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US Supreme Court allows Trump's passport policy targeting transgender people
(Reuters) -The Supreme Court on Thursday allowed Donald Trump's administration to bar applicants for U.S. passports from designating the sex reflecting their gender identities on the document, part of...
Nov 06, 2025 People hold rainbow-coloured umbrellas and flags at a demonstration outside the court in Washington, U.S., December 4, 2024. REUTERS/Benoit Tessier
Busy Bartonville intersection closed due to trailer spill
BARTONVILLE, Ill. - A spill of reported animal entrails has affected traffic in Bartonville. Bartonville Police are urging people to avoid the intersection of Adams and Washington, near the McDonald's...
Nov 06, 2025 (Illinois Department of Transportation/Jenise Rebholz 25 News)
No fare hikes or service cuts for Chicago transit agencies, RTA chair says
Article Summary Chicago's public transit agencies will not have to raise fares, lay off workers or cut services next year after state lawmakers approved new funding. The public transit reform bill pas...
Nov 06, 2025 Regional Transportation Authority Chair Kirk Dillard watches floor debate of a transit funding bill in the early hours of Friday, Oct. 31. (Capitol News Illinois photo by Jerry Nowicki)
Washington sandwich-thrower cleared of assaulting US agent
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -A man who hurled a sandwich at a federal agent in a fit of fury over President Donald Trump's law enforcement surge in Washington, D.C., was cleared on Thursday of a misdemeanor ...
Nov 06, 2025 FILE PHOTO: A person walks past a banner, inspired by the work of artist Banksy, showing masked protesters throwing sandwiches, weeks after U.S. President Donald Trump ordered an increased presence of federal law enforcement to assist in crime prevention, in Washington, D.C., U.S. September 11, 2025. REUTERS/Daniel Becerril/File Photo
Morton man arrested for alleged possession of child pornography
MORTON, Ill. - A Morton man has been arrested for allegedly possessing electronic devices with child pornograpy on them. The Tazewell County Sheriff's Office says 64-year-old Michael Edie was arrested...
Nov 06, 2025 (Morton Police)
'Clean Slate' Act passes after failing to clear legislature in past years
Article Summary The Clean Slate Act, if signed into law, could make nearly 2.2 million people in Illinois eligible to have their criminal records automatically sealed beginning in 2031. Law enforcemen...
Nov 06, 2025 Sen. Elgie Sims sit in a Senate committee room in May 2025. (Capitol News Illinois photo by Jerry Nowicki)
Border patrol agent who shot Chicago woman boasted about it in text messages
CHICAGO (Reuters) -A federal agent who shot a Chicago woman multiple times after he said she struck his vehicle with her own bragged about his shooting skills in text messages with other agents, accor...
Nov 06, 2025 FILE PHOTO: Law enforcement officers during a standoff with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and federal officers in the Little Village neighborhood of Chicago, Illinois, U.S., October 4, 2025. REUTERS/Jim Vondruska/File Photo
US shutdown sends airlines scrambling as travel chaos looms
(Reuters) -U.S. airlines were scrambling on Thursday to rejig schedules and fielding a flood of customer queries after the U.S. ordered flight cuts at some of the nation's busiest airports, the latest...
Nov 06, 2025 An airliner, making it's approach, flies past a tree in full autumn color, as flight delays surge from the government shutdown which entered its 30th day, in Washington, D.C., U.S., October 30, 2025. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque
Nancy Pelosi, first woman to serve as US House speaker, to retire from Congress
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Nancy Pelosi, the first woman to serve as the powerful Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives, said on Thursday that she will not run for re-election to Congress in 2026, e...
Nov 06, 2025 U.S. Representative Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) speaks at a press conference, accompanied by members of the Texas Democratic legislators and California Governor Gavin Newsom, at the governor’s mansion in Sacramento, California, U.S., August 8, 2025. REUTERS/Carlos Barria
Judge orders ICE to clean up conditions in Broadview facility that's 'become a prison'
Article Summary A federal judge is ordering U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials to clean up its Chicago area processing facility - literally. In a four-page ruling issued Wednesday afte...
Nov 06, 2025 Three men in Customs and Border Protection uniforms stand on the roof of the Broadview immigration facility taking pictures of the surrounding area on Oct. 9. (Capitol News Illinois photo by Andrew Adams)
