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Biden improving as mild COVID symptoms persist, White House says
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Joe Biden's symptoms from COVID-19 symptoms have improved, his doctor said on Friday, one day after Biden tested positive for the virus as a highly contagious sub...
Jul 22, 2022 FILE PHOTO: U.S. President Joe Biden delivers remarkson climate change and renewable energy at the site of the former Brayton Point Power Station in Somerset, Massachusetts, U.S., July 20, 2022. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst
Reaction to Ukraine, Russia grain export deal
(Reuters) - Russia and Ukraine signed a landmark deal on Friday to reopen Ukrainian Black Sea ports for grain exports, raising hopes that an international food crisis aggravated by the Russian invasio...
Jul 22, 2022 U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres speaks during a signing ceremony in Istanbul, Turkey July 22, 2022. REUTERS/Umit Bektas
Overnight shooting in Peoria leaves one injured
PEORIA, Ill. -- Another person was shot early Friday morning in Peoria. Public Information Officer Semone Roth said officers responded to three Shot Spotter alerts around 12:15 a.m. One of those alert...
Jul 22, 2022 Midwest Communications
Peoria home goes up in flames Friday morning
PEORIA, Ill. -- Peoria fire crews responded around 5:20 a.m. Friday to a residential fire in the area of W. Krause and S. Folkers Avenues. Fire Battalion Chief Scott Strum said the first engine compan...
Jul 22, 2022 liz west / CC
Man tries to stab New York governor candidate Zeldin on stage
(Reuters) -A man climbed on stage and tried to stab U.S. Congressman Lee Zeldin on Thursday as he gave a speech in his run for New York governor, the candidate and authorities said. Zeldin was unhurt ...
Jul 22, 2022 Emergency vehicles and police personnel gather on the scene with Congressman Lee Zeldin present in the background in blue shirt, after an alleged attack on him during his stump speech, in Fairport, New York, United States, July 21, 2022. Ian Winner/Handout via REUTERS
OSF and IL CancerCare announce collaboration
UPDATED 11:41 a.m. PEORIA, Ill. -- On Thursday, OSF HealthCare and Illinois CancerCare announced they'll be working together in efforts to advance cancer care throughout the state. Preparations began ...
Jul 22, 2022 (Artist rendering/OSF HealthCare)
Jan. 6 U.S. Capitol riot hearings lay blame at Trump's feet
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - After losing the 2020 election, Donald Trump ignored close allies who told him that his claims of widespread election fraud were untrue, and when the followers who believed his ...
Jul 22, 2022 FILE PHOTO: A never before seen video of former U.S. President Donald Trump rehearsing a speech, where he refused to admit a day after the Jan. 6 assault on the U.S. Capitol that the 2020 election was over and that he had lost, is played on a screen during a public hearing of the U.S. House Select Committee to investigate the January 6 Attack on the U.S. Capitol, on Capitol Hill, in Washington, U.S., July 21, 2022. REUTERS/Evelyn Hockstein
Prosecutors urge jurors to convict Trump ex-adviser Bannon
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The prosecution asked jurors on Friday to convict Steve Bannon of contempt of Congress for rebuffing a subpoena from the panel investigating last year's attack on the U.S. Capito...
Jul 22, 2022 FILE PHOTO: Steve Bannon, talk show host and former White House adviser to former President Donald Trump, arrives to U.S. District Court in Washington, U.S., June 15, 2022. REUTERS/Elizabeth Frantz/File Photo
Even after Jan. 6 Capitol riot, Trump refused to admit election was over
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Donald Trump refused to admit in a speech the day after the Jan. 6 assault on the U.S. Capitol that the 2020 election was over and that he had lost, according to new video shown...
Jul 21, 2022 Former U.S. President Donald Trump gestures during a rally to boost Ohio Republican candidates ahead of their May 3 primary election, at the county fairgrounds in Delaware, Ohio, U.S. April 23, 2022. REUTERS/Gaelen Morse
Polio case found in New York City suburb, first in decades
(Reuters) -A case of polio has been identified outside New York City and confirmed by federal health officials, the New York State Health Department said on Thursday in what would be the nation's firs...
Jul 21, 2022 FILE PHOTO: A general view of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) headquarters in Atlanta, Georgia September 30, 2014. REUTERS/Tami Chappell
