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Republican Mike Garcia will hold the House seat that Democrats flipped in 2018 through the end of the year. This fall, he will again face off against Democrat Christy Smith for a full two-year term.

A man from the Springfield area was charged Thursday with threatening to shoot central Illinois Rep. Rodney Davis.

Illinois launched its opioid alternative program on Thursday. The program allows patients immediate access to medical cannabis if they have a current...

Protesters in Hong Kong braved the rain and risked arrest by defying a government ban on wearing masks. Police responded with tear gas.

The Tampa Bay Rays beat the Oakland Athletics to advance in post-season baseball. The night before, the Washington Nationals won their wild card game against the Milwaukee Brewers.

Gaines wrote of the struggles of African Americans in rural Louisiana before the civil rights era. He wrote The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman, A Gathering of Old Men, and A Lesson Before Dying.

Evelyn Beatriz Hernández was originally sentenced to 30 years in prison in El Salvador, which has one of the strictest abortion laws in the world.

NPR's Scott Simon reflects on the upcoming presidential inauguration of Joe Biden in the wake of last week's deadly assault on the U.S. Capitol.

Speaking by Skype, Abdel Kafi Alhamdo an English teacher at the University of Aleppo, living in the rebel-held portion of the city, says the cease-fire is holding but he does not expect it to last.

Obama said that the GOP nominee's claims that the election will be rigged threaten to undermine American democracy and show that he's not able to handle the pressures of the Oval Office.