Author Archives: Julia Bradley
Requests for new K-12 funding in Illinois likely to outstrip available resources
Story Summary School officials and education advocates have requested funding increases totaling $747.99 million for the upcoming fiscal year, which begins July 1. The biggest items on the list includ...
Nov 22, 2025
Members of the Illinois State Board of Education and Superintendent Tony Sanders are pictured at a 2023 board meeting. (Capitol News Illinois photo by Andrew Adams)
Trump lavishes praise on New York's mayor-elect Mamdani at warm White House meeting
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -After months of trading insults, U.S. President Donald Trump and incoming New York City mayor Zohran Mamdani smiled at each other, swapped compliments and pledged to collaborate ...
Nov 22, 2025 U.S. President Donald Trump and New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani speak to members of the media as they meet in the Oval Office at the White House in Washington, D.C., U.S., November 21, 2025. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst
Exclusive-Chicago rejects DOJ grants tied to Trump's immigration policies
(Reuters) -Chicago will not apply for federal community violence intervention grants after the Trump administration reshaped the program to focus on law enforcement and immigration, the city said this...
Nov 22, 2025 FILE PHOTO: Federal agents detain a man in a parking lot in the Avondale neighborhood following a confrontation during immigration raids, after U.S. President Donald Trump ordered increased federal law enforcement presence to assist in crime prevention, in Chicago, Illinois, U.S., October 25, 2025. REUTERS/Jim Vondruska/File Photo
MAGA favorite Marjorie Taylor Greene to resign after split with Trump
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Saying she refused to be a "battered wife," U.S. Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene announced on Friday she was resigning from the House of Representatives in the wake of a dr...
Nov 22, 2025 FILE PHOTO: U.S. Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) speaks at a campaign event of Republican vice presidential nominee U.S. Senator JD Vance (R-OH) in Lindale, Georgia, U.S., October 4, 2024. REUTERS/Megan Varner/File Photo
Putin says U.S. peace plan can be the basis for peace in Ukraine
MOSCOW (Reuters) -Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Friday that U.S. proposals for peace in Ukraine could be the basis of a resolution of the conflict but that if Kyiv turned down the plan then...
Nov 21, 2025 Russian President Vladimir Putin chairs a meeting with members of the Security Council via video link at the Kremlin in Moscow, Russia November 21, 2025. Sputnik/Gavriil Grigorov/Pool via REUTERS
9 months after federal bribery conviction, former Speaker Madigan disbarred
Article Summary Former Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan is no longer a lawyer after the Illinois Supreme Court officially disbarred him this week The disbarment stems from Madigan's conviction i...
Nov 21, 2025 Former Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan leaves Chicago’s Dirksen Federal Courthouse on Feb. 12 after a jury convicted him on 10 corruption counts, including bribery. (Capitol News Illinois photo by Andrew Adams)
Verizon cutting more than 13,000 jobs as it restructures
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. wireless carrier Verizon on Thursday said it will cut more than 13,000 jobs in its largest single layoff as it works to shrink costs and restructure operations. Verizon also...
Nov 21, 2025 FILE PHOTO: A crew from Verizon installs 5G telecommunications equipment on a tower in Orem, Utah, U.S. December 3, 2019. REUTERS/George Frey/File Photo
Trump officials prepare for potential cabinet shakeup after one-year mark, CNN reports
(Reuters) -The White House is preparing for possible turnover in the cabinet after U.S. President Donald Trump reaches the one-year mark of his term, potentially shaking up his otherwise stable team o...
Nov 21, 2025 US President Donald Trump takes the oath of office during his inauguration at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, U.S., January 20, 2017. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque
Trump to meet New York's Zohran Mamdani in clash of political opposites
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -President Donald Trump will meet with incoming New York mayor Zohran Mamdani on Friday, the first in-person talks between political opposites who have clashed over everything fro...
Nov 21, 2025 Democratic candidate for New York City mayor Zohran Mamdani waves next to his mother Mira Nair onstage after winning the 2025 New York City Mayoral race, at an election night rally in the Brooklyn borough of New York City, New York, U.S., November 4, 2025. REUTERS/Shannon Stapleton
Peoria Co. Sheriff warns parents about online predators after two men arrested
PEORIA, Ill. (25 News) - On Wednesday, Peoria County detectives arrested two men, one of whom they said sexually assaulted a minor. Peoria County Sheriff Chris Watkins said Sergio Delgado Rodriguez wa...
Nov 21, 2025 PEORIA COUNTY SHERIFFS OFFICE 2
