Author Archives: Julia Bradley
Court lottery gives Biden administration a chance to revive COVID vaccine mandate
(Reuters) - Lawsuits filed around the country challenging the Biden administration's workplace COVID-19 vaccine rule are expected to be consolidated in a single federal appeals court on Tuesday, givin...
Nov 16, 2021 FILE PHOTO: A man wears an anti-vaccine button as people and teachers protest against New York City mandated vaccines against the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in front of the United States Court in Manhattan in New York City, New York, U.S., October 12, 2021. REUTERS/Mike Segar/File Photo
Arson deemed cause of an overnight apartment fire
PEORIA, Ill. -- Fire crews were called just after 12 a.m. Tuesday to the 2100 block of N. Linn Street in Peoria. Firefighters found flames coming from a window on the second floor of the four story ap...
Nov 16, 2021 (25 News)
Biden signs $1 trillion infrastructure bill into law
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -President Joe Biden signed into law a $1 trillion infrastructure bill at a White House ceremony on Monday that drew Democrats and Republicans who pushed the legislation through a...
Nov 15, 2021 U.S. President Joe Biden signs the "Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act", on the South Lawn at the White House in Washington, U.S., November 15, 2021. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst
UK raises threat level after Liverpool taxi blast
LIVERPOOL, England (Reuters) -Britain raised its national threat level on Monday to severe, meaning an attack is seen as highly likely, after declaring that a taxi explosion outside a hospital in Live...
Nov 15, 2021 Police officers keep guard outside a house in the Kensington area where counter-terrorism officers arrested men after a vehicle exploded outside Liverpool Women's Hospital in Liverpool, Britain, November 15, 2021. REUTERS/Phil Noble
U.S. Senator Leahy won't seek re-election, putting Democratic seat in play
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Democratic U.S. Senator Patrick Leahy on Monday said he will not seek re-election in November 2022, opening up another seat that Democrats will need to aggressively defend if the...
Nov 15, 2021 FILE PHOTO: Senator Patrick Leahy (D-VT) questions Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen during the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee hearing to examine the FY22 budget request for the Treasury Department on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, U.S., June 23, 2021. Greg Nash/Pool via REUTERS/File Photo
Judge dismisses charge against Rittenhouse for possessing rifle
KENOSHA, Wis. (Reuters) - A Wisconsin judge in the murder trial of Kyle Rittenhouse on Monday dismissed a misdemeanor charge against the teenager for illegally possessing the AR-15-style rifle he used...
Nov 15, 2021 FILE PHOTO: Judge Bruce Schroeder listens as attorneys discuss changes to the charges against Kyle Rittenhouse at the Kenosha County Courthouse in Kenosha, Wisconsin, U.S. November 12, 2021. Sean Krajacic/Pool via REUTERS/File Photo
Trump adviser Bannon surrenders to face charges for stonewalling Capitol riot probe
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Steve Bannon, a longtime adviser to former U.S. President Donald Trump, turned himself into the FBI on Monday to face the first criminal charges handed down amid a congressional ...
Nov 15, 2021 FILE PHOTO: Former White House chief strategist Steve Bannon departs after testifying in the criminal trial of Roger Stone, former campaign advisor to U.S. President Donald Trump, on charges of lying to Congress, obstructing justice and witness tampering at U.S. District Court in Washington, U.S., November 8, 2019. REUTERS/James Lawler Duggan/File Photo
Nine-year-old succumbs; death toll from Houston concert stampede rises to 10
(Reuters) - An attorney for the family of a 9-year-old boy who was trampled at a Travis Scott concert in Houston and was on life support for a week said that the child had died from his injuries on Su...
Nov 15, 2021 FILE PHOTO: A makeshift memorial for the concertgoers who died in a stampede during a Travis Scott performance at the 2021 Astroworld Festival grows in Houston, Texas, U.S., November 9, 2021. REUTERS/Callaghan O'Hare/File Photo
Attorneys for 200 victims of Houston concert stampede bring 90 lawsuits
(Reuters) -Attorneys representing more than 200 people claiming they were injured in last week's Astroworld Festival stampede in Houston said on Friday that they are filing another 90 lawsuits against...
Nov 12, 2021 FILE PHOTO: An empty stage is seen at the 2021 Astroworld Festival days after a stampede killed at least eight people in Houston, Texas, U.S. November 7, 2021. Picture taken with a drone. REUTERS/Nathan Frandino/File Photo
Finally free? Judge to consider ending restrictions on Britney Spears
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Pop superstar Britney Spears may be freed as early as Friday from a conservatorship that she has called abusive and humiliating if a Los Angeles judge rules in her favor and en...
Nov 12, 2021 FILE PHOTO: A demonstrator wears a T-Shirt in support of Britney Spears during a "Free Britney" demonstration on the Ellipse, near the White House, in Washington, U.S. October 23, 2021. REUTERS/Shuran Huang/File Photo
