The Latest Breaking News from Dick Durbin

Biden’s plan will wipe out $20,000 in federal student debt for Pell Grant recipients and eliminate $10,000 in federal student loan debt for other borrowers.

A whistle-blower complaint from Twitter Inc.’s former head of security, claiming severe shortcomings in the social media company’s handling of users’ personal data, will have wide ramifications for the business.

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. — Illinois Democrats looked to both the past and the future as rallying points on their day at the Illinois State Fair on Wednesday, castigating former Republican Gov. Bruce Rauner’s one-term stewardship of the state and warning that the party’s candidate for governor in November, Darren Bailey, would…

Gov. J.B. Pritzker, standing alongside new Democratic Party of Illinois Chair Lisa Hernandez and Sen. Tammy Duckworth, downplayed the intraparty tension, especially around Sen. Dick Durbin, who wanted Rep. Robin Kelly to remain in the top party post.

Once Gov. J.B. Pritzker leaves office, the next Democratic governor will likely benefit from the precedent set by this intra-party battle.

The chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee says he plans to hold an oversight hearing on the crisis-plagued federal Bureau of Prisons after The Associated Press reported that the agency is keeping its embattled ex-director on the payroll as an adviser to his successor

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WASHINGTON — The Department of Homeland Security’s chief watchdog halted efforts to try to retrieve lost Secret Service text messages from other department phones, The Washington Post reported.

The issue is whether a federal office holder should be the state party chair, because federal rules limit the ability of a member of Congress to do substantial fundraising for state level races. “If you look over the last 16 months, you see it hasn’t worked,” Pritzker said Friday, before…

LOS ANGELES — Would minor league players be paid more if they could negotiate freely with every team?

The Majority Whip said the Senate Judiciary Committee will hold a hearing about MLB’s antitrust exemption and its impact on the minor leagues.