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U.S. Senate Republican leader backs gun violence bill
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell said on Tuesday he was "comfortable" with the framework of a bipartisan gun violence bill unveiled earlier this week and would vote ...
Jun 15, 2022 FILE PHOTO: A demonstrator holds a placard while taking part in the 'March for Our Lives', one of a series of nationwide protests against gun violence, in Washington, D.C., U.S., June 11, 2022. REUTERS/Joshua Roberts/File Photo
Two police officers and a suspect dead after California shooting
(Reuters) - A shooting in the southern California city of El Monte left two police officers and a suspect dead, authorities said late on Tuesday, adding that the officers were shot in the line of duty...
Jun 15, 2022 Scott Davidson / CC
Durbin speaks on Senate floor about Jan. 6 attack
WASHINGTON, D.C. - Senator Dick Durbin says it's no coincidence that the anniversary of the Watergate Hotel break-in happened 50 years ago this week, as public hearings continue on the January 6th, 20...
Jun 14, 2022 (File-Will Stevenson/1470 & 100.3 WMBD)
PPS to reinstate "zero" grades in some cases
PEORIA, Ill. - The grade structure is changing in Peoria Public Schools. "We feel like we have tweaked a few things. We didn't do a wholesale change. But, we adjusted some things that really seemed li...
Jun 14, 2022 (From a Peoria Public Schools graphic)
State provides tips for beating the heat
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. - Almost the entire State of Illinois, with the exception of the Quincy area, is in an Excessive Heat Warning through Wednesday night, with highs all over the state near 100, and hea...
Jun 14, 2022 (National Weather Service)
Ukraine's besieged farmers fear war-time harvest 'hell'
MYKOLAIV, Ukraine (Reuters) - As 10-metre high mounds of sunflower meal smoulder among the blackened ruins of one of Ukraine's top agricultural terminals, farmers in this front-line region are scrambl...
Jun 14, 2022 FILE PHOTO: Wheat farmers talk to Reuters in a wheat farm outside Bashtanka, Mykolaiv region, as Russia's attacks on Ukraine continue, Ukraine June 9, 2022. REUTERS/Edgar Su
Caterpillar moving headquarters out of Illinois
UPDATED 12:53 p.m. DEERFIELD, Ill. - Caterpillar is once again giving the State of Illinois the equivalent of a cold shoulder. More than five years after Big Yellow announced it was moving its corpora...
Jun 14, 2022 Caterpillar's former downtown Peoria headquarters (Will Stevenson/1470 & 100.3 WMBD)
Former VP Mike Pence to speak at Lincoln Day Dinner
PEORIA, Ill. -- Former Vice President Mike Pence will be in Peoria next week. Pence will be the keynote speaker for the annual Lincoln Day Dinner, put on by Tazewell and Peoria County Republicans. "Th...
Jun 14, 2022 Anthony Quintano / CC
U.S. congressional panel probing Jan. 6 Capitol attack postpones hearing
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The House of Representatives committee investigating the deadly Jan. 6, 2021, attack on U.S. Capitol said on Tuesday it has postponed a hearing scheduled for Wednesday but will ...
Jun 14, 2022 Former Fox News politics editor Chris Stirewalt is sworn in as Rep. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., Rep. Zoe Lofgren, D-Calif., Chairman Bennie Thompson, D-Miss., Vice Chair Liz Cheney, R-Wyo., Rep. Adam Kinzinger, R-Ill., Rep. Jamie Raskin, D-Md., and Rep. Elaine Luria, D-Va., watch from the dais as the House select committee tasked with investigating the January 6th attack on the Capitol hold a hearing on Capitol Hill, in Washington, U.S. June 13, 2022. Jabin Botsford/Pool via REUTERS
U.S. producer prices increase strongly in May
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. producer prices increased solidly in May amid a surge in the cost of energy products, suggesting inflation could remain elevated for a while. The producer price index for f...
Jun 14, 2022 FILE PHOTO: A customer shops at a deli in Reading Terminal Market in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S. February 19, 2022. REUTERS/Hannah Beier/File Photo
