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UPDATE: Former US President Jimmy Carter remembered for rising above politics
UPDATED 12:08 P.M. WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Jimmy Carter, a U.S. president who struggled with a bad economy and a hostage crisis but was widely admired in his post-White House career, was remembered duri...
Jan 09, 2025 The flag-draped casket of former U.S. President Jimmy Carter is carried by a joint services military honor guard down the steps of the U.S. Capitol in Washington, U.S., January 9, 2025. REUTERS/Jeenah Moon/Pool
Top NY court rejects Trump bid to delay sentencing, court official says
NEW YORK (Reuters) -New York's top court rejected on Thursday U.S. President-elect Donald Trump's request to halt his sentencing for his conviction on criminal charges stemming from hush money paid to...
Jan 09, 2025 FILE PHOTO: U.S. President-elect Donald Trump speaks on the day that Senate Republicans meet with U.S. President-elect Donald Trump and pay respects to former U.S. president Jimmy Carter, who died on December 29 at the age of 100, as his casket lies in state at the U.S. Capitol building in Washington, U.S. January 8, 2025. REUTERS/Elizabeth Frantz/File Photo
US hiring announcements in 2024 lowest in nine years
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Hiring announcements by U.S. employers last year were the lowest since 2015, a report showed on Thursday, confirming a sharp moderation in job growth over that period. Global ou...
Jan 09, 2025 FILE PHOTO: An employee hiring sign is seen in a window of a business in Arlington, Virginia, U.S., April 7, 2023. REUTERS/Elizabeth Frantz/File Photo
Jurors to hear tape of Madigan saying ComEd contractors 'made out like bandits'
CHICAGO (Capitol News Illinois) - Throughout his five-decade career in politics, former Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan received hundreds of requests for job recommendations from a wide range o...
Jan 09, 2025 Longtime Statehouse lobbyist Mike McClain and former Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan are pictured leaving the Dirksen Federal Courthouse in 2023 and 2024. (Capitol News Illinois photos by Andrew Adams)
UPDATE: Massive Los Angeles fires rage on even as Hollywood blaze retreats
UPDATED 11:27 A.M. LOS ANGELES (Reuters) -A pair of massive wildfires menacing Los Angeles from the east and west were still burning uncontained on Thursday, two days after they ignited, but firefight...
Jan 09, 2025 Sun rises over the Pacific Palisades neighborhood of west Los Angeles, in the aftermath of devastating wildfires in the Los Angeles area forcing people to evacuate, in California, U.S., January 9, 2025. REUTERS/Maria Alejandra Cardona
New General Assembly sworn in as House, Senate take different tones
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (Capitol News Illinois) - A new Illinois General Assembly was sworn in for the next two years on Wednesday, with the House and Senate ceremonies taking two starkly different tones. T...
Jan 08, 2025 Sen. Paul Faraci, D-Champaign, is among those sworn into the 104th General Assembly on Wednesday, Jan. 8. (Capitol News Illinois photo by Jerry Nowicki)
Trump goes to Capitol Hill aiming to unite Republicans behind his agenda
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -President-elect Donald Trump arrived at the U.S. Senate on Wednesday aiming to unite Republicans behind a strategy for implementing tax cuts, border controls and increased fossil...
Jan 08, 2025 FILE PHOTO: U.S. President-elect Donald Trump looks on as he meets with House Republicans on Capitol Hill in Washington, U.S., November 13, 2024. REUTERS/Brian Snyder/File Photo
Sorensen planning to work across aisle in second term in Congress
WASHINGTON, D.C. - With a potential uphill climb in a new Congress, one Peoria-area legislator believes he can still get work done in Washington. 17th District Congressman Eric Sorensen (D-Moline) spo...
Jan 08, 2025 Rep. Eric Sorensen (D-East Moline) speaks Thursday on the floor of the House of Representatives. (U.S. House of Representatives via Rep. Ric Sorensen)
Peoria man released after arrest for alleged grooming of a minor
PEORIA, Ill. - A Peoria man has been released from the Peoria County Jail after being arrested Monday for allegedly sending inappropriate texts to an underage girl. Peoria County Sheriff Chris Watkins...
Jan 08, 2025 (Peoria County Sheriff's Office)
Man arrested after punching Peoria Police officer
PEORIA, Ill. - Peoria Police responded to reports of trouble with a male on N. Sterling Avenue late Monday morning. When police arrived around 11:15 a.m., they found a man identified as 44-year-old Ni...
Jan 08, 2025 (Peoria County Sheriff's Office)
