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Peoria Police investigating teenager shot Saturday night
PEORIA, Ill. - Peoria Police are investigating after a 13-year-old was shot Saturday night in South Peoria. Officers found the juvenile with a non-life-threatening gunshot wound to his leg just before...
Jun 17, 2024 (File-Will Stevenson/1470 & 100.3 WMBD)
US says two universities fell short in addressing anti-Arab, antisemitic hate
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The University of Michigan and the City University of New York have fallen short in addressing recent incidents of anti-Palestinian, anti-Arab and antisemitic nature, the U.S. E...
Jun 17, 2024 FILE PHOTO: A coalition of University of Michigan students camp in the Diag to pressure the university to divest its endowment from companies that support Israel or could profit from the ongoing conflict between Israel and the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas, on the University of Michigan college campus in Ann Arbor, Michigan, U.S., April 23, 2024. REUTERS/Rebecca Cook/File Photo
Biden protections for LGBT students blocked in six more states
(Reuters) - A federal judge in Kentucky on Monday blocked President Joe Biden's administration from implementing new protections for LGBT students from discrimination in schools and colleges based on ...
Jun 17, 2024 FILE PHOTO: People hold flowers and flags during the annual LGBTQ+ Capital Pride parade in Washington, U.S., June 8, 2024. REUTERS/Nathan Howard/File Photo
Mass shootings in Michigan and Texas leave two dead, more injured
ROCHESTER HILLS, Mich. - Two people are dead and a total of 15 other people are injured in two shootings over the weekend in Michigan and Texas. In Michigan, police say a man randomly targeted a splas...
Jun 17, 2024 fergregory / Depositphotos.com
Illinois child tax credit: who gets it, how much is it?
In the final hours of their spring legislative session, Illinois lawmakers approved a tax credit of up to about $300 for families with young children. The credit is available to Illinoisans with child...
Jun 17, 2024 (Capitol News Illinois illustration by Andrew Adams)
US Surgeon General calls for social media warning labels to protect adolescents
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy on Monday called for a warning label to be added to social media apps as a reminder that those platforms have caused harm to young people, espe...
Jun 17, 2024 FILE PHOTO: U.S. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy speaks during a Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, U.S., June 8, 2023. REUTERS/Amanda Andrade-Rhoades/File Photo
US abortion rights still in flux two years after Roe reversal
(Reuters) - Nearly two years after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned its landmark 1973 ruling in Roe v. Wade, litigation over abortion has exploded. Justice Samuel Alito wrote in 2022's Dobbs v. Jacks...
Jun 17, 2024 FILE PHOTO: People protest in the district of Republican State Representative Matt Gress after Arizona's Supreme Court revived a law dating back to 1864 that bans abortion in virtually all instances, in Scottsdale, Arizona, U.S. April 14, 2024. REUTERS/Rebecca Noble/File Photo
New $50 million Biden ad campaign targets Trump felony convictions
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Joe Biden's campaign will target Republican challenger Donald Trump's felony convictions as part of a $50 million ad campaign ahead of the first presidential debate be...
Jun 17, 2024 FILE PHOTO: Combination picture showing former U.S. President Donald Trump attending the Trump Organization civil fraud trial, in New York State Supreme Court in the Manhattan borough of New York City, U.S., November 6, 2023 and U.S. President Joe Biden participating in a meeting with Italy's Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni in the Oval Office at the White House in Washington, U.S., March 1, 2024. REUTERS/Brendan McDermid and Elizabeth Frantz/File Photo
East Peoria home caught on fire Sunday
EAST PEORIA, Ill. - An East Peoria home was damaged by fire Sunday morning. Assistant Fire Chief Ronnie Marmitt says fire broke out at the home on Meadow Avenue around 8:30 a.m. No one was inside the ...
Jun 17, 2024 (File-Mike Sabol/1470 & 100.3 WMBD)
Netanyahu disbands his inner war cabinet, Israeli official says
JERUSALEM (Reuters) -Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has dissolved the six-member war cabinet, an Israeli official said on Monday, in a widely expected move that came after the departure fro...
Jun 17, 2024 Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu attends a cabinet meeting at the Bible Lands Museum in Jerusalem on June 5, 2024. GIL COHEN-MAGEN/Pool via REUTERS
