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Known for its handmade pizzas and breakfast pizza, Midwest retailer Casey's General Stores is taking a swing at a new buy zone.

CHICAGO — Big Shoulders Books are free. You can request one. They’ll send you one. You might even be in one. Big Shoulders Books, founded at DePaul University a decade ago, has been one of the more quietly ambitious projects in Midwest journalism, though, in practice, the work is not…

Considering all 62 million Latinos as a group isn’t that helpful in understanding voting patterns

Nearly 1 in 5 people in the United States today are Latino, and “the Latino vote” has attracted significant news coverage as their political voice grows stronger. Yet considering all 62 million Latinos as a group isn’t necessarily all that helpful in understanding attitudes or voting patterns, as some scholars…

New York (AFP) - Months without rain have left farmers across the vast US Midwest, part of the country's essential "breadbasket," seeing crop yields in freefall, with some fields too damaged to harvest.

Democrat Tim Ryan has long emphasized manufacturing jobs, a stance his party has lately begun to embrace

Winterlike scenes unfolded across portions of the Upper Midwest as many residents woke up to snow. 

The heartland is especially down on every major institution.

The U.S. is a divided country politically, but also temperature-wise — at least right now.

A Perth businessman finishes his marathon 12,000-kilometre trek across Australia with his six camels and dog, in the West Australian Midwest town of Geraldton.

CHICAGO — Haddonfield, Illinois, does not exist.