U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin on Thursday defended his vote to advance a GOP-backed government funding bill that left Democrats ...

Hospitals in Central and Southern Illinois are warning of dire consequences if federal attempts to cut Medicaid go through.

Illinois lawmakers are pushing back after President Donald Trump signed an executive order Thursday to begin dismantling the U.S. Department of Education.

WASHINGTON, D.C. As the Trump administration and Elon Musk attack public education in America by closing offices and laying off 1,300 workers at the Department ...

President Donald Trump signed an executive order to shut down the U.S. Department of Education Thursday afternoon, and ...

A group of senators representing Great Lakes states wrote a letter to NOAA asking about the effects of cuts at the agency to ...

In terms of its “surprise factor,” Shaheen’s announcement fell somewhere in between those of her two aforementioned Democratic colleagues, neither of whom could be considered old by Senate standards, ...

U.S. Sens. Mark R. Warner (D-VA) and Mike Crapo (R-ID), co-chairs of the Senate Community Development Finance Caucus, led a ...

Voting for the Champaign County Consolidated General Election is happening now. There are lots of early voting locations open ...