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The NIH will continue its exclusive deal with the University of Mississippi

A couple from Los Angeles is getting married 38 times in 38 locations across the world. Zain Asher and John Vause report.

Angelina Jolie Pitt's announcement Tuesday that she had more preventive surgery to reduce her risk of developing cancer was applauded by Chicago area physicians and advocates.

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A man with a history of mental illness was sentenced Monday in DuPage County to 35 years in prison for the stabbing death of his father.

White House Chief of Staff Denis McDonough told a group of liberal, pro-Israel supporters the solution was fundamental to U.S. foreign policy

When White House chief pastry chef Bill Yosses left the executive mansion last summer, the president publicly mourned the loss of "the crust master's" mysteriously addictive pies. And when the first family's personal che...

After weeks of record-high snowfall, makeshift one-way streets and our MBTApocalypse, Mayor Marty Walsh has had just about enough of winter.

CAMP DAVID, Md.

Police officers in Philadelphia shoot a resident every week on average but are not well-trained regarding their department's policies on the use of such force and often are not subject to proper investigations after the ...

Governor signs law making Utah only state to use firing squads if lethal drugs are unavailable

Police in Vermont said they are looking for a possible link to the 1971 cold case disappearance of a Middlebury College student in connection with Robert Durst.

Nobody likes it when their contact lenses fall out. That point of view gets murkier when the prices of those lenses hit their floor.

After years of battling traditional players in the television business, the big three streaming services must defend against a variety of new offerings.

The White House found itself in a thorny situation recently when its chief florist, Laura Dowling, quit and was reportedly escorted from the residence on the eve of Valentine's Day.

Two opera singers were among the 150 people killed in a plane crash Tuesday in the French Alps. Oleg Bryjak and Maria Radner were returning from Barcelona, where they performed in Richard Wagner's Siegfried at the Gran T...

Work will begin this spring to replace an escalator that was destroyed one year ago when a Blue Line train crashed into the CTA terminal at O'Hare International Airport, the transit agency said Tuesday, the anniversary o...

Germanwings Flight 4U 9525 experienced a steep and fast drop before it lost contact with air traffic control and crashed into the French Alps on Tuesday, the Lufthansa subsidiary's CEO said at a press conference. Investi...

An Airbus A320 operated by the airline Germanwings went into an eight-minute descent before crashing in southern France on Tuesday, according to airline officials. Speaking at a news conference hours after the crash, Ger...

With his parents' permission, 11-year-old Sam Morgan skipped the new state exam called PARCC this month -- the only sixth-grader at Libertyville's Highland Middle School who refused to take the controversial test.

For the fifth time in 100 years, Vietnam is facing the prospect of being involved in a war with a larger, more powerful country. The country that took on the Central Powers, Japan, France, the United States, and China is...

Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras and German Chancellor Angela Merkel hold talks in Berlin but differences remain.