Category Archives: Top Stories
US business activity moderates in April; firms demand higher prices for their products
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. business activity slowed to a 16-month low in April and prices charged for goods and services soared amid uncertainty caused by tariffs, reinforcing financial market fears o...
Apr 23, 2025 Workers assemble a Ford truck at the new Louisville Ford truck plant in Louisville, Kentucky, U.S. September 30, 2016. REUTERS/Bryan Woolston/File Photo
Trump policies dominate discussion at Peoria town hall with Sorensen
PEORIA, Ill. - Constituents of Illinois' 17th Congressional district met at Peoria's Woodruff Career and Technical Center Tuesday night for a town hall almost entirely focused on Trump Administration ...
Apr 23, 2025 U.S. Rep. Eric Sorensen, of Illinois' 17th Congressional District, met with constituents Tuesday night in Peoria. (25 News)
As Pope Francis lies in state, Catholics gather in Rome to say goodbye
VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Maria Pia Caruso travelled to Rome from her hometown in northern Italy after she learned Pope Francis had died at age 88, to say a final goodbye to a pontiff she believes brou...
Apr 23, 2025 Pope Francis' body is carried in a coffin into Saint Peter's Basilica, on the day of its translation, at the Vatican, April 23, 2025. REUTERS/Dylan Martinez
Peoria latest city to approve a local grocery tax
PEORIA, Ill. - The city of Peoria has joined other communities across central Illinois in implementing a new grocery tax. City council unanimously approved a local 1% tax at its Tuesday night meeting....
Apr 22, 2025 (Will Stevenson/1470 & 100.3 WMBD)
GOP State Senators asking Department of Justice for guidance on transgender athletes
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. - Republicans in the Illinois State Senate are asking the Department of Justice to weigh in on the controversial topic of transgender athletes. The group of 19 State Senators signed ...
Apr 22, 2025 (Illinois High School Association)
US to phase out many synthetic food dyes, Kennedy and FDA head say
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and FDA Commissioner Marty Makary said on Tuesday that the agency plans to remove petroleum-based synthetic food dyes from the U.S. food s...
Apr 22, 2025 U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Commissioner Marty Makary announces the FDA’s intent to phase out the use of petroleum-based synthetic dyes in the nation’s food supply during a press conference at the Department of Health and Human Services in Washington, D.C., U.S., April 22, 2025. REUTERS/Elizabeth Frantz
Trump administration proposes major shake-up of US State Department
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The Trump administration is proposing a major overhaul of the U.S. State Department that would eliminate more than 100 offices including some working on war crimes and rights adv...
Apr 22, 2025 FILE PHOTO: U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio looks on upon his arrival at the Quai d'Orsay, France's Ministry of Foreign Affairs, before a bilateral meeting with his French counterpart in Paris, France April 17, 2025. JULIEN DE ROSA/Pool via REUTERS/File Photo
Pritzker balances messaging as some Dems encourage party to avoid LGBTQ issues
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (Capitol News Illinois) - When Gov. JB Pritzker tells audiences how he became interested in politics, it often starts with stories about his mother. As a child growing up in the San ...
Apr 22, 2025 Gov. JB Pritzker speaks at a news conference at the Statehouse in Springfield on April 8, 2025. (Capitol News Illinois photo by Peter Hancock)
US Supreme Court leans toward parents who object to elementary school LGBT storybooks
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. Supreme Court appeared inclined to rule in favor of Christian and Muslim parents in Maryland seeking to keep their elementary school children out of certain classes when...
Apr 22, 2025 FILE PHOTO: A view of the U.S. Supreme Court in Washington, U.S. June 29, 2024. REUTERS/Kevin Mohatt/File Photo
Peoria County Board to consider renovations to Courthouse Plaza
PEORIA, Ill. - Improvements could soon come to Peoria County's Courthouse Plaza. The county's Infrastructure Committee on Monday recommended approval of around $6.5 million of work. A vote in front of...
Apr 22, 2025 (T.J. Carson/1470 & 100.3 WMBD)
