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Six weeks before he was indicted on federal tax-fraud charges, former Reditus CEO Aaron Rossi pledged a $3 million donation to Illinois State University Athletics to help build its new Indoor Practice Facility, WGLT has learned.

The White House Conference on Aging is meeting in Washington this week. But President Bush is skipping the conference -- the first president not to address delegates in the event's 50-year history. Instead, he took his message on Medicare to a select, private group of senior citizens.

Passing the spending package took intense lobbying from the president to get 60 Democrats on board, and persistence by soon-to-be-Speaker John Boehner to fend off the most Republican representatives.

The U.S. House will vote Wednesday on a bill to repeal the Affordable Care Act. The Senate has already passed it, but President Obama has vowed to veto it.

Rep. Adam Schiff, top House Intelligence Committee Democrat, breaks with chairman Devin Nunes' decision to close some hearings in the panel's probe of President Trump's connections to Russia.

At the end of this Congress, more than one-third of the historic Tea Party freshman class will be gone from the House. Many ran as outsiders in a year when voters were tired of political insiders.

The bipartisan resolution has no force of law but puts the House on record for the first time condemning QAnon and rejecting the conspiracy theory the fringe movement promotes.

"I do not believe that such a course of action is in the best interest of our Nation or consistent with our Constitution," the vice president wrote on Tuesday evening.

The House of Representatives overwhelmingly voted to classify lynching as a federal hate crime. The vote came at the end of Black History Month.

The House is voting Wednesday and Thursday to "enhance" the background check system for gun purchases. One proposed fix is extra time for the checkers.