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Ghislaine Maxwell sentenced to 20 years for sex trafficking
NEW YORK (Reuters) -Ghislaine Maxwell was sentenced to 20 years in prison on Tuesday for helping the sex offender and globetrotting financier Jeffrey Epstein sexually abuse teenage girls. The British ...
Jun 28, 2022 FILE PHOTO: Ghislaine Maxwell appears via video link during her arraignment hearing in Manhattan Federal Court, in the Manhattan borough of New York City, New York, U.S. July 14, 2020 in this courtroom sketch. REUTERS/Jane Rosenberg
Dunlap Library changes policy regarding registered sex offenders
DUNLAP, Ill. - The Dunlap Public Library Board is green-lighting changes to library policy regarding registered sex offenders. This, after a patron's privileges were suspended for 60 days when that pe...
Jun 28, 2022 (Dunlap Public Library)
Trump did not care that Jan. 6 rioters were armed, ex-White House aide testifies
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Then-President Donald Trump did not care that supporters at his Jan. 6, 2021, rally preceding the assault on the U.S. Capitol were armed, including with AR-15-style rifles, a Whi...
Jun 28, 2022 Cassidy Hutchinson, who was an aide to former White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows during the administration of former U.S. President Donald Trump, arrives to testify 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., June 28, 2022. REUTERS/Evelyn Hockstein
Michigan court tosses charges against ex-governor, others stemming from Flint water crisis
(Reuters) - The Michigan Supreme Court on Tuesday threw out charges against former Governor Rick Snyder and eight others in connection with the Flint water scandal, ruling that a lower court judge lac...
Jun 28, 2022 FILE PHOTO: A pictures of damaged pipes from Flint, a city struggling with the effects of lead-poisoned drinking water, is seen as Michigan Governor Rick Snyder (2nd L) attends a meeting between local and federal authorities with U.S. President Barack Obama in Michigan, May 4, 2016. REUTERS/Carlos Barria
U.S. to press Turkey as Finland, Sweden hope for NATO breakthrough
HELSINKI/MADRID (Reuters) - NATO hopefuls Finland and Sweden voiced optimism on Tuesday that Turkey might lift its veto over their stalled bid to join the military alliance at a summit in Madrid, wher...
Jun 28, 2022 NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg and Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez visit the NATO summit venue in Madrid, Spain June 28, 2022. REUTERS/Yves Herman
Voters to test new paper ballot system in Primary Elections
PEORIA, Ill. -- It's primary election day in the Heart of Illinois with a wide range of political races and issues on local ballots. Voters are also encountering a newer paper ballot voting system. Ma...
Jun 28, 2022 Midwest Communications
'Stacks of bodies': 46 dead migrants found in truck in Texas
SAN ANTONIO (Reuters) -The bodies of 46 dead migrants were discovered inside a tractor-trailer on Monday in San Antonio, Texas, city officials said, in one of the most deadly recent incidents of human...
Jun 28, 2022 Law enforcement officers work at the scene where people were found dead inside a trailer truck in San Antonio, Texas, U.S. June 27, 2022. REUTERS/Kaylee Greenlee Beal
Driver hospitalized after single-vehicle crash overnight
PEORIA, Ill. -- Peoria Firefighters were called to a single-vehicle accident just after 12 a.m. Tuesday in the area of W. Republic and Knoxville Avenue. Battalion Chief Lore Baxter said a two-door cou...
Jun 28, 2022 Midwest Communications/Shutterstock
U.S. Supreme Court again nixes Bayer challenge to weedkiller suits
(Reuters) -The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday rejected another Bayer AG bid to dismiss litigation alleging that its Roundup weedkiller causes cancer as the German pharmaceutical and chemical giant tries...
Jun 27, 2022 FILE PHOTO: A woman uses a Monsanto's Roundup weedkiller spray without glyphosate in a garden in Ercuis near Paris, France, May 6, 2018. REUTERS/Benoit Tessier
Missiles strike Ukraine shopping mall, G7 vows to keep pressure on Russia
KREMENCHUK, Ukraine (Reuters) -Russian missiles struck a crowded shopping mall in central Ukraine on Monday, President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said, as Moscow fought for control of a key eastern city and ...
Jun 27, 2022 Rescuers work at a site of a shopping mall hit by a Russian missile strike, as Russia's attack on Ukraine continues, in Kremenchuk, in Poltava region, Ukraine June 27, 2022. REUTERS/Anna Voitenko
