U.S. Sen. Tammy Duckworth (D-IL) is calling for federal government watchdogs to launch an investigation into immigration agents' tactics amid an ongoing enforcement operation in the Chicago area, ...

Illinois Democratic U.S. Senator Tammy Duckworth has sent a letter to the inspectors general of two government agencies. The longtime lawmaker and military veteran expressed her concern over President ...

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A group of Senate Democrats sent a letter Friday to Education Secretary Linda McMahon demanding the Trump administration make efforts to ensure Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers don’t ...

The Senate failed yet another vote today, dragging on what has now become the second-longest government shutdown in U.S. history. The vote to fund the government failed 54-45, short of the 60 votes ...

Federal officials abruptly left Naval Station Great Lakes outside Chicago after Illinois Democrats announced they would tour the base ahead of an expected immigration crackdown, Sen. Tammy Duckworth ...

Sen. Tammy Duckworth, D-Ill., and at least a half a dozen other senators are calling on the U.S. Department of Education to pressure immigration authorities to refrain from carrying out immigration ...

WASHINGTON -- A "near-total secrecy" surrounding deportation flights and the use of full-body restraints onboard is raising "serious human rights concerns," a group of 11 Democratic U.S. senators ...

The last three years have been a whirlwind for Landon Duckworth. Regarded as one of the best quarterbacks in his class since his freshman season, Duckworth committed to South Carolina weeks before his ...