WASHINGTON (AP) - The past week's stomach-churning stock market losses were ignited by a sudden and contagious fear of surging inflation and higher interest rates. Many investors worried that inflation would send borrowing rates up and sap corporate...

Elgin High School environmental science students help bring global experts virtually into the classroom as part of the third annual National Biodiversity Teach-In this month. The series of free webinars feature more than three dozen scientists disc...

> winter storm is predicted to dump up to a foot of snow on the suburbs through noon today. National Weather Service meteorologists first issued a winter storm warning from Thursday night through 9 p.m. Friday, with heavy snow making travel "very ...

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TOKYO (AP) - Asian shares recouped losses across the board on Wednesday, mirroring the "correction" rally on Wall Street, though gains were in a modest range and most benchmarks fell back after opening sharply higher. Japan's benchmark Nikkei 225 in...

JOINT BASE ELMENDORF-RICHARDSON, Alaska (AP) - Vice President Mike Pence's six-day swing through Asia, anchored by a stop at the Winter Olympics in South Korea, is set to focus less on sports than the host country's bellicose neighbor to the North. ...

LONDON (AP) - Stock markets around the world took a battering Tuesday, following a dramatic sell-off on Wall Street that triggered concerns that a potentially healthy pullback from record highs could turn into a protracted bear market. The selling, ...

NEW YORK (AP) - The latest on developments in financial markets (all times local): 10:20 p.m. In Asia, Japanese and Korean benchmarks recouped losses from the day before in early Wednesday trading, mirroring a similar "correction" rally on Wall Stre...