“Renee always thought of herself as the voice of the voiceless,” said retired WMAQ-Ch. 5 vice president of news and station manager Frank Whittaker, who first worked with Ferguson at Channel 2.

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President Donald Trump asked Congress on Tuesday to take back $9.4 billion in federal funding for foreign aid, the State Department and public media.

However, the reality is that Congress ceded its power to declare war to the president nearly 25 years ago, and it’s going to have a hard time clawing it back.

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Renee Ferguson, the first African American woman to work as an investigative reporter in Chicago television and a long-time journalist for WMAQ, has died, her family told NBC Chicago.

Washington — The White House on Tuesday sent a formal request to Congress to claw back funding for NPR, PBS and international aid that lawmakers had previously approved. The package would cancel ...

Trustees of the Social Security trust fund predict the fund will be exhausted in eight years. Unless Congress acts, Social Security payments will automatically drop by 23% at that time.

Renee Ferguson, groundbreaking NBC5 investigative journalist, dies at 75 Ms. Ferguson made history when she became the first Black woman to work as an investigative reporter in Chicago TV news.