It's the Fourth of July, and to commemorate the holiday, the Up First newsletter asked readers to share what freedom means to ...

South Korean authorities plan to investigate the border crossing and did not immediately say whether they view the incident ...

Seniors hanging out together at the ARC senior center in Normal on Thursday afternoon were not talking politics, but some ...

The Supreme Court has agreed to hear two cases in the fall that test state laws banning transgender women and girls from ...

Pope Leo grew up in a small brick house in the Chicago suburb of Dolton which is now up for auction. The village's board of ...

Kilmar Abrego Garcia, who was mistakenly deported from the U.S. in March, says he was brutally beaten and subjected to ...

Republican State Rep. Dennis Tipsword, who was first elected in 2022, has announced he will seek a third term representing ...

The number of people in ICE detention without criminal convictions nearly doubled in the last month — a significant increase ...

U.S. Rep. Darin LaHood, a Peoria Republican, voted in favor of the GOP megabill. Rep. Eric Sorensen, a Democrat from Moline, ...

ATHENS, Greece — Firefighters battled blazes Thursday near Athens and on the island of Crete, where thousands were forced to ...

Kneecap, three young men from Northern Ireland who rap in Irish, has risen to prominence in recent years, with controversy ...

Fireworks are expected to begin around 9:15 p.m. Friday at both Bloomington’s Miller Park and Normal’s Fairview Park. There ...