Republican Chris Kachiroubas is facing a challenge from Democrat Candice Adams for DuPage County circuit court clerk in the Nov. 3 general election. Adams, an attorney from Lisle seeking her first elected post, is facing incumbent Kachiroubas of Elm...

Republican Sargis Sangari of Skokie, head of a think tank on Middle Eastern affairs, is challenging incumbent Democrat Jan Schakowsky of Evanston in the race for the 9th Congressional District, which spreads from a significant part of Chicago's Nort...

Republican Patrick W. O'Brien is challenging incumbent Democrat Kim Foxx of Flossmoor in the race for Cook County state's attorney. Q: Why are you running for this office, whether for reelection or election for the first time? Is there a particular ...

Republican Valerie Ramirez Mukherjee of Northbrook is running against incumbent Democrat Brad Schneider in the 10th Congressional District. Q: What has Donald Trump's unconventional leadership taught us about politics in the United States? What is t...

BOSTON (AP) - TV actresses. A well-known fashion designer. Business leaders. Entrepreneurs. One by one, they have admitted to using their wealth to bribe and cheat their kids' ways into top universities across the country, often as athletic recruits...

MOSCOW (AP) - Russian scientists have belatedly published first results from early trials into the experimental Sputnik V vaccine, which received government approval last month but drew considerable criticism from experts, as the shots had only been...

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) - Black Lives Matter protesters in Portland, Oregon, shifted their focus to the city's mayor, and police declared a riot as people broke windows, vandalized a business and set a small fire inside the upscale apartment building wh...

LOS ANGELES (AP) - First Chadwick Boseman slipped on the cleats of Jackie Robinson, then the Godfather of Soul's dancing shoes, portraying both Black American icons with a searing intensity that commanded respect. When the former playwright suited u...

WASHINGTON (AP) - President Donald Trump says former Vice President Joe Biden 'œis not the savior of America's soul,'ť and "if given the chance, he will be the destroyer of American greatness.'ť Trump said during Thursday's closing night of the Repu...

WASHINGTON (AP) - President Donald Trump has made a surprise appearance at Baltimore's Fort McHenry following Vice President Mike Pence's speech at the Republican National Convention. The president, first lady, Pence and Pence's wife stood on stage ...