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NPR critic Bob Mondello says Steven Spielberg's Ready Player One is a match made in heaven. In it, '80s on screen nostalgia meets a novel about video-game nostalgia for the 1980s.

An Illinois lawmaker wants to give police officers more power to take away guns from someone who poses a threat.

Northwestern University will be taking additional steps to ensure its campus buildings are bird friendly. University officials say the school is working...

Two Illinois Valley cities are getting more than a million dollars each from the federal government to help prevent flood damage. The Federal Emergency...

The government of Ecuador said WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, who has been living inside its London embassy, was jeopardizing its relationships with other countries in his social media posts.

Texas Republican Pete Sessions is running for reelection in a district that is an island of blue in a sea of red. But Democrats are sensing an opportunity in the area that Hillary Clinton won in 2016.

Orange County, Calif., is under federal court order to deal with a worsening homelessness crisis. But plans to set up new emergency shelters in affluent coastal communities face stiff opposition.

The U.N. has called for an investigation into the assassination of black activist Marielle Franco. Her death in Rio de Janeiro two weeks ago prompted huge demonstrations demanding an end to the bloodshed.

"The initial shock happened when I had to dress," Scott Foster said after the Blackhawks' 6-2 victory. "You just kind of black out after that."

For this week’s Big Story in the Quad-City Times, entertainment reporter Amanda Hancock takes a look at the music scene in the Quad Cities, and in…