists” unveiled their ‘Doomsday Clock’, revealing how close they believe the world is to a destruction of mankind. For the first time, the hands of the clock are only 100 seconds away from midnight.

The 12-year-old girl who died Tuesday of suicide at her boarding school in Washington, D.C. had been bullied, her devastated mother says.

President Donald Trump took the stage in the ballroom of his luxury hotel in Washington on Saturday night, just days before an impeachment vote, to rail against his political rivals as a crowd of high-dollar Republican donors and party activists cheered. In the weeks leading up to the invitation-only event, advertised rates for a standard room at the Trump International…

Chicago is once again the “rattiest” city in the country. For the fifth consecutive year, Chicago ranked first on Orkin’s list of the most rat-infested cities in the United States.

Rip Taylor, the madcap mustached comedian with a fondness for confetti-throwing who became a television game show mainstay in the 1970s, has died. He was 84.

Ricky Martin’s family keeps getting bigger. The 47-year-old “Livin’ La Vida Loca” singer announced onstage while accepting an award at the 23rd annual Human Rights Campaign National Dinner in Washington D.C. on Saturday that he and husband Jwan Yosef are expecting another addition via surrogate. Martin attended the event with him and two of their three children, twin sons Valentino...

He spent over three decades reimagining classic children’s tales like L. Frank Baum’s “The Wizard of Oz,” Beatrix Potter’s “The Tale of Peter Rabbit,” Grimm fairytales and Aesop’s fables.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection said Friday evening that systems around the country were being restored after an earlier outage prevented U.S. immigration officials from processing thousands of arriving passengers during a busy summer travel day.

U.S. Customs and Border Patrol confirmed a computer issue was causing delays at airports across the U.S. on Friday.

A mother and daughter visiting Chicago for a “girl’s trip” were among the crush of people caught in a stampede triggered by a false gun report Thursday night after Navy Pier’s Fourth of July fireworks.