PHILADELPHIA (AP) - President Barack Obama used what is likely his last high-profile speech as president to make a powerful case for Hillary Clinton's election, saying it wasn't even a close choice between her and Donald Trump, whom he described as ...

U.S. Rep. Tammy Duckworth told the Democratic National Convention on its final night that she owed her political career to the crew that saved her life after her Black Hawk helicopter was shot down in Iraq in 2004. "I started that day doing what I l...

PHILADELPHIA (AP) - On a night awash in history, Hillary Clinton triumphantly became the first woman to lead a major American political party toward the White House, breaking through a barrier that painfully eluded her eight years ago. She put an el...

Gov. Bruce Rauner's budget fight with Illinois Democrats is on hold, but hundreds of miles away, Democrats are talking at their Philadelphia convention about who among them might take on the first-term Republican governor in 2018. Chris Kennedy, for...

PHILADELPHIA - On a night awash in history, Hillary Clinton triumphantly became the first woman to lead a major American political party toward the White House, breaking through a barrier that painfully eluded her eight years ago. She put an electri...

NEW YORK (AP) - As a TV impresario and political puppet-master, Roger Ailes is unmatched in our time. He didn't invent anything, as Ted Turner did with "superstations" and cable news. He didn't assemble a media empire, as did his now-former boss Rup...

NEW YORK (AP) - It was a moment the head of any fashion label hopes for: A presidential candidate's daughter wears the brand's dress as she introduces him to accept the nomination. The speaker was Ivanka Trump, the sleeveless studded sheath came fro...

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) - Declaring "the climate of this country has moved in my direction," white supremacist David Duke registered Friday for Louisiana's U.S. Senate race, saying he was partially spurred by the recent shooting deaths of three law en...

As he runs for a second term in a state that leans Democratic and in a year when he's disavowed his party's presidential candidate, Republican U.S. Sen. Mark Kirk says the 2008 election looms large in his mind. Kirk, of Highland Park, was facing a ...