A key state lawmaker on Wednesday introduced a new version of a proposal that would help the Chicago Bears build a stadium in Arlington Heights.

Legislation calls for voters to be asked in November if the state constitution should be changed to tax residents who make more than $1 million and reframe how voting maps are drawn for the Illinois General Assembly.

A lawsuit for an additional exemption to Indiana’s near-total abortion ban allowing it as a religious right will head straight from a county courtroom to the Indiana Supreme Court.

U.S. health officials stopped the publication of a study on whether the COVID-19 vaccine was keeping adults from becoming sick enough to have to go to the hospital.

Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on Wednesday concluded a marathon series of hearings with federal lawmakers, during which he deflected blame for measles outbreaks and dwindling vaccination rates across the country.

The Pentagon announced Wednesday that the Navy’s top civilian official, Secretary of the Navy John Phelan, is leaving his job.

The U.S. stock market rallied to more records Wednesday after GE Vernova, Boston Scientific and other big companies joined the parade reporting fatter profits for the start of the year than analysts expected.

U.S. Rep. David Scott, a Georgia Democrat and the first Black chairman of the House Agriculture Committee, has died. He was 80.