Author Archives: TJ Carson
US retail sales tumble in January; weekly jobless claims fall
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. retail sales fell by the most in nearly a year in January, but economists cautioned against reading too much into the decline, noting that winter storms as well as technica...
Feb 15, 2024 FILE PHOTO: A man shops for produce at Best World Supermarket in the Mount Pleasant neighborhood of Washington, D.C., U.S., August 19, 2022. REUTERS/Sarah Silbiger/File Photo
Customers pay for utilities' lawyers and corporate donations. Advocates want to change that
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (Capitol News Illinois) - Illinoisans pay tens of millions of dollars each year to utilities to cover costs they accrue for lawyers, belonging to trade groups, making charitable cont...
Feb 15, 2024 ComEd: The headquarters of Commonwealth Edison, one of the state’s largest utilities, is pictured in Chicago. (Capitol News Illinois file photo by Andrew Adams)
Illinois high school girls have new opportunity for a state championship in flag football next school year
PEORIA, Ill. - High school girls in Illinois will have a new opportunity starting next school year to compete for a state championship. The Illinois High School Association announced on Wednesday the ...
Feb 14, 2024 The Chicago Bears host the High School Girls Flag Football State Championship at Halas Hall, Sunday, October 29, 2023, in Lake Forest, Illinois. (Photo courtesy of the Chicago Bears)
US congressional intelligence chair warns of 'serious national security threat'
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The chairman of the U.S. House of Representatives intelligence committee issued an unusual cryptic statement on Wednesday saying the committee had made available to all members o...
Feb 14, 2024 FILE PHOTO: U.S. Representative Mike Turner (R-OH) questions the witnesses during a House Armed Services Committee hearing on "Ending the U.S. Military Mission in Afghanistan" in the Rayburn House Office Building in Washington, U.S., September 29, 2021. Rod Lamkey/Pool via REUTERS/File Photo
Two-thirds of Jewish Americans feel less secure than before Oct. 7
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - About two-thirds of Jewish Americans felt less secure in late 2023 than they did a year earlier, according to a survey mostly conducted after the Hamas attack on Israel on Oct. ...
Feb 14, 2024 Placards lie on the ground after Jewish Americans and supporters of Israel gather in solidarity with Israel and protest against antisemitism, on the National Mall in Washington, U.S, November 14, 2023. REUTERS/Leah Millis/File Photo
Biden pushes Republicans on Ukraine, Israel aid bill Trump opposes
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Joe Biden is pushing Republican lawmakers to back what the White House says is a critically needed funding bill for Ukraine's war against Russia that is opposed b...
Feb 14, 2024 U.S. President Joe Biden and Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskiy shake hands across the table during a meeting in the East Room of the White House in Washington, U.S. September 21, 2023. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque/file photo
Pressure mounts on Israel not to attack Palestinians' last refuge in Gaza
CAIRO (Reuters) -Israel faced growing international pressure on Wednesday to hold off on a planned assault on the last refuge for displaced Palestinians in southern Gaza after truce talks in Cairo end...
Feb 14, 2024 Smoke rises in central Gaza, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas, near the Israel-Gaza border, as seen from Israel, February 14, 2024. REUTERS/Dylan Martinez
Pentagon chief vows to support Ukraine even as future funding remains in doubt
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin on Wednesday said the United States would not back down from supporting Ukraine in the short and long-term, even as President Joe Biden's adm...
Feb 14, 2024 FILE PHOTO: US Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin attends a welcome ceremony before an annual security meeting with South Korean Defence Minister Shin Won-sik at the Defence Ministry in Seoul, South Korea on November 13, 2023. JUNG YEON-JE/Pool via REUTERS
OSF Healthcare Cancer Institute receives blessing before taking in first patients
PEORIA, Ill. - The OSF Healthcare Cancer Institute in Peoria is nearly ready to start accepting its first patients. One of the final steps before the facility opens was to bless the building, a tradit...
Feb 13, 2024 Peoria Diocese Bishop Louis Tylka blesses the OSF Healthcare Cancer Institute before it opens. (T.J. Carson/1470 & 100.3 WMBD)
US CDC plans to drop five-day COVID isolation guidelines - Washington Post
(Reuters) -The U.S. CDC plans to drop its five-day COVID-19 isolation recommendations under new guidance planned by the agency, the Washington Post reported on Tuesday. The health agency plans to reco...
Feb 13, 2024 FILE PHOTO: A general view of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) headquarters in Atlanta, Georgia September 30, 2014. REUTERS/Tami Chappell
