Author Archives: Julia Bradley
Netanyahu says Blinken assured him US will cancel limits on weapons supplies
JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Tuesday said that U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken had assured him that the Biden administration was working to cancel restrictions on ...
Jun 18, 2024 FILE PHOTO: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks during the opening ceremony marking Israel's national Holocaust Remembrance Day at Yad Vashem, the World Holocaust Remembrance Center, in Jerusalem May 5, 2024. REUTERS/Ronen Zvulun/File Photo
Pop star Justin Timberlake arrested for drunk driving in New York, reports say
(Reuters) -Pop star Justin Timberlake was arrested on drunk driving charges on Tuesday in New York state, CBS News reported, citing local police. Timberlake was to be arraigned Tuesday morning on char...
Jun 18, 2024 Justin Timberlake performs during the iHeartRadio Music Awards at Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles, California, U.S., April 1, 2024. REUTERS/Mario Anzuoni/File Photo
US retail sales rise less than expected in May
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. retail sales barely rose in May and data for the prior month was revised significantly lower, suggesting that economic activity remained lackluster in the second quarter. In...
Jun 18, 2024 A sale sign greets shoppers at a retail store in Carlsbad, California, U.S., May 25, 2023. REUTERS/Mike Blake
Commercial building catches on fire Monday night in Peoria
PEORIA, Ill. - Peoria firefighters responded to a business in the 3700 block of N. Dayton Avenue Monday night, on reports of smoke in the area. Fire Battalion Chief Mike Ralston says crews arrived jus...
Jun 18, 2024 1470&100.3 WMBD/Kristina Leahy
Putin vows to support North Korea against the United States
SEOUL/MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian President Vladimir Putin vowed on Tuesday to deepen trade and security ties with North Korea and to support it against the United States, as he headed to the reclusive...
Jun 18, 2024 FILE PHOTO: Russia's President Vladimir Putin and North Korea's leader Kim Jong Un visit the Vostochny Сosmodrome in the far eastern Amur region, Russia, September 13, 2023. Sputnik/Mikhail Metzel/Kremlin via REUTERS/File Photo
UPDATE: Biden offers citizenship path to spouses of Americans in sweeping election-year move
UPDATED 4:10 P.M. WASHINGTON (Reuters) -President Joe Biden on Tuesday announced a new effort to provide a path to citizenship to hundreds of thousands of immigrants in the U.S. illegally who are marr...
Jun 18, 2024 Protesters rally at Legislative Plaza near the Tennessee State Capitol building in Nashville, Tennessee, April 4, 2024. REUTERS/Seth Herald
Metamora residents plead to save their pool
METAMORA, Ill. - It was standing-room only Monday night at the Metamora Park District's monthly meeting, as dozens of residents were there asking that the town's 57-year-old pool be saved. The park di...
Jun 18, 2024 (Metamora Park District)
Mass shootings in Michigan and Texas leave two dead, more injured
ROCHESTER HILLS, Mich. - Two people are dead and a total of 15 other people are injured in two shootings over the weekend in Michigan and Texas. In Michigan, police say a man randomly targeted a splas...
Jun 17, 2024 fergregory / Depositphotos.com
US Surgeon General calls for social media warning labels to protect adolescents
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy on Monday called for a warning label to be added to social media apps as a reminder that those platforms have caused harm to young people, espe...
Jun 17, 2024 FILE PHOTO: U.S. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy speaks during a Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, U.S., June 8, 2023. REUTERS/Amanda Andrade-Rhoades/File Photo
US abortion rights still in flux two years after Roe reversal
(Reuters) - Nearly two years after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned its landmark 1973 ruling in Roe v. Wade, litigation over abortion has exploded. Justice Samuel Alito wrote in 2022's Dobbs v. Jacks...
Jun 17, 2024 FILE PHOTO: People protest in the district of Republican State Representative Matt Gress after Arizona's Supreme Court revived a law dating back to 1864 that bans abortion in virtually all instances, in Scottsdale, Arizona, U.S. April 14, 2024. REUTERS/Rebecca Noble/File Photo
