Author Archives: Julia Bradley
Man arrested on weapons charges after chase with PPD
UPDATED 12:07 P.M. PEORIA, Ill. -- A man is facing multiple charges after an early morning incident in Peoria. According to Peoria Police, it began just after 2 a.m. Thursday when officers were called...
Dec 01, 2022 (1470 & 100.3 WMBD/Peoria County Jail)
U.S. House panel gets access to Trump's tax returns after long legal battle
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A U.S. House of Representatives committee has obtained access to Donald Trump's tax returns, following a years-long court fight with the Republican former president who has accu...
Dec 01, 2022 FILE PHOTO: Former U.S. President Donald Trump gestures as he announces that he will once again run for U.S. president in the 2024 U.S. presidential election during an event at his Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm Beach, Florida, U.S. November 15, 2022. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst/File Photo
Peoria crews battle fire overnight
PEORIA, Ill. -- Peoria firefighters were called to a home on S. Arago Street, near W. Humbolt early Thursday morning. Peoria Fire Battalion Chief Tom Stimeling said the first company on-scene around 2...
Dec 01, 2022 liz west / CC
U.S. appeals court rejects Biden's bid to revive student debt plan
(Reuters) -A federal appeals court on Wednesday declined to put on hold a Texas judge's ruling that said President Joe Biden's plan to cancel hundreds of billions of dollars in student loan debt was u...
Dec 01, 2022 FILE PHOTO: A graduating student records the academic procession during the Commencement ceremony at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S., May 27, 2022. REUTERS/Brian Snyder
U.S. House backs legislation to block rail strike
UPDATE: 12:26 p.m. WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A majority of the U.S. House of Representatives on Wednesday backed a bill to block a potentially crippling rail strike, but the fate of a separate proposal b...
Nov 30, 2022 FILE PHOTO: An aerial view of gantry cranes, shipping containers, and freight railway trains ahead of a possible strike if there is no deal with the rail worker unions, at the Union Pacific Los Angeles (UPLA) Intermodal Facility rail yard in Commerce, California, U.S., September 15, 2022. REUTERS/Bing Guan//File Photo
Pritzker: Changes to Safe-T Act could come before veto session ends
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. -- Illinois Gov. J-B Pritzker is hopeful that state lawmakers will be able to make some tweaks to the Safe-T Act during this week's fall veto session. The session is set to end on Th...
Nov 30, 2022 (File-Will Stevenson/1470 & 100.3 WMBD)
U.S. House Democrats elect Hakeem Jeffries as first Black party leader
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Hakeem Jeffries was elected on Wednesday to become the Democratic Party's top leader in the U.S. House of Representatives beginning in January, making him the first Black Americ...
Nov 30, 2022 U.S. Rep. Hakeem Jefferies (D-NY) walks on the day of House Democratic leadership elections on Capitol Hill in Washington, U.S., November 30, 2022. REUTERS/Michael A. McCoy
U.S. Senate passes same-sex marriage protection bill
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Senate passed a bill on Tuesday that would protect federal recognition of same-sex marriage, a measure taken up in response to worries the Supreme Court could overturn ...
Nov 30, 2022 Senator Kyrsten Sinema (D-AZ) speaks alongside Senator Tammy Baldwin (D-WI), Senator Susan Collins (R-ME) and Senator Rob Portman (R-OH) during a news conference on the passage of the Respect for Marriage Act at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., U.S., November 29, 2022. REUTERS/Sarah Silbiger
The U.S. to grant $53 million to Ukraine for power transmission
BUCHAREST (Reuters) - The United States on Tuesday announced $53 million to support the purchase of power grid equipment to Ukraine to help Kyiv fight Russian attacks targeting its energy infrastructu...
Nov 30, 2022 FILE PHOTO: A woman with a dog waits for a bus in a street without electricity after critical civil infrastructure was hit by Russian missile attacks, amid Russia's invasion of Ukraine, in Kyiv, Ukraine November 23, 2022. REUTERS/Valentyn Ogirenko
'End of an era': Former Chinese President Jiang Zemin dies at 96
BEIJING (Reuters) - Former Chinese President Jiang Zemin, who led the country for a decade of rapid economic growth after the Tiananmen crackdown in 1989, died on Wednesday at the age of 96, Chinese s...
Nov 30, 2022 FILE PHOTO: China's President Jiang Zemin gestures during his press conference in Beijing, China, September 2, 1994. REUTERS/Will Burgess/File Photo
