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In watershed moment, Trump indictment sets US on uncertain course
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Donald Trump, the ex-president and frontrunner to be Republican nominee in 2024, is set to face a mug shot, finger-printing and a court appearance next week after being indicted o...
Mar 31, 2023 A police car drives by the Manhattan Criminal Court after former U.S. President Donald Trump's indictment by a Manhattan grand jury following a probe into hush money paid to porn star Stormy Daniels, in New York City, U.S., March 31, 2023. REUTERS/Andrew Kelly
Trump's alleged hush money payments and the path to criminal charges
(Reuters) - Donald Trump was indicted by the Manhattan District Attorney's office following an investigation related to hush money payments to a porn star who has said she had a sexual relationship wi...
Mar 30, 2023 FILE PHOTO: Former U.S. President Donald Trump speaks during the first rally for his re-election campaign at Waco Regional Airport in Waco, Texas, U.S., March 25, 2023. REUTERS/Leah Millis
UPDATE: Trump criminally charged in New York, a first for a US ex-president
UPDATED 6:07 P.M. NEW YORK (Reuters) -Donald Trump has been indicted by a Manhattan grand jury after a probe into hush money paid to porn star Stormy Daniels, becoming the first former U.S. president ...
Mar 30, 2023 FILE PHOTO: Former U.S. President Donald Trump arrives onstage to announce that he will once again run for U.S. president in the 2024 U.S. presidential election, during an event at his Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm Beach, Florida, U.S. November 15, 2022. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst
Second arrest in fatal WIU off-campus shooting, while police seek one for questioning
MACOMB, Ill. - Police in Macomb making another arrest, and looking for another person, after the weekend shooting near Western Illinois University that left one person dead and ten others injured. Aut...
Mar 30, 2023 LEFT: Demond Wilson, Jr. RIGHT: Man police want to question about shooting. (1470 & 100.3 WMBD/Macomb Police)
FTX's Bankman-Fried pleads not guilty to campaign finance, China bribery charges
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Indicted FTX cryptocurrency exchange founder Sam Bankman-Fried pleaded not guilty on Thursday to new U.S. charges of conspiring to violate campaign finance laws and bribe Chinese ...
Mar 30, 2023 Former FTX Chief Executive Sam Bankman-Fried, who faces fraud charges over the collapse of the bankrupt cryptocurrency exchange, leaves the Manhattan federal court in New York City, U.S. March 30, 2023. REUTERS/Amanda Perobelli
Protesters demand action on guns at Tennessee statehouse
NASHVILLE, Tennessee (Reuters) - Protesters flooded Tennessee's statehouse on Thursday to demand lawmakers stiffen gun laws following a school shooting in Nashville that left six people dead, three of...
Mar 30, 2023 Protesters gather inside the Tennessee State Capitol to call for an end to gun violence and support stronger gun laws after a deadly shooting at the Covenant School in Nashville, Tennessee, U.S. March 30, 2023. REUTERS/Cheney Orr
Russia detains Wall Street Journal reporter Gershkovich on suspicion of spying
LONDON (Reuters) - A Moscow court ruled that a U.S. journalist for the Wall Street Journal should be detained for nearly two months on suspicion of spying, the most serious move against a foreign jour...
Mar 30, 2023 Reporter for U.S. newspaper The Wall Street Journal Evan Gershkovich appears in an undated handout image taken in an unknown location. The Wall Street Journal/Handout via REUTERS
Former ComEd CEO sought soft landing for Madigan chief of staff who was fired for sexual harassment
CHICAGO, Ill. (Capitol News Illinois)- In the weeks following then-Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan's forced ouster of his longtime chief of staff following allegations of sexual harassment, a h...
Mar 30, 2023 Ex-lobbyist Mike McClain is pictured in his driver's license photo, which was submitted as evidence in his federal court trial this week in a case where he and three others allegedly bribed former House Speaker Michael Madigan (right) with jobs and contracts for the speaker’s political allies in exchange for legislation favorable to electric utility Commonwealth Edison. (Madigan photo and illustration by Jerry Nowicki; McClain photo obtained from trial exhibit)
Creve Coeur home extensively damaged after fire
CREVE COEUR, Ill. - A home in Creve Couer suffered heavy damage from a mid-day fire Thursday. Creve Coeur Fire Chief Brad Gill says the home on Glendale Street had a lot of damage on the first floor, ...
Mar 30, 2023 (25 News)
U.S. investigating Minnesota train carrying ethanol that derailed, prompting evacuation
(Reuters) - The U.S. National Transportation Safety Board and the Federal Railroad Administration are investigating the derailment Thursday of a freight train carrying ethanol near a small town in Min...
Mar 30, 2023 FILE PHOTO: U.S. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg visits the site of the derailment of a train carrying hazardous waste in East Palestine, Ohio, U.S., February 23, 2023. REUTERS/Alan Freed
