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WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, U.S. Senator Tammy Duckworth (D-IL)—a member of the U.S. Senate Armed Services Committee (SASC)—led her fellow SASC Democratic colleagues in urging Committee Chairman Wicker to hold a hearing to investigate the Trump Administration’s failures to support our servicemembers who are carrying out indefinite extended deployments in the unauthorized, disastrous Iran war that President Trump cannot seem to end. In a letter to Chairman Wicker, the Senators

Two people were grazed by bullets. Several homes and cars were also damaged by gunfire, police said.

EAST ST. LOUIS/FAIRVIEW HEIGHTS — Kiante M. Brooks, 32, appeared in federal court last Friday, Aug. 21, 2026, and will remain detained pending trial on a federal bank robbery charge after authorities said he allegedly robbed a bank Aug. 13, 2026, in Fairview Heights, Illinois. Brooks is facing one count of federal bank robbery. According to court documents, Fairview Heights police received a call around 5 p.m. on Friday from a local bank teller who advised police that a co-worker was being

The league was also stopped from registering voters last year before the decision was reversed.

The post Top Commanders Told Hegseth Not to Cut Civilian Protection Program, Poll Showed. He Did It Anyway. appeared first on ProPublica.

A new job, a breakup, a move across town, even a child starting school can leave a person oddly unsettled long after the event itself is over. The change may be small on paper. Yet the mind often treats transition as something much bigger: a loss of what was familiar, a test of identity, and a search for what comes next. Why transition feels harder than it looks People often talk about change as if it were a simple event. You quit, move, graduate, marry, retire, recover, or begin again. But

Officials exempted the tornado zone when it ended a five-year pandemic moratorium on shutoffs in the rest of the city last September.

This Day in Music History: Aug. 25 Bruce Springsteen’s Born to Run arrived on Aug. 25, 1975, as the record that changed a talented but commercially uncertain New Jersey songwriter into a major American rock voice. His third album, released by Columbia Records, paired crowded, cinematic arrangements with stories of restless young people seeking a way out. The result gave Springsteen and the E Street Band a defining statement, reached No. 3 on the Billboard 200 and eventually earned a

On August 25, 1830, Belgium’s path to independence began with a night of unrest in Brussels that grew into a wider revolution. What started after a performance at the opera house soon became a political break from the United Kingdom of the Netherlands, the state created after the Napoleonic Wars to unite present-day Belgium and the Netherlands under one crown. The revolt mattered at the time because it challenged a settlement designed by Europe’s major powers and showed that local

Schedule for roll carts will be adjusted to accommodate Labor Day observance on Monday, September 7, 2026.

Law enforcement is asking for the public's help in the search for a woman who went missing in April.

Assistance program enrollment is open through October 31, with rate cuts lasting through 2028.

GRANITE CITY, Ill. - A portion of Interstate 270 is shut down Tuesday morning after a crash in Granite City. According to Illinois State Police, all lanes are closed on westbound I-270 near Illinois Route 3. Traffic is being diverted off onto IL-3. Details on the crash are unknown. Additionally, it is unclear when the [...]