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U.S. job growth beats expectations; unemployment rate holds at 3.6%
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. job growth increased more than expected in June and the unemployment rate remained near pre-pandemic lows, signs of persistent labor market strength that give the Federal R...
Jul 08, 2022 FILE PHOTO: A job seeker leaves the job fair for airport related employment at Logan International Airport in Boston, Massachusetts, U.S., December 7, 2021. REUTERS/Brian Snyder
U.S. Supreme Court 'out of control' on abortion ruling, Biden says
UPDATE: 12:16 p.m. WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. President Joe Biden said the Supreme Court decision overturning the right to an abortion was an exercise in "raw political power" and signed an executive ...
Jul 08, 2022 FILE PHOTO: An abortion rights protester holds a sign as she demonstrates after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in the Dobbs v Women’s Health Organization abortion case, overturning the landmark Roe v Wade abortion decision in Miami, Florida, U.S. June 24, 2022. REUTERS/Marco Bello
Japan ex-PM Abe dies after being shot while making a speech
NARA, Japan (Reuters) -Former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, Japan's longest-serving leader, died on Friday hours after he was shot while campaigning for a parliamentary election, shocking a country in wh...
Jul 08, 2022 FILE PHOTO: Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe attends the APEC Economic Leaders' Meeting in Danang, Vietnam November 11, 2017. REUTERS/Jorge Silva/File Photo
Man charged with driving stolen car through Bloomington airport gate
BLOOMINGTON, Ill. - A Central Illinois man faces a host of charges stemming from him allegedly driving his car through a fence at the Central Illinois Regional Airport in Bloomington. Stephon Carter, ...
Jul 07, 2022 (McLean County Jail via 25 News)
Campground employee pleads not guilty to felony sex charges
EUREKA, Ill. - A Woodford County man has pleaded not guilty to charges accusing him of having sex with a 14-year-old girl at a local campground. 25 News reports Jose Emmett, 25, made the plea to charg...
Jul 07, 2022 (Woodford County Sheriffs Department via 25 News)
Biden awards medal of freedom to Biles, Rapinoe, late Senator McCain
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Gymnastics pioneer Simone Biles and twice World Cup winner Megan Rapinoe were among 17 honorees to receive the Presidential Medal of Freedom at the White House on Thursday from ...
Jul 07, 2022 Cindy McCain is comforted by Presidential Medal of Freedom recipient Sandra Lindsay, the first American to receive a COVID-19 vaccine, as U.S. President Joe Biden reads the citation for Senator John McCain’s posthumous Presidential Medal of Freedom during a ceremony at the White House in Washington, U.S., July 7, 2022. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque
Minneapolis ex-cop Chauvin gets 21 years in prison for violating George Floyd's rights
(Reuters) -Former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin, convicted last year of murdering George Floyd, was sentenced on Thursday to 21 years in prison on separate federal charges of violating Floy...
Jul 07, 2022 FILE PHOTO: Men walk by a mural of George Floyd, a man who was killed in 2020 by police officer Derek Chauvin by kneeling on his neck in Minneapolis, Minnesota, in the downtown area of Houston, Texas, U.S. May 29, 2022. REUTERS/Shannon Stapleton/File Photo
Man pleads not guilty in Peoria homicide case
PEORIA, Ill. - A Peoria man charged with First-Degree Murder for the city's ninth homicide has entered a not guilty plea in the case. Court records indicate 34-year-old Stephen Coaxum's attorney also ...
Jul 07, 2022 (Peoria County Jail)
Feds fund replacement of PIA control tower
PEORIA, Ill. - Peoria International Airport will be getting some money its director says is desperately needed. $15 million in federal money is coming to the airport through the Federal Aviation Admin...
Jul 07, 2022 (File-1470 & 100.3 WMBD)
'Godfather' actor James Caan has died at age 82
UPDATED 2:23 p.m. LOS ANGELES (Reuters) -American actor James Caan, who starred as gangster Sonny Corleone in epic mafia film "The Godfather," has died at age 82, his family said in a statement on Thu...
Jul 07, 2022 Actor James Caan attends a 50th Anniversary screening for "The Godfather" in Los Angeles, California, U.S., February 22, 2022. REUTERS/Aude Guerrucci
