Law enforcement agencies estimate that tens of thousands of gangs operate across the United States today. These groups range from ...

Three years ago, a 15-year-old boy was shot 21 times in the back by a group of teenagers who are now in prison for the attack ...

Downing’s “Spring forward: The annual madness of Daylight Saving Time” says the Chicago City Council passed a daylight saving ordinance in June 1920. That fall, after the city’s clocks had been turned ...

While congressional reaction to the U.S. attack on Iran was largely split along party lines but some are pushing for a war ...

Iranian-Americans in the Chicago area say they fear what they've witnessed over the past few days could be a case of history ...

For 60 years, nine mayors have had no choice but to contend with the famed civil rights activist, and sometimes defer to him ...

Department of Homeland Security agents under Kristi Noem’s authority would go on to conduct brutal and legally dubious ...

I spent a day on Chicago’s West Side with gang members and local rappers to hear directly how they describe life in neighborhoods shaped by shootings, retaliation, and fear. What stood out most wasn’t ...

At a quiet street intersection in Chicago's Englewood neighborhood, the imposing figure of a pine tree is only outweighed by the massive collection of sticks and twigs carefully placed on ...

The leader of Mexico's billion-dollar CJNG cartel may be gone, but his death has those who've spent their careers working to dismantle cartel influence wondering what it could mean to the flow of ...

Oil prices have eclipsed $100 per barrel for the first time in more than three and a half years as the Iran war hinders production and shipping in the Middle East. The price for a barrel of Brent ...

Democratic senators on the Foreign Relations Committee criticized Troy Edgar, the nominee for ambassador to El Salvador, at a ...