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US Senate poised to pass Republican stopgap spending bill, avert shutdown
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Senate on Friday was poised to pass a stopgap spending bill and avert a partial government shutdown, after Democrats backed down in a standoff driven by anger over Pres...
Mar 14, 2025 FILE PHOTO: A bird flies in front of the U.S. Capitol building in Washington, US, November 10, 2024. REUTERS/Hannah McKay/File Photo
ISP highlighting opportunities for women with all-female recruitment event
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. - For the first time, Illinois State Police will host an all-women recruitment event on Tuesday, March 18 in Springfield. Sgt. Tracy Lillard says women are encouraged to come explore...
Mar 14, 2025 An Illinois State Police squad car is pictured in a file photo. (Capitol News Illinois file photo by Jerry Nowicki)
UPDATE: The likelihood of severe storms Friday remains high
PEORIA, Ill. - Strong to severe thunderstorms are expected to make their way into Central Illinois Friday evening. 25 News First Alert Meteorologist Brian Walder says the main focus of Friday's weathe...
Mar 14, 2025 (Midwest Communications)
Peoria Christian, Manual each fall short of state championships in semifinals
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. - Two Peoria high school boys' basketball teams each ended up two games short of a state title on Thursday. Manual fell to Chicago Dyett in the IHSA Class 2A state semifinals, 54-50, a...
Mar 13, 2025 (Peoria Christian Athletics)
In remarks to teachers union, Pritzker lashes out at Trump's education cuts
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (Capitol News Illinois) - Gov. JB Pritzker on Thursday delivered more harsh criticism against President Donald Trump's administration over attempts to drastically downsize, and possi...
Mar 13, 2025 Gov. JB Pritzker lashes out at the Trump administrations over mass layoffs at the U.S. Department of Education and its attempts to dismantle the agency during remarks to a gathering of Illinois Education Association officials on Thursday, March 13, 2025. (Credit: Illinois.gov)
US judge orders Trump administration to reinstate thousands of fired workers
(Reuters) - A California federal judge on Thursday ordered six U.S. agencies to reinstate thousands of recently hired employees who lost their jobs as part of President Donald Trump's purge of the fed...
Mar 13, 2025 FILE PHOTO: San Francisco residents photograph a group of protesters during a demonstration as part of a nationwide series of protests against the mass firings of employees in a campaign by President Donald Trump and his adviser Elon Musk to radically cut back the U.S. bureaucracy, at Fort Mason Park in San Francisco, California, U.S. March 1, 2025. REUTERS/Yuri Avila/File Photo
Protesters occupy Trump Tower following arrest of Columbia student
(Reuters) -Scores of people poured into the lobby of Trump Tower in New York City on Thursday to protest the arrest and detention of Columbia University student Mahmoud Khalil, whom the Trump administ...
Mar 13, 2025 Police officers detain protesters inside Trump Tower during a rally against the ICE detention of Palestinian activist and Columbia University graduate student Mahmoud Khalil, in New York City, U.S., March 13, 2025. REUTERS/Jeenah Moon
Goodwill of Central Illinois introduces program to help with employment for neurodiverse adults
PEORIA, Ill. - A program from Goodwill of Central Illinois aims to help neurodiverse young adults succeed in the workplace. Beyond Barriers is an employment program that helps develop skills in such a...
Mar 13, 2025 (T.J. Carson/1470 & 100.3 WMBD)
Summer Camp organizers announce cancellation of festival for 2025
PEORIA, Ill. - The reimagined Summer Camp Music Festival will not take place this year. In a Facebook post on Thursday, organizers announced that "a variety of factors" did not allow for Summer Camp t...
Mar 13, 2025 (1470 & 100.3 WMBD -Rick Hirschmann)
UPDATE: Putin backs US ceasefire idea for Ukraine, but says many details need to be sorted out
UPDATED 12:15 P.M. MOSCOW (Reuters) - President Vladimir Putin said on Thursday that Russia agreed with U.S. proposals for a ceasefire in Ukraine, but that any truce would have to deal with the root c...
Mar 13, 2025 Russia's President Vladimir Putin addresses commanders as he visits a control centre of the Russian armed forces in the course of Russia-Ukraine conflict in the Kursk region, Russia, March 12, 2025, in this still image taken from video. Russian Pool/Reuters TV via REUTERS
