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US weekly jobless claims rise in latest week
(Reuters) - The number of Americans filing new claims for unemployment benefits increased last week, but underlying strength in the labor market should continue to support the economy. Initial claims ...
Jun 06, 2024 A “Help Wanted” sign hangs in restaurant window in Medford, Massachusetts, U.S., January 25, 2023. REUTERS/Brian Snyder
Dozens reported killed in strike on Gaza school that Israel says targeted Hamas
CAIRO/JERUSALEM (Reuters) -Israel hit a Gaza school on Thursday in an airstrike that it said targeted and killed Hamas fighters inside, while a Hamas official said 40 people including women and childr...
Jun 06, 2024 Palestinians inspect the site of an Israeli strike on a UNRWA school sheltering displaced people, amid the Israel-Hamas conflict, in Nuseirat refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip, June 6, 2024. REUTERS/Doaa Rouqa
UPDATE: Hunter Biden's sister-in-law says she found, threw away, his gun
UPDATED 4:12 P.M. WILMINGTON, Delaware (Reuters) -Hunter Biden's sister-in-law testified on Thursday that she found his gun and threw it away out of fear of his spiraling addiction, potentially bolste...
Jun 06, 2024 Hallie Biden, widow of Beau Biden and former girlfriend to Hunter Biden, arrives with her fiancee John Hopkins Anning, at federal court during Hunter's trial for criminal gun charges in Wilmington, Delaware, U.S., June 6, 2024. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque
UPDATE: At D-Day commemoration, Biden pledges continued Ukraine support
UPDATED 10:20 A.M. OMAHA BEACH, France (Reuters) - U.S. President Joe Biden made an impassioned call for the defence of freedom and democracy at the 80th anniversary of the D-Day landings in Normandy ...
Jun 06, 2024 U.S President Joe Biden, first lady Jill Biden, French President Emmanuel Macron and his wife Brigitte Macron attend a ceremony to mark the 80th anniversary of D-Day at the Normandy American Cemetery and Memorial in Colleville-sur-Mer, France, June 6, 2024. REUTERS/Elizabeth Frantz
Brushing off concerns of overspending, Pritzker signs $53.1 billion state budget
CHICAGO, Ill. (Capitol News Illinois) - Gov. JB Pritzker on Wednesday signed the state's $53.1 billion spending plan for the upcoming fiscal year, the largest in state history. The signing caps months...
Jun 05, 2024 Flanked by the lieutenant governor and legislative leaders, Gov. JB Pritzker signs the $53.1 billion fiscal year 2025 state budget into law after months of negotiations. (Capitol News Illinois photo by Andrew Adams)
Judge blocks law that would have banned newly slated candidates from ballot
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (Capitol News Illinois) - A Sangamon County judge on Wednesday blocked the Illinois State Board of Elections from enforcing a new law that would have prevented certain General Assemb...
Jun 05, 2024 A Sangamon County judge blocked a state law banning general election “slating” of candidates by a party if no candidate ran for the party’s nomination in the primary election. A highlight in the illustration was added for emphasis. (Capitol News Illinois illustration)
Bartonville man sentenced to county jail on animal cruelty charges
PEORIA, Ill. - A Bartonville man will spend more than two months in the Peoria County Jail on animal cruelty charges. 25 News reports 42-year-old Stephen Kalb was sentenced to 70 days in jail Wednesda...
Jun 05, 2024 Stephen Kalb (1470 & 100.3 WMBD/Peoria County Jail)
US House Republicans ask Justice Department to prosecute Biden's son, brother
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The top U.S. House of Representatives Republicans leading an impeachment inquiry into President Joe Biden on Wednesday asked the Justice Department to prosecute his brother Jame...
Jun 05, 2024 FILE PHOTO: James Biden, brother of U.S. President Joe Biden, arrives for a closed deposition with members of the Republican-led House Oversight Committee conducting an impeachment inquiry into the president, at the O'Neill House Office Building in Washington, U.S., February 21, 2024. REUTERS/Leah Millis/File Photo
Trump election interference case paused in Georgia during challenge to prosecutor
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -A Georgia appeals court on Wednesday paused the criminal case accusing Donald Trump of seeking to subvert the 2020 election while it considers the former president's bid to disqu...
Jun 05, 2024 Republican presidential candidate and former U.S. President Donald Trump attends a press conference, the day after a guilty verdict in his criminal trial over charges that he falsified business records to conceal money paid to silence porn star Stormy Daniels in 2016, at Trump Tower in New York City, U.S., May 31, 2024. REUTERS/Brendan McDermid/File Photo
Live-in caretaker found guilty in December 2019 death of woman he was caring for
PEORIA, Ill. - A man has been found guilty of First Degree Murder in the 2019 death of a woman he was the live-in caretaker for. The Peoria County State's Attorney's Office says that was the verdict a...
Jun 05, 2024 courtroom gavel
