It was a historic day at Mid Suburban League boys gymnastics championships at Hersey in Arlington Heights Friday. First, Hersey's Nate Mabry had to look up his all-around finish last season in the conference meet. As a freshman last year, he finish...

WASHINGTON - Key measures of prices and wages remained high in March, keeping the Federal Reserve on track to raise interest rates next week for the 10th time since March of last year in its drive to defeat high inflation. An index that is closely f...

A restaurant on the outskirts of Nairobi skimps on the size of its chapatis - a flaky, chewy Kenyan flatbread - to save on cooking oil. Cash-strapped Pakistanis reluctantly go vegetarian, dropping beef and chicken from their diets because they can n...

ABOARD BRP MALABRIGO - A Chinese Coast Guard ship blocked a Philippine patrol vessel steaming into a disputed shoal in the South China Sea, causing a frightening near-collision in the latest act of Beijing's aggression in the strategic waterway. The...

MOSCOW (AP) - Imprisoned Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny said Wednesday that he was facing new extremism and terrorism charges that could keep him behind bars for life, as authorities set the stage for a new trial against the Kremlin's lead...

CAIRO - Sudanese families were massing Wednesday at a border crossing with Egypt and at a port city on the Red Sea, desperately trying to escape their country's violence and sometimes waiting for days with little food or shelter, witnesses said. In ...

CAIRO - Sudanese and foreigners streamed out of the capital of Khartoum and other battle zones, as fighting Tuesday shook a new three-day truce brokered by the United States and Saudi Arabia. Aid agencies raised increasing alarm over the crumbling h...

The Cubs celebrated Jackie Robinson's legacy with great fanfare Thursday, as they started a series with Robinson's team, the Dodgers, at Wrigley Field. The Black national anthem, "Lift Every Voice and Sing," by James Weldon Johnson, was played, flag...

Democratic U.S. Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi's $1.4 million first-quarter fundraising total blew the rest of the suburban congressional delegation's collections out of the water, federal records show. Already known to be a skilled fundraiser, Schaumbur...