Author Archives: Julia Bradley
Red Cross plans fresh evacuation effort from Ukraine's Mariupol
ZAPORIZHZHIA, Ukraine (Reuters) - A Red Cross convoy will try again to evacuate civilians from the besieged port of Mariupol on Saturday as Russian forces looked to be regrouping for new attacks in so...
Apr 02, 2022 Local residents seek refuge in a children's home damaged in the course of Ukraine-Russia conflict in the southern port city of Mariupol, Ukraine April 1, 2022. REUTERS/Alexander Ermochenko
IEPA announces hazardous waste collection dates
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. -- The Illinois Environmental Protection Agency wants residents to know about opportunities this spring to get rid of household hazardous waste products. The one-day collections, inc...
Apr 01, 2022 USEPA Environmental-Protection-Agency
A veteran PJS reporter retiring
PEORIA, Ill. -- After 36 years, a Peoria Journal Star reporter is leaving the paper. Veteran writer Nick Vlahos said Friday that he's not leaving town, and it's likely that post-retirement life will i...
Apr 01, 2022 (Vlahos Facebook page)
U.S. job growth solid in March; unemployment rate falls to 3.6%
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. job growth continued at a brisk clip in March, with the unemployment rate falling to a new two-year low of 3.6% and wages re-accelerating, positioning the Federal Reserve t...
Apr 01, 2022 FILE PHOTO: People line up outside a newly reopened career center for in-person appointments in Louisville, U.S., April 15, 2021. REUTERS/Amira Karaoud
U.S. to issue gender neutral passports, take steps to combat anti- transgender laws
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Americans will be allowed to choose an X for gender on their passport applications and select their sex on Social Security cards, the Biden administration said on Thursday in an...
Apr 01, 2022 FILE PHOTO: A woman holds passports while waiting to cross at the San Ysidro border crossing in San Ysidro, California January 31, 2008. REUTERS/Fred Greaves/File Photo
Kremlin says Ukraine strike on Russian fuel depot creates awkward backdrop for talks
(Reuters) - The Kremlin said on Friday that a Ukrainian strike against a fuel depot in the Russian city of Belgorod did not create comfortable conditions to continue peace talks with Kyiv. Russia accu...
Apr 01, 2022 A view shows a fuel depot on fire in the city of Belgorod, Russia April 1, 2022. Pavel Kolyadin/BelPressa/Handout via REUTERS
Rivian plans $30.4 million expansion in Normal
NORMAL, Ill. -- Electric vehicle maker Rivian Automotive is expanding its presence in Normal even though the company's second factory will be built in Georgia. Rivian and city officials confirmed to 2...
Apr 01, 2022 (Rivian Facebook Page)
Senate Democrats propose legislation to help IL families financially
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. -- Senate Democrats are pushing a package of bills that they say will help get Illinois families back on their feet. The legislation includes an expansion of the state's Earned Incom...
Mar 30, 2022 MWC
U.S. astronaut, two Russian cosmonauts return home from ISS
ALMATY (Reuters) -A U.S. astronaut and two Russian cosmonauts safely landed in Kazakhstan on Wednesday after leaving the International Space Station aboard the same capsule despite heightened antagoni...
Mar 30, 2022 The Soyuz MS-19 space capsule carrying crew members of the International Space Station (ISS), NASA astronaut Mark Vande Hei and Roscosmos cosmonauts Anton Shkaplerov and Pyotr Dubrov, descends beneath a parachute in a remote area outside Zhezkazgan, Kazakhstan March 30, 2022, in this still image taken from video. Roscosmos/Handout via REUTERS
Collins becomes first Republican to back U.S. Supreme Court pick Jackson
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Senator Susan Collins on Wednesday became the first Republican to declare support for President Joe Biden's Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson, further boosting her pro...
Mar 30, 2022 FILE PHOTO: U.S. Senator Susan Collins (R-ME) meets with U.S. Supreme Court nominee and federal appeals court Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson in her office on Capitol Hill in Washington, U.S., March 8, 2022. REUTERS/Jim Bourg/File Photo
