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CHICAGO — It has been more than 50 years since the Rev. Jorge Morales boarded a plane from Chicago headed toward Coachella, California, to join a picket line in support of higher pay and benefits for farmworkers.

But ...Read more

After 21 months of struggling to help Haiti’s security forces reign in armed gangs, the international security mission led by Kenya is beginning to draw down, signaling the troubled Caribbean nation’s transition to a ...Read more

SPRINGFIELD — In a race that took nearly two full days to decide, North Side lawmaker Margaret Croke secured the Democratic nomination for Illinois comptroller on Thursday, edging out west suburban state Sen. Karina ...Read more

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — The California Museum Board of Trustees is seeking to remove Cesar Chavez, a storied labor leader and civil rights icon, from the California Hall of Fame after an article published Wednesday in The ...Read more

The flood of outside money that reshaped Illinois’ Democratic primaries on Tuesday delivered uneven returns for the big-money interests that fueled it.

So-called super PACs, or political action committees with unlimited...Read more

FORT WORTH, Texas — Over the course of this week, numerous organizations have taken steps to withdraw support for labor leader and civil rights activist Cesar Chavez, who died in 1993.

The backlash came after the New ...Read more

Aliya Rahman, whose arrest during Operation Metro Surge in Minneapolis went viral, will not face charges after she was arrested at President Donald Trump’s State of the Union speech in February.

Rahman, a south ...Read more

The political and security shockwaves unleashed by recent events in Venezuela are rapidly reshaping the regional landscape — and for Colombia, they may represent a rare moment of opportunity after years of instability ...Read more

Live Nation Entertainment Inc. Chief Executive Officer Michael Rapino told a New York jury that his multi-million-dollar compensation is tied in part to his “solving the DOJ problem” — a reference to the threat posed...Read more

WASHINGTON — Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., on Thursday filed three joint resolutions to block a pending sale of nearly $659 million worth of weapons — including 22,000 bombs — to Israel after the Trump administration ...Read more

A Kentucky judge has declined for a second time to intervene in impeachment proceedings of a Fayette County judge.

Franklin Circuit Judge Phillip Shepherd denied a request for a temporary injunction filed by Fayette ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Senate Majority Leader John Thune set a deadline of next week for resolving the Homeland Security Department funding standoff, as Senate appropriators of both parties held a face-to-face meeting Thursday ...Read more

With average gas prices in Florida approaching $4 a gallon, Gov. Ron DeSantis said Thursday there is no “simple fix” the state could enact.

Democrats in the state Legislature have asked the governor to temporarily ...Read more

NEW YORK — Dylan Lopez Contreras, the first known New York City student targeted by federal immigration authorities after President Trump returned to office, spoke Thursday for the first time since his release — ...Read more

WASHINGTON — US spy chief Tulsi Gabbard acknowledged the U.S. and Israel have different goals for their joint military campaign in Iran, underscoring tensions after Israeli jets struck energy facilities and President ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Top leaders at the Justice Department are rallying behind a U.S. attorney’s legal fight with Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell and the White House isn’t opposing it, amping up the clash with major ...Read more

Workers are discovering that a new overtime tax break is proving less generous — and more complicated — than expected.

In some cases, workers are discovering they can’t even claim the deduction without doing extra ...Read more

BOSTON — House members of the Joint Committee on Public Safety and Homeland Security will have until Friday afternoon to vote in an internal poll on whether to advance legislation that would ban federal immigration ...Read more

“The best way I can describe it is, it’s an addiction,” says Taylor Frankie Paul.

The star of “The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives” is seated by a window in an empty Starbucks within a downtown Salt Lake City hotel...Read more

Following accusations Wednesday that late civil rights activist Cesar E. Chavez had sexually assaulted children and raped Dolores Huerta, who co-founded the National Farm Workers Association with Chavez, cities across the ...Read more