Ukraine

U.S. Rep. Eric Sorensen visited with health care providers in the 17th Congressional District to learn about key challenges in the industry. Among his top priorities are expanding access to care and mental health resources for patients and health care workers.

U.S. Rep. Darin LaHood voted to move ahead with an investigation of potential impeachable offenses by President Biden. All House Republicans did so.

Illinois U.S. Sen. Tammy Duckworth says she will oppose cuts to any of the specialized positions at the 182nd Airlift Wing in Peoria.

Former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Donald McHenry urged the nation to get its domestic house in order during addresses this week at Illinois Wesleyan and Illinois State universities, as part of the Adlai Stevenson lecture series.

Five people and four generations of Zhanna Shypulia's family have moved nearly a dozen times since Russia invaded her home city of Kherson in February. They don't plan to go back.

A Ukranain woman who teaches in Bloomington-Normal says she hopes her daughter and 3-year-old granddaughter will be able to escape their war-torn country this week and live with her family in the U.S.

An Illinois State University graduate student says he was amazed by the resiliency and hope among the Ukrainian refugees he helped for two months this summer in Warsaw, Poland.

Illinois State University History Department Chair Ross Kennedy studies World War I. Kennedy is leery of drawing direct parallels between the pre-World War I network of alliances or anti-globalist sentiment and the present-day environment.

When he was 12, Jose Antonio Vargas immigrated to the United States to live with his grandparents. He eventually became an award-winning journalist. As someone who personally experienced what being undocumented looks like, he now challenges how people talk about race, identity and migration by posing the question, "How do we define American?"

You can add Russia’s invasion of Ukraine to the long list of challenges facing electric automaker Rivian as it tries to ramp up production in Normal.