Shares were mostly higher Wednesday in Asia as Japan’s benchmark Nikkei 225 index surged more than 2% to another record. U.S.

President Donald Trump’s decision to shift the nation’s most advanced aircraft carrier to South America in his campaign ...

Hurricane Melissa barreled toward eastern Cuba, where it was expected to make landfall as a major storm early Wednesday after ...

A federal trial over whether President Donald Trump can deploy the National Guard to Portland, Oregon, is set to begin ...

An Illinois jury is set to continue deliberations Wednesday in the first-degree murder trial of a sheriff’s deputy who shot ...

Detroit voters will choose a new mayor Tuesday in the city’s first open-seat mayoral race in a dozen years. City Council ...

Led by Gov. Gavin Newsom, California Democrats are charging toward a new congressional map that could flip as many as five ...

The nation’s biggest city will pick its next mayor on Tuesday in an election that has sparked debate over the future of the ...

Carbon tax concessions granted to global oil giants may undermine incentives to shift to cleaner energy, environmentalists ...

Cyclone Montha was weakening Wednesday after battering India’s eastern cost with torrential rains and gusty winds as relief ...

Dutch voters are going to the polls Wednesday in a knife-edge general election after a campaign that focused on migration, a ...

As we, at WGN Radio, prepare to welcome the Chicago Blackhawks into the “Century Club,” we are celebrating Chicago’s Original ...