Politics

While he says he would not use Trump’s exact words, Darin LaHood said the president is correct to question why Hunter Biden, then son of a sitting Vice President Joe Biden, earned $50,000 a month in Ukraine.

A federal judge Monday emphatically rejected President Donald Trump's challenge to the release of his tax returns to New York prosecutors, saying the president's broad claim of immunity from all criminal investigations is at odds with the Constitution. But an appeals court blocked any handover of...

The demand for documents capped a tumultuous week that widened the constitutional battle between the executive branch and Congress and sharpened the political standoff with more witnesses, testimony and documents to come.

A Chicago judge decided Friday to keep a special prosecutor looking into why the state's attorney's office abruptly dismissed charges against actor Jussie Smollett, finding there's "no indication he harbors any bias."

The former Peoria-area Congressman who presided over the Clinton impeachment two decades ago says Democrats should forget about going after President Trump.

Attorneys for thousands of victims of the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history said Thursday that they reached a settlement expected to pay between $735 million and $800 million to those who sued over the Las Vegas massacre.

With a Chicago teachers strike possibly starting two weeks from today, Mayor Lori Lightfoot appears unwilling to budge on a majoring sticking point.

Gov. J.B. Pritzker on Wednesday was talking about the state’s new road plan when the subject turned to State Sen. Martin Sandoval, D-Chicago, who is embroiled in a federal investigation.

Bernie Sanders' campaign said Wednesday that the Democratic presidential candidate had a heart procedure for a blocked artery and was canceling events and appearances "until further notice."

It was supposed to be a day of routine diplomacy, but U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo couldn't escape the furor back in Washington surrounding the House impeachment probe of President Donald Trump.