Category Archives: Top Stories
US officials must testify about DOGE in lawsuit over access to agency systems
(Reuters) - Trump administration officials must face questioning under oath about the workings of the so-called Department of Government Efficiency in a lawsuit by government employee unions seeking t...
Feb 27, 2025 FILE PHOTO: Elon Musk listens to U.S. President Donald Trump speak in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, D.C., U.S., February 11, 2025. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque/File Photo
Peoria ROE head focused on getting truant students in the classroom
PEORIA, Ill. - The Peoria County Regional Office of Education is working to reduce truancy in all of its schools. An investment into more case workers by the Peoria County Board has helped make it pos...
Feb 27, 2025 (1470 & 100.3 WMBD/Peoria County)
Trump dodges plea from Britain's Starmer for Ukraine security guarantee
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Donald Trump said on Thursday that a minerals deal with Ukraine is the security guarantee Kyiv needs against Russia, brushing aside a plea from British Prime Minister ...
Feb 27, 2025 U.S. President Donald Trump meets British Prime Minister Keir Starmer in the Oval Office at the White House in Washington, D.C., U.S., February 27, 2025. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque
Trump to implement new tariffs on Illinois' largest trading partners as state faces uncertainty over economic projections
SPRINGFIELD - As the Governor's Office of Management and Budget Director Alexis Sturm warned a House committee that uncertainty about President Donald Trump's economic and administrative policies coul...
Feb 27, 2025 HOUSE REVENUE COMMITTEE: Governor’s Office of Management and Budget Director Alexis Sturm speaks to the House Revenue and Finance Committee in Springfield on Thursday, Feb. 27, 2025. (Capitol News Illinois photo by Andrew Campbell)
Area contractors ready for Peoria's 30th Home Show this weekend
PEORIA, Ill. - Hammers were swinging and saws were buzzing Thursday at the Peoria Civic Center, in preparation for Peoria's 30th Home Show. Companies who do home improvement and landscaping projects w...
Feb 27, 2025
Audit finds Illinois' noncitizen health care programs far outstripped original cost estimates
SPRINGFIELD (Capitol News Illinois) - A pair of health care programs that benefit noncitizens - one of which is already on Gov. JB Pritzker's budgetary chopping block - far outstripped its original es...
Feb 27, 2025 A crowd of about 100 people gathered in the Illinois Capitol on Wednesday, Feb. 26 for a rally urging state lawmakers to continue to support pro-immigrant policies, including Illinois’ programs for non-citizen health care, in addition to opposing the Trump administration’s executive orders on immigrations. (Capitol News Illinois photo by Jade Aubrey)
US weekly jobless claims rise more than expected
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The number of Americans filing new applications for unemployment benefits increased more than expected last week, but that likely does not signal a material shift in labor marke...
Feb 27, 2025 FILE PHOTO: An employee hiring sign with a QR code is seen in a window of a business in Arlington, Virginia, U.S., April 7, 2023. REUTERS/Elizabeth Frantz/File Photo
Hamas says it's ready for more ceasefire talks after releasing hostage remains
JERUSALEM/TEL AVIV/GAZA (Reuters) - Militant group Hamas said on Thursday it was ready to begin talks on the second phase of a ceasefire in Gaza after several hundred Palestinians were released from I...
Feb 27, 2025 Freed Palestinian prisoners guesture out of the windows as they arrive in a bus after being released from an Israeli jail as part of a ceasefire and a hostages-prisoners swap deal between Hamas and Israel, in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip, February 27, 2025. REUTERS/Hatem Khaled
Texas child is first reported US measles death in a decade as outbreak hits more than 130
(Reuters) - A child in West Texas has died of measles, state health officials said on Wednesday, the first reported U.S. death from the highly contagious disease in a decade, as a Texas outbreak has g...
Feb 27, 2025 FILE PHOTO: A sign reading "measles testing" is seen as an outbreak in Gaines County, Texas, has raised concerns over its spread to other parts of the state, in Seminole, Texas, U.S., February 25, 2025. REUTERS/Sebastian Rocandio/File Photo
Ultimatum to federal workers raises tensions between Musk, White House staff
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump's top aides are struggling to contain disputes at the White House and across the administration following billionaire Elon Musk's ultimatum to federa...
Feb 27, 2025 Elon Musk speaks during the first cabinet meeting hosted by U.S. President Donald Trump, at the White House in Washington, DC, U.S., February 26, 2025. REUTERS/Brian Snyder
