Author Archives: Julia Bradley
Biden kicks off rural America tour in Minnesota
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Joe Biden will tout $5 billion in new investments benefiting rural Americans during a visit on Wednesday to a family farm in Minnesota, the first stop in what the...
Nov 01, 2023 FILE PHOTO: U.S. President Joe Biden visits a family farm in Kankakee, Illinois, U.S., May 11, 2022. REUTERS/Tom Brenner/File Photo
First evacuees leave Gaza as Israeli offensive intensifies
GAZA/JERUSALEM (Reuters) -A first group of injured evacuees from Gaza crossed into Egypt on Wednesday under a Qatari-mediated deal, Egyptian local media and a source at the border said, as Israeli for...
Nov 01, 2023 Palestinians search for casualties at the site of Israeli strikes on houses in Jabalia refugee camp in the northern Gaza Strip, October 31, 2023. REUTERS/Fadi Whadi
Maui releases body cam video of August wildfires
MAUI, Hi. - Maui Police are releasing body cam footage of the deadly Lahaina wildfires that left nearly 100 dead and thousands of buildings destroyed over the summer. Fox News says the videos show off...
Oct 31, 2023 D4E / CC
UPDATE: Anti-war protest at US Congress hearing as Biden officials ask for Israel, Ukraine aid
UPDATED 9:44 A.M. WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Two of President Joe Biden's top advisers asked U.S. lawmakers to provide billions more dollars to Israel on Tuesday at a congressional hearing interrupted repe...
Oct 31, 2023 Anti-war protesters raise their "bloody" hands behind U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken during a Senate Appropriations Committee hearing on President Biden's $106 billion national security supplemental funding request to support Israel and Ukraine, as well as bolster border security, on Capitol Hill in Washington, U.S., October 31, 2023. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque
UPDATE: Israeli air strike kills 50 at Gaza refugee camp, hospital chief tells Al Jazeera
UPDATED 10:15 A.M. GAZA/JERUSALEM (Reuters) -Israel said its forces fought Hamas gunmen inside the militants' vast tunnel network beneath Gaza as a hospital director said more than 50 Palestinians wer...
Oct 31, 2023 An Israeli tank manoeuvres inside the Gaza Strip, as seen from Israel, October 31, 2023. REUTERS/Evelyn Hockstein
Caterpillar profit rises on construction equipment demand
(Reuters) -Caterpillar reported a rise in third-quarter profit on Tuesday, as strong infrastructure investments across key markets boosted demand for its high-end construction equipment. Demand for he...
Oct 31, 2023 A Caterpillar 777 autonomous mining truck is displayed during CES 2023, an annual consumer electronics trade show, in Las Vegas, Nevada, U.S. January 6, 2023. REUTERS/Steve Marcus/ File Photo
Soderstrom Castle's ready to entertain with "Addams Family" Halloween
PEORIA, Ill. - If you love the "Addams Family", Soderstrom Castle on Grandview Drive is the place to be on Halloween night in Peoria Heights. An impressive sound and light show began at the Castle ove...
Oct 30, 2023 Soderstrom Castle on Grandview Drive lit up for Halloween. (1470 & 100.3 WMBD--Julia Bradley)
Peoria area gas prices drop again this week
WASHINGTON, D.C. - Average gas prices in Peoria have dropped 7.4 cents per gallon in the last week, averaging $3.44 a gallon on Monday, according to GasBuddy's survey of 148 stations in Peoria. Prices...
Oct 30, 2023 Mike Mozart / CC
UAW-Ford deal nets union big wins on wages, benefits, investments
DETROIT (Reuters) -United Auto Workers leaders approved a tentative deal on Sunday with Ford that includes a pay hike of at least 30% for full-time workers and could more than double pay for others, i...
Oct 30, 2023 United Auto Workers union President Shawn Fain joins UAW members who are on a strike, on the picket line at the Ford Michigan Assembly Plant in Wayne, Michigan, U.S., September 15, 2023. REUTERS/Rebecca Cook
'Friends' creators say Matthew Perry's death 'seems impossible'
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) -Family, friends and fellow celebrities on Sunday mourned the loss of Matthew Perry, the wise-cracking co-star of the 1990s hit television sitcom "Friends," a day after the actor...
Oct 30, 2023 FILE PHOTO: The cast of "Friends" appears in the photo room at the 54th annual Emmy Awards in Los Angeles September 22, 2002. From the left are David Schwimmer, Lisa Kudrow, Matthew Perry, Courteney Cox Arquette, Jennifer Aniston and Matt LeBlanc. REUTERS/Mike Blake/File Photo
