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After her death in 2014, Rivers left behind a collection of 65,000 jokes — typed on cards and cross-indexed. Her daughter, Melissa Rivers, is donating the collection to the National Comedy Center.

An Iranian-American scholar who had been jailed for months in Iran has been freed on bail. Haleh Esfandiari, director of the Middle East program at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, was on the way to the Tehran airport in December when she was seized.

NPR's Melissa Block talks with Gary Samore, executive director for research at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government.

The more than 370 applications to operate medical marijuana cultivation centers and dispensaries in Illinois are being whittled down. And licenses could…

Gov. Bruce Rauner is ordering a former youth prison be re-opened as a center designed to reduce recidivism in an ongoing plan to reform criminal justice…

A Springfield medical group is requiring patients insured by the state to pay half of their expected surgery bills up front. The requirement from the…

Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel says there’s a big open question involving the sale of the James R Thompson Center downtown, what’s going to happen to the…

JACKSONVILLE, Ill. (AP) - A central Illinois agency is shutting down its detox program because of the state's budget problems. The Wells Center in…

When a hospital employee at California's Torrance Memorial Medical Center checked in for treatment, an anesthesiologist allegedly drew a mustache and teardrops on her face. The doctor faces an investigation and a lawsuit, according to the Los Angeles Times.

Rachel Martin talks to Mario Gisbert, city manager of Panama City Beach, Fla., which was not hit as badly as Panama City, and to Ken Graham, director of the National Hurricane Center.