Remembering lives lost to the coronavirus

SEOUL, South Korea - The powerful sister of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un threatened military action against South Korea as she bashed Seoul on Saturday over declining bilateral relations and its inability to stop activists from floating anti-Pyongyang leaflets across the border.

AUSTIN - If she sees a crime being committed, Ishia Lynette is more likely to call her father than police.

Jeff Wilhite, a native of the Cass County city of Virginia who lives in New Berlin, began a full-time job as director of communications for Sangamon County in late May.

WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump saluted the service and sacrifice of West Point's graduating class on Saturday, calling on cadets to be as visionary as military heroes of the past and encouraging them to stand strong for the cause of freedom and equality at a time of discord and division.

Investigators were looking into reports that an Atlanta police officer fatally shot a Black man in a fast-food drive-thru late Friday night.

Washington - In a move applauded by President Donald Trump's conservative religious base, his administration on Friday finalized a rule that overturns Obama-era protections for transgender people against sex discrimination in health care.

Shortly after becoming Chancellor of the University of Illinois Springfield in 2011, I had lunch at a favorite Chinese restaurant near the UIS campus.

The past few weekends, the people of Springfield have marched in the streets in support of Black lives.

In the lake country 200 miles northwest of Detroit, hundreds danced, prayed and demanded racial justice in Cadillac, a Michigan town that was long home to a neo-Nazi group.