NPR's Steve Inskeep asks John Moolenaar, chairman of the House Select Committee on China, about President Trump's goals for his summit in Beijing.

GOP legislators also introduced bills to make it easier for people older than 65 to get a homestead exemption, and allow ...

Spc. Mariyah Symone Collington, 19, of Taveres, Florida, is the second U.S. soldier who fell off a cliff during a ...

As U.S. and Chinese leaders meet this week, the world is watching, and so are residents of Thitu Island in the disputed South China Sea, known in the Philippines as the West Philippine Sea.

A member of the Midwest Leadership Board for St. Jude’s Children’s Research Hospital says no child will lose their care as ...

Illinois’ new budget offices lowered revenue projections for the upcoming fiscal year, citing growing economic uncertainty.

The Trump administration is suspending a requirement that visitors from countries that have qualified for the World Cup and ...

The South Carolina Supreme court granted a new trial to former attorney Alex Murdaugh, who was convicted three years ago of killing his wife and son. The reason? Jury tampering.

Republicans in Louisiana are unveiling a new congressional map after the U.S. Supreme Court declared the current lines unconstitutional in a decision gutting part of the 1965 Voting Rights Act.

Warsh has argued there's room for the central bank to lower interest rates, but that could be challenging at a time of rising ...

Three-quarters of all attorneys who passed the bar exam in February opted to work in Cook County. The Illinois Supreme Court has been examining ways to address legal deserts in small and rural ...

Former NBA player Jason Collins died this week at the age of 47. NPR's Ailsa Chang speaks with journalist Franz Lidz, who helped Collins write his 2013 coming out essay in Sports Illustrated.