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The signature tower at the Obama Presidential Center, under construction in Jackson Park, already looms over the community. It will house the museum dedicated to the former president.

If elected House speaker, Louisiana Republican Steve Scalise would be the first top House leader from the South since Newt Gingrich served as speaker more than 20 years ago.

Ruth Park’s novel The Harp in the South (1948) is a classic of Australian fiction. Just as television viewers in recent decades would recognise “Ramsay Street” as the fictional centre of Australia’s longest-running television soap opera Neighbours, earlier generations of readers would have recognised with affection “Twelve-and-a-half Plymouth Street”: the…

At issue is the way the Republican-dominated state legislature equalized the population of its congressional districts.

Israel declares war as Hamas launches massive missile attack and infiltrates communities

City Council members hear from public before a major environmental impact ordinance is introduced this year.

In one form or another, all those questions are back on the table this term — mainly to take a second look at appeals from the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals, which covers Texas and parts the South.

Salon talks to author Minda Honey about her new Aughts-in-LA memoir about looking for love and finding herself

Party loses 40% of 2019 voters in south and Midlands according to exclusive Opinium poll for the Observer

Lifelong residents of a tiny Georgia island who are descended from slaves are pushing to give voters a chance to override local zoning changes that they say threaten one of the last Gullah-Geechee communities in the U.S. South

White Christmas a possibility in the South?