A group of students at Southeast High School is trying to change the school's name to Barack Obama Southeast High School.

  On this week's episode of the Under the Dome podcast the State Journal-Register's Bernard Schoenburg and Doug Finke discuss the upcoming Illinois primary in the wake of Super Tuesday, the Illinois House GOP believes efforts to enact property tax relief have stalled in the General Assembly, how Illinois and Gov.

The chairman of the House Revenue and Finance Committee said this week that a task force set up last year to provide proposals for reforming the state's property tax system was unable reach a consensus.

Secretary of Defense Mark Esper says the Pentagon and military installations across the country are finishing plans for how to handle coronavirus cases, if or when cases appear.

WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump is expected to sign an $8.3 billion measure on Friday to help tackle the coronavirus outbreak.

KABUL, Afghanistan - Gunmen opened fire Friday at a ceremony in Afghanistan's capital attended by prominent political leaders, killing at least 32 people and wounding dozens more before the two attackers were slain by police, officials said.

KABUL, Afghanistan - Gunmen killed at least 27 people and wounded at least 55 others in Afghanistan's capital on Friday at a remembrance ceremony for a minority Shiite leader, officials said.

Should Americans expect to see domestic travel restricted because of coronavirus? Not likely, medical and emergency planning experts say.

LONDON - The billionaire ruler of Dubai, Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashid Al-Maktoum, orchestrated the abductions, torture and imprisonment of two of his princess daughters, according to documents unsealed this week by a British judge.  High Court Judge Andrew McFarlane's ruling was part of a "fact-finding" judgment connected to a separate ongoing child custody case between Sheikh Mohammed and his estranged ex-wife, Princess Haya Bint Al-Hussein.  Dubai's