A progressive candidate for governor of Illinois was deserted by endorsers and supporters Wednesday night, after he bowed to pressure and ditched a running mate who had been critical of Israel. State Sen. Daniel Biss, a Democrat who had entered the ...

PHOENIX (AP) - President Donald Trump spared former Arizona Sheriff Joe Arpaio the prospect of serving jail time in granting the first pardon of his turbulent tenure, wiping away the lawman's recent federal conviction stemming from his immigration p...

The last time Arsenal visited Anfield in the Premier League, Arsene Wenger made the stunning decision to drop top scorer Alexis Sanchez to the bench. To some, the selection signaled the beginning of the end of Sanchez's time at the London club: The ...

LOS ANGELES (AP) - Dick Gregory, the comedian and activist and who broke racial barriers in the 1960s and used his humor to spread messages of social justice and nutritional health, has died. He was 84. Gregory died late Saturday in Washington, D.C....

WASHINGTON (AP) - President Donald Trump's racially fraught comments about a deadly neo-Nazi rally have thrust into the open some Republicans' deeply held doubts about his competency and temperament, in an extraordinary public airing of worries and ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) - One-time Republican candidate for New York governor Carl Paladino, whose published insults of former President Barack Obama provoked a public uproar, was removed from Buffalo's school board Thursday for improperly discussing tea...

WASHINGTON (AP) - It took President Donald Trump two days to do what both Republicans and Democrats said should have come fast and easy. In his carefully worded statement Monday, Trump condemned members of the Ku Klux Klan, neo-Nazis and white supre...

WASHINGTON - It took President Donald Trump three days to do what should have come fast and easy. In his carefully worded statement Monday, Trump condemned members of the Ku Klux Klan, neo-Nazis and white supremacists as "repugnant." He vowed that h...

First-term Rolling Meadows Alderman Jerry Hill, whose family was among the city's first residents, has died. Hill, 64, who was elected Ward 2 alderman in April, died at home Sunday night, Mayor Len Prejna confirmed Monday. A cause of death was not i...

RENO, Nev. (AP) - On the same day a Republican challenger jumped in the race against Sen. Dean Heller, dozens of mostly Democratic protesters rallied outside his Reno office to denounce his latest position on health care. The attacks illustrate the ...