Author Archives: Julia Bradley
US homeland chief seeks to deputize IRS agents for immigration enforcement
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Department of Homeland Security wants to deputize some Internal Revenue Service criminal investigators and other Treasury Department personnel to perform immigration en...
Feb 11, 2025 Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem speaks to employees at the Department of Homeland Security, Tuesday, Jan. 28, 2025, in Washington, U.S. Manuel Balce Ceneta/Pool via REUTERS/File Photo
One dead, four injured after business jets collide at Arizona airport
(Reuters) -At least one person was killed on Monday after a midsize business jet skidded off the runway while landing at the Scottsdale, Arizona, municipal airport and collided with another jet that w...
Feb 11, 2025 Emergency crews respond after a midsize business jet skidded off the runway while landing and collided with another jet that was parked at the municipal airport in Scottsdale, Arizona, U.S. February 10, 2025. REUTERS/Thomas Machowicz
PPS approves scaled back plan to pay for new buses
PEORIA, Ill. - Peoria Public Schools have freed up $1.25 million to help pay for new school buses. The school board Monday night voted unanimously to transfer the funds from working cash into the tran...
Feb 11, 2025 (25 News)
Winter Storm Warning issued for 6 AM Wednesday-3 AM Thursday (2/12-13)
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Feb 11, 2025
US judge declines to block Elon Musk's DOGE from Labor Department systems
(Reuters) -A federal judge on Friday declined to block Elon Musk's government cost-cutting department from accessing the U.S. Department of Labor's systems, an initial setback for the government emplo...
Feb 10, 2025 Protest outside the Department of Labor, Washington, D.C., February 5, 2025. REUTERS/Nathan Howard
Trump says US might lose patience with ceasefire deal over Israeli hostages' appearance
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Trump on Sunday said he was losing patience with the ceasefire deal between Israel and Hamas after seeing footage of the Palestinian militant group release Israeli hos...
Feb 10, 2025 A released hostage Or Levy, who was seized during the deadly October 7 2023 attack by Hamas, is seen with his father through a window of a helicopter that lands at Sheba Medical Center, for treatment following his release from Gaza, in Ramat Gan, Israel, February 8, 2025. REUTERS/Nir Elias
As Trump pushes legal boundaries, judges hold the line
WILMINGTON, Delaware (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump's furious pace of orders slashing foreign aid, sending troops to the border and pardoning violent criminals has met little resistance in Co...
Feb 10, 2025 FILE PHOTO: Football - NFL - Super Bowl LIX - Philadelphia Eagles v Kansas City Chiefs - Caesars Superdome, New Orleans, Louisiana, United States - February 9, 2025 U.S. President Donald Trump gestures inside the stadium before the game REUTERS/Brian Snyder/File Photo
EV maker Rivian opens up commercial van sales to all fleet sizes
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Rivian is opening up sales of its delivery vans to fleets of all sizes in the United States, the electric vehicle maker said on Monday, more than a year after ending its excl...
Feb 10, 2025 FILE PHOTO: New Amazon EV vans powered by Rivian at the Amazon Logistics Facility in Chicago, Illinois, U.S. July 21, 2022. REUTERS/Jim Vondruska/File Photo
GasBuddy: Peoria gas prices nearly unchanged
PEORIA, Ill. - Average gas prices in Peoria were down less than a penny in the last week, averaging $3.22 a gallon on Monday, according to GasBuddy. Prices in Peoria are 4.5 cents higher than a month ...
Feb 10, 2025 Mike Mozart / CC
Billionaire Trump says time's up for lowly US penny
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent has been ordered to cease production of the one-cent coin known as the penny, President Donald Trump said in a posting on his Truth Social ...
Feb 10, 2025 FILE PHOTO: A stack of one cent U.S. coins depicting Abraham Lincoln is shown in this photo Illustration in Encinitas, California March 26, 2015. REUTERS/Mike Blake/File Photo
