Rita Crundwell used her position as Dixon, Illinois, comptroller and treasurer to embezzle $53.7 million for her Quarter Horse breeding operation and lavish lifestyle.

A massive embezzlement scandal, orchestrated by the city’s comptroller and treasurer, Rita Crundwell, shook the community to its core.

U.S. District Judge John Coughenour, a Ronald Reagan appointee, told the court he could not remember in his more than 40 years on the bench seeing a case so "blatantly unconstitutional."

A federal judge on Thursday temporarily blocked President Donald Trump's executive order ending the constitutional guarantee of birthright citizenship regardless of the parents' immigration status.

Paul Simon Public Policy Institute Director John Shaw, at Southern Illinois University Carbondale, has covered seven inaugurations, witnessing firsthand how inauguration day has evolved.

A multistate coalition argues that birthright citizenship is a fundamental right protected by the 14th Amendment.

White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt will make her debut at the first press briefing of President Donald Trump's second term on Tuesday, making history as the youngest in her role to stand behind

A federal judge in Seattle issued a blistering rebuke to block President Donald Trump's executive order to end birthright citizenship. A lawsuit filed Tuesday in the Western District of Washington came after Trump signed an executive order that claimed a baby born in America must have at least one parent who is either a citizen or a lawful permanent resident to automatically qualify

As Donald Trump returns to the White House, he has built the most formidable foundation of Republican electoral strength since the Ronald Reagan era in the 1980s.

A breakdown of 10 notable moments from the second inauguration of President Donald J. Trump; from executive orders to a fun fact about new VP JD Vance.

Trump used a raucous rally yesterday on the eve of his inauguration to promise swift Day 1 action remaking the federal government, shifting federal priorities at breakneck speed and ensuring that “the curtain closes on four long years of American decline.”

Ronald and Nancy Reagan were disappointed. That’s what White House press secretary Larry Speakes told reporters on Jan. 18, 1985, after the Republican president and first lady decided to