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Trump readies reciprocal tariffs as trade war fears mount
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Donald Trump's trade advisers were finalizing plans on Wednesday for the reciprocal tariffs the U.S. president has vowed to impose on every country that charges duties on U.S. im...
Feb 12, 2025 FILE PHOTO: Welding robots work on a Volkswagen production line for the Golf VIII and Tiguan cars at the VW headquarters in Wolfsburg, Germany May 23, 2024. REUTERS/Fabian Bimmer/File Photo
With Musk at his side, Trump orders US agencies to plan for 'large-scale' staff cuts
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -President Donald Trump ordered U.S. agencies on Tuesday to work closely with top adviser Elon Musk's effort to shrink the federal workforce by identifying government employees wh...
Feb 12, 2025 Elon Musk speaks next to U.S. President Donald Trump in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, D.C., U.S., February 11, 2025. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque
Peoria council approves boost to officers' pay
PEORIA, Ill. - Peoria Police have a new union contract with raises the city manager says will compete with salaries offered in comparable cities, and to increase pay for new officers. City Council vot...
Feb 12, 2025 MWC-PPD
Lawsuits with Trump administration stretching Illinois attorney general's resources
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (Capitol News Illinois) - Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul announced this week he has joined yet another multistate lawsuit against the Trump administration, this time over its ...
Feb 11, 2025 Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul is pictured on the Illinois House floor in May 2023. He told Capitol News Illinois he plans to brief the General Assembly about the cost of the state’s ongoing lawsuits against Trump administration policies. (Capitol News Illinois photo by Jerry Nowicki)
Trump presses Jordan to take in Palestinians from Gaza; king opposes displacement
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Donald Trump on Tuesday pressed Jordan's King Abdullah to take in Palestinians who would be permanently displaced under the president's plan for the U.S. to take over the Gaza S...
Feb 11, 2025 U.S. President Donald Trump shakes hands with Jordan's King Abdullah, as Jordan's Crown Prince Hussein sits, in the Oval Office at the White House in Washington, U.S., February 11, 2025. REUTERS/Nathan Howard
Teen driver in Chillicothe fatal crash in January facing charges
MARSHALL COUNTY, Ill. - The driver of a crash last month in Marshall County that claimed the life of a Chillicothe girl has been charged for their role in it. Marshall County State's Attorney Patrick ...
Feb 11, 2025 (Marshall County)
Tazewell County plows ready for Wednesday's snowstorm
TAZEWELL COUNTY, Ill. - With several inches of snow expected to fall in the Peoria area Wednesday, the Tazewell County Highway Department is preparing now for the storm. Tazewell County Highway Depart...
Feb 11, 2025 (Tazewell County)
UPDATE: Netanyahu says Israel will end Gaza ceasefire if hostages not returned on Saturday
UPDATED 12:10 P.M. CAIRO/JERUSALEM (Reuters) -Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Tuesday that if Hamas did not release Israeli hostages by noon on Saturday a fragile ceasefire in Gaza w...
Feb 11, 2025 A Palestinian man carries a water container as he walks towards his shelter, set up amidst the rubble of his house, on a rainy day, amid a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas, in Jabalia refugee camp in the northern Gaza Strip February 11, 2025. REUTERS/Mahmoud Issa
Steve Bannon pleads guilty in border wall funding case
NEW YORK (Reuters) -Former Donald Trump adviser Steve Bannon pleaded guilty in New York state court on Tuesday to a fraud charge related to his fundraising campaign for the U.S. president's wall along...
Feb 11, 2025 Steve Bannon, former advisor of U.S. President Donald Trump, walks on the day of a pre-trial conference hearing in his fraud case stemming from a fundraising effort to build a border wall, at the New York Criminal Court, in New York City, U.S., February 11, 2025. REUTERS/Brendan McDermid
US homeland chief seeks to deputize IRS agents for immigration enforcement
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Department of Homeland Security wants to deputize some Internal Revenue Service criminal investigators and other Treasury Department personnel to perform immigration en...
Feb 11, 2025 Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem speaks to employees at the Department of Homeland Security, Tuesday, Jan. 28, 2025, in Washington, U.S. Manuel Balce Ceneta/Pool via REUTERS/File Photo
