Author Archives: Julia Bradley
U.S. to issue gender neutral passports, take steps to combat anti- transgender laws
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Americans will be allowed to choose an X for gender on their passport applications and select their sex on Social Security cards, the Biden administration said on Thursday in an...
Julia Bradley Apr 01, 2022 FILE PHOTO: A woman holds passports while waiting to cross at the San Ysidro border crossing in San Ysidro, California January 31, 2008. REUTERS/Fred Greaves/File Photo
Kremlin says Ukraine strike on Russian fuel depot creates awkward backdrop for talks
(Reuters) - The Kremlin said on Friday that a Ukrainian strike against a fuel depot in the Russian city of Belgorod did not create comfortable conditions to continue peace talks with Kyiv. Russia accu...
Julia Bradley Apr 01, 2022 A view shows a fuel depot on fire in the city of Belgorod, Russia April 1, 2022. Pavel Kolyadin/BelPressa/Handout via REUTERS
Rivian plans $30.4 million expansion in Normal
NORMAL, Ill. -- Electric vehicle maker Rivian Automotive is expanding its presence in Normal even though the company's second factory will be built in Georgia. Rivian and city officials confirmed to 2...
Julia Bradley Apr 01, 2022 (Rivian Facebook Page)
Senate Democrats propose legislation to help IL families financially
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. -- Senate Democrats are pushing a package of bills that they say will help get Illinois families back on their feet. The legislation includes an expansion of the state's Earned Incom...
Julia Bradley Mar 30, 2022 MWC
U.S. astronaut, two Russian cosmonauts return home from ISS
ALMATY (Reuters) -A U.S. astronaut and two Russian cosmonauts safely landed in Kazakhstan on Wednesday after leaving the International Space Station aboard the same capsule despite heightened antagoni...
Julia Bradley Mar 30, 2022 The Soyuz MS-19 space capsule carrying crew members of the International Space Station (ISS), NASA astronaut Mark Vande Hei and Roscosmos cosmonauts Anton Shkaplerov and Pyotr Dubrov, descends beneath a parachute in a remote area outside Zhezkazgan, Kazakhstan March 30, 2022, in this still image taken from video. Roscosmos/Handout via REUTERS
Collins becomes first Republican to back U.S. Supreme Court pick Jackson
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Senator Susan Collins on Wednesday became the first Republican to declare support for President Joe Biden's Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson, further boosting her pro...
Julia Bradley Mar 30, 2022 FILE PHOTO: U.S. Senator Susan Collins (R-ME) meets with U.S. Supreme Court nominee and federal appeals court Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson in her office on Capitol Hill in Washington, U.S., March 8, 2022. REUTERS/Jim Bourg/File Photo
Potential apartment complex deal gets push back from North Peoria residents
PEORIA, Ill. -- The Prairie Vista apartment complex in North Peoria could be changing hands and getting a facelift, all to the tune of $65 million. But the deal comes with some requirements, getting p...
Julia Bradley Mar 30, 2022 (25 News)
Moscow welcomes written Ukrainian demands but says no sign of breakthrough
(Reuters) -The Kremlin on Wednesday welcomed the fact that Kyiv has set out its demands for an end to the conflict in Ukraine in written form, but said there was no sign of a breakthrough yet. Kremlin...
Julia Bradley Mar 30, 2022 FILE PHOTO: Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov attends a joint news conference of Russian President Vladimir Putin and Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko in Moscow, Russia February 18, 2022. Sputnik/Sergey Guneev/Kremlin via REUTERS/File Photo
White House logs show gap of 7-plus hours in Trump Jan. 6 call record -report
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -White House records show an unexplained gap of more than seven hours in the record of former President Donald Trump's telephone calls the day of the deadly Jan. 6, 2021, attack o...
Julia Bradley Mar 30, 2022 FILE PHOTO: Jacob Anthony Chansley, also known as Jake Angeli, of Arizona, stands with other supporters of U.S. President Donald Trump as they demonstrate on the second floor of the U.S. Capitol near the entrance to the Senate after breaching security defenses, in Washington, U.S., January 6, 2021. REUTERS/Mike Theiler/File Photo
FDA authorizes second booster of Pfizer/BioNTech COVID shot
(Reuters) - U.S. regulators authorized a second booster dose of Pfizer Inc and BioNTech SE's COVID-19 vaccine for people 50 and older due to concerns about waning immunity in the age group, the drug m...
Julia Bradley Mar 29, 2022 FILE PHOTO: A nurses fills up syringes for patients as they receive their coronavirus disease (COVID-19) booster vaccination during a Pfizer-BioNTech vaccination clinic in Southfield, Michigan, U.S., September 29, 2021. REUTERS/Emily Elconin