Author Archives: Cooper Banks
After delay, Congress sends $40 billion Ukraine aid package to Biden
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. Senate approved nearly $40 billion in aid for Ukraine on Thursday sending the bill to the White House for President Joe Biden to sign into law as Washington races to kee...
May 19, 2022 FILE PHOTO: U.S. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) listens during a news conference about legislative efforts to lower gas prices, on Capitol Hill in Washington, U.S., April 28, 2022. REUTERS/Elizabeth Frantz/File Photo
Buffalo mass murder suspect makes brief appearance in court
BUFFALO, N.Y. (Reuters) -The 18-year-old white man accused of killing 10 people in a livestreamed shooting at a supermarket in a Black neighborhood in Buffalo, New York, briefly appeared in court on T...
May 19, 2022 Buffalo shooting suspect, Payton S. Gendron, appears in court accused of killing 10 people in a live-streamed supermarket shooting in a Black neighborhood of Buffalo, New York, U.S., May 19, 2022. REUTERS/Brendan McDermid
Biden's counter-disinformation executive resigns after a few weeks on the job
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The head of the Biden administration's disinformation-fighting group has resigned, she told Reuters on Wednesday. Nina Jankowicz, who was named as executive director of the Depa...
May 18, 2022 FILE PHOTO: The American flag is seen flying at half staff over the White House to honor the 1 million U.S. citizens killed by COVID-19 since the pandemic began in Washington, U.S., May 12, 2022. REUTERS/Leah Millis
Five U.S. midterm primaries to watch in Pennsylvania, North Carolina, Idaho
(Reuters) - Voters in Pennsylvania, North Carolina, Idaho and Kentucky hold nominating primaries on Tuesday in which voters will pick their parties' candidates for the U.S. Congress and other offices,...
May 17, 2022 FILE PHOTO: U.S. Representative Madison Cawthorn speaks during a rally hosted by former U.S. President Donald Trump in Selma, North Carolina, U.S. April 9, 2022. REUTERS/Erin Siegal McIntyre
Amber Heard says she feared she would not survive Johnny Depp marriage
(Reuters) -"Aquaman" actor Amber Heard told jurors in a defamation case on Monday that she filed for divorce from Johnny Depp in 2016 because she worried she would not survive physical abuse by him. U...
May 16, 2022 FILE PHOTO: Actor Amber Heard returns to the courtroom after lunch break at Fairfax County Circuit Court during a defamation case against her by ex-husband, actor Johnny Depp, in Fairfax, Virginia, U.S., May 4, 2022. REUTERS/Elizabeth Frantz/Pool
Sweden's plans for NATO membership hit snag as Turkey says no
STOCKHOLM (Reuters) -Sweden will formally apply for NATO membership in the next few days, Prime Minister Magdalena Andersson said on Monday, but its accession process, and that of Finland, hit a snag ...
May 16, 2022 FILE PHOTO: Swedish Defence Minister Peter Hultqvist speaks during a news conference at the military base in Adazi, Latvia April 13, 2022. REUTERS/Ints Kalnins/File Photo
Disaster mitigation continues at stricken Bio-Urja Renewables plant
PEORIA, Ill. -- Asked where this emergency ranks for him on a scale of 1 to 10, Peoria's Interim Fire Chief Shawn Sollberger tells WMBD News, "...this would be an eleven." Sollberger, his firefighters...
May 16, 2022 (Will Stevenson/1470 & 100.3 WMBD)
PPD directed patrol nets firearms arrest near Lexington Hills Apartments
PEORIA, Ill. -- There were dozens of vehicle stops and nearly a dozen arrests, including one suspect taken into custody carrying a firearm outside the already troubled Lexington Hills Apartment comple...
May 13, 2022 1470 & 100.3 WMBD
Dust storm, hurricane-force winds tear destructive path across U.S. upper Midwest
CHICAGO (Reuters) - Hurricane-force winds tore across the U.S. upper Midwest Thursday evening, sending walls of dust across cities and rural towns, causing widespread property damage and killing at le...
May 13, 2022 Mangled irrigation systems lay across farmland in central Nebraska after high winds swept across the U.S. Great Plains and upper Midwest, Litchfield, Nebraska, U.S., in this still image obtained from a social media video. KEVIN FULTON/via REUTERS
Pritzker signs crackdown on organized retail theft, sites links to violent crime
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. -- Governor J.B. Pritzker is signing a new law to crack down on organized retail theft in Illinois. Attorney General Kwame Raoul helped draft the legislation and says we're not talki...
May 13, 2022 FILE PHOTO: Governor of Illinois Jay Robert Pritzker speaks during a science initiative event at the University of Chicago, in Chicago, Illinois, U.S. July 23, 2020. REUTERS/Kamil Krzaczynski
