Category Archives: Top Stories
U.S. job openings drop in April, as labor market cools
(Reuters) -U.S. job openings fell more than expected in April to the lowest in more than three years, a sign that labor market conditions are softening in a manner that could help the Federal Reserve'...
Jun 04, 2024 Hundreds of people line up outside a Kentucky Career Center hoping to find assistance with their unemployment claim in Frankfort, Kentucky, U.S. June 18, 2020. REUTERS/Bryan Woolston
Democrats tap gaming cash cow to help fill state budget gap
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (Capitol News Illinois) - In order to boost infrastructure spending and avoid a projected fiscal cliff facing the state in the next couple of years, Democrats who control state gover...
Jun 04, 2024 Sports betting has become popular among Illinoisans since the market launched in 2020. But the state has also benefitted from taxing sportsbooks, netting nearly $415 million so far – a figure that’s set to rise even higher under a tax hike Democrats pushed through the General Assembly last week. (Unsplash.com photo by Amit Lahav)
US Attorney General to House Republicans: 'I will not be intimidated'
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland will take aim on Tuesday at Donald Trump's Republican allies in the House of Representatives, where he will accuse them of peddling false n...
Jun 04, 2024 FILE PHOTO: U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland announces an antitrust lawsuit against Live Nation Entertainment during a press conference at the Department of Justice in Washington, U.S., May 23, 2024. REUTERS/Ken Cedeno/File Photo
Judge considering whether slated candidates can appear on November ballot
Sangamon County, Ill. (Capitol News Illinois) -- A Sangamon County judge is weighing whether to block a new state law that bans the long-practiced tradition of political parties slating candidates for...
Jun 04, 2024 The Sangamon County Complex is the venue for a legal challenge to a new state law that bars parties from placing candidates on the general election ballot if no candidate ran in the party’s primary. (Capitol News Illinois file photo)
UPDATE: Hunter Biden criminal trial jury told 'no one is above the law'
UPDATED 1:00 P.M. WILMINGTON, Delaware (Reuters) -The prosecution laid out its case on Tuesday in the historic criminal trial of Hunter Biden on gun charges, telling jurors that President Joe Biden's ...
Jun 04, 2024 Hunter Biden, son of U.S. President Joe Biden, arrives at the federal court with his wife Melissa Cohen Biden, during the second day of his trial on criminal gun charges in Wilmington, Delaware, U.S., June 4, 2024. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque
Arson appears to have caused a fire overnight in Peoria
PEORIA, Ill. - Peoria firefighters responded to reports of a fire at a home on N. Indiana early Tuesday morning. Fire Battalion Chief Steve Rada says crews arrived around 12 a.m., finding the back of ...
Jun 04, 2024 D4E / CC
Trump, RNC raise $141 million in May, boosted by guilty verdict
(Reuters) - Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump's campaign and the Republican National Committee said on Monday they had raised $141 million in May, nearly doubling the prior month's haul t...
Jun 03, 2024 Former U.S. President and Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump holds a campaign rally at Crotona Park in the Bronx borough of New York City, U.S., May 23, 2024. REUTERS/Brendan McDermid/File Photo
Fauci denies suppressing COVID lab leak theory before US House panel
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Former top U.S. infectious disease expert Dr. Anthony Fauci strongly denied suppressing the theory that COVID-19 originated from a lab leak in China, telling lawmakers he never ...
Jun 03, 2024 While refusing to call him "doctor", U.S. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) asks questions of Dr. Anthony Fauci, former director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and former chief medical adviser to President Biden, during a hearing for the House Oversight and Reform Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic, on Capitol Hill in Washington, U.S., June 3, 2024. REUTERS/Leah Millis
Man arrested after early Saturday morning after allegedly taking child from Peoria home
PEORIA, Ill. - Peoria Police arrested a man early Saturday morning on charges including home invasion and child abduction. Police responded to the Jeth Court Homes just after 5:00 A.M. on reports of a...
Jun 03, 2024 (Peoria County Sheriff's Office)
UPDATE: No date set for Netanyahu's address to US Congress, Israel says
UPDATED 5:14 P.M. WASHINGTON (Reuters) -No date has been set for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's planned address to a joint meeting of the U.S. Congress, his office and congressional sourc...
Jun 03, 2024 FILE PHOTO: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks during the opening ceremony marking Israel's national Holocaust Remembrance Day at Yad Vashem, the World Holocaust Remembrance Center, in Jerusalem May 5, 2024. REUTERS/Ronen Zvulun/File Photo
