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U.S. Social Security fund seen depleted 2033, year earlier than previous estimate
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Social Security system's main trust fund's reserves will be depleted in 2033, one year earlier than estimated last year, while Medicare's finances have improved slightl...
TJ Carson Mar 31, 2023 FILE PHOTO A sign is seen on the entrance to a Social Security office in New York City, U.S., July 16, 2018. REUTERS/Brendan McDermid/File Photo
UPDATE - Trump to face criminal charges, sending US into uncharted waters
UPDATED 1:36 P.M. NEW YORK (Reuters) - Donald Trump is due to be fingerprinted and photographed in a New York courthouse next week as he becomes the first ex-president to face criminal charges, in a c...
Julia Bradley Mar 31, 2023 A general view of the Manhattan Criminal Court after former U.S. President Donald Trump's indictment by a Manhattan grand jury following a probe into hush money paid to porn star Stormy Daniels, in New York City, U.S., March 31, 2023. REUTERS/Andrew Kelly
Residents displaced by fire in downtown Peoria
PEORIA, Ill. -- Nearly two dozen residents have been displaced following a fire Thursday afternoon in downtown Peoria's New Hope Apartments. Fire Battalion Chief Ryan Calhoun said fire broke out in th...
Julia Bradley Mar 31, 2023 (File-Will Stevenson/1470 & 100.3 WMBD)
In watershed moment, Trump indictment sets US on uncertain course
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Donald Trump, the ex-president and frontrunner to be Republican nominee in 2024, is set to face a mug shot, finger-printing and a court appearance next week after being indicted o...
Julia Bradley Mar 31, 2023 A police car drives by the Manhattan Criminal Court after former U.S. President Donald Trump's indictment by a Manhattan grand jury following a probe into hush money paid to porn star Stormy Daniels, in New York City, U.S., March 31, 2023. REUTERS/Andrew Kelly
Trump's alleged hush money payments and the path to criminal charges
(Reuters) - Donald Trump was indicted by the Manhattan District Attorney's office following an investigation related to hush money payments to a porn star who has said she had a sexual relationship wi...
Will Stevenson Mar 30, 2023 FILE PHOTO: Former U.S. President Donald Trump speaks during the first rally for his re-election campaign at Waco Regional Airport in Waco, Texas, U.S., March 25, 2023. REUTERS/Leah Millis
UPDATE: Trump criminally charged in New York, a first for a US ex-president
UPDATED 6:07 P.M. NEW YORK (Reuters) -Donald Trump has been indicted by a Manhattan grand jury after a probe into hush money paid to porn star Stormy Daniels, becoming the first former U.S. president ...
Will Stevenson Mar 30, 2023 FILE PHOTO: Former U.S. President Donald Trump arrives onstage to announce that he will once again run for U.S. president in the 2024 U.S. presidential election, during an event at his Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm Beach, Florida, U.S. November 15, 2022. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst
Second arrest in fatal WIU off-campus shooting, while police seek one for questioning
MACOMB, Ill. - Police in Macomb making another arrest, and looking for another person, after the weekend shooting near Western Illinois University that left one person dead and ten others injured. Aut...
Will Stevenson Mar 30, 2023 LEFT: Demond Wilson, Jr. RIGHT: Man police want to question about shooting. (1470 & 100.3 WMBD/Macomb Police)
FTX's Bankman-Fried pleads not guilty to campaign finance, China bribery charges
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Indicted FTX cryptocurrency exchange founder Sam Bankman-Fried pleaded not guilty on Thursday to new U.S. charges of conspiring to violate campaign finance laws and bribe Chinese ...
TJ Carson Mar 30, 2023 Former FTX Chief Executive Sam Bankman-Fried, who faces fraud charges over the collapse of the bankrupt cryptocurrency exchange, leaves the Manhattan federal court in New York City, U.S. March 30, 2023. REUTERS/Amanda Perobelli
Protesters demand action on guns at Tennessee statehouse
NASHVILLE, Tennessee (Reuters) - Protesters flooded Tennessee's statehouse on Thursday to demand lawmakers stiffen gun laws following a school shooting in Nashville that left six people dead, three of...
TJ Carson Mar 30, 2023 Protesters gather inside the Tennessee State Capitol to call for an end to gun violence and support stronger gun laws after a deadly shooting at the Covenant School in Nashville, Tennessee, U.S. March 30, 2023. REUTERS/Cheney Orr
Russia detains Wall Street Journal reporter Gershkovich on suspicion of spying
LONDON (Reuters) - A Moscow court ruled that a U.S. journalist for the Wall Street Journal should be detained for nearly two months on suspicion of spying, the most serious move against a foreign jour...
Will Stevenson Mar 30, 2023 Reporter for U.S. newspaper The Wall Street Journal Evan Gershkovich appears in an undated handout image taken in an unknown location. The Wall Street Journal/Handout via REUTERS