There was a new motion Friday in the fight over Illinois' assault weapons ban. Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul said the ...

The fatal shooting earlier this year of Sonya Massey, a 36-year-old Black woman, sparked national outcry over police violence.

The fatal shooting of Sonya Massey has led to the Department of Justice launching a civil rights investigation of the ...

Meta will appeal court rulings over "addictive" social media apps; a school event in Missouri is linked to an E. coli outbreak; an abortion clinic "buffer zone" is challenged in Illinois; and more.

Proceed as normal. That's the advice from one local sheriff after a federal judge ruled the state gun ban unconstitutional.

The purchase of Alex Jones’ Infowars at a bankruptcy auction by the satirical news publication The Onion is the latest twist ...

Republican Donald Trump's return to the presidency is expected to precipitate a shift in the U.S. government's legal stance ...

North Carolina’s Child Fatality Task Force met Wednesday with lawmakers to suggest ways the state gun storage laws can be ...

On the House floor Tuesday, state Rep. Dan Caulkins, R-Decatur, said the state’s gun ban was deemed unconstitutional by ...

A panel of federal judges is weighing whether to overturn a Cook County ban on semiautomatic weapons in a case that could ...

Security has been beefed up here at the state Capitol. The Secretary of State’s Office has added more police officers to ...

It took U.S. Judge Stephen McGlynn 178 pages to explain why, but the bottom line is that the downstate federal judge has declared Gov. J.B. Pritzker’s highly touted assault-weapons ban ...