The Smithsonian Institution is closing its diversity office and freezing all federal hiring. The decision will affect dozens ...

President Donald Trump on Wednesday will sign the Laken Riley Act into law as his administration’s first piece of legislation ...

Legislation now on Gov. JB Pritzker’s desk aims at providing protections for workers at large warehouses such as those run by Amazon by requiring employers to be more transparent about productivity ...

The Trump administration’s surprise federal funding freeze spurred discord and pushback in Illinois even as a judge ...

The White House confirmed the website for Medicaid payments was down a day after announcing a pause on federal grants and ...

Johnson: Chicago will continue to protect civil rights Mayor Brandon Johnson says the city will continue to protect civil and ...

The Trump administration's freeze on federal loans and grants is being challenged in court on multiple fronts.

Democrats are planning to fight President Donald Trump's efforts to pause federal grants and loans. The court battle will ...

Pamela Lee with her book, “The Darkness at Dawn”, at MOAA meeting, June 20, 2019 Pamela Roberts Lee passed away January 20, ...

A judge in Washington, D.C., sided with plaintiffs who claimed the White House’s freezing of billions of dollars in ...

Federal health researchers, nonprofits and programs for early childhood education reported that their access to federal funds ...

The judge said it was "reasonable" the Justice Department interpreted Trump's Jan. 6 commutations to cover the defendants' ...