The 7 th Circuit Court of Appeals declined to overturn Cook County’s assault weapons ban in June. Two gun rights groups are appealing that decision to the U.S. Supreme Court. They hope the court rules ...

Two national gun rights organizations are asking the U.S. Supreme Court to strike down Cook County's ban on assault-style weapons in hopes that such a decision would overturn similar bans nationally.

The 47th president has less than a month to marshal his arguments for why he should be a convicted felon no longer.

Writing that it “wants out of this abhorrent system of racial discrimination,” Louisiana on Wednesday told the Supreme Court ...

We may well see the elimination of the 11 Black-majority districts — all Democratic — in GOP-controlled Southern states.

Chicago crackdown: The Trump administration plans to send more than 200 homeland security officials to a Navy base outside Chicago to begin an immigration crackdown in that city, according to internal ...

The Firearms Policy Coalition and the Second Amendment Foundation filed a petition with the Supreme Court on Wednesday, asking it to reverse a recent ruling by the 7th Circuit Court ...

A conservative justice on the Wisconsin Supreme Court says she will not seek reelection, creating an open race for a seat on the court that’s controlled 4-3 by liberals. Justice Rebecca ...

McLaren’s Lando Norris looked in fine form at Zandvoort amid an array of crashes, spins and mistakes from his rivals. Heading into this weekend’s Dutch Grand Prix, the Briton trails his team-mate ...

From MLB Home Run Derby X at Principal Park to the Taste of the Junction Multicultural Festival — plus the return of high school and college football! — you will not be bored this weekend.