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SPRINGFIELD, Ill. – There’s only 50 of them in the entire country, and Illinois could soon look into giving theirs a makeover. Senate Bill 1818 creates the Illinois Flag Commission, aimed ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen reaffirmed the strength and soundness of the country's banking system in a meeting with bank CEOs on Thursday, a Treasury Department stateme...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The ministers of commerce and the trade representatives of United States and China will meet next week in the United States, the spokesperson for China's embassy in Washington s...

By Patricia Zengerle WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The chairman of the U.S. House of Representatives Foreign Affairs Committee said on Thursday he accepted the State Department's invitation to view a classif...

By Pete Schroeder WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren is questioning federal bank regulators on their decision to sell First Republic Bank to the nation's largest bank, JP Morgan Chas...

PEORIA, Ill. – A judge has ordered a Peoria woman to undergo a mental fitness exam after she was charged by a grand jury earlier in the week with a felony charge of Vandalizing a Mausoleum. Cour...

By Libby George LONDON (Reuters) - Turkey's lira weakened to a record low against the dollar on Thursday, after incumbent Tayyip Erdogan's lead in presidential elections surprised markets, while the n...

MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - The Bank of Mexico kept its benchmark interest rate steady at 11.25% on Thursday, in line with analysts' forecasts, ending a nearly two-year cycle of rate hikes and saying it w...

(Reuters) - Brazilian state-run oil company Petrobras said on Tuesday it will appeal a decision from the country's environmental agency Ibama to reject the firm's request to drill at the Amazon mouth ...

By Andrew Chung (Reuters) - The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday dismissed a case in which Republicans sought to keep in place a policy introduced under former President Donald Trump that had let Americ...