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URBANA, Ill. — The University of Illinois will temporarily switch back to remote learning in January before students return to classrooms. Students and staff in Champaign-Urbana and Chicago will...

By P.J. Huffstutter and Marcelo Teixeira CHICAGO (Reuters) - Orders have been pouring into Andrew Schuman's candy cane business this year, but business has been anything but sweet. "We're not taking n...

By Stephanie Nebehay GENEVA (Reuters) - The World Health Organization, which is leading the fight against the COVID pandemic, has relocated its operations to a new building while its 1960s structure i...

(Reuters) - General Mills Inc raised its full-year sales forecast on Tuesday, boosted by strong demand for the Cheerios maker's cereals, snacks and baking products as the pandemic-induced at-home cook...

By Shreyashi Sanyal (Reuters) - U.S. stock index futures surged on Tuesday, following a steep selloff in the previous session, as strong quarterly earnings from Nike and a positive forecast from chipm...

By Chris Prentice WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Nikola Corp has agreed to pay $125 million to settle civil charges that it defrauded investors by misleading them about its products, technical advancements an...

PEORIA, Ill. — Over 50 inmates and jail staff have tested positive in a COVID outbreak at the Peoria County Jail. The Peoria County Sheriff’s Office told news partner 25 News that 41 inmat...

By Tom Polansek CHICAGO (Reuters) - Smithfield Foods, the world's largest pork producer, last year assigned a team of dedicated employees to enforce social distancing and sanitize surfaces at a South ...

By Danielle Kaye NEW YORK (Reuters) - Carla Benton, a Chicago-based book copy editor, was preparing for a Christmas trip to Europe when the Omicron variant of the coronavirus began to make headlines i...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States is providing the World Health Organization, the United Nations Children's Fund and five other global aid groups an additional $580 million to fight COVID-19, U...