WASHINGTON (CNN)-- Former House Speaker Dennis Hastert will resign his congressional seat rather than serve out the rest of his term, two GOP congressional sources told CNN. The Illinois ...

All three of the reporters from The Times’s Chicago bureau descended on a federal courthouse on Wednesday to cover the sentencing of J. Dennis Hastert.

China will begin raising the retirement age for the first time in more than 70 years as the 1.4bn-strong country faces a shrinking and ageing population. China's legislature, known as the Standing ...

Photo: Dept. of Defense Contrast that with the present day: The cold war with China has begun without an end in mind. American strategy lacks a guiding objective. We have an emerging bipartisan ...

"Voters have to remember what happened when George Soros funded all of those left-wing DAs," John Feehery, a former aide to ...

Chinese woman suffers miscarriage after being startled by dog, court orders owner to pay $12,600 China man pays compensation over Rs 10 lakh to woman after she suffers miscarriage because of his pet ...

As part of the series “Culture of Corruption,” the Tribune has compiled a list of roughly 200 convicted, indicted or generally notorious public officials from Illinois’ long and infamous pol ...

Corporations themselves cannot donate to candidates at the federal level but federal candidates can get contributions from corporate PACs, employees and owners as well as their immediate families. At ...

Zachary Fardon, who assumed Chicago's No. 1 federal law enforcement job in 2013, oversaw the prosecution of former U.S. House Speaker Dennis Hastert. In the year of weird presidential races ...

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