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Jesse Jackson to step down as head of civil rights organization Rainbow PUSH
Jackson is 81 and has remained active in civil rights in recent years despite health setbacks.
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Legal headaches could just be starting at Northwestern, WVU with Fitzgerald, Huggins, experts say
Fitzgerald was fired this week following hazing allegations in the program.
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Coroner identifies the 3 men killed in a Greyhound bus crash near St. Louis
State police say the bus was traveling westbound along Interstate 70 in Madison County when it crashed into the semis just before 2 a.m.
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James Lewis, suspect in Tylenol poisonings that killed 7 people in the Chicago area in 1982, dead
Police say the death is not considered suspicious.
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Illinois State Museum returns nearly 40 sacred wooden artifacts to Kenya
The statutes are considered sacred and are believed to carry the spirits of deceased male Mijikenda elders.
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Highland Park residents walk parade route where 7 were killed in Fourth of July shooting
One year after a shooter took seven lives at the city’s annual parade, community members were honoring the victims and reclaiming the space to move forward.
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Springfield residents go days without power after ‘widespread, devastating’ derecho winds
Observers said the devastation easily matched that of other Springfield-area weather disasters of memory, including a March 2006 tornado and a March 1978 ice storm. The severe weather phenomenon kicked up straight-line winds topping 70 mph and drove rain horizontally.
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The Supreme Court rejects Biden’s plan to wipe away $400 billion in student loans
Conservative justices were in the majority in Friday’s 6-3 decision that effectively killed the $400 billion plan that President Joe Biden announced last year.
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The Supreme Court rules for a designer who doesn’t want to make wedding websites for gay couples
The Supreme Court’s conservative majority has ruled a Christian graphic artist who wants to design wedding websites can refuse to work with same-sex couples. The decision is a defeat for gay rights.
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Supreme Court strikes down affirmative action in college admissions, says race cannot be a factor
The Supreme Court has ruled that colleges and universities must stop considering race in admissions, forcing institutions of higher education to look for new ways to achieve diverse student bodies.
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Here’s why you better get used to a smoky stubborn summer in much of America
Neither the 235 out-of-control Canadian wildfires nor the stuck weather pattern that’s responsible for this mess of meteorological maladies are stubbornly showing no signs of relenting for the next week or longer.
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Women pushed into ravine at German castle were recent University of Illinois graduates
The Rev. Mark Zhang of Living Water Evangelical Church in Naperville, Illinois, said Tuesday that Eva Liu’s parents confirmed to him that she was killed after a Michigan man attacked her and Kelsey Chang while they were hiking near Neuschwanstein castle June 14.
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The story behind Juneteenth and how it became a federal holiday
June 19th was the day in 1865 when a Union officer reached Galveston, Texas and announced their liberation. It would take another century and a half and lots of rallying for the U.S. government to recognize Juneteenth as a federal holiday.
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Trump indictment unsealed in documents case I Live updates
The indictment unsealed Friday also says that, unaware of any records being moved, former President Donald Trump’s attorney identified 38 documents with “classified” markings and placed them in a folder, which he sealed with clear duct tape handed to him by Trump valet Walt Nauta.
