Category Archives: Top Stories
Peoria Riverfront Museum to host engineering exploration day
PEORIA, Ill. - Anyone with an interest in engineering is invited to the Peoria Riverfront Museum this Sunday. Senior Planetarium Educator Nick Rae says there will be activities for all ages, and admis...
Feb 14, 2025 (Peoria Riverfront Museum)
Judge orders US to restore funds for foreign aid programs
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -A federal judge ordered the administration of U.S. President Donald Trump to restore funding for hundreds of foreign aid contractors who argued that they were negatively impacted...
Feb 14, 2025 U.S. flag and Judge gavel are seen in this illustration taken, August 6, 2024. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/Illustration/File Photo
CNI reporter joins 'The Phil Luciano Show' to discuss Madigan trial & conviction
PEORIA Ill. - Following former House Speaker Michael Madigan's conviction on multiple federal corruption charges this week, reporters covering the case are sharing insight into the months-long trial. ...
Feb 13, 2025 Former Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan exits the Dirksen Federal Courthouse in Chicago on Oct. 21 after opening statements in his federal corruption trial. (Capitol News Illinois photo by Andrew Adams)
Trump outlines reciprocal tariff plan in latest bid to reshape trade on his terms
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump tasked his economics team on Thursday with devising a plan to impose reciprocal tariffs on every country that imposes duties on U.S. imports in a fre...
Feb 13, 2025 FILE PHOTO: U.S. President Donald Trump speaks in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, D.C., U.S., February 11, 2025. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque/File Photo
Mass firings of federal workers begin as Trump and Musk purge U.S. government
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Mass firings at multiple U.S. government agencies have begun as President Donald Trump and Tesla CEO Elon Musk accelerate their purge of America's federal bureaucracy, union sour...
Feb 13, 2025 FILE PHOTO: People look the U.S. Capitol on Capitol Hill in Washington, U.S., November 23, 2024. REUTERS/Benoit Tessier/File Photo
Kennedy to take top US health job after Senate confirmation
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Robert F. Kennedy Jr, a vaccine critic who endorsed President Donald Trump after abandoning his own presidential bid, was confirmed by the U.S. Senate as Secretary of Health and ...
Feb 13, 2025 FILE PHOTO: Robert F. Kennedy Jr., U.S. President Trump’s nominee to be secretary of Health and Human Services, testifies before a Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee confirmation hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, U.S., January 30, 2025. REUTERS/Nathan Howard/File Photo
Peoria City Council discusses safety concerns after nine-year-old struck by bullet at South Side apartment complex
PEORIA, Ill. - Safety concerns were on the mind of the Peoria City Council on Tuesday evening, in the wake of an incident where a 9-year-old boy was struck by a bullet inside his South Side residence ...
Feb 13, 2025 (Will Stevenson/1470 & 100.3 WMBD)
Trump FBI pick Kash Patel clears Senate panel, headed for confirmation vote
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Donald Trump's pick to head the FBI, Kash Patel, won the approval of the Republican-controlled U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee on Thursday, clearing the way for a vote...
Feb 13, 2025 FILE PHOTO: Kash Patel, U.S. President Donald Trump's nominee to be director of the FBI, testifies before a Senate Judiciary Committee confirmation hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, U.S., January 30, 2025. REUTERS/Evelyn Hockstein/ File Photo
US judge clears the way for tens of thousands of federal workers to take Trump buyout
BOSTON/WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Tens of thousands of U.S. civil servants were cleared to take a buyout from Donald Trump's administration on Wednesday after a federal judge ruled the unprecedented downsi...
Feb 13, 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
Afghan asylum-seeker drives into Munich crowd, hurts 28 in suspected attack
MUNICH, Germany (Reuters) -Some 28 people were injured when a 24-year-old Afghan asylum seeker drove a car into a crowd of people in Munich in what the state premier said was probably an attack on Thu...
Feb 13, 2025 Police work at a car which drove into a crowd in Munich, Germany, February 13, 2025, injuring several people. REUTERS/Wolfgang Rattay
