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USAID contractors fire staff, face cash crunch as Trump causes chaos in aid world
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Donald Trump's overhaul of U.S. foreign assistance has led to chaos in the aid and development field, leaving hundreds of contractors in a severe financial crunch with...
Feb 04, 2025 FILE PHOTO: Passengers rest in the waiting room as an one of the blankets donated by the United States Agency for International Development is seen, at central railway station in Kyiv, Ukraine November 25, 2022. REUTERS/Gleb Garanich/File Photo
Mexico and Canada say Trump will pause tariffs for one month
MEXICO CITY/WASHINGTON/OTTAWA (Reuters) -U.S. President Donald Trump backed away from his threat to impose steep tariffs on Mexico and Canada on Monday, leaders of those countries said, but U.S. tarif...
Feb 03, 2025 FILE PHOTO: U.S. President Donald Trump looks on, on the day he signs an executive order in the Oval Office at the White House in Washington, U.S., January 31, 2025. REUTERS/Carlos Barria/File Photo
Legendary Musician Bob Dylan Announces Stop at Peoria Civic Center in April
PEORIA Ill. - "The voice of a generation" is coming to the Prairie Home Alliance Theater at the Peoria Civic Center, on April 9th. Civic Center officials announced Monday, legendary musician, Bob Dyla...
Feb 03, 2025 Peoria Civic Center
Groups demand release of after-school program funding
SPRINGFIELD - Organizations that provide tutoring, recreation and other after-school programs are calling on Gov. JB Pritzker and the Illinois State Board of Education to release $50 million that was ...
Feb 03, 2025 The Boys and Girls Club of Central Illinois, in Springfield, is one of the many organizations that rely on state funds for after-school programs. (Capitol News Illinois photo by Andrew Campbell)
Trump tariffs could impact hundreds of billions of dollars of trade in Illinois
Capitol News Illinois - President Donald Trump's plan to implement tariffs on key United States trading partners could affect more than $100 billion worth of goods imported to Illinois from Canada, Me...
Feb 03, 2025 Gov. JB Pritzker makes keynote remarks at the U.S.-Canda Summit in June 2024. (Photo provided by the Office of Gov. JB Pritzker)
Peoria Police investigating Sunday night shooting that hospitalized 9-year-old boy
PEORIA Ill. - Peoria Police are looking for the suspect in a shooting that hospitalized a 9-year-old child, Sunday. According to officers, they responded to the 1200 block of Southwest Phoenix, just a...
Feb 03, 2025
Trump orders creation of US sovereign wealth fund, says it could buy TikTok
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Monday ordering the U.S. Treasury and Commerce Departments to create a sovereign wealth fund and said it may purchase Ti...
Feb 03, 2025 U.S. President Donald Trump looks on as he signs an executive order in the Oval Office at the White House in Washington, U.S., January 31, 2025. REUTERS/Carlos Barria
Appeals court throws out Peoria sex offender's life sentence after receiving 'deficient' legal help
PEORIA Ill. - An Illinois appeals court has ruled a Peoria man serving life in prison for sexually assaulting a woman at gunpoint in 2020 - must be sentenced again. According to 25News - 33 year-old M...
Feb 03, 2025
UPDATE: U.S. tariffs on Mexico to be paused for a month, Trump says
UPDATED 9:58 A.M. WASHINGTON/BRUSSELS (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump will pause new tariffs on Mexico for one month after Mexico agreed to reinforce its northern border with 10,000 National G...
Feb 03, 2025 FILE PHOTO: Mexico's President Claudia Sheinbaum delivers a speech at the National Palace, in Mexico City, Mexico January 21, 2025. REUTERS/Henry Romero/File Photo
NTSB to release data from both aircrafts in Washington crash
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Data retrieved from an American Airlines regional passenger jet and a U.S. Army helicopter that collided last week in Washington over the Potomac River killing 67 people will be ...
Feb 03, 2025 People work to retrieve the wreckage remains in the Potomac River, in the aftermath of the collision of American Eagle flight 5342 and a Black Hawk helicopter that crashed into the river, with the Capitol dome in the background, as seen from Virginia, U.S., February 3, 2025.REUTERS/Nathan Howard
