by Lisa Mascaro, Farnoush Amiri and Matt Brown WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden signed a bill into law Saturday that averts a government shutdown, bringing a final close to days of upheaval after Congress approved a temporary funding plan just past the deadline and refused…
A debate over the debt ceiling is at the center of a dispute over funding that is pushing Washington to the brink of a federal government shutdown. President-elect Donald Trump has demanded that a provision raising or suspending the nation’s debt limit — something that…
by Kate Brumback ATLANTA — A state appeals court on Thursday removed Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis from the Georgia election interference case against Donald Trump and others but did not dismiss the indictment, leaving the future of the prosecution uncertain. The case against…
by Chinedu Asadu ABUJA, Nigeria — West Africa’s regional bloc ECOWAS approved Sunday an exit timeline for three coup-hit nations after a nearly yearlong process of mediation to avert the unprecedented disintegration of the grouping. In a first in the 15-nation bloc’s nearly 50 years…
The Ethiopian Community Association of Chicago (ECAC) has come a long way since its inception in 1984 as the only…
It’s been 17 years since the African Festival of the Arts started in Chicago. Patrick Woodtor, a Liberian American was…
by Patrick Rose CHICAGO— William Contreras hit a tiebreaking two-run single in Milwaukee’s three-run eighth inning, and the Brewers beat…
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