Nancy Mace, the firebrand South Carolina Republican who is considering a run for governor, made headlines Monday when she ...

Jurors found Madigan guilty of 10 counts against him and not guilty of seven others, including a charge of racketeering ...

The Illinois Democrat once lauded as the longest-serving legislative leader in U.S. history has been found guilty of some ...

Michael J. Madigan, a formidable force in the state’s politics for decades, faced federal charges of racketeering, bribery ...

The verdict capped an unpredictable four-month trial that gave jurors an upfront and uncensored look at the practice of behind-the-scenes politics in Chicago and Illinois in the previous decade.

"Law is a team sport and you’re only as good as your team. I played a lot of team sports growing up, and I was never the best ...

Madigan, 82, and his co-defendant and longtime confidante, Michael McClain, face a 23-count indictment in federal court in Chicago on charges of racketeering conspiracy, bribery, wire fraud, and ...

An Orange County Court judge denied a defense motion to dismiss the special prosecutor in the Megan McDonald murder case ...

Michael Gates will be Trump’s deputy assistant attorney general in the Department of Justice’s civil rights division. Gates ...

A federal jury Wednesday convicted former House Speaker Michael Madigan, once the most powerful person in Illinois politics, of 10 charges including bribery conspiracy — but jurors deadlocked on ...