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Peoria Police arrest two females for Tuesday night retail theft
PEORIA Ill. - Peoria Police have arrested a pair of females in connection to an attempted theft of a local retail store. Tuesday just after 10:15pm, Peoria Police were called to the "Marshals" in the ...
Dec 04, 2024
US Supreme Court hears major transgender rights case
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. Supreme Court tackled a major transgender rights case on Wednesday, and its conservative justices asked tough questions of lawyers challenging the legality of a Republic...
Dec 04, 2024 People hold flags at a demonstration, as the U.S. Supreme Court hears arguments over an appeal by U.S. President Joe Biden's administration of a lower court's decision upholding a Republican-backed ban in Tennessee on gender-affirming medical care for transgender minors, outside the court in Washington, U.S., December 4, 2024. REUTERS/Benoit Tessier
How RFK Jr.'s health proposals could affect Illinois
(Capitol News Illinois) - Every new presidential administration comes with policy changes, but the incoming second administration of President-elect Donald Trump and his proposed secretary of Health a...
Dec 04, 2024 A person receives a vaccine. (Kfuhlert, pixabay.com)
'You won't spend a day in jail': Madigan attorney hammers Solis' agreement with feds
CHICAGO (Capitol News Illinois) - The day after Christmas 2018, then-Chicago Ald. Danny Solis signed an agreement with federal prosecutors, with whom he'd spent the last 2 years working as a secret co...
Dec 04, 2024 The Dirksen Federal Courthouse in Chicago where former Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan is on trial for bribery, racketeering and extortion in a case partially built on secret recordings made by former Chicago alderman-turned-FBI mole Danny Solis, who wrapped up his time on the witness stand Tuesday. (Capitol News Illinois photo by Hannah Meisel, inset by Andrew Adams)
US senator blasts airlines for viewing passengers as 'walking piggy banks'
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The head of a U.S. Senate panel harshly criticized rising airline fees for luggage and seat assignments, saying carriers are looking for new ways to extract more money from pass...
Dec 04, 2024 A passenger crosses a raised walkway to enter Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport in Atlanta, Georgia, U.S. June 28, 2022. REUTERS/Elijah Nouvelage/File Photo
UPDATE: UnitedHealthcare executive fatally shot in Manhattan before investor meeting
UPDATED 11:27 A.M. (Reuters) -Brian Thompson, the CEO of UnitedHealth's insurance unit, was fatally shot on Wednesday morning outside a midtown Manhattan hotel in what appears to have been a targeted ...
Dec 04, 2024 FILE PHOTO: UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson. via UnitedHealth Group
Republicans to keep narrow US House majority as Democrats pick up last race - Edison
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republicans in the U.S. House of Representatives will hold a slim 220-215 majority when the next Congress gets underway next month after Democrats picked up a seat in California...
Dec 04, 2024 FILE PHOTO: The U.S. Capitol building is seen in Washington, U.S., December 1, 2023. REUTERS/Elizabeth Frantz/File Photo
US private payrolls gain slightly below expectations in November
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. private payrolls increased at a moderate pace in November, the ADP National Employment Report showed on Wednesday. Private payrolls rose by 146,000 jobs last month after ad...
Dec 04, 2024 FILE PHOTO: An employee hiring sign with a QR code is seen in a window of a business in Arlington, Virginia, U.S., April 7, 2023. REUTERS/Elizabeth Frantz/File Photo
South Korean president faces impeachment after martial law debacle
SEOUL (Reuters) -South Korean lawmakers submitted a bill on Wednesday to impeach President Yoon Suk Yeol after he declared martial law in the country, a major U.S. ally, before rescinding the decision...
Dec 04, 2024 South Korean lawmakers submit a impeachment motion of South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol at the National Assembly in Seoul, South Korea, December 4, 2024. Yonhap via REUTERS
Israeli forces advance in Khan Younis area of southern Gaza, 20 killed across enclave
CAIRO (Reuters) - Israeli tanks pushed into northern parts of the Khan Younis area in the south of the Gaza Strip on Wednesday and Palestinian medics said Israeli airstrikes had killed at least 20 peo...
Dec 04, 2024 A Palestinian man walks at the site of an Israeli strike on a house, amid the Israel-Hamas conflict, in Deir Al-Balah in the central Gaza Strip December 4, 2024. REUTERS/Ramadan Abed
