Category Archives: Top Stories
Pentagon says it fails eighth audit, targets 2028 to pass
WASHINGTON, Dec 19 (Reuters) - For the eighth year in a row, the Pentagon has failed an annual audit, the Department of Defense said on Friday, continuing a pattern of financial accountability problem...
Dec 19, 2025 A general view of the Pentagon in Washington, D.C., U.S., October 15, 2025. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque
Washington's new city administrator outlines initial priorities
WASHINGTON, Ill. (25 News) - Washington's new city administrator starts his new job on January 19. City officials appointed Jeff Fiegenschuh to the position on Monday. As city administrator, Fiegensch...
Dec 19, 2025 (City of Washington--Facebook page)
Missing Tazewell County man found dead
TAZEWELL COUNTY, Ill. - A Tazewell County man who was reported missing last weekend has been found dead near Hopedale. Tazewell County Coroner Charles Hanley said the Coroner's Office responded Thursd...
Dec 19, 2025 (Tazewell County)
Trump administration officials race to meet Friday deadline for Epstein files
Dec 19 (Reuters) - President Donald Trump's Justice Department faces a Friday deadline to release a massive trove of documents from its investigations into the late financier and convicted sex offende...
Dec 19, 2025 A giant photo of U.S. President Donald Trump and late financier and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein is displayed on the National Mall by activist groups Glasgow Actions Team and Everyone Hates Elon, ahead of the expected release of the Epstein files, in Washington D.C. U.S. December 15, 2025. REUTERS/Leah Millis
Illinois Accountability Commission hears testimony about excessive force by ICE agents. Felt like a 'war zone'
Article Summary The Illinois Accountability Commission held its first public meeting Thursday to review and document misconduct of federal immigration agents in Chicago. The commission heard testimony...
Dec 19, 2025 Illinois Accountability Commission Chair Judge Rubén Castillo, Vice Chair Patricia Brown Holmes and Commissioner Susan Gzesh listen to public comments at the Dec. 18 commission meeting. (Capitol News Illinois photo by Maggie Dougherty)
TikTok signs deal to sell US unit to American investor-led venture
WASHINGTON, Dec 18 (Reuters) - TikTok's Chinese owner, ByteDance, signed binding agreements with three major investors to sell just over 80% of the company's U.S. assets to American and global investo...
Dec 18, 2025 FILE PHOTO: The TikTok app icon on a smartphone in this illustration taken October 27, 2025. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/Illustration/File Photo
Update: Gunman in Brown University shooting found dead, linked to MIT killing
Updated at 4 a.m. BOSTON/PROVIDENCE, Rhode Island, Dec 18 (Reuters) - The suspect in last weekend's mass shooting at Brown University is dead from a self-inflicted gunshot wound, with investigators ce...
Dec 18, 2025 A member of the FBI returns equipment to their vehicle at a storage facility where the Brown University shooter, identified by authorities as Claudio Neves Valente, took his own life, in Salem, New Hampshire, U.S., December 18, 2025. REUTERS/CJ Gunther
16-year-old arrested in connection with Peoria carjacking spree
PEORIA, Ill. - Peoria Police have arrested two additional juveniles in connection with a December 6th crime spree that involved stolen vehicles, carjackings at gunpoint, and dangerous high-speed chase...
Dec 18, 2025
Seven dead in fatal plane crash including former NASCAR driver Greg Biffle
Dec 18 (Reuters) - Seven people were killed Thursday in the crash of a Cessna 550 business jet in Statesville, North Carolina, including former NASCAR driver Greg Biffle, NASCAR said. The plane crashe...
Dec 18, 2025 FILE PHOTO: Driver Greg Biffle poses for photographs in front of the new 2013 Ford stock car after an announcement during the NASCAR Media Tour in Concord, North Carolina, January 24, 2012. REUTERS/Chris Keane/File Photo
The Kennedy Center is adding 'Trump' to its name, White House says
WASHINGTON, Dec 18 (Reuters) - The board of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, which President Donald Trump filled with allies during a broad takeover earlier this year, has decided t...
Dec 18, 2025 People walk along the front of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, after White House spokeswoman Karoline Leavitt announced that the Kennedy Center board decided to rename the institution the Trump-Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., U.S., December 18, 2025. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque
