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The explicit video played for several minutes at the start of the afternoon rush hour in Jakarta last Friday afternoon.

Kids in a Uganda slum learn that chess has a lot in common with life. You can't change the way you start out — but you can decide your next move.

The U.N. Security Council endorsed Portuguese politician Antonio Guterres. A former U.N. high commissioner for refugees, Guterres led worldwide efforts to help refugees.

Developing countries have been invaded by 200-pound Nile perch, pretty flowers and beavers. A new study asks: What's the impact?

U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin says a western Illinois federal prison will be fully operational starting late next year.Durbin visited Thomson Administrative U.S.…

In the fall of 2017, the University of Illinois College of Medicine at Rockford will expand to provide all four years of medical education in Rockford.…

When Joshua Wong landed in Bangkok, he found a large group of immigration officials and police waiting for him

Programs like Social Security and Medicare consume nearly 40 percent of the federal budget, and candidates have suggested a variety of responses to their rising costs.

The fastest growing group of voters in Florida is up for grabs. Hundreds of thousands of Puerto Ricans have moved to the swing state in recent years, and both parties are aggressively courting them.

Colson Whitehead, Jacqueline Woodson and Rita Dove are just three of the authors on the shortlists for the National Book Awards. The 20 books still in contention for the prizes were unveiled Thursday.