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Senator Joe Manchin III, Democrat of West Virginia, told local news reporters that he believed making Washington, D.C., a state would require a constitutional amendment.

The video, released to the media, captures the fatal drug-related shooting of Chris Delinois, 20, on Monday in what cops called a drug deal gone bad.

Efforts were still underway Friday to identify victims after a deadly stampede at a religious celebration in northern Israel killed 45 people.      

North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper on Friday pardoned a man who was wrongly convicted of second-degree murder and first-degree arson in 1995, a news release from the governor's office said.

John Kerry previously had investments in energy-related companies that may end up being regulated by his policies as the new U.S. climate envoy, disclosure reports show.

US Army Spc. Vanessa Guillén was sexually harassed by another soldier at Fort Hood — but not the one who killed her last year, military officials said in a report released Friday. The Army announced that it had taken ...

At least 18 COVID-19 patients were killed in India when a hospital fire broke out Saturday, amid a devastating second wave of infections ravaging the country. Dozens of other patients at the Welfare Hospital in Bharuch w...

It's a topsy-turvy world in Florida, where vaccinated people can be banned while unvaccinated people can't be.

An internal dispute at the Treasury Department shows the challenge of tracking trillions of dollars of economic relief money.

In the hills above Sarajevo, thousands of uniform white headstones line the slopes, marking the graves of just some of the victims of the Bosnian War.

Three Colorado cops involved in the brutal arrest of a 73-year-old woman with dementia — and later seen laughing and joking about the incident — have resigned, police said Friday. Loveland Officers Austin Hopp and Da...

The businessman, who made a fortune in home-building and insurance, spent lavishly to try to make the city a cultural capital.

Michigan State football has cut ties with a recruit accused of trying to extort an underage girl who refused his advances, school officials said in a statement on Friday. The team said it had informed 18-year-old cornerb...

Saturday's special election in Texas' 6th Congressional District is a bipartisan, 23-candidate scrum -- with the shadow of President Trump looming.

U.S. investigators are seeking to review Rudy Giuliani's phones and computers for communications with more than a dozen people. Including a Ukraine prosecutor.

The mandate was set to expire on May 11.

The employees of Houston-based Citgo were sentenced to lengthy prison terms in November.

Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis is expected to sign into law a bill that would stop Facebook, Twitter and YouTube from censoring politicians like Trump.      

The veteran stage and screen actress Olympia Dukakis has died at 89.

The company reported a nearly 19 percent year-on-year gain in the first quarter, as its subsidiaries -- from a railroad to energy companies to consumer brands -- improved their performances.

Here are the latest updates on the coronavirus in the Chicago area and the rest of Illinois.