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A budget crisis in Illinois has revealed the cost of the state fair's butter sculptures. Courtney Crowder, a reporter for the Des Moines Register, talks about all that butter sculpture money.

Approved 407-19, the bill requires anyone who has traveled to Iraq or Syria in the past five years to obtain a visa before entering the U.S.

Decades of poorly regulated arms trading have provided ISIS with "a large and lethal arsenal," Amnesty International says in a new report.

For the second time, the University of Texas must defend its limited use of race and ethnicity in admissions decisions.

Saudi women gamers gather at an annual convention, dressing as their favorite characters and exercising freedoms they want to see more of in their lives.

Drug prices are a hot topic in politics. One company raised the price of a $1.50 drug to $750. Drugs to cure hepatitis C routinely cost more than $10,000 — and more for a full course of treatment.

Since the Sept. 11 attacks, FBI hate crime data and census trends show that states with the strongest backlash against Muslims saw decreased rates of assimilation among Muslim immigrants in America.

As lawmakers work to negotiate a government spending bill, the financial industry is lobbying against a rule being crafted by the Labor Department aimed at protecting workers with retirement accounts.

When it comes to problems of violence in Chicago, does Lee's latest help, or hurt? We rounded up some smart takes on the film.

French media said the 23-year-old man was a French national who had traveled to Syria in 2013. The government has not confirmed his identity.