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It looks like the White House’s decision to drop out of a Saudi economic conference is causing a drop on Wall Street. The Dow dropped 400 points after it was announced that Treasury Secretary St...

By Nick Gale, WLS-AM 890 News (CHICAGO) - The Illinois Department of Employment Security announced Thursday that the unemployment rate held at 4.1 percent in September and nonfarm payrolls increased b...

So many smartphones are going for bigger. How about one that’s the size of a business card? The “Card-Phone” made by Kyocera will be available in Japan next month. It’s being c...

Chicken can be a great source of protein. What you don’t want in your chicken is salmonella. According to the CDC, nearly 100 people in 29 states have acquired a drug-resistant salmonella from r...

An Ocala, Florida man has been sentenced to 40 years behind bars for a plot to bomb Target stores. Prosecutors say Mark Charles Barnett had crafted at least 10 homemade bombs hidden inside boxes of pa...

Steve Penny, former CEO of USA Gymnastics, had his family vacation to their Tennessee cabin end abruptly after getting arrested by U.S. Marshals. Penny had no clue that he had been indicted in Texas o...

Senate leader Mitch McConnell says Senate Republicans might take another stab at repealing Obamacare – if they’re still in control after the midterms. McConnell says he’d love to ...

Former President Barack Obama released a 5 minute video via ATTN. In the video he is responding to common reasons people give for not wanting to vote. The 7 reasons that he tackles include, I don̵...

A ‘senior adviser’ with the U.S. Treasury has been charged with leaking documents concerning the Russia investigation to media outlets. Natalie Edwards was arrested on Tuesday. Prosecutors...

CHICAGO (AP) - Billionaire Democrat J.B. Pritzker is showing no reluctance to pour his own money to unseat multimillionaire Republican Bruce Rauner from the Illinois governor’s office. New state...