More than a month after House Republicans surprised Washington by advancing their framework for Trump’s $4.5 trillion in tax breaks and $2 trillion in spending cuts, Senate Republicans voted Thursday to start working on their version.
President Trump’s expansive new tariff regime reverses a decades-long global trend of lower trade barriers that will likely raise prices for U.S. consumers and threatens to sharply slow the economy.
Democratic officials in Illinois and 18 other states filed a lawsuit Thursday against President Donald Trump’s attempt to reshape elections across the U.S., calling it an unconstitutional invasion of states’ clear authority to run their own elections.
Merrillville attorney Alfredo Estrada could face state disciplinary action due to a complaint filed by a former client who alleges that he tried to pursue a sexual relationship with her.
Most incumbents to their municipal, park district and library board posts in an election cycle where most candidates ran unopposed.
A federal judge in Rhode Island says she’ll temporarily block the Trump administration from cutting billions in federal public health dollars.
Longtime Oak Park Public Library Board member Matt Furth and fellow incumbent Maya Ganguly appeared to lose their reelection bids.
Nicholas Barraco testified Thursday at the bench trial of four suburban men accused of violently attacking him, some of his staff members and a patron outside his Southwest Side restaurant in a brawl that ignited outrage.
Gaza’s Health Ministry says an Israeli airstrike has killed at least 27 Palestinians sheltering at a school in northern Gaza and wounded 70 more.
Kevin Cornett, who lives in the 400 block of Northview Drive on Valparaiso’s north side, saw a hopeful sign on his block Thursday — NIPSCO crews working on a power line taken out by a tree during Sunday’s severe storm.