Hundreds of requests for pardons and clemency petitions for federal convictions are filed each year, but usually just a few result in a presidential pardon or commutation of sentence. Recent ...

Blagojevich was convicted on corruption charges for trying to sell a Senate seat once held by President Barack Obama. Trump commuted the former governor's sentence in 2020.

President Trump plans to try to dismantle the U.S. Department of Education. Most school funding is local, as are policy ...

"When taxpayers send over $600 million a year to UI System President Tim Killeen for general operations, one would expect that the students at each of the system’s three campuses ...

The pardon was the latest overture between the president and the former governor, who is still known in Chicago simply as ...

MU has been involved in the Soybean Innovation Lab since 2013, receiving about $150,000 annually for its research.

Western Illinois University is looking for an upgrade to its Quad Cities campus. State Senate Bill 1308, introduced by State Sen. Mike Halpin, D-Rock Island, could potentially bring $7.2 million ...

"Nothing dangerous has, thank God, happened here, but we hear about it on an almost daily basis, happening around the world,” ...

The lawsuit, filed in federal court in Boston, challenges the Trump administration, the Department of Health and Human ...

Incoming UW President Robert Jones sat down with The Daily’s News Editor for a 10-minute Q&A on Feb. 6. This interview has ...

There is a difference between dismantling federal agencies in cruel and chaotic ways while claiming, without proof, that you ...

The most consequential of Trump's three victories at the court last year was a ruling authored by conservative Chief Justice ...