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Local COVID roundup 2/2: no deaths, low case count
PEORIA, Ill. -- In one of the lowest activity reporting periods in months, the Peoria City/County Health Department on Tuesday reported 50 new COVID-19 cases and no new deaths. Peoria County had the h...
Feb 02, 2021 Midwest Communications
U.S. Senate confirms Buttigieg to head Transportation Department
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Pete Buttigieg, a former mayor who challenged Joe Biden for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination, was confirmed by the U.S. Senate on Tuesday on a 86-13 vote to head the ...
Feb 02, 2021 FILE PHOTO: Pete Buttigieg, U.S. secretary of transportation nominee for U.S. President Joe Biden, listens during a Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee confirmation hearing in Washington, DC, U.S., January 21, 2021. Stefani Reynolds/Pool via REUTERS/File Photo
State COVID roundup 2/2: Illinois reaches 1M vax mark
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. -- A total of 32,559 COVID-19 vaccine doses were given between Monday and Tuesday to Illinoisans. With that, the state officially surpassed the mark of one million doses administered...
Feb 02, 2021 Midwest Communications
FBI agents killed in early-morning raid in Florida
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Two FBI agents were killed and another three were wounded during an early morning raid on Tuesday at a Sunrise, Florida home as they were executing a court-ordered search warrant...
Feb 02, 2021 Midwest Communications/Shutterstock
Punxsutawney Phil says 6 more weeks of winter
(Reuters) - Pennsylvania's famous groundhog emerged from his tree stump on Tuesday to predict another six weeks of winter, just as the northeastern United States got blanketed with its second day of s...
Feb 02, 2021 Punxsutawney Phil's handler A.J. Dereume holds up the famous groundhog during a socially distanced and remote event due to the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) on the 135th Groundhog Day at Gobblers Knob in Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania, U.S., February 2, 2021. REUTERS/Alan Freed
Russia's Sputnik V vaccine 92% effective in fighting COVID-19
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Scientists gave Russia's Sputnik V vaccine the green light on Tuesday saying it was almost 92% effective in fighting COVID-19 based on peer-reviewed late-stage trial results publish...
Feb 02, 2021 FILE PHOTO: A shipment of doses of the Sputnik V (Gam-COVID-Vac) vaccine against the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) is seen after arriving at Ezeiza International Airport, in Buenos Aires, Argentina January 28, 2021. REUTERS/Agustin Marcarian/File Photo
Trump aimed mob 'like a loaded cannon' at Capitol, Democrats argue in impeachment
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Nine Democrats from the U.S. House of Representatives who will prosecute former President Donald Trump in his impeachment trial will argue that he pointed a mob "like a loaded c...
Feb 02, 2021 FILE PHOTO: U.S. President Donald Trump addresses a campaign rally in Dalton, Georgia, U.S., on the eve of the run-off election to decide both of Georgia's Senate seats January 4, 2021. REUTERS/Leah Millis/File Photo
Actor Hal Holbrook dies at 95
(Reuters) - Hal Holbrook, an award-winning actor acclaimed for his one-man portrayal of American literary legend Mark Twain and whose film work included portraying the mysterious "Deep Throat" in "All...
Feb 02, 2021 FILE PHOTO: Actor Hal Holbrook arrives to the premiere of "Planes: Fire & Rescue" at the El Capitan Theater in the Hollywood section of Los Angeles, California, July 15, 2014. REUTERS/David McNew
Greene a 'cancer' on Republicans, McConnell says, as Democrats push to drop her from committees
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Mitch McConnell, the top Senate Republican, said on Monday that Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene's embrace of conspiracy theories was a "cancer" on their party, as House De...
Feb 02, 2021 FILE PHOTO: U.S. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) wears a "Trump Won" face mask as she arrives on the floor of the House to take her oath of office as a newly elected member of the 117th House of Representatives in Washington, U.S., January 3, 2021. REUTERS/Erin Scott
Trump lawyers to file pretrial documents with U.S. Senate in preview of impeachment defense
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Former President Donald Trump faces a deadline on Tuesday to respond to the U.S. House of Representatives' impeachment charging him with inciting insurrection in a fiery speech ...
Feb 02, 2021 FILE PHOTO: impeachment managers Representatives Jamie Raskin (D-MD), Diana DeGette (D-CO), David Cicilline (D-RI), Joaquin Castro (D-TX), Eric Swalwell (D-CA), Ted Lieu (D-CA), Stacey Plaskett (D-US Virgin Islands AT-Large), Joe Neguse (D-CO) and Madeleine Dean (D-PA) deliver an article of impeachment against former President Donald Trump to the Senate for trial on accusations of inciting the January 6 attack on the Capitol, in Washington, U.S., January 25, 2021. Melina Mara/Pool via REUTERS/File Photo
