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Russian court rejects US reporter Gershkovich's detention appeal
MOSCOW (Reuters) -A Moscow court on Tuesday rejected an appeal from U.S. journalist Evan Gershkovich to be freed from pre-trial detention, meaning he will stay in a former KGB prison until at least Ma...
Apr 18, 2023 Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich, who was detained in March while on a reporting trip and charged with espionage, stands behind a glass wall of an enclosure for defendants before a court hearing to consider an appeal against his detention, in Moscow, Russia April 18, 2023. REUTERS/Evgenia Novozhenina
White Kansas City man, 84, charged for shooting Black teen who went to wrong house
(Reuters) -Prosecutors charged an 84-year-old white Kansas City man with two felonies on Monday in the shooting of a Black teenager who was wounded after walking up to the wrong house when going to pi...
Apr 18, 2023 Ralph Yarl, a Black 16-year-old who was shot and wounded by a homeowner after mistakenly going to the wrong house to pick up his siblings, holds a bass clarinet in this picture obtained from social media. Lee Merritt/via REUTERS
Biden, facing roadblocks in Congress, to issue executive order on childcare, eldercare
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Joe Biden, facing congressional resistance to his proposals, will announce more than 50 executive actions on Tuesday aimed at advancing free preschool and expandi...
Apr 18, 2023 FILE PHOTO: European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen is reflected in U.S. President Joe Biden's sunglasses during the first day of the G7 leaders' summit at Bavaria's Schloss Elmau castle, near Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany, June 26, 2022. REUTERS/Lukas Barth/File Photo
US House Speaker McCarthy pitches budget cuts for debt limit vote
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. House of Representatives Speaker Kevin McCarthy on Monday outlined spending cuts he said his fellow Republicans would demand in exchange for voting to raise the federal gove...
Apr 18, 2023 FILE PHOTO: Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) wields the speaker's gavel as members of Congress gather on the House floor to attend U.S. President Joe Biden's State of the Union address before a joint session of Congress in the House Chamber at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, U.S., February 7, 2023. REUTERS/Leah Millis/File Photo/File Photo
Another carjacking on Peoria's west side Monday night
PEORIA, Ill. -- A man told police he was carjacked at gunpoint Monday night on Peoria's west side. Peoria Police said they were called around 7:45 p.m. to W. Melrose Place, near N. Sterling Avenue. Th...
Apr 18, 2023 (File-1470 & 100.3 WMBD)
U.S. envoy pays first visit to WSJ reporter Gershkovich in Moscow prison
(Reuters) -U.S. Ambassador to Russia Lynne Tracy on Monday said she had made her first visit to jailed Wall Street reporter Evan Gershkovich, who Moscow arrested two weeks ago on charges of spying. "H...
Apr 17, 2023 FILE PHOTO: A man walks out of the pre-trial detention centre Lefortovo, where U.S. journalist for the Wall Street Journal Evan Gershkovich is being held on espionage charges, in Moscow, Russia April 6, 2023. REUTERS/Tatyana Makeyeva/File Photo
Pritzker touts state financial achievements to investors
NEW YORK - Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker touted economic achievements made under his administration in New York on Monday. The speech was made to investors ahead of the state's upcoming general obli...
Apr 17, 2023 (World Economic Forum via Flickr)
Illinois Senate GOP proposing business-friendly measures
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. - Senate Republicans in Springfield are proposing numerous ways to change what they say is an "unfriendly business climate" in Illinois. Win Stoller (R-Peoria) is advocating for a bi...
Apr 17, 2023 Jim Bowen / CC
Appeals court affirms conviction of Chauvin for George Floyd murder
(Reuters) -The Minnesota Court of Appeals on Monday upheld the conviction of former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin for the murder of George Floyd during a 2020 arrest, rejecting Chauvin's re...
Apr 17, 2023 FILE PHOTO: Former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin addresses his sentencing hearing and the judge as he awaits his sentence after being convicted of murder in the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis, Minnesota, U.S. June 25, 2021 in a still image from video. Pool via REUTERS
U.S. charges two with setting up Chinese 'secret police station' in New York
NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. law enforcement officials have arrested two New York residents for allegedly operating a Chinese "secret police station" in Manhattan's Chinatown neighborhood, the top federa...
Apr 17, 2023 FILE PHOTO: U.S. and Chinese flags are seen in this illustration taken, January 30, 2023. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/Illustration
