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WASHINGTON – Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell said Tuesday that the U.S. economy appears durable, with steady growth and unemployment near a half-century low, but faces risks from the broadening viral outbreak that began in China.

Powell also said that the Fed is content with where interest rates are, suggesting that no further rate cuts would be contemplated unless economic conditions were to change significantly.

SPRINGFIELD – Most adults in Illinois give the state’s public school system only a so-so grade, but they give slightly higher marks for their own local schools.

That’s according to a new survey commissioned by the Illinois Education Association, the state’s largest teachers union.

SPRINGFIELD – Illinois U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin is accusing the U.S.

The owner of Bowes In Home Care, a Medicare-certified home health agency in Crystal Lake, denies claims in a company-wide email that the business would be closing its doors once all patients can be restaffed.

In a company-wide email from Bowes Clinical Administrator Susan Wrzeszcz, sent on Thursday – which was obtained by the Northwest Herald Tuesday – staff members were notified that the decision was made solely by Michael Collura, president and CEO of In Home Personal Services.

“I know this is a blow to you all a

The beginning of a cancer journey sometimes feels like a sprint.

Once something “suspicious” is found, it’s a series of tests. In my case, it was a mammogram followed by an ultrasound followed a biopsy followed by an MRI followed by another biopsy.

In between there was a blood test to see whether I had a gene that made it more likely for me to have breast cancer.

MANCHESTER, N.H.

CAIRO – Sudan’s transitional authorities have agreed to hand over ousted autocrat Omar al-Bashir to the International Criminal Court to face trial on charges of war crimes and genocide, a top Sudanese official said Tuesday, in a deal with rebels to surrender all those wanted in connection with the Darfur conflict.

For a decade after his indictment, al-Bashir confounded the court based in The Hague, Netherlands.

BEIJING – The daily death toll in China from a new virus topped 100 for the first time, pushing the total fatalities above 1,000 Tuesday as the World Health Organization announced a new name for the disease caused by the virus.

Despite the official end of the extended Lunar New Year holiday, China remained mostly closed for business as many remained at home, with some 60 million people under virtual quarantine.

In Geneva, WHO director-general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus announced a new name for the disease caused by the

WASHINGTON (AP) — Three of the lawyers who prosecuted Roger Stone quit the case Tuesday after the Justice Department said it would take the extraordinary step of lowering the amount of prison time it would seek for President Donald Trump's longtime ally and confident.

The decision by the Justice Department came just hours after Trump complained that the recommended sentence for Stone was “very horrible and unfair." The DOJ said the sentencing recommendation was made Monday night — before Trump's tweet — and prosecutors had not spoken to the White Ho

CHICAGO (AP) — A grand jury returned a six-count indictment accusing actor Jussie Smollett of lying to Chicago police, a special prosecutor announced Tuesday.

The charges stem from Smollett's assertion that he was the target of a racist and homophobic attack in January 2019. Special prosecutor Dan Webb issued a statement announcing the indictment.

Smollett, who is black and gay, was originally charged the following month with disorderly conduct for allegedly staging the attack and lying about it to investigators.