Illinois lawmakers in early January could consider easing requirements for residents to change their names, a move proponents say will reduce risks for victims of domestic abuse, transgender residents ...

Former Senate Majority Leader Kari Dziedzic, who came from a famous northeast Minneapolis family and led the 34-member Senate ...

Democrats are bracing for a new — and, for them, bleak — political era as President-elect Trump prepares to take office for a ...

After his felony conviction was dismissed, Derek Gunby of Anderson will spend about two months in prison.

The Washington Elm, where legend has it, George Washington took command of the Continental Army on July 3, 1775, in Cambridge, Massachusetts*, serves in the collective memory of the United States as ...

Prosecutors urged a federal judge to reject a request from a defendant convicted for participation in the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol to attend Trump's inauguration. The upcoming change in the ...

The president-elect made the announcement on Truth Social on Sunday. ABC News’ MaryAlice Parks discusses President Joe Biden's invitation for President-elect Donald Trump to visit the White ...

The danger and hardship gets worse by the day for civilians in eastern Ukraine. Still, they resist leaving the places that have become their homes. By Tyler Hicks and Gaëlle Girbes Human rights ...

2024’s progress hints at things to come. Clark took the WNBA—and basketball—to a new level Banga is tasked with helping find funds for emissions reduction and climate change adaptation ...

Airports are warning of delays for both departing and arriving flights as thick fog continues around the country. Director-General of the World Health Organization, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus ...

51 years ago today, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn published The Gulag Archipelago, a literary investigation of the prison-labor camp system in the Soviet Union between 1918 ...