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An election worker takes ballots from voters dropping them off at an official ballot drop box this week at the Miami-Dade County Board of Elections in Doral, Fla.

It May Be Too Late To Mail Back Your Ballot. Election Officials Stress Other Options

Election experts say there is no longer enough time to ensure ballots sent through the mail will be delivered in time. They're encouraging voters to deliver their ballots by hand or vote in person.

The sun rises behind a tanker anchored in the Strait of Hormuz off the coast of Qeshm Island, Iran, on Saturday.

U.S. seizes Iranian cargo ship. And, tariff refund portal launches

U.S. forces seized an Iranian-flagged cargo vessel in the Strait of Hormuz. And, an online government portal for processing tariff refunds launches today.

Oregon voters narrowly passed a gun control measure. Ahead of its rollout, some questions remain

Voters in Oregon narrowly passed a ballot measure aimed at curbing gun violence this past election. Enforcement complications and questions loom ahead of a Dec. 8 rollout.

Decades Later, Nat Turner Rebellion Makes Its Debut With 'Laugh To Keep From Crying'

The R&B group recorded in Philadelphia in the early '70s, but their debut is only just being released. The album is all over the map, but its passion and bristling intelligence is noteworthy.

Utility Worker In Canton Blast Identified

Authorities have identified an Illinois utility worker who was killed in a natural gas explosion as 38-year-old Arturo Silva Jr., of Mapleton. Fulton…

Student Reporter Baylee Steelman

Baylee Steelman joined us in November 2016. She is a journalism major graduating in May 2018. She mainly covers Bloomington City and Normal Town Council meetings, Unit 5 School Board meetings, produces the weekend News In Review, and helps run GLT events. Baylee also produces and anchors at TV-10, Illinois State University's student TV news station.

SCOTUS Ended The Eviction Ban. Now Millions Have To Figure Out Housing — Fast

More than 8 million people are behind on their rent. The supreme court has just struck down a federal eviction moratorium that was protecting many of them. Now it's a race against the clock.

Pamphlets sent to voters explain the graduated income tax constitutional amendment put to voters in the Nov. 2020 election.

Lawsuit Filed Over Graduated Income Tax Ballot Measure

The libertarian-leaning Illinois Policy Institute on Monday filed suit in an effort to derail Gov. JB Pritzker’s signature policy proposal — changing...

Months before Rosa Parks became the mother of the modern civil rights movement by refusing to give up her seat and move to the back of a segregated Alabama bus, Claudette Colvin did the same.

Arrested for refusing to give up bus seat in 1955, she's fighting to clear her record

Months before Rosa Parks became the mother of the modern civil rights movement by refusing to move to the back of a segregated Alabama bus, Black teenager Claudette Colvin did the same.

In this 2013 file photo, an embryologist works on a petri dish at the Create Health fertility clinic in south London. Since the first test-tube baby was born decades ago, in vitro fertilization has become a sophisticated process with pricey incubators, specialized techniques and extensive screening. In Illinois, access to in vitro fertilization treatments remains limited.

Access to IVF in Illinois is unequal. A ballot referendum could help change that.

A WBEZ analysis found almost all Illinois babies born in 2023 with the help of fertility treatments had moms with private insurance.

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