Sanders' imprint is reflected
ST. LOUIS — Democrats approved a draft of the party platform early Saturday that includes steps to break up large Wall Street banks, advocat...
Immigration deadlock latest bump in road
WASHINGTON — By deadlocking on President Barack Obama’s immigration program, the Supreme Court not only scuttled a policy the Whi...
Move could put financial aid in question
WASHINGTON — An advisory panel to the Education Department has voted to recommend the government sever ties with a group that acc...
Illinois residents begin assessing damage
CHICAGO — Illinois officials and residents began assessing damage Thursday after eight tornadoes damaged rural communities in th...
WASHINGTON — Senators have a bipartisan deal to require labeling of genetically modified ingredients nationally, a week before a labeling law in Vermont goes into effect...
Man died in police van
BALTIMORE — With no witnesses or video inside the metal compartment of a police van, it’s likely no one will ever know what snapped the neck of Fre...
NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Ralph Stanley — a patriarch of Appalachian music, who, with his brother, Carter, helped expand and popularize the genre that became known as bluegrass...
Investors shocked
LONDON — Stock markets crashed, oil prices tumbled and the pound fell to a 31-year low on Friday as Britain’s unprecedented vote to leave the European U...
Flag raising photograph reviewed
DES MOINES, Iowa — One of the six men long identified in an iconic World War II photograph showing the raising of the American flag at Iw...
CHICAGO — At least four tornadoes touched down in northern Illinois overnight as powerful storms swept across the upper Midwest, damaging rural communities and forcing t...
