The James Webb Space Telescope may have detected life-associated gas in the atmosphere of a far-off planet. The news is being ...

The trade war the U.S. is waging with countries around the world could reshape the global economy. NPR's Planet Money brings a dispatch from Canada.

With many county public defender offices pushed to the limits throughout Illinois, state lawmakers are moving forward on ...

Katherine Maher, president and CEO of National Public Radio, talks with NPR's Mary Louise Kelly about the White House ...

An independent vaccine advisory committee to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention met to discuss and vote on ...

Shapiro, a Democrat, is Jewish and has said he supports a two-state solution to the Israel-Palestinian conflict.

The Lyrid meteor shower will reach a peak later this month, but stargazers can catch a first glimpse beginning Wednesday ...

On Tuesday, Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker blasted the visa revocations as part of the Trump administration’s ongoing attack on ...

All staff were put on leave at the United States Interagency Council on Homelessness. Congress created the entity in 1987 and ...

Researchers and advocates have pushed back at what they consider inaccurate and stigmatizing comments made by the health ...

The House voted 68-39 on April 9 to pass a scaled-back version of a bill known as the Right to Play Act. It would partially override an existing rule of the Illinois High School Association that says ...