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Biden to prohibit trade, investment with Ukraine breakaway regions -White House
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -President Joe Biden will issue an executive order soon that will prohibit economic activity between U.S. individuals and the two breakaway regions of eastern Ukraine that Russian...
Feb 21, 2022 U.S. President Joe Biden waves as he departs the Hamilton restaurant where he had lunch with his granddaughters Finnegan Biden, Naomi Biden, and Peter Neal in Washington, U.S., February 19, 2022. REUTERS/Joshua Roberts
Markers honoring Abraham Lincoln in Tazewell County rededicated
PEKIN, Ill. - The history of Abraham Lincoln throughout Tazewell County and what, at Lincoln's time, was the 8th Judicial Circuit is once again being honored. Monuments to Lincoln in front of the Taze...
Feb 21, 2022 Will Stevenson/1470 & 100.3 WMBD
Putin orders Russian troops to Ukraine after recognizing breakaway regions
UPDATE: 9:30 p.m. MOSCOW (Reuters) -Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered the deployment of troops to two breakaway regions in eastern Ukraine after recognising them as independent on Monday, accel...
Feb 21, 2022 FILE - In this Thursday, Dec. 19, 2019 file photo, President Vladimir Putin speaks during his annual news conference in Moscow, Russia. An Associated Press review shows the idea of Ukrainian interference took root during Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign, was spread online and then amplified by Putin before some of America’s elected officials made it their truth. (Alexei Druzhinin, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP)
Closing arguments to begin in Ahmaud Arbery U.S. hate-crimes trial
BRUNSWICK, Ga. (Reuters) - With closing arguments set to begin Monday in the trial of three white men accused of federal hate crimes in the murder of Ahmaud Arbery, a 25-year-old Black jogger, in sout...
Feb 21, 2022 FILE PHOTO: A woman holds a sign outside the Glynn County Courthouse after the jury reached a guilty verdict in the trial of William "Roddie" Bryan, Travis McMichael and Gregory McMichael, charged with the February 2020 death of 25-year-old Ahmaud Arbery, in Brunswick, Georgia, U.S., November 24, 2021. REUTERS/Marco Bello/File Photo
Sec. of State's Office: It's easy to renew stickers online
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. -- Illinois Secretary of State Jesse White's office is reminding drivers that they can renew their license plate stickers online. Spokesperson Henry Haupt, with the Secretary of Stat...
Feb 21, 2022 Illinois Secretary of State
Trump's Truth Social app launches on Apple App Store
(Reuters) - Donald Trump's new social media venture, Truth Social, launched late on Sunday in Apple's App Store, potentially marking the former president's return to social media after he was banned f...
Feb 21, 2022 FILE PHOTO: Former U.S. President Donald Trump speaks at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in Orlando, Florida, U.S. February 28, 2021. REUTERS/Octavio Jones
Britain's Queen Elizabeth catches COVID
WINDSOR, England (Reuters) -Queen Elizabeth tested positive for COVID-19 on Sunday, sharpening concerns about the health of the world's longest-reigning monarch two weeks after she marked 70 years on ...
Feb 20, 2022 FILE PHOTO: Steve Parsons/Pool via REUTERS
Russia and Belarus extend military drills north of Ukraine
MOSCOW/DONETSK, Ukraine (Reuters) - Russia and Belarus are extending military drills that were due to end on Sunday, the Belarus defense minister said, in a step that further intensifies pressure on U...
Feb 20, 2022 Vadim Yakubyonok/Belta/Handout via REUTERS
WSJ: FDA considers approving a second COVID-19 booster shot
(Reuters) - U.S. health regulators are looking at authorizing a potential fourth dose of a COVID-19 vaccine in the fall, the Wall Street Journal reported on Saturday, citing sources familiar with the ...
Feb 20, 2022 FILE PHOTO: REUTERS/Jim Vondruska/File Photo
Update: New details of head on collision in Mapleton
UPDATE: 4:23 A.M. (2/21) PEORIA COUNTY, Ill. -- Illinois State Police have released more details on a wrong-way crash in Peoria County Saturday. According to an ISP release, the incident happened at 4...
Feb 20, 2022 Midwest Communications
