Category Archives: Top Stories
Biden cancels additional $1.2 billion in student debt
(Reuters) -U.S. President Joe Biden on Thursday canceled another $1.2 billion in student debt for 35,000 borrowers, bringing the total number of people to benefit from his debt relief push to 4.76 mil...
Jul 18, 2024 U.S. President Joe Biden participates in an economic summit with U.S. Rep. Steven Horsford (D-NV) in Henderson, Nevada, U.S., July 16, 2024. REUTERS/Tom Brenner/File Photo
Schumer, Pelosi increase pressure on Biden to step aside, US media reports
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Top Democrats including U.S. Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer and former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi have increased pressure on President Joe Biden to withdraw from his reel...
Jul 18, 2024 FILE PHOTO: Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) answers reporters questions during a press conference following the weekly Senate caucus luncheons on Capitol Hill in Washington, U.S. July 9, 2024. REUTERS/Ken Cedeno/File Photo
Pekin man awaits sentencing for 2021 murder
PEKIN, Ill. - A 69-year-old Pekin man convicted of fatally shooting his wife in 2021 is awaiting sentencing in September. On May 17, 2021, Tracie Turnbow, who was 59, was found with gunshot wounds and...
Jul 18, 2024 (Tazewell County Sheriff's Office)
Trump running mate J.D. Vance vows to fight for 'forgotten' workers
MILWAUKEE (Reuters) -Donald Trump's vice presidential running mate, U.S. Senator J.D. Vance, presented himself to the nation on Wednesday night as the son of a neglected industrial Ohio town who will ...
Jul 18, 2024 Vice Presidential Nominee Senator J.D. Vance (R-OH) speaks on Day 3 of the Republican National Convention (RNC), at the Fiserv Forum in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, U.S., July 17, 2024. REUTERS/Mike Segar
Dunlap Schools approves new training facility
DUNLAP, Ill. - Dunlap athletes will soon have plenty of space to play, after the Dunlap School Board approved a new sports training facility that will be built near the middle and high schools, costin...
Jul 18, 2024 (Dunlap School District)
Secret Service head to testify to US congressional panel on Trump shooting
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle has agreed to testify before the U.S. House of Representatives Oversight Committee on July 22 for a hearing related to the shooting of f...
Jul 18, 2024 FILE PHOTO: Republican presidential candidate and former U.S. President Donald Trump gestures with a bloodied face while he is assisted by U.S. Secret Service personnel after he was shot in the right ear during a campaign rally at the Butler Farm Show in Butler, Pennsylvania, U.S., July 13, 2024. REUTERS/Brendan McDermid/File Photo
On party infighting, Illinois' new GOP chair says 'start calling those people out'
MILWAUKEE (Capitol News Illinois) - In the parlance of Washington D.C. Republican strategists, deep-blue Illinois is sometimes referred to as an "orphan" state - along with other Democratic stronghold...
Jul 17, 2024 Incoming Illinois Republican Party Chair Kathy Salvi receives applause on Wednesday during the Illinois delegation’s breakfast prior to Republican National Convention programming in Milwaukee. (Capitol News Illinois photo by Andrew Adams)
Biden tests positive for COVID-19, White House says
LAS VEGAS (Reuters) -U.S. President Joe Biden, under fire from fellow Democrats to drop his re-election campaign, tested positive for COVID-19 while on a trip to Las Vegas on Wednesday and is experien...
Jul 17, 2024 U.S. President Joe Biden boards Air Force One, at Harry Reid international airport in Las Vegas, Nevada, U.S., July 17, 2024. REUTERS/Tom Brenner
One Peoria event helps parents and their children prepare for new school year
PEORIA, Ill. - The new school year is around the corner, and a pair of state legislators are helping Peoria families get ready. State Representative Jehan Gordon-Booth and State Senator Dave Koehler h...
Jul 17, 2024 State Representative Jehan Gordon-Booth (D-Peoria) helps a child try on a new backpack at the One Peoria event on July 17th, 2024. (T.J. Carson/1470 & 100.3 WMBD)
Prosecutors appeal Trump classified documents case dismissal
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. prosecutors formally appealed on Wednesday a federal judge's decision to throw out the criminal case brought by Special Counsel Jack Smith accusing Donald Trump of illegally...
Jul 17, 2024 FILE PHOTO: Former U.S. President and Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump attends a campaign event in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S., June 22, 2024. REUTERS/Tom Brenner/File Photo
