Category Archives: Top Stories
Russians and Ukrainians meet in Turkey for first talks in 3 years
ISTANBUL (Reuters) -Russian and Ukrainian negotiators met in Istanbul on Friday at their first direct peace talks in more than three years, under pressure from U.S. President Donald Trump to end Europ...
May 16, 2025 Vehicles arrive at the Turkish Presidency's Dolmabahce working office, where Russia and Ukraine direct talks might happen, in Istanbul, Turkey, May 16, 2025. REUTERS/Leonhard Foeger
Plan to limit scope of 'crime-free housing' ordinances clears Illinois Senate committee
SPRINGFIELD (Capitol News Illinois) - A Senate committee on Wednesday advanced a measure aiming to limit the circumstances under which tenants can be evicted due to local "crime-free housing" ordinanc...
May 16, 2025 Emily Coffey, senior counsel of the Chicago Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights, speaks beside Sen. Karina Villa, D-Chicago, during a Senate Executive Committee in the Statehouse on Wednesday. (Capitol News Illinois photo by Jade Aubrey)
Trump announces $200 billion in deals during UAE visit, AI agreement signed
ABU DHABI (Reuters) -President Donald Trump on Thursday pledged to strengthen U.S. ties to the United Arab Emirates and announced deals with the Gulf state totaling over $200 billion and the two count...
May 16, 2025 U.S. President Donald Trump shakes hands with Yousif Al Obaidli, director of Sheikh Zayed Grand Mosque, as he tours the mosque grounds in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, May 15, 2025. REUTERS/Brian Snyder
Trump officials back steeper Medicaid, food stamp work requirements
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. Congress should enact steeper work requirements for Medicaid and food aid in a tax cut and spending plan being advanced by Republicans, four senior Trump administration ...
May 15, 2025 FILE PHOTO: U.S. President Donald Trump, Administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Mehmet Oz and Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. attend a press conference in the Roosevelt Room at the White House in Washington, D.C., U.S., May 12, 2025. REUTERS/Nathan Howard/File Photo
New behavioral hospital coming to Peoria
PEORIA, Ill. - OSF Healthcare has broken ground on a new behavioral health hospital. The provider and US HealthVest put shovels in the ground Thursday for Meadowview Behavioral Hospital on Wood Sage R...
May 15, 2025 (OSF Healthcare)
Speaker removes Democratic Rep. Fred Crespo from committee chairmanship for 'not communicating'
SPRINGFIELD - House Speaker Emanuel "Chris" Welch made the extraordinary move of removing an appropriations committee chair on Wednesday with two weeks left in the legislative session and a tightening...
May 15, 2025 State Rep. Fred Crespo, D-Hoffman Estates, is pictured on the Illinois House floor in May 2024 after voting against the state budget for the current fiscal year. House Speaker Emanuel “Chris” Welch stripped him of his committee leadership role and banned him from attending Democratic caucus hearings this week. (Capitol News Illinois photo by Jerry Nowicki)
US Supreme Court grapples with Trump bid to restrict birthright citizenship
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Supreme Court wrestled on Thursday over Donald Trump's attempt to broadly enforce his executive order to restrict birthright citizenship, a move that would affect thous...
May 15, 2025 Olga Urbina carries baby Ares Webster as demonstrators rally on the day the Supreme Court justices hear oral arguments over U.S. President Donald Trump's bid to broadly enforce his executive order to restrict automatic birthright citizenship, during a protest outside the U.S. Supreme Court in Washington, D.C., U.S., May 15, 2025. REUTERS/Nathan Howard
Peace breakthrough unlikely as Putin declines to meet Zelenskiy in Turkey
ISTANBUL/ANKARA (Reuters) -Russia's Vladimir Putin spurned a challenge to meet face-to-face with Volodymyr Zelenskiy in Turkey on Thursday, instead sending a second-tier delegation to planned peace ta...
May 15, 2025 Turkey's President Tayyip Erdogan meets with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy at the Presidential Palace in Ankara, Turkey, May 15, 2025. Mustafa Kamaci/Turkish Presidential Press Office/Handout via REUTERS
PPD: Teen arrested on multiple gun charges Wednesday morning
PEORIA, Ill. - Peoria Police conducted a traffic stop in the area of W. Marengo and N. Lavelle Court Wednesday morning, for a suspended registration. Officers approached the vehicle just before 10:30 ...
May 15, 2025 (File-Will Stevenson/1470 & 100.3 WMBD)
Peoria woman accused in death of toddler son ordered held until trial
PEORIA, Ill. - A Peoria woman will remain in jail for what prosecutors say was a "violent, brutal, and continuous attack" on her toddler twins, reportedly leading to the death of one of them. Circuit ...
May 15, 2025 Kaleeyah Sprinkle (right) sits next to her public defender at a detention hearing on May 15th, 2025. (T.J. Carson/1470 & 100.3 WMBD)
