Author Archives: Cooper Banks
Massive snowstorm targets large swath of United States
(Reuters) - A powerful winter storm system moved across the U.S. Northwest, Plains and Southwest on Monday, bringing frigid temperatures, blizzard-like conditions and freezing rains that threatened to...
Dec 12, 2022 Midwest Communications
U.S. Supreme Court takes up second Biden appeal in student debt plan fight
(Reuters) - The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday agreed to hear President Joe Biden's appeal of a judge's ruling that found his plan to cancel billions of dollars in student debt unlawful, taking up the m...
Dec 12, 2022
Lockerbie plane bombing suspect taken into U.S. custody
LONDON/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A man accused of making the bomb that killed 270 people after it blew up Pan Am flight 103 over Lockerbie in Scotland in 1988 is in custody in the United States, Scottish...
Dec 11, 2022 FILE PHOTO: File photo: Scottish crash investigators at the site of the Lockerbie Pan Am flight 103 bombing in 1988.. Greg Bos/REUTERS
Another PPD gun buy-back ends early with dozens of unwanted firearms collected
PEORIA, Ill. -- Another gun buy-back event in Peoria started and ended fast, with nearly another 90 firearms collected by local police. Peoria Police say people were already lined up by the time the b...
Dec 11, 2022
Former Minnesota police officer sentenced in George Floyd case
(Reuters) -A former Minneapolis police officer on Friday was sentenced to 3-1/2 years in prison for his involvement in the death of George Floyd, an unarmed Black man who was killed when a fellow poli...
Dec 09, 2022 FILE PHOTO: A woman takes part in a march and vigil on the second anniversary of the death of George Floyd, a Black man who was killed in 2020 by white police officer Derek Chauvin by kneeling on his neck, in Minneapolis, Minnesota, U.S. May 25, 2022. REUTERS/Eric Miller
Indiana sues TikTok alleging Chinese access to user data, mature content exposure
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Indiana sued Chinese-owned short-video sharing app TikTok on Wednesday over allegations that it is deceiving users about China's access to their data and exposing children to mat...
Dec 08, 2022 FILE PHOTO: TikTok app logo is seen in this illustration taken, August 22, 2022. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/Illustration/File Photo
Durbin re-elected to top spot in Senate Dems' leadership
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Illinois Democratic Senator Dick Durbin is announcing he's been re-elected to his post as the second most powerful Democrat in the Senate chamber. Durbin said Thursday he was re-el...
Dec 08, 2022 (File-Will Stevenson/1470 & 100.3 WMBD)
Trump's company convicted of scheme to defraud tax authorities
NEW YORK (Reuters) -Donald Trump's real estate company was convicted on Tuesday of carrying out a 15-year-long criminal scheme to defraud tax authorities, adding to the legal woes facing the former U....
Dec 06, 2022 FILE PHOTO: Former U.S. President Donald Trump attends a rally to support Republican candidates ahead of midterm elections, in Dayton, Ohio, U.S. November 7, 2022. REUTERS/Gaelen Morse/File Photo
Biden to visit Taiwan's TSMC chip plant in Arizona, hail supply chain fixes
WASHINGTON/PHOENIX, Ariz. (Reuters) -U.S. President Joe Biden will visit TSMC's Arizona plant on Tuesday as the Taiwanese chipmaker said it will more than triple its planned investment there to $40 bi...
Dec 06, 2022
Tax credits, prison reform pass in veto session
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (Capitol News Illinois) - Illinois lawmakers last week passed significant legislation dealing with electric vehicle manufacturing incentives and the availability of hygiene products ...
Dec 05, 2022 (File-Will Stevenson/1470 & 100.3 WMBD)
