Category Archives: Top Stories
Ukraine reports North Korean losses on Russia's Kursk front
(Reuters) -Ukraine said on Monday that North Korean units fighting for Russia sustained losses of at least 30 soldiers killed or wounded around several villages on the front in Russia's Kursk region o...
Dec 16, 2024 Sputnik/Artem Geodakyan/Pool
ABC to pay $15 million to Trump library to settle lawsuit, court documents show
(Reuters) -ABC News has agreed to give $15 million to U.S. President-elect Donald Trump's presidential library to settle a lawsuit over comments that anchor George Stephanopoulos made on air involving...
Dec 15, 2024 FILE PHOTO: Former U.S. President Donald Trump speaks to members of the media at Manhattan Criminal Court in New York, U.S., on Thursday, April 25, 2024. Jeenah Moon/Pool via REUTERS/File Photo
Syrian Christians attend Mass, schools reopen a week after Assad's overthrow
DAMASCUS/LATAKIA, Syria (Reuters) -Syrian Christians attended regular Sunday services for the first time since the dramatic overthrow of President Bashar al-Assad a week ago, in an early test of assur...
Dec 15, 2024 Members of the Orthodox community of Latakia attend a Sunday Mass conducted by Athanasios Fahed, Metropolitan of Latakia and its dependencies for the Greek Orthodox, at St. George's Cathedral in Latakia, Syria, December 15, 2024. REUTERS/Umit Bektas
Fire damages Peoria hospital Saturday morning
PEORIA, Ill. - A portion of a Peoria hospital was damaged after a fire was reportedly intentionally set near it Saturday morning. Peoria Fire says crews responded to Carle Health Methodist Hospital at...
Dec 15, 2024 (Will Stevenson/1470 & 100.3 WMBD)
At least 18 killed in Israeli Gaza strikes, Palestinian medics say
CAIRO (Reuters) - At least 18 Palestinians were killed in Israeli airstrikes in Gaza on Saturday, medics said, while the Israeli military said it targeted gunmen operating from shelters and aid storag...
Dec 14, 2024 Palestinians inspect the site of an Israeli strike on a school sheltering displaced people, amid the Israel-Hamas conflict, in Gaza City December 14, 2024. REUTERS/Mahmoud Issa
Pritzker endorses hemp regulation bill
SPRINGFIELD - More than five years after Illinois began issuing permits for legal production of industrial hemp, Gov. JB Pritzker said Friday he now favors legislation to bring the industry under tigh...
Dec 14, 2024 Products that contain delta-8 THC are pictured next to the original packaging they resemble. (Capitol News Illinois photo by Andrew Campbell)
South Korea's Yoon impeached: Embittered survivor buckles under martial law backlash
SEOUL (Reuters) - South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol faces the greatest threat to his brief but chequered political career, with his fate in the hands of judges after some of his allies turned from ...
Dec 14, 2024 FILE PHOTO: South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol delivers an address to the nation at the Presidential Office in Seoul, South Korea, December 12, 2024. The Presidential Office/Handout via REUTERS/File Photo
IBM will build new quantum computer in state-backed technology park
CHICAGO - IBM, the tech giant known for revolutionizing computing over the past 70 years, is setting up shop on Chicago's South Side to develop what could be the field's next big leap: quantum technol...
Dec 13, 2024 Gov. JB Pritzker watches as IBM CEO Arvind Krishna describes his company’s plan to set up a state-of-the-art quantum computer at the Illinois Quantum and Microelectronics Park on Chicago’s South Side. (Capitol News Illinois photo by Andrew Adams)
Blinken, in Turkey, discusses Islamic State in Syria, Gaza ceasefire
ANKARA (Reuters) -U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan agreed on Friday on the need for continued efforts to counter any resurgence of Islamic State in Syria...
Dec 13, 2024 US Secretary of State Antony Blinken shakes the hand of Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan after a joint press conference at the Ministry headquarters in the Turkish capital Ankara on December 13, 2024. ANDREW CABALLERO-REYNOLDS/Pool via REUTERS
Peoria Heights receives grant for Glen Avenue work
PEORIA HEIGHTS Ill. - The village of Peoria Heights has been awarded two grants, totaling more than 760-thousand dollars, to be used for accessibility improvements to Glen Avenue. The Tri-County Regio...
Dec 13, 2024 (Village of Peoria Heights)
