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President Donald Trump's pledge in his State of the Union address to "extend an open hand" to both parties in pursuit of an ambitious policy agenda rammed quickly Wednesday into the reality of a largely gridlocked Congress - and a deeply polarized Washington.

Larry Nassar appeared Wednesday in a Michigan courtroom for the start of his final sentencing hearing, and a judge said that a total of 265 people have come forward to declare that they were abused by the disgraced former gymnastics doctor.

A chartered train carrying dozens of GOP lawmakers to a Republican retreat in West Virginia struck a garbage truck south of Charlottesville, Virginia on Wednesday, lawmakers said.

Michigan State University turned to a hard-nosed former governor and alumnus on Wednesday to right the ship following scathing criticism over former doctor Larry Nassar's ability to molest young female athletes for decades under the guise of medical treatment.

Disc jockey David Mueller was fired from his job at Denver radio station KYGO in June 2013 after Swift said he slipped his hand underneath her dress and grabbed her bare buttocks while they posed together for a photograph.

Half of the Naperville teens surveyed about the stress they feel say they rarely or never talk with someone about it, a fact social service agency officials say they find alarming.

These days, government secrets tend to be leaked digitally with the help of the Internet and weak firewalls. Not so in Australia, where a leak can happen with the simple sale of a secondhand cabinet.

The Chiefs and Redskins managed to divert attention from Super Bowl LII with the news the Chiefs are shipping quarterback Alex Smith to Washington come March 14, when the 2018 league year kicks off.

American curling champion Tabitha Peterson has heard it all: Anyone can curl. My grandmother can curl. The Swiffer sport. Housekeeping comes to the Winter Games."Everyone thinks they can go to the Olympics in curling because they think it's so easy," she says, shaking her ponytail. She's sitting...

The final sentencing hearing began Wednesday for disgraced former sports doctor Larry Nassar, who will again be confronted by scores of victims as he faces another prison sentence for molesting gymnasts at an elite Michigan club run by an Olympic coach.

Seven years after Dynegy Inc. scrapped one of the last coal plants in downstate Illinois, environmental groups are accusing the company of failing to prevent toxic waste stored nearby from seeping into the state’s only National Scenic River.

Watching John Mulaney do stand-up is like watching a pitch meeting for a multicamera, multicharacter sketch show, where an overworked but energetic and eager young writer is running through all of the bits on his own in an earnest attempt to prove to his boss that, golly gee, I know this could...

Seven years after Dynegy Inc. scrapped one of the last coal plants in downstate Illinois, environmental groups are accusing the company of failing to prevent toxic waste stored nearby from seeping into the state’s only National Scenic River.

Traditional letter grades could become a thing of the past as Illinois school districts refine lesson plans and curricula to align with Common Core and other state standards.

Was it just me or did members of the American political left look as if they wanted to stab their eyes out with forks during President Donald Trump’s State of the Union speech?

Several members of a Chicago police gang team have been stripped of their police powers amid a federal criminal probe into allegations they ripped off drug dealers, law enforcement sources told the Chicago Tribune.

By now we all know about state Sen. Ira Silverstein’s rocky political road — that he engaged in “unbecoming” conduct, according to an official report, and the fallout has left him battling to survive a challenge to his ballot petitions.

Fox and the NFL have agreed to a five-year deal for Thursday night football games.Those games previously were televised by CBS and NBC, two of the league's other network partners. But Fox announced Wednesday that it will televise 11 games between Weeks 4 and 15, with simulcasts on NFL Network and...

A day that prescription-drug middlemen had long feared finally arrived.

Chicago's Cardinal Blase Cupich, speaking at a Glencoe synagogue on Monday, said both Catholics and Jews face a common problem in attracting a younger generation to their religions.

A man with a broom came outside after workers removed the body from the porch of the Lincoln Square home early Wednesday.

A man with a broom came outside after workers removed the body from the porch of the Lincoln Square home early Wednesday.

Before taking her seat at the U.S. Capitol Tuesday night to hear her husband give his first State of the Union address, Melania Trump had not been seen publicly for much of January.

Dogs, cats and even pigs and miniature horses have made it into airline passenger cabins as emotional support animals in recent years.

A group led by Blackstone Group agreed to buy a majority stake in Thomson Reuters Corp.'s financial and risk unit in a deal that values the business at $20 billion, sealing plans for the firm's biggest buyout in a decade.