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Tucker Carlson says he will interview Russia's Putin soon
(Reuters) -U.S. media personality Tucker Carlson said on Tuesday he would soon interview Russian President Vladimir Putin and urged Americans to watch the exchanges to learn what lay behind Moscow's 2...
Feb 06, 2024 FILE PHOTO: Tucker Carlson speaks as conservative leaders and personalities attend Turning Point USA's AmericaFest 2023 in Phoenix, Arizona, U.S. December 18, 2023. REUTERS/Caitlin O’Hara
Former GOP lawmaker's trial again delayed amid last-minute hospitalization
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (Capitol News Illinois) - Instead of laying out his defense in his long-awaited federal corruption trial on Monday morning, former State Sen. Sam McCann was hospitalized in Missouri ...
Feb 06, 2024 Former Republican state Sen. Sam McCann speaks to reporters outside the federal courthouse in Springfield on Monday, Nov. 27. Though his rescheduled corruption trial was set to begin Monday, McCann was instead hospitalized and unable to make it to court. (Capitol News Illinois file photo by Hannah Meisel)
State Supreme Court denies state lawmaker's bid to vacate gun ban ruling
(Capitol News Illinois) - The Illinois Supreme Court has again denied a request from a Republican lawmaker seeking to repeal the state's assault weapons ban. Gov. JB Pritzker signed the ban on the sal...
Feb 06, 2024 State Rep. Dan Caulkins is pictured at an Illinois State Capitol news conference last year. He was again rejected by the Illinois Supreme Court this week in a case against the state’s assault weapons ban. (Capitol News Illinois file photo)
Biden blames rival Trump for sinking of bipartisan immigration bill
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. President Joe Biden said on Tuesday that the bipartisan immigration bill is falling apart under political pressure from Republican rival Donald Trump and urged lawmakers to ...
Feb 06, 2024 U.S. President Joe Biden delivers remarks urging Congress to pass the Emergency National Security Supplemental Appropriations Act in the State Dining Room at the White House in Washington, U.S., February 6, 2024. REUTERS/Evelyn Hockstein
Michigan school shooter's mother convicted of manslaughter
(Reuters) - A Michigan jury on Tuesday convicted the mother of a teenager who fatally shot four classmates at a high school near Detroit of manslaughter after prosecutors argued she bore responsibilit...
Feb 06, 2024 Jennifer Crumbley, the mother of a Michigan boy who shot dead four high-school classmates in 2021, testifies on the stand in an Oakland County courtroom in Pontiac, Michigan, U.S., February 1, 2024. Mandi Wright/Detroit Free Press/USA TODAY NETWORK via REUTERS
US reviewing Hamas response to hostage deal framework, will discuss with Israel
DOHA (Reuters) - U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said on Tuesday the United States was reviewing a response from Hamas to a framework on a deal for the release of hostages as part of an extende...
Feb 06, 2024 FILE PHOTO: U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken looks on during a news conference at the NATO foreign ministers' meeting in Bucharest, Romania, November 30, 2022. REUTERS/Stoyan Nenov
Rossi pleads guilty in federal court to tax fraud, mail fraud
PEORIA, Ill. - Aaron Rossi pleads guilty. Federal court records indicate Rossi pleaded guilty Tuesday morning to one count of mail fraud and one count of tax fraud. He had faced a total of ten felony ...
Feb 06, 2024 (25 News)
Trump not immune from election subversion charges, US appeals court rules
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A federal appeals court Tuesday ruled that Donald Trump does not have immunity from charges that he plotted to overturn his 2020 election defeat, bringing the former U.S. presid...
Feb 06, 2024 FILE PHOTO: Former U.S. President Donald Trump attends the closing arguments in the Trump Organization civil fraud trial at New York State Supreme Court in the Manhattan borough of New York City, U.S., January 11, 2024. REUTERS/Shannon Stapleton/File Photo
Houthis say they fired at two ships in Red Sea, damaging both
(Reuters) -Yemen's Iran-aligned Houthis said on Tuesday they had fired missiles at two vessels in the Red Sea, causing damage to the ships. The Houthis have been targeting commercial vessels with dron...
Feb 06, 2024 FILE PHOTO: A cargo ship boat model is seen in front of "Red Sea" and "Houthi attacks" words in this illustration taken January 9, 2024. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/Illustration/File Photo
King Charles' cancer 'caught early', as Harry flies in to see him
LONDON (Reuters) -King Charles' cancer was caught early and the whole country is hoping he can make a full recovery, British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak said on Tuesday, as messages of support for the ...
Feb 06, 2024 FILE PHOTO: Britain's King Charles leaves the London Clinic with Queen Camilla after receiving treatment for an enlarged prostate in London, Britain January 29, 2024. REUTERS/Hollie Adams/File Photo
