Tariffs threaten to upend markets American farmers depend on
U.S. row crop farmers produce enormous quantities of food, and they depend on selling lots of it overseas. They thrive under free trade policies.
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Trump announces sweeping new tariffs to promote US manufacturing, risking inflation and trade wars
President Donald Trump declared on Wednesday a 10% baseline tax on imports from all countries and higher tariff rates on dozens of nations that run trade surpluses with the United States.
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Champaign County April 2025 general election results
Sveral mail-in ballots are expected to arrive in the coming days. Those votes could be decisive in school board, city council and and mayoral races.
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Illinois attorney general joins lawsuit against Trump public health care cuts
Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul, along with 21 other attorney generals and two governors, are suing U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and his department over the abrupt termination of $11 billion in public health funding.
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White House says it’s ‘case closed’ on the Signal group chat review
The White House has concluded its review of how Atlantic editor Jeffrey Goldberg was inadvertently included on a Signal message group chat of high-ranking officials discussing impending strikes in Yemen.
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Trump says he’s considering ways to serve a third term as president
It’s the clearest indication he’s looking for ways to breach a constitutional barrier against continuing to lead the country after his second term ends in early 2029.
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Despite Trump order, Illinois won’t require voter proof of citizenship
Illinois voters casting ballots in the April 1 consolidated elections will not be required to show proof of U.S. citizenship, despite an executive order issued this week by President Donald Trump.
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Government | Health | Politics
Health and Human Services will lay off 10,000 workers and close agencies in a major restructuring
Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. criticized the department he oversees as an inefficient “sprawling bureaucracy” in a video announcing the restructuring Thursday.
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Rantoul mayoral candidates talk local economy, policy goals ahead of upcoming election
Rantoul Mayor Charles Smith is facing a challenge from District 5 Village Trustee Samuel Hall III. Both candidates say they want to support the local economy and rebuild village infrastructure.
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A university, a rural Illinois town and their fight to survive Trump’s war on higher education
The administration’s research funding and DEI cuts present an existential threat to regional public institutions like Southern Illinois University, the economic backbone of the conservative rural region it serves.
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4 takeaways from PBS and NPR’s testimony on Capitol Hill
NPR CEO Katherine Maher and her counterpart at PBS, Paula Kerger, appeared Wednesday before a House subcommittee on government efficiency, where they defended public broadcasting against accusations by Republican lawmakers of political bias.
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The Atlantic releases the Signal chat showing Hegseth’s detailed attack plans against the Houthis
The disclosure follows two intense days during which leaders of President Donald Trump’s intelligence and defense agencies have struggled to explain how details — that current and former U.S. officials have said would have been classified — wound up on an unclassified Signal chat that included Atlantic Editor-in-Chief Jeffrey Goldberg.
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U.S. intel leaders are grilled again about the leaked Signal chat as more details emerge
Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard, CIA Director John Ratcliffe and other top U.S. intelligence officials testified before the House Intelligence Committee on Wednesday — in a session dominated by discussion of an extraordinary breach of security.
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‘Laced with uncertainty’: rehired Veterans Affairs worker expects she’ll lose her job again
One woman who was rehired at the Veterans Affairs facility in Danville after being fired is worried that she won’t be back for long.
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WATCH NOW: PBS, NPR leaders testify before DOGE on federal support for public broadcasting
PBS, NPR and their respective local stations are funded in part by a $535 million appropriation provided by Congress through the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, in addition to substantial foundation, corporate and viewer donation support.
