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US FDIC needs 'fresh start' with new chair, White House official says
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The White House believes the U.S. Federal Deposit Insurance Corp needs a "fresh start" with a new chair who is not part of the leadership that presided over its long-running cult...
May 21, 2024 FILE PHOTO: The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp (FDIC) logo is seen at the FDIC headquarters in Washington, February 23, 2011. REUTERS/Jason Reed/File Photo
US to close Northeast gasoline reserve with 1 million-barrel sale
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Biden administration will sell nearly 1 million barrels of gasoline in the U.S. managed stockpile in northeastern states as required by law, the Department of Energy said on...
May 21, 2024 A person uses a petrol pump at a gas station as fuel prices surged in Manhattan, New York City, U.S., March 7, 2022. REUTERS/Andrew Kelly/File Photo
Man pleads guilty for shooting at West Peoria tavern in September 2023
PEORIA, Ill. - A man has pleaded guilty for a shooting last year at a tavern in West Peoria. The Peoria County State's Attorney's Office says 43-year-old Anthony Gates pleaded guilty Tuesday to a char...
May 21, 2024 Anthony Gates (1470 & 100.3 WMBD/Peoria County Jail)
UPDATE: Trump's defense rests case in hush money trial without calling Trump as witness
UPDATE: 9:23 A.M. NEW YORK - Donald Trump's defense lawyers on Tuesday rested their case at his criminal trial on charges stemming from hush money paid to a porn star without calling the former U.S. p...
May 21, 2024 Former US President Donald Trump (C) at the defendant’s table with his attorneys Emil Bove (L) and Todd Blanche (R) during his criminal trial at New York State Supreme Court in New York, New York, USA, 21 May 2024. JUSTIN LANE/Pool via REUTERS
Blinken to testify to US Congress under shadow of Israel policy divides
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken is due to make his case for President Joe Biden's $64 billion foreign affairs budget request in four congressional hearings this week, ami...
May 21, 2024 FILE PHOTO: U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken speaks at the State Department in Washington, U.S., May 17, 2024. REUTERS/Amanda Andrade-Rhoades/File Photo
Iranian President Raisi's memorial muted amid public discontent
DUBAI (Reuters) - Thousands of Iranians turned out to mourn President Ebrahim Raisi in the city of Tabriz on Tuesday, after he was killed in a helicopter crash near the Azerbaijan border at the weeken...
May 21, 2024 People attend a funeral ceremony for the late Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi in Tabriz, East Azerbaijan Province, Iran, May 21, 2024. Stringer/WANA (West Asia News Agency) via REUTERS
One dead, 30 reported injured as Singapore Airlines flight hit by turbulence
BANGKOK (Reuters) -A Singapore Airlines flight from London made an emergency landing in Bangkok on Tuesday due to severe turbulence, officials said, with one passenger on board dead and local media re...
May 21, 2024 A Singapore airline aircraft is seen on tarmac after requesting an emergency landing at Bangkok's Suvarnabhumi International Airport, Thailand, May 21, 2024. Pongsak Suksi/Handout via REUTERS
Nursing home industry unlikely to see much help from Springfield in tough budget year
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (Capitol News Illinois) - It's been four years since some of the worst scenes of COVID-19 played out in locked-down nursing homes during the early months of the pandemic. But while m...
May 21, 2024 The Illinois House of Representatives, shown during floor debate early in their final scheduled week of the 2024 spring legislative session. (Capitol News Illinois photo by Andrew Adams)
WikiLeaks' Julian Assange wins right to appeal extradition from Britain to US
LONDON (Reuters) -WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange was given permission on Monday to appeal against extradition to the United States after arguing at London's High Court that he might not be able to r...
May 20, 2024 People attend a protest outside the High Court on the day of an extradition hearing of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, in London, Britain, May 20, 2024. REUTERS/Maja Smiejkowska
Stealing from Trump was 'self-help,' Cohen testifies at hush money trial
NEW YORK (Reuters) -Donald Trump's former fixer Michael Cohen testified that he stole money from Trump's company as a form of "self- help" as prosecutors rested their case on Monday at the former U.S....
May 20, 2024 Michael Cohen, former lawyer for Republican presidential candidate and former U.S. President Donald Trump, departs his home in Manhattan to testify in Trump's criminal trial over charges that he falsified business records to conceal money paid to silence porn star Stormy Daniels in 2016, in New York City, U.S., May 20, 2024. REUTERS/Eduardo Munoz
