Pope Leo XIV met with Venezuelan opposition leader and Nobel Peace Prize winner María Corina Machado in a private audience at the Vatican on Monday.

Illinois House Speaker Emanuel "Chris" Welch is pushing for a new tax on millionaires as the General Assembly gets ready to return to work in Springfield next week.

New Gallup polling shows that Americans are increasingly identifying as political independents and rejecting the labels of the two major political parties.

According to to a U.S.-based human rights group, hundreds of people are dead after Iranian security forces opened fire on protesters.

Chicago police are investigating a shooting that left a hospital employee with critical injuries on Monday morning in the Illinois Medical District.

Chaos erupted after a U-Haul drove into a crowd during an anti-Iranian regime rally on Sunday afternoon.

A Chicago man briefly appeared in court Monday in connection with the double murder of his ex-wife and her Ohio dentist husband just before the new year.

A 61-year-old man is dead, and multiple others, including children, are injured after a highway pileup in Fresno involving 17 vehicles amid extremely dense fog.

A third-grader was forced to have surgery after a rock crashed into the school bus and hit her in the head.

A deputy was hospitalized on Monday after he was attacked with bear spray while responding to a mental health crisis in Libertyville.