Author Archives: Julia Bradley
US Senate Republicans to seek referee's opinion on Trump tax plan
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. Senate Republicans will ask their chamber's nonpartisan referee this week to weigh in on a controversial plan to make President Donald Trump's expiring 2017 tax cuts permane...
Apr 01, 2025 FILE PHOTO: Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-SD) speaks with reporters following the Senate Republicans' weekly policy lunch on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., U.S., March 11, 2025. REUTERS/Nathan Howard/File Photo
Trump administration to freeze family-planning funds for Planned Parenthood
(Reuters) -Reproductive health provider Planned Parenthood said on Monday the Trump administration would cut federal family planning funding as of Tuesday, affecting birth control, cancer screenings a...
Apr 01, 2025 FILE PHOTO: Nuns pray outside of a Planned Parenthood location in Columbus, Ohio, U.S., November 12, 2021 as the state considers restrictive abortion laws. REUTERS/Gaelen Morse/File Photo
Harvard at risk of losing $9 billion in federal funds as US launches review
(Reuters) -The Trump administration said on Monday it was reviewing $9 billion in federal contracts and grants awarded to Harvard University, part of a crackdown on what it says is antisemitism on col...
Apr 01, 2025 FILE PHOTO: Mugs bearing the school's logo are displayed for sale outside Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S., June 18, 2018. REUTERS/Brian Snyder/File Photo
Greater Peoria Honor Flight headed to Washington, D.C.
PEORIA, Ill. - The first Greater Peoria Honor Flight of 2025 is scheduled to take off from the Wayne A. Downing Peoria International Airport Tuesday morning. The plane will be filled with local vetera...
Apr 01, 2025 (Greater Peoria Honor Flight)
It's Election Day with consolidated elections throughout the Tri-County area
PEORIA, Ill. - After months of campaigning, the fate of candidates for the April consolidated elections are in the hands of the voters. Tuesday marks elections in Illinois for mayors, city councils, s...
Apr 01, 2025
Collins: Threat of more severe storms Tuesday night-Wednesday
PEORIA, Ill. - A threat of severe weather is prompting 25 News First Alert Chief Meteorologist Chuck Collins to designate a First Alert Weather Day for Tuesday night through Wednesday. "We'll see isol...
Apr 01, 2025 (Midwest Communications)
In a change of course, US Justice Dept drops challenge to Georgia voting law
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. President Donald Trump's Justice Department said on Monday it was pulling out of a lawsuit that challenges a Republican-backed Georgia election law as discriminatory, abando...
Mar 31, 2025 FILE PHOTO: People make a line to vote during the 2024 U.S. presidential election on Election Day, at Flipper Temple A.M.E. Church, in Atlanta, Georgia, U.S., November 5, 2024. REUTERS/Cheney Orr/File Photo
UPDATE: One person and a dog dies in Woodford County farmhouse fire
UPDATED 3:27 P.M. SPRING BAY, Ill. - A woman and a dog died in a fire at a farmhouse in Woodford County early Monday morning. 25 News reports they were found in the same room, while two other people w...
Mar 31, 2025 (Midwest Communications)
Musk gives away two $1 million checks to Wisconsin voters in high profile judicial race
(Reuters) -Billionaire Elon Musk on Sunday handed out million-dollar checks to two voters in Wisconsin and promised smaller payments to others who help elect a conservative candidate to the state's to...
Mar 31, 2025 U.S. President Donald Trump's adviser Elon Musk speaks during a rally in support of a conservative state Supreme Court candidate of an April 1 election in Green Bay, Wisconsin, U.S. March 30, 2025.
Myanmar rescues, sign of life in Bangkok rubble raise hopes after deadly quake
BANGKOK (Reuters) - People were pulled alive out of rubble in Myanmar and signs of life were detected in the ruins of a skyscraper in Bangkok on Monday as efforts intensified to find survivors three d...
Mar 31, 2025 Rescue workers continue a search operation at the site of a collapsed building, in the aftermath of a strong earthquake, in Mandalay, Myanmar, March 31, 2025. REUTERS/Stringer
