Author Archives: TJ Carson
As Illinois congressional delegation seeks answers, ICE cancels meeting
Article Summary Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials in Chicago canceled a meeting with Illinois Democratic members of Congress that was scheduled for Friday. Members of the state's congressi...
Sep 26, 2025 U.S. Rep. Delia Ramirez, a Chicago Democrat, is pictured at a news conference in Springfield in 2022, when she served as a state representative. (Capitol News Illinois photo by Jerry Nowicki)
US Supreme Court lets Trump withhold $4 billion in foreign aid
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. Supreme Court sided again on Friday with Donald Trump, allowing his administration to withhold about $4 billion in foreign aid authorized by Congress for the current fis...
Sep 26, 2025 FILE PHOTO: A view of the U.S. Supreme Court in Washington, U.S. June 29, 2024. REUTERS/Kevin Mohatt/File Photo
Peoria man sentenced for attempting to distribute methamphetamine
PEORIA, Ill. - A Peoria man will spend more than a decade in federal prison for trafficking methamphetamine. The US Department of Justice says 40-year-old Matthew Miller was sentenced Wednesday to 200...
Sep 26, 2025 courtroom gavel
Sinclair to end boycott of Kimmel show on its ABC stations Friday
(Reuters) -Sinclair Broadcast Group said on Friday it will end its preemption of "Jimmy Kimmel Live!" and the show will return in the evening on Sinclair's nearly 40 ABC-affiliated stations. Sinclair ...
Sep 26, 2025 FILE PHOTO: Jimmy Kimmel arrives at the 74th Primetime Emmy Awards held at the Microsoft Theater in Los Angeles, U.S., September 12, 2022. REUTERS/Aude Guerrucci/File Photo
Netanyahu condemns support for Palestinian state at UN after scores walk out
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) -Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu sharply denounced Western countries on Friday for embracing Palestinian statehood, accusing them of sending the message that "murder...
Sep 26, 2025 Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addresses the 80th United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) at U.N. headquarters in New York City, U.S., September 26, 2025. REUTERS/Jeenah Moon
"The Wizard of Oz" visits Peoria for Salvation Army fundraiser event
PEORIA, Ill. - A Baseball Hall of Famer made a stop in Peoria to help raise money for a local organization. Former Saint Louis Cardinals shortstop Ozzie Smith was the guest speaker Thursday night at t...
Sep 25, 2025 Members of the Peoria Salvation Army Women's Auxiliary pose for a photo with Baseball Hall of Famer and former St. Louis Cardinal Ozzie Smith during its annual fundraising dinner. (T.J. Carson/1470 & 100.3 WMBD)
EPIC opens career center with technological improvements
PEORIA, Ill. - EPIC is looking to give extra help to a "one stop shop" for those with disabilities seeking jobs in central Illinois. The organization cut the ribbon on Thursday on its new career cente...
Sep 25, 2025 (T.J. Carson/1470 & 100.3 WMBD)
Trump signs order declaring TikTok sale ready and values it at $14 billion
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Thursday declaring that his plan to sell TikTok's U.S. operations to U.S. and global investors will address the national secur...
Sep 25, 2025 U.S. President Donald Trump signs an executive order on a deal that would divest TikTok's U.S. operations from ByteDance from its Chinese owner ByteDance, at the White House in Washington, D.C., U.S., September 25, 2025. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque
FBI ex-chief Comey criminally charged as Trump targets critics, source says
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Former FBI Director James Comey was indicted on criminal charges of false statements and obstruction on Thursday, a person familiar with the move said, in an escalation of Presid...
Sep 25, 2025 FILE PHOTO: James Comey, former director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), is seen in a frame grab from a video feed as he is sworn in remotely from his home during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing exploring the FBI's investigation of the 2016 Trump campaign and Russian election interference in Washington, U.S., September 30, 2020. U.S. Senate Committee on the Judiciary/Handout via REUTERS/File Photo
UPDATE: 911 calls being re-routed in Fulton County
UPDATED 5:30 P.M. CANTON, Ill. - Canton Police says there's no timeframe for when Fulton County's 911 service will be fully operational. The service went down on Thursday for the entire county. Canton...
Sep 25, 2025 (Fulton County ESDA)
