Author Archives: Julia Bradley
U.S. Congress creeps toward deadline to pass $1.5 trillion funding bill
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Congress faces a Friday deadline to fund the federal government, as Democrats and Republicans bicker over the details of an expected roughly $1.5 trillion funding bill ...
Dec 12, 2022 FILE PHOTO: A Secret Service officer maintains a watch on the 22nd day of a partial government shutdown at the White House in Washington, U.S., January 12, 2019. REUTERS/Joshua Roberts
A little present at the pump
PEORIA, Ill. -- According to AAA-Illinois, Monday's state average price of a gallon of regular unleaded gas was $3.45. Nationally, the price was $3.26. In the Peoria-Pekin metro area, it's a little hi...
Dec 12, 2022 Mike Mozart / CC
NASA's Orion capsule returns to Earth, capping Artemis I flight around moon
(Reuters) - NASA's Orion capsule barreled through Earth's atmosphere and splashed down in the Pacific ocean on Sunday after making an uncrewed voyage around the moon, winding up the inaugural mission ...
Dec 12, 2022 U.S. Navy divers attach winch cables to NASA's Orion capsule after being successfully secured by a NASA and U.S. Navy team, off the coast of Baja California, Mexico, 11 December 2022. CAROLINE BREHMAN/Pool via REUTERS
U.S. says working on 'next steps' to secure release of Whelan from Russia
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Biden administration officials will meet early Monday to discuss next steps in securing the release of former U.S. Marine Paul Whelan, who was jailed in Russia in 2020 on spying...
Dec 12, 2022 FILE PHOTO: Former U.S. Marine Paul Whelan stands inside a defendants' cage during his verdict hearing in Moscow, Russia June 15, 2020. REUTERS/Maxim Shemetov/File Photo
U.S. sportswriter Wahl dies suddenly while covering World Cup
WASHINGTON/DOHA (Reuters) - Well-known U.S. soccer journalist Grant Wahl died suddenly on Friday after collapsing while covering a match at the World Cup in Qatar, his agent said. U.S. Soccer said it ...
Dec 10, 2022 FILE PHOTO: Grant Wahl, who claimed that he was briefly detained when he tried to enter a World Cup stadium in Qatar while wearing a rainbow shirt in support of the LGBTQ community, is seen in a "selfie" photograph in Al Rayyan, Qatar, in this picture released on November 21, 2022 and obtained from social media. Grant Wahl via Twitter/via REUTERS
Brittney Griner's return reignites debate about prisoner swaps
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Thursday's release of U.S. basketball star Brittney Griner in exchange for a convicted Russian arms dealer has resurfaced an old question: Do prisoner swaps do more harm than go...
Dec 10, 2022 FILE PHOTO: U.S. basketball player Brittney Griner, who was detained at Moscow's Sheremetyevo airport and later charged with illegal possession of cannabis, walks after the court's verdict in Khimki outside Moscow, Russia August 4, 2022. REUTERS/Evgenia Novozhenina
'Drive for Miracles' comes through for OSF Children's Hospital of Illinois
PEORIA, Ill. -- Thousands of families can thank OSF Healthcare Children's Hospital of Illinois for saving the lives of their kids. And, for 22 years, John Riley with sister station 93.3 The Drive, has...
Dec 10, 2022 (93.3 The Drive)
Woman dies in crash near Chillicothe
PEORIA COUNTY, Ill. -- A woman was killed late Friday afternoon in a single-vehicle crash near Chillicothe. Peoria County Sheriff's deputies were called around 4:15 p.m. to E. Hart Lane, near N. Bened...
Dec 10, 2022 (Midwest Communications)
Gov. Pritzker signs unemployment insurance agreement
CHICAGO, Ill. -- Illinois Gov. J-B Pritzker has signed legislation tackling a loan to the state's unemployment trust fund into law. Pritzker says the $1.8 billion deal will pay off a federal loan Illi...
Dec 09, 2022 (State of Illinois)
November PPI a bit hotter than expected
NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. producer prices increased a bit more than expected in November, but the underlying trend in inflation is moderating, which could allow the Federal Reserve to slow its pace of...
Dec 09, 2022 FILE PHOTO: A worker arranges slabs in the factory at IceStone, a manufacturer of recycled glass countertops and surfaces, in New York City, New York, U.S., June 3, 2021. REUTERS/Andrew Kelly/File Photo/File Photo
