Illinois

On Monday, Barack Obama went home to Chicago to vote. “I love voting,” he said as he cast his ballot early for the upcoming November 4th midterm el(...)

Hillary Clinton has sent another strong signal that she may run for the presidency in 2016 when she returned to the politically significant state o(...)

‘No flying machine will ever fly from New York to Paris . . . [because] no known motor can run at the requisite speed for four days without stopping”.(...)

Russia’s food safety agency will conduct checks on McDonald’s restaurants in the Urals following food safety complaints, a day after four branches of (...)

Twelve months ago, Jordan Spieth become at 19 the youngest player to win on the PGA Tour since 1931 with a thrilling play-off victory at the John D(...)

John “Jay” Rogers jnr leans against a wall in a corridor in the bowels of the Lincoln centre in New York. He has just delivered a speech to a room ful(...)

Revelations about a crashed computer hard drive and thousands of missing emails have reheated a controversy around the targeting of Tea Party and o(...)

US drugmaker AbbVie Inc has confirmed today that it had made a bid approach to Shire , which was rejected by the British group’s board. It said talks (...)

June 17th was one of the hottest days of 1864, when flames engulfed a laboratory at the Washington Arsenal. Two dozen women and girls, mostly Irish im(...)

Friends of Sinn Féin, the political party’s US fundraising arm, raised $359,023 (€263,000) in donations and other income from American benefactors in (...)