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J.B. Pritzker had five toilets removed so a property would be classified as "uninhabitable" on his taxes, according to the Cook County inspector general. Pritzker says he will pay the county $330,000.

Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker signed sweeping criminal justice legislation Monday that also requires police agencies to equip officers with body cameras and sets stricter rules for their use of force.

Photographer Al J Thompson came of age in a community of Caribbean immigrants in Spring Valley, N.Y. His new book Remnants of an Exodus documents his return to a changed community.

The Ohio State football team heads to Ann Arbor Friday for Saturday's game against arch-rival Michigan. The game will help decide who plays for the Big Ten and national championships

Since his debut in 1951, Holden Caulfield — the funny, complex, wry protagonist of J.D. Salinger's The Catcher in the Rye — has given voice to generations of teens caught between youth and adulthood.

Media outlets have criticized the press policy by the group sponsoring the Youngstown-area event with Republican U.S. Senate candidate J.D. Vance and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis.

The sixth volume of C.J. Sansom's Shardlake mysteries is set during the last days of England's King Henry VIII, as a potentially explosive religious manuscript written by his queen has gone missing.

In Joyce Carol Oates' latest novel, apparitions haunt the streets of sleepy 1905 Princeton, N.J. Oates says she wanted to explore the hypocrisy of wealthy white America in that era with her portrayal of a town where the denial of social and racial injustice produces monsters.

The Republican former U.S. senator from Ohio retired at the end of his term in January 2023 after 30 years of government work, and J.D. Vance took over his seat.

With the Internet and reality TV, humiliation has become a widespread form of entertainment. Wayne Koestenbaum, author of Humiliation, traces the many facets of this very human experience, and sociologist C.J. Pascoe describes how it can be amplified by the web.