WAUKEGAN, Ill. — Witnesses of the 2022 mass shooting at a Fourth of July parade in a Chicago suburb emotionally relived the massacre at the gunman’s sentencing hearing on Wednesday — even though Robert “Bobby” E. Crimo III did not show his face in court.
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The second-ranking Senate Democrat will retire after a decades-long career representing Illinois in Congress.
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U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said Wednesday that while the Trump administration was committed to playing an active role in global financial institutions, it remained focused on addressing large trade imbalances — especially with respect to China, who…
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A group of California homeowners is taking on insurance companies that they say illegally coordinated to deny coverage to fire-prone areas, leaving thousands of displaced residents drastically underinsured as they fight for funding to rebuild.
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The first lesbian magazine in the United States, Vice Versa, was started in 1947 by Edythe Eyde, aka Lisa Ben, a secretary for RKO Radio Pictures in L.A.
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