Author Archives: Julia Bradley
UPDATE: Israel steps up strikes across Gaza, orders new evacuations in north
UPDATED 1:19 P.M. (Reuters) - Israeli strikes intensified across Gaza on Tuesday in some of the heaviest shelling in weeks, residents said, and the army ordered fresh evacuations in the north of the e...
Apr 23, 2024 A Palestinian man sits on the rubble of a house destroyed by Israeli strikes, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and Hamas, in the northern Gaza Strip, April 22, 2024. REUTERS/Mahmoud Issa
Pekin passes tax hikes and fees to help with budget
PEKIN, Ill. -Pekin's City Council on Monday night passed several measures to raise taxes and fees, as the city faces a $12 million deficit. In the upcoming fiscal year, Pekin will be required to compl...
Apr 23, 2024 (File-1470 & 100.3 WMBD)
UPDATE: US Senate votes overwhelmingly to advance Ukraine, Israel aid legislation
UPDATED 2:11 P.M. WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Billions of dollars in foreign aid for Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan advanced in the U.S. Senate on Tuesday, heading for a vote on final passage days after the Hou...
Apr 23, 2024 FILE PHOTO: View of the U.S. Capitol prior to a House of Representatives vote on legislation providing $95 billion in security assistance to Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan, on Capitol Hill in Washington, U.S., April 20, 2024. REUTERS/Ken Cedeno/File Photo
Chicago officer shot and killed over the weekend
CHICAGO, Ill. - A Chicago police officer was shot and killed on his way home from work Sunday morning, yet another tragic victim of the gun violence that continues to wreak havoc on the Windy City eve...
Apr 22, 2024 Tony Webster / CC
UPDATE: Trump accepts new restrictions on $175 million bond in New York civil fraud case
UPDATED 2:20 P.M. NEW YORK (Reuters) -Former President Donald Trump agreed on Monday to additional restrictions on the $175 million bond in the former U.S. president's New York civil fraud case, resol...
Apr 22, 2024 FILE PHOTO: Justice Arthur Engoron presides over Donald Trump Jr., son of Former President Donald Trump, testimony in his family's civil fraud case at the New York State Supreme Court on November 13, 2023 in New York City, NY. Erin Schaff/Pool via REUTERS/File Photo
Israeli military intelligence head resigns over Oct. 7 failures
JERUSALEM (Reuters) -The head of Israeli military intelligence has resigned after accepting responsibility for the failures that allowed the devastating Hamas-led attack on Israel on Oct. 7, the milit...
Apr 22, 2024 FILE PHOTO: Smoke rises following Israeli strikes in Gaza, October 7, 2023. REUTERS/Mohammed Salem/File Photo
Biden to unveil $7 billion for rooftop solar in Earth Day message
(Reuters) - President Joe Biden on Monday will celebrate Earth Day by announcing $7 billion in grants for residential solar projects that will power nearly a million low-income households, the White H...
Apr 22, 2024 FILE PHOTO: U.S. President Joe Biden delivers remarks on the White House initiative on climate change, at the White House in Washington, November 14, 2023. REUTERS/Tom Brenner/File Photo
UPDATE: Trump schemed to corrupt 2016 election, prosecutors say in hush money trial
UPDATE: 9:35 A.M. NEW YORK (Reuters) -New York prosecutors on Monday began telling a jury why Donald Trump's alleged cover-up of a hush money payment to a porn star during his 2016 campaign broke the ...
Apr 22, 2024 Republican presidential candidate and former U.S. President Donald Trump departs Trump tower in Manhattan to attend his criminal trial over charges that he falsified business records to conceal money paid to silence porn star Stormy Daniels in 2016, in New York City, U.S., April 22, 2024. REUTERS/Mike Segar
GasBuddy: Peoria gas prices drop slightly
PEORIA, Ill. - Average gas prices in Peoria have fallen 5.2 cents per gallon in the last week, averaging $3.78 on Monday, according to GasBuddy's survey of 148 stations in Peoria. Prices in Peoria are...
Apr 22, 2024 Mike Mozart / CC
Blinken says U.S. not involved in "any offensive operations" when asked about Iran
CAPRI (Reuters) - U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken repeatedly declined to confirm a reported Israeli attack on Iran on Friday, saying Washington has not been involved in any offensive operations...
Apr 19, 2024 U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken walks after a press conference at the end of the G7 foreign ministers meeting on Capri island, Italy, April 19, 2024. REUTERS/Remo Casilli
