Author Archives: Julia Bradley
Battles rage across Gaza Strip, Israel shows images of gunmen at UN site
CAIRO/JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israeli troops fought militants across Gaza on Wednesday, including in the southern city of Rafah that had been a refuge for civilians, in an upsurge of the more than seven...
May 15, 2024 FILE PHOTO: Displaced Palestinians make their way as they flee Jabalia after the Israeli military called on residents to evacuate, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and Hamas, in the northern Gaza Strip May 14, 2024. REUTERS/Dawoud Abu Alkas/File Photo
Six big moments from Michael Cohen's Trump trial testimony
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Donald Trump's former lawyer Michael Cohen testified at the former U.S. president's criminal trial this week, asserting he had Trump's "signoff" to buy a porn star's silence and u...
May 15, 2024 Michael Cohen a former attorney for Republican presidential candidate and former U.S. President Donald Trump, departs after testifying at Trump?s criminal trial, over charges that he falsified business records to conceal money paid to silence porn star Stormy Daniels in 2016, at Manhattan state court in New York City, U.S., May 14, 2024. REUTERS/Cheney Orr
Peoria Council approved tax-based TIFs for areas along the riverfront and Galena Rd.
PEORIA, Ill. - Peoria City Council approved two plans Tuesday night with the goal of boosting economic growth along the riverfront. Using Tax Increment Financing districts, Peoria can designate an are...
May 15, 2024 (Will Stevenson/1470 & 100.3 WMBD)
Florida bus crash kills eight, leaves eight critically injured
(Reuters) - Eight people were killed and eight critically injured when a bus carrying laborers collided with a pickup truck, then overturned in northern Florida on Tuesday, authorities said. The worke...
May 14, 2024 Emergency services attend the scene after a bus carrying laborers to a melon farm overturned in a fatal crash near Dunnellon, Florida, U.S. May 14, 2024. Doug Engle/Ocala Star Banner/USA Today Network via REUTERS
House Republican Speaker Mike Johnson joins Trump in court, echoes criticisms
(Reuters) -The leading Republican in Congress, Mike Johnson, joined Donald Trump at the former president's hush money trial on Tuesday, and echoed his assertions that the four criminal cases against T...
May 14, 2024 FILE PHOTO: U.S. Speaker of the House Mike Johnson speaks during a press conference with House Republicans at the Capitol in Washington, U.S., May 7, 2024. REUTERS/Amanda Andrade-Rhoades//File Photo
Blinken, in Kyiv, says U.S aid arriving at 'challenging' time for Ukraine
KYIV (Reuters) -U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken told President Volodymyr Zelenskiy during a trip to Kyiv on Tuesday that part of a major U.S. aid package had arrived in Ukraine and that more wa...
May 14, 2024 Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky greets US Secretary of State Antony Blinken prior to their meeting in Kyiv on May 14, 2024. BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/Pool via REUTERS
Man injured in S. Peoria shooting Monday
PEORIA, Ill. - A ShotSpotter alert, indicating 14 rounds were fired, led Peoria Police to a man who'd been shot Monday afternoon. Peoria Police say the man was found on W. Griswold Street just before ...
May 14, 2024
Israeli tanks push into Gaza's Rafah, as displaced civilians flee again
CAIRO (Reuters) -Israeli tanks forged deeper into eastern Rafah on Tuesday, reaching some residential districts of the southern border city where more than a million people had been sheltering after b...
May 14, 2024 Palestinians gather near the remains of a car at the site of an Israeli strike on a house, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas, in Nuseirat refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip, May 14, 2024. REUTERS/Ramadan Abed
UPDATE: Judge struggles to find jurors for US Senator Menendez's corruption trial
UPDATED 2:51 P.M. NEW YORK (Reuters) -The judge overseeing U.S. Senator Robert Menendez's corruption trial struggled on Tuesday to find jurors who said they could fairly assess the New Jersey Democrat...
May 14, 2024 U.S. Senator Robert Menendez (D-NJ), arrives at Federal Court, for his bribery trial in connection with an alleged corrupt relationship with three New Jersey businessmen, in New York City, U.S., May 14, 2024. REUTERS/Brendan McDermid
Woodford County to put sanctuary status up for vote again
EUREKA, Ill. - The Public Safety committee of the Woodford County Board has approved a resolution that once again asks the county what it will do with migrants sent from the US-Mexico border if they f...
May 14, 2024 (25 News)
