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The Chicago Park District voted Wednesday to officially change the name of the West Side park to honor the renowned abolitionists Anna and Frederick Douglass.

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The report recommends that 19 soldiers be investigated by police for possible charges, including murder.

Scientists who initially warned about contaminated surfaces now say that the virus spreads primarily through inhaled droplets, and that there is little to no evidence that deep cleaning mitigates the threat indoors.

The US military on Tuesday reportedly tallied 1,314 new coronavirus cases — a record daily amount, as COVID-19 numbers among the country's civilian population have been concurrently surging. The jump in military cases,...

One of President Trump’s campaign lawyers in Pennsylvania was placed under official protection following threats against her, according to court papers filed Wednesday evening. Philadelphia lawyer Linda Kerns “has be...

One of the detained presidential candidates, the popular musician-turned-lawmaker Bobi Wine, was accused of breaking coronavirus restrictions at campaign rallies.

Two weeks after Election Day and with the counting of ballots completed, Democratic U.S. Rep. Lauren Underwood formally declared victory Wednesday night over Republican challenger Jim Oberweis in the west and north subur...

Four teenage boys from Park Ridge are facing criminal charges in connection with an alleged attack that was captured on video and shared via social media earlier this month, Niles police said.

Republicans, who tend to downplay the virus and see it as inevitable, and Democrats, who see it as a controllable threat, live in different realities.       

A group of Harvard students circulated a petition aimed at keeping Trump officials from teaching, attending or speaking at the Ivy League school.

A Sydney prison guard has admitted she had sex with an inmate, and swore under her breath after the judge indicated she wouldn’t be sentenced soon.

A nightmare date who was accused by an Atlanta woman of brutally beating her - telling her the outing "cost too much" - has been collared in upstate New York, according to reports. He was charged with kidnapping, false i...

Derek Chauvin prosecutors want to introduce video of a 2017 arrest in the fired cop's murder case.

This kit is one of the firsts that could be fully self-administered at home, with results provided without necessitating sending the results to the lab.

Asteroid 2020 VT4 whizzed by about 240 miles from Earth on Friday the 13th - and wasn't discovered until the next day.

The Trump White House on Wednesday tried to make Thanksgiving a new political flashpoint, calling restrictions recommended by health experts and governors "Orwellian."

Punxsutawney, the Pennsylvania town that hosts Groundhog Day every February, said in-person visitors would not be present for this year's festivities because of the continuing coronavirus pandemic.

The charter will set out how to deal with issues of consent for sex, actors' physical and psychological health, legal protection, human dignity, and distribution rights.

The removal of four opposition lawmakers triggered the en masse resignation of their remaining colleagues, the latest move in a deepening crackdown against Beijing's critics following last year's huge and often violent d...

After the US Civil War, newly emancipated Black growers won a share of the agricultural landscape. They did so despite fierce backlash and the ultimately failed promises of Reconstruction. By the 1910s, nearly a million ...

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