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Biden to hold first 2024 campaign event in Pennsylvania
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. President Joe Biden will hold his first campaign event next week in the swing state of Pennsylvania, according to a statement released by the White House. Biden, 80, will at...
Julia Bradley Jun 10, 2023 FILE PHOTO: U.S. President Joe Biden speaks on his deal with House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) to raise the United States' debt ceiling at the White House in Washington, U.S., May 28, 2023. REUTERS/Julia Nikhinson/File Photo

Juvenile arrested on gun crime as part of Peoria Police Anti-Violence Initiative detail
PEORIA, Ill. - Thirteen people arrested, two guns seized -- one of which stolen -- and 42 traffic stops where drivers got cited or warned. Those are some of the details Peoria Police Chief Eric Echeva...
Will Stevenson Jun 09, 2023 (File-Mike Sabol/1470 & 1003 WMBD)

Governor signs Koehler bill creating Underground Railroad task force
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. - Governor JB Pritzker signed 90 different bills into law Friday, according to the state, and one of them was a bipartisan bill some of Peoria's representatives in the legislature ba...
Will Stevenson Jun 09, 2023 (File-25 News)

Appeals court rules in favor of Peoria man convicted of murder
OTTAWA, Ill. - An appellate court has decided that the man convicted in 2015 of killing State Representative Jehan Gordon-Booth's stepson, must be allowed to appeal. The Third District Appellate Court...
Will Stevenson Jun 09, 2023 (1470 & 100.3 WMBD/Illinois Department of Corrections)

Trump risked national secrets, US prosecutors allege in indictment
the trial as well, said the source, who spoke on condition of anonymity. Cannon, appointed by Trump in 2019, made headlines last year when she decided in favor of the former U.S. president at a pivota...
Will Stevenson Jun 09, 2023 FILE PHOTO: Former U.S. President and Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump attends a campaign event in Manchester, New Hampshire, U.S., April 27, 2023. REUTERS/Brian Snyder

FBI documents accuse Joe Biden of bribery scheme with Ukrainian firm
WASHINGTON, D.C. - House Oversight Committee members have reviewed documents that allege President Joe Biden took money from a foreign company while he was Vice President. FOX News reports Biden was a...
TJ Carson Jun 09, 2023 stingrayschuller / CC

Suspect in Natalee Holloway disappearance pleads not guilty in US court
(Reuters) - A convicted killer suspected in the 2005 disappearance of Alabama teenager Natalee Holloway in Aruba pleaded not guilty on Friday in a U.S. courtroom to charges of extortion and wire fraud...
TJ Carson Jun 09, 2023 FILE PHOTO: Dutch citizen Joran van der Sloot, who was serving a 28-year sentence in Peru after confessing to killing a 21-year-old Peruvian woman, is escorted to the airport to be extradited to the U.S., to face charges of extortion and wire fraud against the family of Natalee Holloway, in a case linked to his alleged involvement in the disappearance of Natalee Holloway in Aruba in 2005, in Lima, Peru June 8, 2023. REUTERS/Sebastian Castaneda

UPDATE: Trump faces 37 criminal counts in classified documents case
UPDATED 1:00 P.M. WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Former U.S. President Donald Trump faces 37 criminal counts including charges of unauthorized retention of classified documents and conspiracy to obstruct justi...
TJ Carson Jun 09, 2023 FILE PHOTO: Former U.S. President and Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump reacts after arriving at Aberdeen International Airport in Aberdeen, Scotland, Britain May 1, 2023. REUTERS/Russell Cheyne

Apple, Amazon must face consumer lawsuit over iPhone, iPad prices - US judge
(Reuters) - Apple and Amazon.com must face a consumer antitrust lawsuit in U.S. court accusing them of conspiring to artificially inflate the price of iPhones and iPads sold on Amazon's platform, a fe...
TJ Carson Jun 09, 2023 A view of the new iPhone 14 at an Apple event at their headquarters in Cupertino, California, U.S. September 7, 2022. REUTERS/Carlos Barria

Trump lawyers quit documents case, and a former Trump aide is indicted
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Two lawyers defending Donald Trump on federal charges of illegally retaining classified documents quit the case on Friday and a former aide was charged as well in surprise develo...
TJ Carson Jun 09, 2023 FILE PHOTO: Former U.S. President and Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump gestures after arriving at Aberdeen International Airport in Aberdeen, Scotland, Britain May 1, 2023. REUTERS/Russell Cheyne


