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Drone, rocket attacks targeted US forces in Iraq, US officials say
BAGHDAD (Reuters) -U.S. forces in Iraq and Syria faced two separate rocket and explosive drone attacks in less than 24 hours, Iraqi security sources and U.S. officials told Reuters on Monday, in the f...
Apr 22, 2024 FILE PHOTO: Military vehicles of U.S. soldiers are seen at Ain al-Asad air base in Anbar province, Iraq January 13, 2020. REUTERS/John Davison/File Photo
Only grocery store in Roanoke to shut down. Here's what we know
ROANOKE, Ill. - The only grocery store in a small Woodford County town is no more. 25 News reports the Roanoke IGA Foodliner is closing at the end of the day today Monday. Store owners did not provide...
Apr 22, 2024 (25 News)
Biden unveils $7 billion for rooftop solar in Earth Day message
TRIANGLE, Va. (Reuters) -President Joe Biden on Monday celebrated Earth Day by announcing $7 billion in grants for residential solar projects that will power nearly a million low-income households. Th...
Apr 22, 2024 U.S. President Joe Biden and U.S. Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) walk together at an event to commemorate Earth Day during a visit to Prince William Forest Park in Triangle, Virginia, U.S., April 22, 2024. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque
Governor visits Peoria to encourage passage of his health insurance reform initiative
PEORIA, Ill. - Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker was joined by state lawmakers and OSF Healthcare leaders in Peoria on Monday to urge passage of one of his health care initiatives. The State House last ...
Apr 22, 2024 Governor J.B. Pritzker speaks at the OSF Healthcare Cancer Institute about the Healthcare Protection Act. (T.J. Carson/1470 & 100.3 WMBD)
Kroger, Albertsons to sell 166 more stores to gain regulatory approval for $25 billion merger
(Reuters) -Kroger and Albertsons Cos will sell an extra 166 stores to C&S Wholesale Grocers under an amended deal to get regulatory approval for their proposed $25 billion merger, the companies sa...
Apr 22, 2024 FILE PHOTO: The Albertsons logo is seen on an Albertsons grocery store, as Kroger agrees to buy rival Albertsons in a deal to combine the two supermarket chains, in Rancho Cucamonga, California, U.S., October 14, 2022. REUTERS/Aude Guerrucci/File Photo
US aid could buy Kyiv time, but Ukraine needs many more troops
KYIV/NEAR KUPIANSK, Ukraine (Reuters) -For the exhausted Ukrainian artillery gunners holding off Russian forces near the eastern town of Kupiansk, the U.S. aid package expected to finally pass this we...
Apr 22, 2024 FILE PHOTO: Servicemen of the 1148th separate artillery brigade of Air Assault Troops of Ukraine fire a M777 howitzer towards Russian troops, amid Russia's attack on Ukraine, in Donetsk region, Ukraine April 20, 2024. Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty/Serhii Nuzhnenko via REUTERS/File Photo
Investigation underway after fire destroyed Peoria house Monday morning
PEORIA, Ill. - A house will have to be torn down after a fire Monday morning in Peoria. Peoria Fire says crews responded just before 6:15 A.M. to the area of Brons and Broadway. The first crews on sce...
Apr 22, 2024 (Midwest Communications)
Chicago officer shot and killed over the weekend
CHICAGO, Ill. - A Chicago police officer was shot and killed on his way home from work Sunday morning, yet another tragic victim of the gun violence that continues to wreak havoc on the Windy City eve...
Apr 22, 2024 Tony Webster / CC
UPDATE: Trump accepts new restrictions on $175 million bond in New York civil fraud case
UPDATED 2:20 P.M. NEW YORK (Reuters) -Former President Donald Trump agreed on Monday to additional restrictions on the $175 million bond in the former U.S. president's New York civil fraud case, resol...
Apr 22, 2024 FILE PHOTO: Justice Arthur Engoron presides over Donald Trump Jr., son of Former President Donald Trump, testimony in his family's civil fraud case at the New York State Supreme Court on November 13, 2023 in New York City, NY. Erin Schaff/Pool via REUTERS/File Photo
Israeli military intelligence head resigns over Oct. 7 failures
JERUSALEM (Reuters) -The head of Israeli military intelligence has resigned after accepting responsibility for the failures that allowed the devastating Hamas-led attack on Israel on Oct. 7, the milit...
Apr 22, 2024 FILE PHOTO: Smoke rises following Israeli strikes in Gaza, October 7, 2023. REUTERS/Mohammed Salem/File Photo
