Pope Leo XIV marks a high point of his first foreign trip to Turkey with a pilgrimage to Iznik. He prays Friday with Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew at the site of ...

Black Friday bargains no longer tempt people to leave Thanksgiving tables for midnight mall runs. Brawls in store aisles over toys and TVs with limited-time discounts ...

A U.S.-Russian crew of three began a mission on the International Space Station after being launched there on a Russian spacecraft Thursday.

Asian shares are mixed in holiday-thinned trading as tech stocks slipped as a recent rebound lost steam. Japan’s Nikkei 225 was nearly unchanged, with AI-linked stocks among the decliners. South ...

Detractors of Brazil's former President Jair Bolsonaro raised glasses of champagne to celebrate his sentence outside the federal police headquarters in Brasilia, where he's under arrest. Venezuelan ...

Bob Asmussen is a college football reporter and columnist for The News-Gazette. He can be reached at 217-393-8248 or [email protected].

Firefighters from several departments responded to a blaze at 334 S. Elm St. in Paxton Thursday morning that displaced a ...

President Donald Trump said that one of the two West Virginia National Guard members shot by an Afghan national near the ...

UPS Airlines has grounded its MD-11 planes indefinitely for inspections and possible repairs after a deadly crash earlier this month. An internal memo from UPS Airlines president Bill Moore on ...

Illinois' response to a flat performance in Monday's win against UT Rio Grande Valley has been some spirited practices ahead ...

Firefighters battled a blaze at a high-rise apartment complex in Hong Kong for the second day on Thursday, as the death toll rose to 83 in ...

Tomislav Ivisic averaged nearly 27 minutes per game last season for Illinois and was effective in his time on the court. His ...