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During a heated Senate Intelligence Committee hearing on Tuesday, Sen. Mark Warner described the actions of the nation's top intelligence officials as "sloppy, careless, incompetent behavior. -
A House subcommittee led by Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene and named after Elon Musk's government-efficiency team has set its sights on the public broadcasters. -
Second lady Usha Vance announced on Sunday that she would visit Greenland and watch the territory's famed dog sled race. But now the vice president is joining, and they'll go to a U.S. base instead. -
Drug deaths are declining but the Trump administration's intelligence team has issued a new report describing street fentanyl as a top threat to the U.S.
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This month the SIH Cancer Institute turns 10 years old. The program was started to bring multiple patient services in one location and help doctors collaborate on patient care. -
Motion seeks to halt mass layoffs, block transfer of agency functions to other federal departments -
This week, State Representative Patrick Windhorst addressed several issues related to ethics reforms being brought forward in the House. -
Bethany Huelskoetter, an advanced practice registered nurse with OSF Newsroom, who has treated outdoor injuries for years, provides water safety tips. -
Running Thursday through Saturday at The Varsity Center in Carbondale, the festival is one of the nation's oldest that is affiliated with a university. -
The land in southern Dekalb County once belonged to Chief Shab-eh-nay of the Prairie Band Potawatomi Nation but was seized and sold by the U.S. when the chief was visiting relatives. -
Rising costs and bureaucracy delay Rebuild Illinois projects on campuses statewide -
New Salem volunteers blame state for letting historic site fall into disrepair -
The state agency responsible for keeping Illinois’ most vulnerable children safe has failed to produce legally required public reports after examining what went wrong in hundreds of cases of child deaths and thousands of serious injuries, the Illinois Answers Project reports. -
Gov. JB Pritzker issued a rare veto Friday of a bill that would require warehouse workers in Illinois to know quotas they must meet at their jobs. -
More than 175 years after their reservation in Illinois was illegally sold at auction, the Prairie Band Potawatomi Nation is now in line to get their land back. -
After Erica Blumenstock attended a conference in Colorado, they began thinking of bringing something similar to the Southern Illinois region.
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Following court decisions restricting the Trump administration's policies on immigration enforcement and cuts to federal agencies GOP lawmakers are pushing back. But they're split on how to respond. -
The former TV doctor made it through a tight vote in the Senate Finance committee with only Republican support. -
The breach left military and intelligence experts asking the same questions as the public: Why would top U.S. officials use a free messaging app to discuss classified military plans? -
The next U.S. head count's accuracy would likely be undermined by a census question about citizenship status that GOP lawmakers and President Trump have pushed to add, a new peer-reviewed study finds. -
The rapper Playboi Carti's much-hyped MUSIC leads this week in albums. Plus, the rapper Doechii continues to make gains with her recently released "Anxiety" and Chappell Roan finds minor country chart success with "The Giver." -
A tour of a grow facility in Maryland reveals the wide variety of scents from different cannabis strains. -
The government in Nigeria is warning about the health risks of skin lightening, where potent chemicals can thin and damage skin. It's a booming business in that country and others. -
The MAGA-controlled 118th House passed only 27 bills that became law — the lowest number since the Great Depression. Journalists Annie Karni and Luke Broadwater examine the chaos in a new book. -
Hamdan Ballal, who won an Oscar for No Other Land about Palestinians under Israeli occupation, was attacked by Israeli settlers and later detained by Israeli security forces, his lawyer tells NPR. -
Eleanor Heginbotham was at the post office on New Year's Eve 2022 when her car wouldn't start. For 40 minutes, a group of strangers came to her aid, including someone who would later become a friend. -
Ancient Greek and Roman statues didn't originally look like they do now in museums. A new study says they didn't smell the same, either. -
A Pentagon-wide advisory that went out one week ago warned against using Signal, the messaging app, even for unclassified information.
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