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Gov. JB Pritzker says Illinois needs to prioritize improving access to higher education and job training, and programs in his proposed state budget for the 2023 fiscal year will help accomplish that goal.

As more people grow concerned about the dwindling population of bees, some are beginning to act on that concern. Folks are growing flowers to entice the…

Former Reditus Labs CEO Aaron Rossi was sentenced Tuesday to an additional three years in prison for COVID-era billing fraud. That's on top of a five-year sentence he's already serving in a separate case.

Can Republicans again become the nation's dominant majority party? A century ago, Republicans didn't just control Congress and the White House, they held commanding majorities. Political historian Lewis Gould and Republican strategist David Winston weigh the political climate.

Mary Louise Kelly talks with Mayor Derrick Freeman of Port Arthur, Texas, which is east of Houston and has experienced flooding as well.

Scott Simon and former director Deborah Rutter look out over a soon-to-be shuttered Kennedy Center.

Can the state of Illinois grant a permanent property tax exemption to a private, for-profit business ? That's the question for a court battle getting…

A grassroots movement opposing privately run immigrant jails, which grew under former President Donald Trump, has continued and found a more receptive audience under President Biden.

Across the country, theaters and civic organizations commemorate the 23rd anniversary of the Columbine school shootings by presenting readings of eight short plays by teenagers.

Prime Minister David Cameron says the U.K. could issue Islamic bonds as early as next year. The country is already the biggest Islamic finance center outside the Muslim world, and Islamic financing was used to build the Olympic Village. But most important, the sector is expected to grow threefold globally by 2017.