Charles M. Madigan

Illinois cast its 22 electoral votes for the loser Monday as the nation's Electoral College, meeting in individual state capitals around the nation, gave Texas Gov. George W. Bush the...

Under orders from Texas Gov. George W. Bush, furious Republicans turned to the U.S. Supreme Court Wednesday to try to stop hand recounts in three heavily Democratic Florida counties that...

As recount teams in strongly Democratic counties picked through thousands of ballots looking for votes, Florida's Supreme Court on Friday blocked plans by the secretary of state to certify state...

The Florida Supreme Court cleared the way Thursday for Palm Beach County and two other Democratic counties to hand count ballots, but did not decide whether the results must be...

Riding a razor-thin vote advantage, Texas Gov. George W. Bush's campaign pushed Friday for a quick resolution to an agonizing stalemate that has stopped the presidential election in its tracks,...

The nation has a new president, but as a tumultuous political conflict plays out, Americans won't know his name until Florida's ballots are recounted and its 25 electoral votes are...

On Dec. 18, 22 official electors of the Electoral College of Illinois will meet in room 212 in the state Capitol building in Springfield and cast all 22 of the...

This was not how it was supposed to be at the end of "The American Century." With the world's strongest economy and a dominant military that can flex its muscle...

International law professor and scholar M. Cherif Bassiouni, a strong advocate of war crimes prosecutions and international justice, tells a chilling story that casts a harsh light on the historical...

At 3 a.m., some of the men of Bela Crkva were still up, because they knew what might happen. Almost everyone else was awakened by the unmistakable sound of clanking...