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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.

The House Appropriations Committee attaches an amendment to a Pentagon supplemental spending bill for Iraq and Afghanistan that would stop Dubai Ports World from operating terminals at six U.S. ports they own. Attaching the amendment to the supplemental spending bill makes a veto more difficult.

The House sustained President Bush's first-ever veto of a bill to expand federal funding of embryonic stem cell research. But backers of the bill say that the politics of the measure will favor them in the end.

We asked some civil engineers to help us end that yearly holiday housing crisis: collapsing gingerbread homes. With this design, gingerbread families everywhere can enjoy the holidays without having to worry about their roofs caving in.

The Trump administration froze funding for a program to upgrade aging low-income housing and make it energy efficient. The move threatens hundreds of projects around the country.

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.

"You can evaluate the person as a whole," says Dr. Roberta Miller, who has been a home care physician for more than 20 years. The traditional house call may be the future of medicine.

The bill, which still needs to be approved by the Senate, would appoint a seven-person board that could restructure the territory's debts. Puerto Rico owes more than $70 billion.

An independent task force called the pace of rehousing residents after the fire "painfully slow." More than 200 children are among those who still need a permanent home.

Attorney General William Barr plans to give Congress the Mueller report in mid-April, but with some redactions. Democrats insist they should get the full report and the fight could end up in court.