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GasBuddy: Peoria prices still dropping ahead of Labor Day weekend
PEORIA, Ill. - Average gas prices in Peoria have dropped nearly four cents a gallon in the last week, averaging $3.66 on Monday, according to GasBuddy's survey of 148 stations in Peoria. Peoria prices...
Aug 26, 2024 Orin Zebest / CC
Trump struggles to keep media spotlight in battle with Harris
(Reuters) -Donald Trump, touting plans on taxes and health, tried on Friday to turn the page on a week in which he was overshadowed by Kamala Harris and struggled to focus on policy issues instead of ...
Aug 26, 2024 Republican presidential nominee and former U.S. President Donald Trump attends a rally in Glendale, Arizona, U.S., August 23, 2024. REUTERS/Go Nakamura
Families flee after new Israeli evacuation orders in Gaza as ceasefire hopes dim
CAIRO/GAZA (Reuters) - Israel issued new evacuation orders for Deir Al-Balah in the central Gaza Strip late on Sunday, forcing more families to flee, saying forces intended to act against militant gro...
Aug 26, 2024 Mourners react during the funeral of Palestinians killed in Israeli strikes, amid the Israel-Hamas conflict, at Nasser hospital, in Khan Younis, southern Gaza Strip August 26, 2024. REUTERS/Mohammed Salem
Anthony Fauci, former top US disease expert, recovering from West Nile virus, media reports
(Reuters) - Former top U.S. infectious disease expert Dr. Anthony Fauci is recovering from West Nile virus after being hospitalized with the mosquito-borne illness for nearly a week, he told Stat News...
Aug 24, 2024 FILE PHOTO: Dr. Anthony Fauci, former director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and former chief medical adviser to President Biden, U.S., June 3, 2024. REUTERS/Leah Millis/File Photo
SpaceX to return Boeing's Starliner astronauts from space next year, NASA says
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Two NASA astronauts who flew to the International Space Station in June aboard Boeing's faulty Starliner capsule will need to return to Earth on a SpaceX vehicle early next year...
Aug 24, 2024 FILE PHOTO: NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams pose ahead of the launch of Boeing's Starliner-1 Crew Flight Test (CFT), in Cape Canaveral, Florida, U.S., April 25, 2024. REUTERS/Joe Skipper/File Photo
German police detain individual after festival stabbing that killed 3
SOLINGEN, Germany (Reuters) - Police hunting for an unknown assailant hours after he killed three people and wounded eight in a stabbing attack at a festival in the western German city of Solingen sai...
Aug 24, 2024 Police members and forensic experts work following an incident in which several individuals were killed on Friday night when a man randomly stabbed passers-by with a knife at a city festival, in Solingen, Germany, August 24, 2024. REUTERS/Thilo Schmuelgen
No 'slated' GOP candidates will be kept off ballot after rulings from Supreme Court, elections board
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (Capitol News Illinois) - A law banning political parties from waiting until after the primary election to place a state legislative candidate on the general election ballot won't ke...
Aug 23, 2024 The Illinois Supreme Court is pictured in Springfield. (Capitol News Illinois file photo)
Woodford County State's Attorney appointed as judge
EUREKA, Ill. - The top prosecutor in Woodford County will soon get to rule on cases in the court. The Illinois Supreme Court on Friday announced that Woodford County State's Attorney Greg Minger has b...
Aug 23, 2024 (File-25 News)
Biden speaks to Egypt, Qatar leaders in Gaza ceasefire push
BUELLTON, California (Reuters) -President Joe Biden spoke by phone to the leaders of Qatar and Egypt on Friday, pushing for an elusive Gaza ceasefire-for-hostages deal as negotiators met in Cairo to t...
Aug 23, 2024 A general view of damaged buildings in Gaza, amid the Israel-Hamas conflict, near the Israel-Gaza border, as seen from Israel, August 23, 2024. REUTERS/Florion Goga
RFK Jr suspends US presidential campaign, endorses Trump
(Reuters) - Independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said on Friday he would suspend his campaign, and endorsed Republican Donald Trump, likely ending a presidential bid that he began ...
Aug 23, 2024 Independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. makes an announcement on the future of his campaign in Phoenix, Arizona, U.S. August 23, 2024. REUTERS/Thomas Machowicz
