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Republican rival to join Illinois Democrats' transition team
BLOOMINGTON, Ill. -- Incoming Illinois Secretary of State Alexi Giannoulias has announced he will bring a former political rival on board his transition team. One-time Republican candidate for Secreta...
Cooper Banks Nov 30, 2022 (1470 & 100.3 WMBD/Friends of Dan Brady)
Fleetwood Mac singer-songwriter Christine McVie dies
UPDATED 2:39 P.M. LONDON (Reuters) -Singer-songwriter Christine McVie, a member of British-American band Fleetwood Mac, died on Wednesday aged 79, her family said in a statement posted on her official...
Will Stevenson Nov 30, 2022 FILE PHOTO: Honoree Christine McVie of the group Fleetwood Mac performs during the 2018 MusiCares Person of the Year show honoring Fleetwood Mac at Radio City Music Hall in Manhattan, New York, U.S., January 26, 2018. REUTERS/Andrew Kelly
U.S. job openings still elevated; third-quarter GDP revised up
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. job openings decreased in October, but remained significantly high, pointing to continued labor market resilience despite the Federal Reserve's efforts to cool demand by ag...
Cooper Banks Nov 30, 2022 FILE PHOTO: A worker applies tape to a solar panel at First Solar in Perrysburg, Ohio July 8, 2022. REUTERS/Megan Jelinger/File Photo
U.S. House backs legislation to block rail strike
UPDATE: 12:26 p.m. WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A majority of the U.S. House of Representatives on Wednesday backed a bill to block a potentially crippling rail strike, but the fate of a separate proposal b...
Julia Bradley Nov 30, 2022 FILE PHOTO: An aerial view of gantry cranes, shipping containers, and freight railway trains ahead of a possible strike if there is no deal with the rail worker unions, at the Union Pacific Los Angeles (UPLA) Intermodal Facility rail yard in Commerce, California, U.S., September 15, 2022. REUTERS/Bing Guan//File Photo
Pritzker: Changes to Safe-T Act could come before veto session ends
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. -- Illinois Gov. J-B Pritzker is hopeful that state lawmakers will be able to make some tweaks to the Safe-T Act during this week's fall veto session. The session is set to end on Th...
Julia Bradley Nov 30, 2022 (File-Will Stevenson/1470 & 100.3 WMBD)
U.S. House Democrats elect Hakeem Jeffries as first Black party leader
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Hakeem Jeffries was elected on Wednesday to become the Democratic Party's top leader in the U.S. House of Representatives beginning in January, making him the first Black Americ...
Julia Bradley Nov 30, 2022 U.S. Rep. Hakeem Jefferies (D-NY) walks on the day of House Democratic leadership elections on Capitol Hill in Washington, U.S., November 30, 2022. REUTERS/Michael A. McCoy
U.S. Senate passes same-sex marriage protection bill
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Senate passed a bill on Tuesday that would protect federal recognition of same-sex marriage, a measure taken up in response to worries the Supreme Court could overturn ...
Julia Bradley Nov 30, 2022 Senator Kyrsten Sinema (D-AZ) speaks alongside Senator Tammy Baldwin (D-WI), Senator Susan Collins (R-ME) and Senator Rob Portman (R-OH) during a news conference on the passage of the Respect for Marriage Act at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., U.S., November 29, 2022. REUTERS/Sarah Silbiger
The U.S. to grant $53 million to Ukraine for power transmission
BUCHAREST (Reuters) - The United States on Tuesday announced $53 million to support the purchase of power grid equipment to Ukraine to help Kyiv fight Russian attacks targeting its energy infrastructu...
Julia Bradley Nov 30, 2022 FILE PHOTO: A woman with a dog waits for a bus in a street without electricity after critical civil infrastructure was hit by Russian missile attacks, amid Russia's invasion of Ukraine, in Kyiv, Ukraine November 23, 2022. REUTERS/Valentyn Ogirenko
'End of an era': Former Chinese President Jiang Zemin dies at 96
BEIJING (Reuters) - Former Chinese President Jiang Zemin, who led the country for a decade of rapid economic growth after the Tiananmen crackdown in 1989, died on Wednesday at the age of 96, Chinese s...
Julia Bradley Nov 30, 2022 FILE PHOTO: China's President Jiang Zemin gestures during his press conference in Beijing, China, September 2, 1994. REUTERS/Will Burgess/File Photo
Crash near Morton leaves one dead
MORTON, Ill. -- The Tazewell County Sheriff's Office confirms one person died in a two-vehicle crash that happened about three miles east of Morton at Harding Road and the Morton-Washington Blacktop T...
Julia Bradley Nov 30, 2022 (25 News)