Author Archives: Julia Bradley
More than 100 million Americans at risk as Canadian wildfire smoke spreads
CHICAGO (Reuters) -Nearly a third of Americans will experience poor air quality on Thursday as smoke from prolonged Canadian wildfires fill the skies over the Midwest and East, causing unhealthy and, ...
Jun 29, 2023 A man walks along Pittsburgh's Mount Washington as smoke from raging Canadian wildfires creates hazy skies, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, U.S. June 28, 2023. REUTERS/Quinn Glabicki
US 2024 hopeful DeSantis targets three federal departments for elimination
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Florida Governor Ron DeSantis would seek to eliminate the Departments of Energy, Commerce and Education, as well as the Internal Revenue Service, if he were elected president, h...
Jun 29, 2023 Republican U.S. presidential candidate Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis visits the border community of Eagle Pass, Texas, U.S. June 26, 2023. REUTERS/Kaylee Greenlee Beal
UPDATE: Severe storms move into the Peoria area Thursday afternoon, damage reported
UPDATE: Severe Thunderstorm Warnings have been issued in the Peoria metro area Thursday afternoon. There are reports of trees and power lines down and roads flooded. Traffic has been closed in Peoria ...
Jun 29, 2023 (Midwest Communications)
UPDATE: Biden tries to flip skeptical Americans on his economic plan
UPDATED 12:54 P.M. CHICAGO (Reuters) - U.S. President Joe Biden worked to lift Americans' dour mood about the economy with what his aides billed as a major speech on Wednesday, an effort to shore up a...
Jun 28, 2023 FILE PHOTO: U.S. President Joe Biden announces a $42.45 billion national grant program for high-speed internet infrastructure deployment called the Broadband Equity Access and Deployment (BEAD) program, at the White House in Washington, U.S., June 26, 2023. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst/File Photo
Peoria councilman calls for vape store changes
PEORIA, Ill. - A Peoria City councilman wants to put a cap on stand-alone tobacco vape shops in the city. At Tuesday night's council meeting, District 2 Representative Chuck Grayeb proposed the city i...
Jun 28, 2023 Revival Vape / CC
Putin praises Russian troops for putting down mutiny as Prigozhin jet reaches Belarus
(Reuters) -President Vladimir Putin praised members of Russia's military and security forces in a ceremony on Tuesday as he sought to reassert his authority following an aborted mutiny by mercenaries ...
Jun 27, 2023 Wagner mercenary chief Yevgeny Prigozhin leaves the headquarters of the Southern Military District amid the group's pullout from the city of Rostov-on-Don, Russia, June 24, 2023. REUTERS/Alexander Ermochenko
UPDATE: Juvenile is Peoria's 10th homicide victim of the year
UPDATE 9:09 a.m. PEORIA, Ill. - Police are investigating a fatal shooting in Peoria Monday night. Officers were called around 10:15 p.m. to the area of W. Richwoods Boulevard and N. Molleck Drive, whe...
Jun 27, 2023 (Midwest Communications)
Peoria laundromat damaged by fire
PEORIA, Ill. - Peoria firefighters were called just before 10 p.m. Monday to a laundromat on N. Prospect Road, between E. Republic and E. Frye, finding heavy smoke coming from the front door. Crews ha...
Jun 27, 2023 liz west / CC
Top US Republican threatens impeachment probe of attorney general over Hunter Biden
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The top Republican in the U.S. House of Representatives is threatening an impeachment investigation of Attorney General Merrick Garland over the Justice Department's criminal pr...
Jun 26, 2023 FILE PHOTO: U.S. Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) stops to speak to reporters in front of an East Wing portrait of former first lady and former U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton as he arrives to attend a State Dinner hosted by President Biden for India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi at the White House in Washington, U.S., June 22, 2023. REUTERS/Julia Nikhinson/File Photo
UPDATE: At least 3 dead, dozens of homes damaged after storms hit US Midwest, South
UPDATED 9:50 A.M. (Reuters) - Tornadoes and thunderstorms hit the U.S. Midwest and South on Sunday, leaving dozens of homes damaged and at least three people dead in Indiana and Arkansas, authorities ...
Jun 26, 2023 Debris is lifted into the air by a possible tornado during severe weather near Greenwood, Indiana, U.S., June 25, 2023 in this screen grab obtained from a social media video. Eric Ford via TMX/via REUTERS /File photo
