At luncheon in Chicago, she says international system still coping with triple shock since 9/11, describes 3 major policy focus points in AfghanistanThe international system is still grappling with the triple shocks of the Sept. 11 attacks, the global economic crisis of 2008 and the Arab Spring, former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said at a Thursday luncheon hosted by The Executives' Club o...

Illinois' junior senator lauds former Massachusetts governor's 'managerial talent,' foreign policy stanceMark Kirk will endorse former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney's bid for the GOP presidential nomination Monday, sources close to the political operation of the first-term Illinois Republican senator said Sunday.

Ex-governor says he was only attempting a legal political 'horse trade'Rod Blagojevich was interested in getting something in exchange for naming someone to the U.S. Senate, but only if it was part of a legal political "horse trade," the former governor said Tuesday on the witness stand at his retrial.

Mayor Richard Daley demoted the head of the city's Water Management Department on Friday in the wake of recent allegations that department employees were engaged in illegal side jobs and supervisors hired people in exchange for political favors.