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As Medicaid redeterminations restart, about 73% of state's recipients remain enrolled
About 73 percent of Illinois' Medicaid recipients remain on the rolls after the first redetermination cycle following the COVID-19 pandemic, while approximately 660,000 recipients have been disenrolle...
May 13, 2024 Credit: Hush Naidoo Jade Photography, unsplash.com
UN says Gaza death toll still over 35,000 but not all bodies identified
UNITED NATIONS/GENEVA (Reuters) - The death toll in the Gaza Strip from the Israel-Hamas war is still more than 35,000, but the enclave's Ministry of Health has updated its breakdown of the fatalities...
May 13, 2024 An Israeli tank holds a position as smoke rises in Gaza, near the Israel-Gaza border, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas, in Israel, May 13, 2024. REUTERS/Amir Cohen
Collapsed Baltimore bridge to be blasted into pieces, removed from crippled ship
(Reuters) - U.S. crews in Baltimore plan to set off controlled explosions on Monday to allow them to remove a portion of the collapsed Francis Scott Key Bridge from the bow of the massive container sh...
May 13, 2024 FILE PHOTO: View of the Dali cargo vessel which crashed into the Francis Scott Key Bridge causing it to collapse in Baltimore, Maryland, U.S., April 4, 2024. REUTERS/Nathan Howard/File Photo
Israeli forces push into Gaza from north and south
CAIRO (Reuters) -Israeli forces pushed deep into the ruins of Gaza's northern edge on Monday to recapture an area where they claimed to have dismantled Hamas months ago, while in the south tanks and t...
May 13, 2024 Smoke rises following Israeli strikes, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and Hamas, in Jabalia refugee camp northern Gaza Strip, May 13, 2024. REUTERS/Mahmoud Issa
Major airlines sue Biden administration over fee disclosure rule
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Major U.S. airlines are suing the U.S. Transportation Department over a new rule requiring upfront disclosure of airline fees, the latest clash between air carriers and the Biden...
May 13, 2024 FILE PHOTO: A plane takes off as seen from inside the newly completed 1.3 million-square foot $4 billion Delta Airlines Terminal C at LaGuardia Airport in the Queens borough of New York City, New York, U.S., June 1, 2022. REUTERS/Mike Segar/File Photo
Vacant home demolished after fire overnight
PEORIA, Ill. - A vacant home caught fire in South Peoria early Monday morning. Peoria Fire Battalion Chief Larry Carter says crews arrived around 2:20 a.m. to the home on W. Third Street, finding smok...
May 13, 2024 (Midwest Communications)
UPDATE: US Senator Robert Menendez goes on trial for corruption, no jurors seated yet
UPDATED 3:44 P.M. NEW YORK (Reuters) -Jury selection began on Monday in the corruption trial of U.S. Senator Robert Menendez, with a judge excusing dozens of prospective jurors in a case that could af...
May 13, 2024 U.S. Senator Robert Menendez (D-NJ) arrives at Federal Court, for the start of his bribery trial in connection with an alleged corrupt relationship with three New Jersey businessmen, in New York City, U.S., May 13, 2024. REUTERS/Brendan McDermid
GasBuddy says Peoria gas prices still dropping
PEORIA, Ill. - Gas prices in Peoria have dropped 5.7 cents a gallon in the last week, averaging $3.71 on Monday, according to Gas Buddy's survey of local stations. Peoria's prices are just over 12 cen...
May 13, 2024 Mike Mozart / CC
UPDATE: Cohen testifies Trump signed off on hush money payment to porn star
UPDATED 2:58 P.M. NEW YORK (Reuters) -Donald Trump's former fixer Michael Cohen told jurors on Monday that the Republican presidential candidate personally signed off on a hush money payment to a porn...
May 13, 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 13, 2024. REUTERS/Mike Segar
Peoria garage fire deemed accidental. Here's what we know
PEORIA, Ill. - Peoria firefighters were called to a home on John Gwynn Avenue Sunday evening for a fire. Fire Battalion Chief Larry Carter says crews arrived at 6:42 p.m., finding heavy smoke and flam...
May 13, 2024 (Will Stevenson/1470 & 100.3 WMBD)
