In his State of the State address, Gov. JB Pritzker, D-Ill., warned against authoritarianism, saying "it took the Nazis one month, three weeks, two days, eight hours, and 40 minutes to dismantle a constitutional republic" and asked Illinoisans to "gather your justice and your humanity."
They claimed 55 billion - the largest single source was 8 billion, which actually turned out to be 8 million. read more
Fewer than 13% of people diagnosed with pancreatic cancer live for more than five years, making it one of the deadliest types of cancer. read more
The Trump administration has begun firing several hundred Federal Aviation Administration employees, upending staff on a busy air travel weekend and just weeks after a January fatal mid-air collision at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport. read more
"I have proposed a 100 percent tariff on all Teslas. I am calling on all the countries that are affected by this tariff to join us, and our retaliation will target specific Trump constituencies." read more
Alex Wild, a former Yosemite and the only certified EMT ranger at Devils Postpile National Monument in California, told NBC's Morgan Chesky last week: "I'm the only person available to rescue someone, to do CPR, to carry them out from a trail if they got injured."