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Trump administration to criminally probe officials who resist immigration actions
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Donald Trump's administration has directed U.S. prosecutors to criminally investigate state and local officials who attempt to resist its immigration enforcement effor...
Jan 22, 2025 Asylum seekers arrive at the B and M Brownsville-Matamoros International Bridge, to attend their appointment with the U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP), on the day of the inauguration of U.S. President-elect Donald Trump, in Matamoros, Mexico January 20, 2025. REUTERS/Daniel Becerril
Afghan Americans fearful after Trump order halts refugee program
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - An executive order by U.S. President Donald Trump to suspend refugee admissions has magnified the fears of one Afghan American soldier who has long been worried about the fate o...
Jan 22, 2025 Fazel Roufi, U.S. Army, 82nd Airborne Division, keeps watch at Kabul Airport, during the final U.S. troop withdrawal from Afghanistan, in this August 2021 handout photo. Brett Lea/Handout via REUTERS
Peoria Co. man indicted for child sex crime, while facing other charges
PEORIA COUNTY, Ill. - A man from Laura, Illinois is facing multiple sex crime charges, and has been indicted by a Peoria County Grand Jury for predatory criminal sexual assault of someone under the ag...
Jan 22, 2025 (Peoria County Jail)
Trump announces private-sector $500 billion investment in AI infrastructure
(Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump on Tuesday announced a private sector investment of up to $500 billion to fund infrastructure for artificial intelligence, aiming to outpace rival nations in th...
Jan 22, 2025 U.S. President Donald Trump delivers remarks on AI infrastructure, next to Oracle co-founder Larry Ellison, SoftBank CEO Masayoshi Son and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman at the Roosevelt room at White House in Washington, U.S., January 21, 2025. REUTERS/Carlos Barria
22 Democratic-led states sue over Trump's birthright citizenship order
BOSTON (Reuters) -Democratic-led states and civil rights groups filed a slew of lawsuits challenging U.S. President Donald Trump's bid to roll back birthright citizenship on Tuesday in an early bid by...
Jan 22, 2025 Gladys Vega, President and CEO of La Colaborativa, Brazilian Worker Center and Lawyers for Civil Rights, speaks at a press conference about their lawsuit filed against the Trump administration executive order that would strip birthright U.S. citizenship from the children of immigrant parents, in Chelsea, Massachusetts, U.S., January 21, 2025. REUTERS/Lauren Owens Lambert
Trump escalates campaign against diversity, threatens private sector probes
(Reuters) -U.S. President Donald Trump escalated his campaign against diversity programs on Tuesday by pressuring the private sector to join the initiative, ordering aviation officials to review diver...
Jan 22, 2025 FILE PHOTO: U.S. President-elect Donald Trump speaks after a meeting with Republicans in Congress at the U.S. Capitol building in Washington, U.S. January 8, 2025. REUTERS/Jeenah Moon/File Photo
Peoria residents displaced by electrical fire
PEORIA, Ill. - Peoria firefighters were called to a home on NE Glen Oak Avenue Tuesday evening on reports of a house fire. Fire Battalion Chief Jeff Hascall says crews arrived around 6 p.m., finding h...
Jan 22, 2025 D4E / CC
Pritzker criticizes Trump's courting of tech CEOs, lack of communication
CHICAGO, Ill. (Capitol News Illinois) - A wave of executive orders and bold pronouncements of his vision for the country highlighted President Donald Trump's first day back in the White House Monday. ...
Jan 21, 2025 Gov. JB Pritzker at an unrelated press conference the day after President Donald Trump’s second inauguration. (Capitol News Illinois photo by Andrew Adams)
New details emerge in Peoria's 1st homicide of 2025
PEORIA, Ill. - A detention hearing is scheduled for Wednesday afternoon for the suspect in Peoria's first homicide of 2025. 25 News reports 45-year-old Derrick Hall has not been charged with the crime...
Jan 21, 2025 (Peoria Co. Jail)
Peoria County opens doors on new Health and Human Services building
PEORIA, Ill. - Multiple Peoria County departments and services are now working in harmony under one roof. County leaders opened the new Peoria County Health and Human Services building with a ribbon c...
Jan 21, 2025 (T.J. Carson/1470 & 100.3 WMBD)
