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US gasoline slumps to near 3-year low on end of driving season, oil slump
NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. gasoline futures fell nearly 6% on Tuesday to their lowest since December 2021, as the end of the driving season weighed on demand for the motor fuel amid a sell-off in the b...
Sep 03, 2024 FILE PHOTO: A gas pump is inserted inside an Audi vehicle at a Mobil gas station in Beverly Boulevard in West Hollywood, California, U.S., March 10, 2022. Picture taken March 10, 2022. REUTERS/Bing Guan/File Photo
Peoria Police responde to numerous Labor Day weekend incidents
PEORIA, Ill. - Peoria Police responded to numerous violent incidents from the Labor Day holiday weekend. Police are looking for a female suspect in an aggravated incident from Saturday morning. Office...
Sep 03, 2024
White House says hostage killings add urgency to Gaza ceasefire talks
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The killing by Hamas militants of six hostages, whose bodies were recovered by Israeli troops over the weekend, underscores the urgency for a ceasefire deal in Gaza and release o...
Sep 03, 2024 FILE PHOTO: White House National Security Communications Advisor John Kirby speaks during a press briefing at the White House in Washington, U.S., July 25, 2024. REUTERS/Elizabeth Frantz/File Photo
Israeli attacks in Gaza kill 33 Palestinians but pauses allow third day of polio vaccinations
CAIRO (Reuters) - Israeli forces killed 33 Palestinians across Gaza in the past 24 hours as they battled Hamas-led militants, Palestinian officials said on Tuesday, but brief pauses in fighting allowe...
Sep 03, 2024 Palestinians inspect the site of an Israeli strike on a college sheltering displaced people, amid Israel-Hamas conflict, in the northern Gaza Strip, September 3, 2024. REUTERS/Dawoud Abu Alkas
Mega Millions near $700 million for Tuesday's drawing
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. - With the right numbers, a mega payout could be yours Tuesday. The Mega Millions jackpot sits at an estimated $681 million for Tuesday's drawing. If it were to be won Tuesday, it wo...
Sep 03, 2024 (Mega Millions Consortium)
Russian missile strike kills 41 people in Ukraine's Poltava, Zelenskiy says
KYIV (Reuters) -At least 41 people were killed and more than 180 wounded on Tuesday when Russia hit a military institute in the central town of Poltava, President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said, in one of t...
Sep 03, 2024 FILE PHOTO: Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskiy holds a press conference, amid Russia's attack on Ukraine, in Kyiv, Ukraine August 27, 2024. REUTERS/Valentyn Ogirenko/File Photo
Greater Peoria Honor Flight headed to Washington, D.C.
PEORIA, Ill. - The 32nd Greater Peoria Honor Flight left for Washington, D.C. Tuesday morning. 77 local veterans and their guardians will be visiting the monuments and war memorials in D.C., before re...
Sep 03, 2024 (Greater Peoria Honor Flight)
Fed policymakers agree on need for rate cuts, but their reasons vary
(Reuters) - As recently as two and a half months ago, most U.S. central bankers didn't see an interest rate cut in the cards at their Sept. 17-18 meeting. By the end of last month, when Federal Reserv...
Sep 03, 2024 FILE PHOTO: A jogger runs past the Federal Reserve building in Washington, DC, U.S., August 22, 2018. REUTERS/Chris Wattie/File Photo
Harris courts union vote with Biden at her side
PITTSBURGH (Reuters) -Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris said on Monday that U.S. Steel should remain in domestic hands, making a pitch alongside President Joe Biden to working-class vote...
Sep 03, 2024 U.S. President Joe Biden and Democratic presidential nominee and U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris attend a Labor Day campaign event, at IBEW Local Union #5 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, U.S., September 2, 2024. REUTERS/Quinn Glabicki
GasBuddy: Gas prices continue to fall; prices could be below $3.00 a gallon soon
PEORIA, Ill. - Average gas prices in Peoria have dropped 4.8 cents a gallon in the last week, averaging $3.61 on Tuesday, according to GasBuddy's survey of 148 stations in Peoria. Peoria prices are 13...
Sep 03, 2024 Orin Zebest / CC
