Hosemann, the Republican leader of the Senate, has publicly said he would like to see the state's grocery tax, the highest of its kind in the nation, reduced, though he hasn't specified how much of a ...

Under Trump, the USDA also eliminated the Grain Inspection, Packers, and Stockyards Administration (GIPSA), an agency originally designed to protect small farmers and ranchers against meatpacking ...

The mud that covers Alicia Montero is the signature uniform of impromptu army of volunteers. For a third day, they are shoveling and sweeping the muck and debris out of ...

Bernard “Bernie” Marcus, the co-founder of The Home Depot, the world’s largest home improvement chain, a billionaire philanthropist, and a big Republican donor, has died. He was 95. Marcus died ...

One week after catastrophic flooding devasted eastern Spain, María Murgui still holds out hope that her father is alive and among the missing. He went out to save his motorbike ...

A judge has ordered Rudy Giuliani to appear in a New York courtroom on Thursday to explain why he missed a deadline to surrender his belongings as part of a ...

The final day of voting in the 2024 presidential election has arrived with tens of millions of Americans having already cast their ballots. Those include record numbers in battleground states ...

URBANA — A hearing to extend voting hours in Champaign County has been scheduled for 1:30 p.m. today. Judge Ben Dyer will ...

Tropical Storm Rafael is chugging past the western tip of Jamaica and is expected to strengthen into a hurricane as it heads toward Cuba. A hurricane warning is in effect ...

Ukraine’s defense minister says Ukrainian troops have engaged for the first time with North Korean units that were recently deployed to help Russia in the war with its neighbor. Another ...

Police say they have arrested a 23-year-old man on suspicion of involvement in a botched art heist at a gallery in the southern Netherlands targeting four valuable Andy Warhol screenprints.

System failures at polling places throughout Champaign County have Election Day off to an uneven start. Voters in line at several locations said they were told by election officials that technical ...