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Israelis ready to fight with their fingernails, Netanyahu says in veiled Biden rebuff
JERUSALEM (Reuters) -Israelis are ready to fight with their "fingernails", Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Thursday in a thinly veiled rebuff to U.S. President Joe Biden's warning that arms ...
May 10, 2024 Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu attends a wreath-laying ceremony marking Holocaust Remembrance Day in the Hall of Remembrance at Yad Vashem, the World Holocaust Remembrance Centre, in Jerusalem, May 6, 2024. REUTERS/Amir Cohen/Pool/File photo
US Senate passes sweeping aviation safety, consumer bill
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. Senate late on Thursday overwhelmingly passed a broad aviation bill to boost air traffic controller staffing, increase funding to avert runway close-call incidents and s...
May 10, 2024 Passengers make their way through the terminal as they travel ahead of the Thanksgiving holiday at Washington Dulles International Airport in Dulles, Virginia, U.S., November 22, 2023. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque/File photo
UPDATE: Trump hush money judge urges prosecutors to rein in Michael Cohen
UPDATED 2:10 P.M. NEW YORK (Reuters) -The judge overseeing Donald Trump's criminal trial on Friday urged prosecutors to tell the former U.S. president's estranged former lawyer and fixer Michael Cohen...
May 10, 2024 FILE PHOTO: Republican presidential candidate, former U.S. President Donald Trump attends trial at Manhattan Criminal Court May 9, 2024 in New York City. Steven Hirsch/Pool via REUTERS/File Photo
House gives OK to new state agency focused on early childhood programs
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (Capitol News Illinois) - The Illinois House gave final passage Thursday to a bill establishing a new cabinet-level state agency whose mission will be to provide a kind of one-stop s...
May 09, 2024 Rep. Mary Beth Canty, D-Arlington Heights, pictured Thursday during House floor debate of Senate Bill 1, which would create a new state agency dubbed the Department of Early Childhood. (Capitol News Illinois photo by Andrew Campbell)
Father of Waffle House shooter has sentence appeal denied
TAZEWELL COUNTY, Ill. - A man from rural Morton whose son shot and killed four people at a Nashville Waffle House in 2018 has had his sentence upheld. Jeffrey Reinking was sentenced to 18 months in pr...
May 09, 2024 (File-25 News)
Water main break affecting traffic on Charter Oak Road
PEORIA, Ill. - Illinois American Water crews are working on repairing a water main break in Peoria. The utility says repair work will be completed on Charter Oak Road. In the meantime, a portion of th...
May 09, 2024 Illinois American Water
Hunter Biden loses bid to dismiss gun charges, clearing way for June trial
WILMINGTON, Delaware (Reuters) -A federal appeals court panel rejected a bid by U.S. President Joe Biden's son to dismiss criminal gun charges, clearing the way for Hunter Biden's June 3 trial, a firs...
May 09, 2024 FILE PHOTO: Hunter Biden, son of U.S. President Joe Biden, departs the House Rayburn Office Building following a surprise appearance at a House Oversight Committee markup and meeting to vote on whether to hold Biden in contempt of Congress for failing to respond to a request to testify to the House last month, on Capitol Hill in Washington, U.S., January 10, 2024. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque/File Photo
Plate commissioned by 18th century French king on display at Peoria Riverfront Museum
PEORIA, Ill. - A piece of French history is now on display at the Peoria Riverfront Museum. The museum on Thursday unveiled a new item in its permanent collection, a soft-paste Sevres porcelain plate ...
May 09, 2024 (T.J. Carson/1470 & 100.3 WMBD)
Man seriously injured in shooting Wednesday night
PEORIA, Ill. - A Peoria man was hospitalized after being shot Wednesday night. Police Spokesperson Semone Roth says officers were called around 11:15 p.m. to W. Thrush on multiple ShotSpotter alerts i...
May 09, 2024
Speaker of the House Mike Johnson to deliver keynote address at Tazewell/Peoria County GOP Lincoln Day Dinner
PEORIA, Ill. - Republicans in Tazewell and Peoria County are bringing the Speaker of the House to central Illinois. The groups have announced that Mike Johnson will be the keynote speaker at the annua...
May 09, 2024 (Speaker Mike Johnson on Twitter/X)
