Author Archives: Julia Bradley
Deere strike set to continue as workers reject second contract
(Reuters) -Deere & Co workers were set to continue their three-week-old strike after they voted to reject a second contract reached between the U.S. tractor maker and the United Auto Workers (UAW)...
Nov 03, 2021 FILE PHOTO: The Deere & Co farm equipment plant in Ankeny, Iowa, U.S. October 20, 2021. REUTERS/Scott Morgan
U.S. to start giving COVID-19 vaccines to young children
(Reuters) - The United States is set to begin giving COVID-19 vaccines to children aged 5 to 11 as soon as Wednesday, with roughly 28 million school-age kids now eligible for the shots that provide pr...
Nov 03, 2021 FILE PHOTO: A syringe is filled with a dose of Pfizer's COVID-19 vaccine at a pop-up community vaccination center at the Gateway World Christian Center in Valley Stream, New York, U.S., February 23, 2021. REUTERS/Brendan McDermid/File Photo
U.S. Senate Democrats return to voting rights with eye on filibuster
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Senate Democrats will try to advance voting rights legislation in the face of overwhelming Republican opposition for a fourth time on Wednesday, amid pressure to break the ...
Nov 03, 2021 FILE PHOTO: Voting rights activists rally at the Robert A. Taft Memorial and Carillon following a three-day, 70-mile “Freedom to Vote Relay” from West Virginia, in Washington, U.S., October 23, 2021. REUTERS/Shuran Huang/File Photo
Republicans capture Virginia governorship, dealing setback to Biden
FAIRFAX, Va. (Reuters) - Republicans won the Virginia governor's election and were within striking distance in New Jersey on Wednesday, a warning that President Joe Biden's Democrats are in trouble he...
Nov 03, 2021 Virginia Republican gubernatorial nominee Glenn Youngkin speaks during his election night party at a hotel in Chantilly, Virginia, U.S., November 3, 2021. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst
PACVB busy promoting the Peoria area's best assets
PEORIA, Ill. -- The Peoria area has so much to offer its visitors. JD Dalfanso, President and CEO of the Peoria Area Convention and Visitors Bureau, says he's seeing a trend of more people making the ...
Nov 02, 2021 1470 WMBD/Kristina Leahy
CDC advisers to vote on COVID-19 vaccine in young children
(Reuters) - The United States could begin administering Pfizer and BioNTech's COVID-19 vaccine to children ages 5 to 11 as soon as Wednesday after a panel of outside experts votes on Tuesday on how br...
Nov 02, 2021 A medical worker prepares a dose of the "Comirnaty" Pfizer BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine in a vaccination center in Nantes, France, October 6, 2021. REUTERS/Stephane Mahe/Files
U.S. civil rights leader Jesse Jackson in hospital with injury
(Reuters) - U.S. civil rights leader Jesse Jackson has been admitted to hospital for an injury suffered while attending a meeting at Howard University, officials of the historically Black college said...
Nov 02, 2021 FILE PHOTO: Reverend Jesse Jackson stops by a demonstration outside the U.S. Capitol to protest the expiration of the federal moratorium on residential evictions in Washington, U.S., August 2, 2021. REUTERS/Evelyn Hockstein
Worldwide coronavirus cases cross 246.78 million, death toll over 5 million
(Reuters) - More than 246.78 million people have been reported to be infected by the novel coronavirus globally and 5,232,657 have died, according to a Reuters tally. Infections have been reported in ...
Nov 01, 2021 FILE PHOTO: A patient suffering from the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) breathes with a non-rebreather mask in an isolation room at a hospital in Bogor, Indonesia January 26, 2021. REUTERS/Willy Kurniawan/File Photo
Kinzinger responds to Trump's statement on him leaving the 16th District
WASHINGTON, D.C. (FOX NEWS) -- Illinois Republican Congressman Adam Kinzinger has responded to former President Donald Trump's reaction to his decision not to run for re-election in next year in the 1...
Nov 01, 2021 FILE PHOTO: U.S. Rep. Adam Kinzinger gets emotional as he speaks during a hearing by the House Select Committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on Capitol Hill in Washington, U.S., July 27, 2021. Oliver Contreras/Pool via REUTERS/File Photo
Firefighters called to fire at Glen Oak Towers
PEORIA, Ill. -- Peoria firefighters were called to the scene of a working fire at Glen Oak Towers Monday morning around 7 a.m. Residents of the building were evacuated. One resident told news partner ...
Nov 01, 2021 Midwest Communications
