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Status of repairs to Riverview Plaza building in downtown Peoria uncertain a month after being shut down
PEORIA, Ill. - It's been a little more than a month since the Riverview Plaza building in downtown Peoria was shut down, and little progress has been made on needed work to reopen it. Last month, wate...
Mar 11, 2024 A moving truck is seen outside the Riverview Plaza building on March 11th, 2024. (T.J. Carson/1470 & 100.3 WMBD)
US leads global oil production for sixth straight year- EIA
(Reuters) - U.S. crude oil production lead global oil production for a sixth straight year, with a record breaking average production of 12.9 million barrels per day (bpd), the Energy Information Admi...
Mar 11, 2024 FILE PHOTO: Very Large Crude Carriers (VLCCs) line up at the Port of Corpus Christi, where they are being loaded with crude oil for shipping worldwide, in this handout picture taken July 2022. Port of Corpus Christi/Handout via REUTERS/File Photo
Israel checking reports that Hamas' military No.2 killed in Gaza strike
JERUSALEM/CAIRO (Reuters) -Israel was checking on Monday if Hamas's second-highest military leader died in an air strike in Gaza, media said, as prospects faded of talks securing a ceasefire to coinci...
Mar 11, 2024 Displaced Palestinians, who fled their houses due to Israeli strikes, shelter in a tent camp, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas, in Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip March 11, 2024. REUTERS/ Bassam Masoud
UPDATE: Biden unveils $7.3 trillion budget as campaign pitch for spending, tax goals
UPDATED 12:30 p.m. WASHINGTON (Reuters) -President Joe Biden sketched his policy vision for the United States on Monday, unveiling a $7.3 trillion spending wish list that is as much an election-year p...
Mar 11, 2024 FILE PHOTO: U.S. President Joe Biden speaks to the media as he prepares to depart Joint Base Andrews for a campaign event in Philadelphia, in Maryland, U.S., March 8, 2024. REUTERS/Evelyn Hockstein/File Photo
UPDATE: US Senator Menendez pleads not guilty to obstruction of justice charges
Updated: 1o:08 a.m. NEW YORK - U.S. Senator Bob Menendez pleaded not guilty on Monday to a new indictment charging him with obstruction of justice, as the embattled Democratic lawmaker's corruption tr...
Mar 11, 2024 U.S. Senator Bob Menendez arrives for his arraignment on a new 18-count indictment that added obstruction charges to bribery and other corruption charges that the New Jersey Democrat already faced, at Manhattan federal court in New York City, U.S., March 11, 2024. REUTERS/Shannon Stapleton
Enthusiasm wanes among Black voters who powered Biden's 2020 Georgia win
ATLANTA (Reuters) - Much has changed since Wanda Mosley helped galvanize thousands of Black voters across the battleground state of Georgia to help clinch the 2020 general election for U.S. President ...
Mar 11, 2024 People get their hair cut at the Off the Hook barbershop in Atlanta, U.S., March 5, 2024. REUTERS/Natalie Thomas
US, Jordan airdrop more aid to Gaza, US military says
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States and Jordan carried out a new airdrop of humanitarian aid to Gaza's Palestinians on Sunday, parachuting in more than 11,500 meals, the U.S. military said. The I...
Mar 11, 2024 U.S. Army Vessel (USAV) General Frank S. Besson (LSV-1) from the 7th Transportation Brigade (Expeditionary), 3rd Expeditionary Sustainment Command, XVIII Airborne Corps departs en route to the Eastern Mediterranean after President Biden announced the U.S. would provide humanitarian assistance to Gaza by sea, at Joint Base Langley-Eustis, Virginia, United States, March 9, 2024. US CENTCOM via X/Handout via REUTERS/File Photo
GasBuddy: Local gas prices down slightly
PEORIA, Ill. - Average gas prices in Peoria have fallen 1.3 cents per gallon in the last week, averaging $3.56 on Monday, according to GasBuddy's survey of 148 stations in Peoria. Prices in Peoria are...
Mar 11, 2024 Mike Mozart / CC
US military airlifts embassy personnel from Haiti, bolsters security
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. military said on Sunday it has carried out an operation in Haiti to airlift non-essential embassy personnel from the country and added U.S. forces to bolster embassy sec...
Mar 11, 2024 Police officers keep watch outside the U.S. embassy building where the U.S. military airlifted embassy non-essential personnel due to violence, in Port-au-Prince, Haiti March 10, 2024. REUTERS/Ralph Tedy Erol
Atomic bomb movie 'Oppenheimer' crowned best picture at the Oscars
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) -"Oppenheimer," the blockbuster biopic about the race to build the first atomic bomb, claimed seven Academy Awards including the prestigious best picture trophy on Sunday as Holl...
Mar 11, 2024 Christopher Nolan, Emma Thomas and Charles Roven pose with the Oscar for Best Picture for "Oppenheimer" in the Oscars photo room at the 96th Academy Awards in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, U.S., March 10, 2024. REUTERS/Carlos Barria
