Top Illinois Republicans are requesting that the State Board of Elections grant an extension to a group gathering signatures to take the political map-making process away from lawmakers. The group submitted more than 500,000 signatures to the Board of Elections last month. But executive director Rupert Borgsmiller says less than half of a 5 percent…
WASHINGTON (AP) — After two overwhelming votes in two days, members of Congress say they are confident they can agree on a bill to improve veterans’ health care and send it to the president’s desk by the end of the month. The Senate easily approved a bill Wednesday to help shorten wait times…
ISLAMABAD (AP) — A suspected U.S. missile strike targeted a militant compound early Thursday in a northwestern tribal district in Pakistan near the Afghan border, killing at least 10 people, Pakistani intelligence officials said. It was the second such strike since Wednesday night, when three militants died in a drone attack in the…