Wall Street closed out a winning week Friday as the S&P 500 notched its fifth gain in a row and its biggest weekly increase since November. The benchmark index rose 0.4% and ended the week 4.6% higher, more than making up for its decline in January....

TOKYO (AP) - Asian shares rose Friday, echoing a rally on Wall Street, as hopes grew for a gradual global economic recovery from the damage of the coronavirus pandemic. Japan's benchmark Nikkei 225 surged 1.2% in morning trading to 28,686.62. Austr...

Coronavirus deaths in the United States surpassed 450,000 on Thursday, and daily deaths remain stubbornly high at more than 3,000 a day, despite falling infections and the arrival of multiple vaccines. Infectious disease specialists expect deaths to...

COLUMBUS, OHio (AP) - The indictment of the white Ohio police officer who shot and killed Andre Hill, a Black man, was cheered by Hill's family, even as data shows and experts conclude that the next step - securing a conviction - will be difficult, ...

SPRINGFIELD - The state will receive $19.8 million from a settlement reached Thursday between a coalition of attorneys general, including Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul, and the consulting firm McKinsey. McKinsey has been investigated and sue...

MELBOURNE (AP) - All competition at six Australian Open tuneup events scheduled for Thursday was called off and 520 people who flew to Melbourne for the year's first tennis major were ordered to isolate after a worker at one of the tournaments' quar...

A former Wheeling man and three others with Northwest suburban ties face federal fraud charges alleging they were part of a scheme to unlawfully obtain at least $3 million in mortgage loans, the U.S. attorney's office announced Tuesday. Andrzej Laje...