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Starting next year, Illinois employers must offer workers paid time off based on hours worked, with no need to explain the reason for their absence

The settlement is the latest payout from the embattled e-cigarette giant, which laid off hundreds of workers and settled thousands of lawsuits last year

Nationwide, schools report that about 10% of students are receiving ‘high-dosage’ tutoring multiple days a week, according to a federal survey from December

All the military services are struggling to compete for young people in a tight job market where private companies are often willing to provide better pay and benefits

Scientists are racing to perfect new battery chemistries that don’t lose as much energy in cold weather as today’s lithium-ion systems

Candidates Paul Vallas and Brandon Johnson will meet in a runoff to succeed her at the helm of America’s third-largest city

In California, the National Weather Service said winter storms will continue moving into the state through Wednesday

DeSantis is a frequent voice in conservative cultural fights on cable television, but he often avoids gatherings of fellow Republican governors and party leaders

One leading candidate, who touts his endorsement from the Chicago police union, says “crime is out of control”

The R&B singer will serve most of that sentence simultaneously with a 30-year term for racketeering and sex trafficking charges

Prosecutors described Kelly’s behavior as ‘sadistic,’ calling him ‘a serial sexual predator’ with no remorse

Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul, a Democrat, plans to appeal the ruling to the state Supreme Court

Cook County State’s Attorney Kim Foxx acknowledged that the decision ‘may be disappointing’ to his accusers

The company also recently announced that it would lay off 18,000 employees and cut other less profitable parts of its business

Damien Chazelle’s drama about the late 1920s in the film industry recreates a period of debauchery, art and business, when stars like John Gilbert and Clara Bow disappeared overnight

Felipe Cabrera Sarabia, 51, known as “The Engineer,” faces a minimum of 10 years in prison and a possible life sentence

The announcement followed the president’s acknowledgement that a second batch of material was found in his garage

The Pulitzer-winning author of ‘The World Doesn’t End’ and Poet Laureate of the United States passed away in Dover, New Hampshire

The material turned up at the Penn Biden Center, where the US president kept a space after he left the vice presidency in 2017. Trump asked when the FBI is going to raid the current leader’s ‘many homes’

Residents of Washington DC,. Buffalo, Chicago and Detroit faced the worst cold front in the country so far this century

A new book explores the relationship between mythology and ritualistic use of hallucinogens in ancient history

While the fossils sell for millions, paleontologists denounce the private collectors and auction houses that trade in them, labeling them as ‘thieves of time’ who take specimens away from science