The stopgap funding bill has already passed in the House and faces a late deadline tonight in the Senate to avoid a shutdown. While Republicans have a majority in the Senate, they’ll need some ...

Illinois’ two U.S. senators, Tammy Duckworth and Dick Durbin, were on opposite sides of Friday’s vote. Sun-Times file photos Share Illinois Congressional Democrats were left with mixed ...

Denzel Washington reenacted the heroics of Sgt. William Carney in the movie "Glory." The Pentagon removed a story about him ...

In today’s edition … Analysis shows Republican tax cuts and benefit reductions will cause loss of income for poorest ...

Sen. Tammy Duckworth (D–Ill.) put it the most bluntly: "Trump is in the middle of a capitulation, not a negotiation." At the Quincy Institute event, Smith blamed "pressure from the right and ...

Tammy Duckworth, who said she was a “hell no” on the bill. In a statement posted to X, Durbin said: “There is very little about this CR that I like—but there is even less I like about ...

Rep. Tammy Duckworth (D-Ill.) knows more than her share about combat disability. She lost both legs and the use of her right arm while serving as a helicopter pilot in Iraq. So the Illinois ...

President Donald Trump is scheduled to speak by phone Tuesday morning with Russian President Vladimir Putin about ending the war in Ukraine. The call is part of a high-stakes gambit by Trump early in ...

The Protecting Veteran Jobs Act was filed Monday by Democrat Tammy Duckworth, and co-sponsored by Senator Andy Kim, a New Jersey Democrat. In an interview on CNN, Duckworth explained what the ...