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The pumpkin pie Americans enjoy each Thanksgiving often comes from pumpkins grown near Morton, Illinois. The region accounts for more than 95% of canned pumpkin in the U.S.

Tuesday is Tax Day, the deadline for Americans to file their federal taxes.The new federal tax overhaul has added many new wrinkles to this dreaded annual…

In the latest NPR Politics Podcast, we explain why Democrats and Republicans are feeling so differently about the inevitable talk of politics during the Thanksgiving holiday.

Florida's Maxwell Frost is the first member of Generation Z to win a primary for the U.S. House. He won the Democratic primary in Florida's 10th District, according to The Associated Press.

A rule proposed by the Federal Trade Commission would outlaw hidden and "bogus" fees. Officials estimate that junk fees cost consumers at least $64 billion each year.

Favre, 54, revealed the diagnosis while testifying before a U.S. House committee about his role in a controversy over millions of dollars of misspent welfare funds in his home state of Mississippi.

In the 1970s, Rich Isaacson was presented with what seemed like a crazy idea: using lasers to detect gravitational waves. It became the biggest project the National Science Foundation had ever funded.

WGLT hosted the event at Illinois State University's Bone Student Center in response to community housing demands that have escalated in recent years due, in part, to job expansions at electric vehicle company Rivian, candy maker Ferrero and other employers.

Lawmakers will head back to the Capitol on Tuesday, Aug. 31, to consider changes to the legislative maps that Gov. JB Pritzker signed into law earlier this year.

President Trump announced he'll lift U.S. sanctions on Turkey now that a cease-fire in northern Syria is in place. That deal has paved the way for the Russian military to enter the region.