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Macron arrives at White House for Ukraine talks with Trump
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - French President Emmanuel Macron arrived at the White House on Monday for talks with U.S. President Donald Trump expected to cover the prospects for ending the Ukraine war amid ...
Feb 24, 2025 French President Emmanuel Macron arrives at the White House to participate in a G7 leader summit call in Washington, DC, U.S., February 24, 2025. REUTERS/Brian Snyder
Police investigate deaths of four people found in Bloomington home
BLOOMINGTON, Ill. - Bloomington Police and the McLean County Coroner's Office are investigating the deaths of four people who were found in a home late Sunday morning. The police department released i...
Feb 24, 2025 (Bloomington Police Facebook)
Some US government workers told to justify their jobs to Musk, others told to ignore him
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. government workers who have been buffeted by President Donald Trump's chaotic return to power face more uncertainty on Monday, when many of them will be required to justify...
Feb 24, 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
Ukraine hosts European leaders as US backing fades three years since invasion
KYIV (Reuters) - Ukraine began its fourth year of all-out war with Russia on Monday, hosting a slew of European and world leaders for a summit, but unsure it could rely any longer on its staunchest al...
Feb 24, 2025 People visit the graves of relatives killed during Russia's attack. Lviv, February 23, 2025. REUTERS/Roman Baluk
GasBuddy: Peoria prices unchanged, national prices dip slightly
PEORIA, Ill. - Average gas prices in Peoria are unchanged in the last week, averaging $3.28 a gallon on Monday, according to GasBuddy's survey of 148 stations in Peoria. Peoria's prices are just over ...
Feb 24, 2025 Orin Zebest / CC
Washington mayoral candidates discuss amphitheater project at debate
WASHINGTON, Ill. - The proposed amphitheater project in Washington was one of the topics of Saturday's mayoral debate in the city. City council members Lili Stevens and Mike Brownfield are vying for t...
Feb 23, 2025 (League of Women Voters of Greater Peoria)
Peoria Fire Department crews fight multiple blazes Saturday
PEORIA, Ill. - Peoria firefighters battled multiple blazes within an hour of each other on Saturday afternoon. The first was called in just after 1:00 P.M. on the West Bluff, in the area of Richmond a...
Feb 23, 2025 (Will Stevenson/1470 & 100.3 WMBD)
Israel says it is postponing release of Palestinian prisoners
JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israel said on Sunday it was delaying the release of hundreds of Palestinian prisoners it had planned to free the day before until militant group Hamas met its conditions, unders...
Feb 23, 2025 FILE PHOTO: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu attends a joint press conference with U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio at the Prime Minister's office in Jerusalem, February 16, 2025. Ohad Zwigenberg/Pool via REUTERS/File Photo
Pope Francis is in critical condition but alert, Vatican says
VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Pope Francis, in critical condition battling double pneumonia, had a "tranquil" night, was alert and had rested after a respiratory crisis and blood transfusions, the Vatican ...
Feb 23, 2025 Archbishop Rino Fisichella presides over Sunday's mass instead of Pope Francis. The Vatican, February 23, 2025. Vatican Media/Simone Risoluti/Handout via REUTERS
Hamas frees six hostages in Gaza in exchange for Palestinian detainees
JERUSALEM (Reuters) -Hamas freed six hostages from Gaza on Saturday, the last living Israeli captives slated for release under the first phase of a fragile ceasefire accord, in exchange for hundreds o...
Feb 22, 2025 A drone view shows Avera Mengistu, who entered Gaza around a decade ago and has been held there since, and Tal Shoham, a hostage held in Gaza since the deadly October 7, 2023 attack, as they are released by Palestinian Hamas militants as part of a ceasefire and a hostages-prisoners swap deal between Hamas and Israel, in Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip, February 22, 2025. REUTERS/Stringer
