The share of before-tax income going to the richest 1% of taxpayers more than doubled since the 1980s, according to the ...

Letter: Constituents value action, not bullying When I moved to Piatt County, I signed up for Rep. Mary Miller’s newsletter.

Inflation regularly topped 4% yearly until the mid-1990s, when freer trade and globalization began to intensify.

What the United States does not have is a massive welfare state to match those of many European nations, to which so many U.S. progressives aspire. The overall level of U.S. taxation is comparatively ...

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Albums from Elton John, Tracy Chapman, Mary J. Blige and the cast of “Hamilton” are among the new inductees to the National ...

Kilmar Abrego Garcia had a court order preventing his deportation to his native El Salvador over fears he'd face persecution ...

Human remains were discovered last weekend in a Cook County forest preserve near northwest suburban Wheeling, according to ...

U.S. stocks dove Thursday and surrendered a chunk of their historic gains from the day before as President Donald Trump’s ...

Authorities say Jillian Lauren, author and wife of Weezer bassist Scott Shriner, was shot and injured by Los Angeles police ...

Chart topping country and soft rock band Exile will perform a free concert at 8 p.m. July 3 at Red, White & Blue Days in ...

This trade war with Canada is not the first. Forty-five years ago, Maine potato farmers piled rotten potatoes at their ...