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US withdraws from the World Health Organization
LONDON, Jan 22 (Reuters) - The United States officially left the World Health Organization on Thursday after a year of warnings that doing so would hurt public health in the U.S. and globally, saying ...
Caleb Kelch Jan 22, 2026 World Health Organization (WHO) logo and U.S. flag are seen in this illustration taken April 23, 2025. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/Illustration/File Photo

Paramount extends deadline on hostile Warner Bros bid to February 20
Jan 22 (Reuters) - Paramount Skydance on Thursday extended the deadline on its hostile tender offer for Warner Bros Discovery by about a month to February 20, buying more time to persuade investors th...
Caleb Kelch Jan 22, 2026 The Warner Bros logo is seen during the annual MIPCOM television programme market in Cannes, France, October 14, 2019. REUTERS/Eric Gaillard/File Photo

US airlines issue travel waivers as winter storm threatens widespread disruptions
NEW YORK, Jan 22 (Reuters) - U.S. airlines have rolled out sweeping travel waivers as a winter storm, forecast to spread heavy snow, sleet and dangerous ice across two dozen states, threatened to disr...
Caleb Kelch Jan 22, 2026 People walk around the airport ahead of checking in for their flights at the airport ahead of the Thanksgiving Holiday at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport, in Atlanta, Georgia, U.S., November 27, 2024. REUTERS/Megan Varner

Trump touts 'total access' Greenland deal as NATO asks allies to step up
DAVOS, Switzerland/NUUK, Jan 22 (Reuters) - President Donald Trump said on Thursday he had secured total and permanent U.S. access to Greenland in a deal with NATO, whose head said allies would have t...
Caleb Kelch Jan 22, 2026 U.S. President Donald Trump holds a bilateral meeting with NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte at the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos, Switzerland, January 21, 2026. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst

Peoria International Airport breaks annual passenger record in 2025
PEORIA, Ill. - Peoria International Airport is bringing a lot of momentum into 2026 after a record setting year. The airport announced at a ceremony in the Main Terminal on Thursday morning that 812,3...
TJ Carson Jan 22, 2026 (T.J. Carson/1470 & 100.3 WMBD)

Peoria Public Schools to close Friday in anticipation of frigid temperatures
PEORIA, Ill. - The cold temperatures will cause a three-day weekend at Peoria Public Schools. The district announced Thursday that the forecasted cold and severe wind chills for Friday will close scho...
TJ Carson Jan 22, 2026 1470 WMBD/Kristina Leahy

Illinois to withhold nearly $500M in spending, citing federal uncertainty
Article Summary Gov. JB Pritzker's office identified nearly $500 million in spending the state can hold in reserve for the current fiscal year amid federal funding uncertainty. The governor had direct...
Caleb Kelch Jan 22, 2026 Gov. JB Pritzker listens to a question from a reporter during a news conference at a farm in Central Illinois on Oct. 29, 2025. (Capitol News Illinois photo by Jerry Nowicki)

Vance heads to Minneapolis amid tension over ICE crackdown
MINNEAPOLIS, Jan 22 (Reuters) - Vice President JD Vance is expected to visit Minneapolis on Thursday to show support for a massive federal law enforcement operation underway in a city that has been on...
TJ Carson Jan 22, 2026 U.S. Vice President JD Vance waves as he boards Air Force two before departing Joint Base Andrews in Maryland, U.S., January 22, 2026. JIM WATSON/Pool via REUTERS

Dangerous cold to arrive this weekend in central Illinois
PEORIA, Ill. - A dangerous arctic blast will blanket central Illinois this weekend. 25 News First Alert Chief Meteorologist Brian Walder says the worst of the cold is expected to arrive Friday morning...
TJ Carson Jan 22, 2026 (National Weather Service)

Democrats' opposition to immigration crackdown puts spending bill in question
WASHINGTON, Jan 22 (Reuters) - Democrats in the U.S. House of Representatives on Thursday were girding to oppose a Department of Homeland Security funding bill, in protest of President Donald Trump's ...
TJ Carson Jan 22, 2026 Flowers, toys and signs lie at a makeshift memorial at the site of the fatal shooting of Renee Nicole Good by a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent on January 7, in Minneapolis, Minnesota, U.S., January 21, 2026. REUTERS/Seth Herald



