NEW YORK (AP) - The Latest on the U.S. Open tennis tournament (all times local): 11:50 p.m. Two-time Grand Slam runner-up Karolina Pliskova hit 24 aces, saved a match point and edged 75th-ranked American Amanda Anisimova in three sets to reach the U...

NEW ORLEANS (AP) - Commercial flights resumed in New Orleans and power returned to parts of the business district Thursday, four days after Hurricane Ida slammed into the Gulf Coast, but electricity, drinking water and fuel remained scarce across mu...

Gov. J.B. Pritzker said Thursday that he's "very concerned" about the U.S. Supreme Court's decision not to block a new Texas law banning most abortions in the state, and vowed Illinois would continue to welcome women from elsewhere who need reproduc...

NEW YORK (AP) - If the last-name chorus of 'œRuuuuuune!'ť in support of his relatively unknown teenage opponent at the U.S. Open bothered Novak Djokovic, he never let anyone know. Nor was there any visible evidence that Djokovic was shaken by the sh...

Suburban school districts are being hit by a nationwide shortage of school bus drivers, exacerbated by an unrelenting COVID-19 pandemic that has created a scarcity of workers in many areas of the economy. The situation in the suburbs is not yet as d...

NEW YORK (AP) - The Latest on the U.S. Open tennis tournament (all times local): ___ 1:05 a.m. Daniil Medvedev ended a long first day at the U.S. Open by beating Richard Gasquet 6-4, 6-3, 6-1. Medvedev, the No. 2 seed who was the runner-up in 2019, ...

NEW YORK (AP) - The Latest on the U.S. Open tennis tournament (all times local): ___ 9:40 p.m. Novak Djokovic has started his bid to make history at the U.S. Open with a four-set victory over Danish teenager Holger Vitus Nodskov Rune. The top-seede...

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) - The Taliban reveled in their victory after the American withdrawal from Afghanistan, reiterating their pledge Tuesday to bring peace and security to the country after decades of war. Their anxious citizens, meanwhile, are w...