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For a second consecutive year, McLean County has led all Illinois and U.S. counties in total production of both commodities with almost 71 million bushels of corn and 22 million bushels of soybeans harvested in 2022, according to the United States Department of Agriculture’s National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS).

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly speaks with journalist Brendan Porath about the surprise merger between the PGA Tour and Saudi-backed LIV Golf.

As part of NPR's series highlighting female songwriters through history, we look at Cynthia Weil, who wrote hits like "You've Lost that Lovin' Feeling" and "On Broadway" with her husband Barry Mann.

The former New Jersey governor will appear in Manchester Tuesday evening and announce that he's making another run for the GOP nomination. Christie was one of more than a dozen GOP hopefuls in 2016.

The last person Jeff Ibrahim expected to face in the gold medal round of a jiu-jitsu competition in California was tech entrepreneur Mark Zuckerberg.

A major dam near a nuclear power plant in southern Ukraine collapses. Former N.J. Gov. Chris Christie is to officially announce his GOP presidential bid. The SEC sues a major crypto exchange.

The industry is recovering from a massive bird flu outbreak and high inflation rates, but prices may not fall to what they once were.

The Securities and Exchange Commission has filed more than a dozen charges against Binance which runs the largest crypto trading site in the world.

Powerful new artificial intelligence tools can perpetuate long-standing racial inequities if they are not designed very carefully. Researchers and regulators are taking note, but perils are vast.

Illinois Secretary of State Alexi Giannoulias paid a visit to the McLean County Museum of History to see the impact of a nearly $100,000 state technology grant. The museum allocated the money toward digitizing its Pantagraph negatives collection—millions of images from 1930-2000, many of which were never printed.