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Biden to tour damage from Colorado's most destructive wildfire
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Joe Biden was due to visit Colorado on Friday to view the devastation left by a rare, winter wildfire that ravaged two Denver-area towns last week, displacing tho...
Jan 07, 2022 FILE PHOTO: U.S. President Joe Biden receives an economic briefing in the Roosevelt Room at the White House in Washington, U.S., March 5, 2021. REUTERS/Tom Brenner
Chicago public schools cancel classes again in COVID-19 teacher walkout
(Reuters) -Chicago Public Schools, the third-largest U.S. education district, have canceled classes for a third day on Friday amid a walkout by teachers demanding tougher COVID-19 protection measures,...
Jan 07, 2022 The Jahn School of Fine Arts lies empty after Chicago Public Schools, the nation's third-largest school district, said it would cancel classes since the teachers' union voted in favor of a return to remote learning, in Chicago, Illinois, U.S. January 5, 2022. REUTERS/Eric Cox
Special police detail nets 20 arrests, maybe more to come
PEORIA, Ill. - If you saw a lot of police activity in certain areas of Peoria Wednesday, Police Chief Eric Echevarria says it was by design. The chief, in a news release, says as part of his 2022 anti...
Jan 06, 2022 Midwest Communications
Local officials: We're undergoing a COVID-19 'tsunami'
PEORIA, Ill. - Local health officials are saying that the wave of new COVID-19 cases are more than a wave -- they are, in their words, a "tsunami." The average daily number of new COVID-19 cases in th...
Jan 06, 2022 Midwest Communications
Ameren Illinois: Supply chain issues didn't hit 2021 natural gas deliveries
Peoria, Ill -- Supply chain interruptions did not impact the flow of much needed natural gas to heat tens of thousands of homes across the central Illinois region. It's the assurance we get from Amere...
Jan 06, 2022 Photo: Ameren
Durbin speaks on Senate floor about Jan. 6 attack
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Illinois' senior U.S. Senator, Dick Durbin, says it's concerning that some people believe the attack last January 6th on the U.S. Capitol wasn't that big of a deal. "I listen in di...
Jan 06, 2022 Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL)
Kinzinger: My GOP is not leading after Jan. 6 Capitol attack
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Illinois Congressman Adam Kinzinger is hinting about what his future is, while commenting on the violence one year ago Thursday at the U.S. Capitol. "This time last year, I hoped v...
Jan 06, 2022
U.S. weekly jobless claims increase moderately
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The number of Americans filing new claims for unemployment benefits rose last week and could increase further in the coming weeks amid disruptions from soaring COVID-19 infectio...
Jan 06, 2022 FILE PHOTO: People line up outside a newly reopened career center for in-person appointments in Louisville, U.S., April 15, 2021. REUTERS/Amira Karaoud
Biden calls Trump threat to democracy on anniversary of Capitol attack
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -President Joe Biden on Thursday accused his predecessor Donald Trump of posing a continuing threat to American democracy in a speech on the anniversary of the deadly U.S. Capitol...
Jan 06, 2022 U.S. President Joe Biden speaks in Statuary Hall on the first anniversary of the January 6, 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol by supporters of former President Donald Trump, on Capitol Hill in Washington, U.S., January 6, 2022. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque
CDC recommends Pfizer's COVID-19 booster for ages 12 to 15
(Reuters) - The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said on Wednesday it expanded the eligibility of Pfizer Inc and BioNTech SE's booster doses to those 12 to 15 years old. The move ...
Jan 06, 2022 FILE PHOTO: Vials of the Pfizer-BioNTech coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pediatric vaccine are pictured in Lansdale, Pennsylvania, U.S., December 5, 2021. REUTERS/Hannah Beier
