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The U.S. is giving $1.6 million to researchers to study how the hepatitis B vaccine affects newborns in Guinea-Bissau. After an outcry, the future of the trial is up in the air.

Fueling the Jan. 6 insurrection was the "Big Lie" that Donald Trump won the election. One year later, many warn that lie has metastasized and now poses an even graver threat to American democracy.

Ed Martin, President Trump's pick for U.S. attorney for D.C., is distancing himself from a Jan. 6 rioter known for antisemitic views. NPR's reporting raises questions about his ties to the rioter.

Rockford's city council is close to a decision on $12.7 million worth of downtown construction projects.The Finance Committee meets Tuesday to consider a…

Lower ComEd rates have some Sterling residents wondering if they should go off the city’s aggregation planSterling made a three-year deal with MidAmerican…

The state Department of Employment Security says unemployment decreased in Illinois in August, the fourth-straight monthly drop. But state officials were…

Authorities say someone stabbed a pregnant Rockford woman to death before a house fire that killed three of her children.The Rockford Register Star…

The Labor Department on Friday said the nation's jobless rate fell to 6.7 percent as U.S. employers added 74,000 jobs to payrolls while more Americans stopped looking for work in December. In November, the unemployment rate was 7 percent.

In a dual-language classroom, sometimes you're the student and sometimes you're the teacher. Here's what it's like for 6-year-old Merari.

Four books. Four author interviews. One great summer of reading!Hosted by Dan Klefstad, our Morning Edition series begins with author Marnie Mamminga of…