Category Archives: Top Stories
Biden highlights U.S. commitment to Israel, Ukraine, Indo-Pacific in West Point speech
WEST POINT, New York (Reuters) - President Joe Biden emphasized the critical role of U.S. support to allies around the world including Israel, Ukraine and the Indo-Pacific in a speech on Saturday at t...
May 25, 2024 Graduate cadets attend the United States Military Academy commencement in West Point, New York, U.S., May 25, 2024. REUTERS/Tom Brenner
U.S. screens record 2.95 million airline passengers in single day
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. Transportation Security Administration (TSA) said it screened 2.95 million airline passengers on Friday, the highest number ever on a single day. The record travel coinc...
May 25, 2024 Newark Liberty International Airport, May 24, 2024. REUTERS/Eduardo Munoz
PGA Tour player Grayson Murray dies - PGA Tour
(Reuters) -Two-time PGA Tour winner Grayson Murray died on Saturday, a day after withdrawing from the Charles Schwab Challenge in Forth Worth, Texas, the PGA said in a statement. American Murray, who ...
May 25, 2024 May 9, 2024; Charlotte, North Carolina, USA; Grayson Murray on the 14th green during the first round of the Wells Fargo Championship golf tournament. Mandatory Credit: Jim Dedmon-USA TODAY Sports/File photo
UPDATE: Body discovered in Illinois River identified
UPDATE: PEORIA COUNTY, Ill. - Authorities have identified the body found Friday in the Illinois River in Peoria County. Peoria County Coroner Jamie Harwood says the body was identified as Seiarra (Wad...
May 24, 2024 (Midwest Communications)
Three Christian missionaries from Oklahoma-based group killed in Haiti
(Reuters) -Three Christian missionaries from Missions in Haiti were shot and killed in an ambush by a gang in Haiti, the Oklahoma-based group said on Friday. The missionaries were taking shelter in a ...
May 24, 2024 FILE PHOTO: Armed gang members walk through the streets near the presidential palace, in Port-au-Prince, Haiti April 23, 2024. REUTERS/Ralph Tedy Erol/File Photo
Teenager arrested in Peoria early Friday morning after alleged burglary to a vehicle
PEORIA, Ill. - A group of teenagers were caught allegedly breaking into a vehicle in Peoria early Friday morning. Peoria Police responded to University, between Columbia Terrace and Russell, just afte...
May 24, 2024 (Will Stevenson/1470 & 100.3 WMBD)
Watchdog group wants to see reduction in rate increase for Illinois American Water
CHICAGO, Ill. - A watchdog group says proposed rate hikes from Illinois American Water are more than necessary. In testimony filed with the Illinois Commerce Commission on Wednesday, the Citizens Util...
May 24, 2024 Illinois American Water
IHSA to consider basketball state final schedule changes to give schools two days at finals
PEORIA, Ill. - Changes could be coming to the Illinois High School Association's boys and girls basketball state finals schedule. The sanctioning body's basketball advisory committee is recommending t...
May 24, 2024 (Illinois High School Association)
US Senate panels launch probe into Trump 'quid pro quo' with energy execs
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. Senate finance and budget committees on Thursday launched an investigation into presidential candidate Donald Trump's reported offer to roll back a slew of environmental...
May 24, 2024 FILE PHOTO: U.S. President Donald Trump delivers a speech during a tour of the Double Eagle Energy Oil Rig in Midland, Texas, U.S., July 29, 2020. REUTERS/Carlos Barria/File Photo
World Court orders Israel to halt assault on Gaza's Rafah
THE HAGUE (Reuters) -Judges at the top United Nations court ordered Israel on Friday to immediately halt its military assault on the southern Gaza city of Rafah, in a landmark emergency ruling in Sout...
May 24, 2024 A general view inside the Court of Justice (ICJ), at the start of a hearing where South Africa requests new emergency measures over Israel's attacks on Rafah, as part of an ongoing case South Africa filed at the ICJ in December last year accusing Israel of violating the Genocide Convention during its offensive against Palestinians in Gaza, in The Hague Netherlands May 17, 2024. REUTERS/Yves Herman/ File Photo
