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Home health care workers in Nevada are lobbying the state legislature to raise caregivers' minimum wage from $16 to $20 an hour. -
Some are offering sanctuary to immigrants, others are ministering to families in different ways. -
What would you do if you had more hours in a day? Here's how to carve out time for your interests and passions — even when you have a lot of responsibilities. -
This week's new releases include a memoir from Amanda Knox reflecting on her murder case and exoneration, a biography of Yoko Ono, new fiction from Column McCann, and the latest Wicked book Elphie.
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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. -
Centerstone is holding an open house event for the public to explore its CASTLE program, which specializes in services for children with autism. -
Thousands of Illinoisians could lose coverage from Medicaid cuts, governor warns -
Pension funding continues to make headlines in Illinois. According to the Illinois Commission on Government Forecasting and Accountability, Illinois’ pensions are funded at 46%. It’s an issue the general assembly continues to address. -
Gov. JB Pritzker says protecting Medicaid from possible federal funding cuts is critical for Illinois. -
Carbondale Community Housing announced today that they have appointed LeeAnna Meadows as its first executive director. -
Representative Bost took a tour of the Crab Orchard Wildlife Refuge so that he could see the work happening at Little Grassy Lake. Bost toured the tunnel where the valve and pipe were built for the spillway. -
State-commissioned study published as Biden-era executive order on PLAs faces legal challenge -
The moments after a bad storm or natural disaster can feel overwhelming.After the immediate threat is gone, storm victims may feel pressured to make high-pressure choices when choosing a contractor.
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Southern California All-American star JuJu Watkins crashed to the floor Monday night against Mississippi State and grabbed her knee. She had to be carried off the floor at the USC Galen Center. -
Depardieu's long and storied career has turned the trial into a post- #MeToo test of the willingness of France and its movie industry to confront sexual violence and hold influential men accountable. -
Brazil's government on Monday apologized to families of victims of the country's military dictatorship whose remains could be among those found in a clandestine mass grave 35 years ago. -
Israeli settlers beat up Hamdan Ballal, one of the Palestinian co-directors of the documentary film No Other Land, in the occupied West Bank, according to witnesses. He was then detained by the Israeli military. -
The California biotech firm said in a statement that it is hoping to find a buyer to address its ongoing financial struggles. -
The head of the U.S. Postal Service is stepping down. Louis DeJoy's exit comes after Trump officials floated controversial ideas for overhauling the agency. -
The decorated skier returned to the sport after six years away due to an injury and has already made a splash. -
The case is nearly identical to a case the court ruled on two years ago from Alabama, though the outcome could make it more difficult for minorities to prevail in redistricting cases. -
President Trump is banking on the public caring more about the politically popular things he is trying to do than how he is going about doing them in his fights with the judicial branch. -
Seth Rogen stars in a new satire that actually finds a new way to make us laugh about Hollywood. Meanwhile, Jake and Logan Paul have given our TV critic another reason to dislike a certain kind of reality TV. -
Jeffrey Goldberg, the editor of The Atlantic, said he was mistakenly added to a group chat with U.S. national security leaders about imminent military strikes on Yemen. -
The fight over the rarely used wartime power has become central to Trump's immigration crackdown agenda and his efforts to stretch the powers of the executive branch.
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