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Biden heads to Washington after COVID, ending campaign
WILMINGTON, Delaware (Reuters) -U.S. President Joe Biden headed to Washington on Tuesday, two days after ending his re-election bid and endorsing Vice President Kamala Harris for the Democratic nomina...
Jul 23, 2024 U.S. President Joe Biden disembarks Air Force One at Joint Base Andrews in Maryland, U.S., July 23, 2024. REUTERS/Ken Cedeno
US Senator Bob Menendez resigns after corruption conviction
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Senator Bob Menendez resigned on Tuesday in the aftermath of his conviction on corruption charges including bribery and acting as an agent for Egypt's government, bowing to...
Jul 23, 2024 FILE PHOTO: U.S. Senator Robert Menendez (D-NJ) looks on, following his bribery trial in connection with an alleged corrupt relationship with three New Jersey businessmen, in New York City, U.S., July 16, 2024. REUTERS/Brendan McDermid/File Photo
Gordon-Booth joins fellow Democratic delegates backing Kamala Harris
PEORIA, Ill. - With the presidential election roughly 100 days away, President Biden announced on Sunday that he was dropping out of the presidential race, endorsing his vice president, Kamala Harris,...
Jul 23, 2024 (File-Will Stevenson/1470 & 100.3 WMBD)
Trump to meet Israel's Netanyahu in Florida on Friday
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump said he will meet with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Friday at his resort in Palm Beach, Florida. Netanyahu is in W...
Jul 23, 2024 FILE PHOTO: U.S. President Donald Trump and Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu arrive to deliver joint remarks on a Middle East peace plan proposal in the East Room of the White House in Washington, U.S., January 28, 2020. REUTERS/Joshua Roberts/File Photo
Illinois lawmaker calls for strengthening protection for homeschooled children
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (Capitol News Illinois) - An Illinois lawmaker heading a child welfare committee said the state must strengthen its laws and policies to protect homeschooled children facing inadequa...
Jul 23, 2024 State Rep. Terra Costa Howard, D-Glen Ellyn, is calling for stronger homeschool laws following reporting about the state’s lax oversight. She’s pictured in a file photo on the House floor. (Capitol News Illinois photo by Jerry Nowicki)
East Peoria fatal crash victim identified by coroner
EAST PEORIA, Ill. - A 16-year-old girl from Washington has been identified as the victim in a single-vehicle fatal crash early Monday morning. Tazewell County Coroner Charles Hanley says Avery Grazier...
Jul 23, 2024
UPDATE: US Secret Service chief resigns following Trump assassination attempt
UPDATED 2:17 P.M. WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle resigned after the agency came under harsh scrutiny for its failure to stop a would-be assassin from wounding for...
Jul 23, 2024 U.S. Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle enters a House of Representatives Oversight Committee hearing on the security lapses that allowed an attempted assassination of Republican presidential nominee and former U.S. President Donald Trump, on Capitol Hill in Washington, U.S., July 22, 2024. REUTERS/Kevin Mohatt/File Photo
US opens probe into Delta following widespread flight cancellations
(Reuters) - The U.S. Transportation Department said on Tuesday that it is opening an investigation into Delta Air Lines after the carrier canceled more than 5,000 flights since Friday as it struggles ...
Jul 23, 2024 FILE PHOTO: People speak to Delta agents as they try to rebook their travel plans after long delays following cyber outages affecting airlines at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport in Atlanta, Georgia, U.S., July 22, 2024. REUTERS/Megan Varner/File Photo
Harris closes in on nomination with delegates secured, to campaign in Wisconsin
(Reuters) - Vice President Kamala Harris will campaign in the critical battleground state of Wisconsin on Tuesday for the first time as a presidential candidate after enough Democratic delegates pledg...
Jul 23, 2024 U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris speaks at her Presidential Campaign headquarters in Wilmington, DE, U.S., July 22, 2024. Erin Schaff/Pool via REUTERS
Biden expected to meet Netanyahu on Thursday at White House, US official says
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Joe Biden is expected to meet Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Thursday at the White House, a U.S. official said on Monday. Biden has been battling CO...
Jul 23, 2024 U.S. President Joe Biden meets with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and the Israeli war cabinet, as he visits Israel amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and Hamas, in Tel Aviv, Israel, October 18, 2023. REUTERS/Evelyn Hockstein/ File Photo
