Congress Breaks While Shutdown Looms. It is August in Washington, D.C., and the U.S. Congress is on recess. When our federal legislators return in September, their top priority will be to fund the...

It was the sort of conduct one usually associates with totalitarian governments: Law enforcement officers swarm a newspaper office and confiscate computers, servers and cellphones of reporters and...

N.B. nursing home workers at rally call for better wage offerCBC.

MIAMI - The Broward Sheriff's Office is warning people that scammers have begun making calls to the general public claiming to be from their civil division office and asking for money to put an arr...

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (WGEM) - Gov. JB Pritzker signed a law into effect on Monday that allows students that attend work-based learning events, like 4-H and FFA programs, to count as school attendance....

New Illinois law expands excused absences for work-based ...