U.S. Representative Mike Bost (R-Murphysboro) wrote a letter June 25 urging the U.S. Postal Service’s Office of Inspector ...

The summer food program provides children under 18 with a free breakfast and lunch while they are out of school.

U.S. Rep. Darin LaHood is voicing full-throated support for the massive Republican tax and spending bill, despite past ...

After a new federal law cut Medicaid funding for most abortion providers, Planned Parenthood of Illinois warns nearly 30,000 ...

Sen. Dick Durbin on Wednesday urged his Republican colleagues to vote against defunding public media, citing WGLT’s election events as one example of how local stations serve their communities.

President Donald Trump singled out Brazil for import taxes of 50% on Wednesday for its treatment of its former president, ...

A protest at a congressional office building highlighted future research findings that vast cuts to science will erase ...

Former Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. is exploring a return to Congress after his resignation and prison term for campaign finance ...

Concerns about conditions for detainees were heightened when one was rushed out of the detention center Monday in an ambulance.

House Republicans are urging seven U.S. universities to cut ties with a Chinese scholarship program that lawmakers call a “nefarious mechanism” to steal technology for the Chinese ...

If you've ever been on a fishing boat, you might be familiar with live wells—small water tanks, built into the boat, where ...