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WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal prosecutors have declined to charge former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe, closing an investigation into whether he lied to federal officials about his involvement in a news media disclosure, McCabe's legal team said Friday.

The decision resolves a criminal investigation that spanned more than a year and began with a referral from the Justice Department’s inspector general, which said McCabe repeatedly lied about having authorized a subordinate to share information with a newspaper reporter for a 2016 article about an FBI in

NEW YORK (AP) — A second wave of flu is hitting the U.S., turning this into one of the nastiest seasons for children in a decade.

The number of child deaths and the hospitalization rate for youngsters are the highest seen at this point in any season since the severe flu outbreak of 2009-10, health officials said Friday.

Hours after her release from a downstate immigration detention center, 18-year-old Meydi Guzman Rivas cried as she waded through the crowd of friends, teachers and neighbors who gathered to witness her homecoming.

Now that she's home there's one thing she wants to do more than anything else.

"Go to school," she said.

More than four months had passed since any of Guzman Rivas' classmates saw the petite, outgoing student in class at Crystal Lake Central High School.

Hours after her release from a downstate immigration detention center, 18-year-old Meydi Guzman Rivas cried as she waded through the crowd of friends, teachers and neighbors who gathered to witness her homecoming.

Mrs. Butkus' fifth-grade class at Briargate Elementary School in Cary collected almost $1,800 for the World Wildlife Fund in Australia.

You’re invited to visit the Hooved Animal Humane Society farm in Woodstock. Just bring a watermelon for smashing.

It might seem like an odd request.

“The pigs just love it,” said Tracy McGonigle, executive director of the nonprofit animal rescue organization.

While most likely associate the organization with horses, the Hooved Animal Humane Society actually rescues all sorts of animals, including pigs, goats, sheep, mules and hinnies.

NEW YORK (AP) — Tony Rankins, a formerly homeless, drug-addicted Army veteran, got a standing ovation at the State of the Union after President Donald Trump described how he turned his life around thanks to a construction job at a company using the administration's “Opportunity Zone” tax breaks targeting poor neighborhoods.

But that's not completely true.

Rankins, who indeed moved out of his car and into an apartment since landing a job refurbishing a Nashville hotel two years ago, doesn't work at a site taking adv

WASHINGTON (AP) — Attorney General William Barr took a public swipe at President Donald Trump on Thursday, saying that the president’s tweets about Justice Department prosecutors and cases “make it impossible for me to do my job.”

Barr made the comment during an interview with ABC News just days after his Justice Department overruled its own prosecutors — who had recommended in a court filing that Trump’s longtime ally and confidant Roger Stone be sentenced to 7 to 9 years in prison — and took the extraordinary step of lowering the amount of p

A bill filed last week by Rep. Dan Ugaste, R-Geneva, seeks to make the township consolidation options for McHenry County – which were signed into law last year – statewide.

Under the existing law, which was introduced by Rep. David McSweeney, R-Barrington Hills, trustees of any township in the county also can pass a resolution calling for a referendum asking for their township's dissolution.

McHenry County Board Chairman Jack Franks maintained his innocence Thursday in the wake of revelations about an ongoing Illinois State Police investigation into allegations of sexual misconduct and asked that citizens reserve their judgement.

“I’m not going to say much about it today besides saying once again that I’ve done nothing wrong,” Franks said during Thursday's committee of the whole meeting.