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UPDATE: Board of Elections allows Trump's name to stay on ballot
UPDATE: 5:11 p.m. SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (Capitol News Illinois) - Former President Donald Trump's name will appear on the March 19 Republican primary election ballot in Illinois, barring any extraordinary...
Jan 30, 2024 Illinois State Board of Elections members Cristina Cray, left, and Tonya Genovese listen as the board considers a challenge to former President Donald Trump’s qualifications to appear on the March 19 Republican primary ballot. The board voted 8-0 to leave his name on the ballot. (Capitol News Illinois photo by Peter Hancock)
Disguised Israeli forces kill 3 Palestinian militants in raid on West Bank hospital
JENIN, West Bank (Reuters) -Israeli commandos disguised as medical workers and Muslim women burst into a hospital in the occupied West Bank on Tuesday and killed three Palestinian militants, one of th...
Jan 30, 2024 Mourners react next to the body of a Palestinian killed following an Israeli raid, in a hospital in Jenin, in the Israeli-occupied West Bank January 30, 2024. REUTERS/Raneen Sawafta
US job openings unexpectedly rise; quits at two-year low
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. job openings unexpectedly rose in December and data for the prior month was revised higher, suggesting the labor market likely remains too strong for the Federal Reserve to ...
Jan 30, 2024 FILE PHOTO: An employee hiring sign is seen in a window of a business in Arlington, Virginia, U.S., April 7, 2023. REUTERS/Elizabeth Frantz/File Photo
Biden says he has decided how to respond to attack on US troops in Jordan
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. President Joe Biden said on Tuesday he has made up his mind on how to respond to a drone attack that killed U.S. service members in Jordan, as he weighs punishing Iran-backe...
Jan 30, 2024 U.S. President Joe Biden is briefed on the deadly drone attack at a U.S. outpost in Jordan, by Director of National Intelligence Avril Haines, Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin and other members of the national security team in the Situation Room at the White House in Washington, U.S. January 29, 2024. The White House/Handout via REUTERS./File Photo
US Congress negotiators reach deal on 12 gov't spending bills -Republican lawmakers
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Bipartisan negotiators in the U.S. Congress have reached agreement on the spending levels in the 12 bills that legislators would need to pass to avert a government shutdown begin...
Jan 30, 2024 FILE PHOTO: The U.S. Capitol Building is seen in Washington, U.S., August 15, 2023. REUTERS/Kevin Wurm
Peoria woman pleads guilty to reduced charges in drug-related death
PEORIA, Ill. - A Peoria woman will be sentenced in April after pleading guilty to a reduced charge for a fentanyl-related death. Peoria County Court records show Angela Price died in August of 2022, a...
Jan 30, 2024 (1470 & 100.3 WMBD/Peoria County Jail)
Republican US House panel to push forward on impeaching border chief Mayorkas
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A Republican-led U.S. House of Representatives panel on Tuesday plans to debate impeachment charges against Democratic President Joe Biden's top border official, a near-unpreced...
Jan 30, 2024 FILE PHOTO: Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas takes his seat to testify before a Senate Appropriations Homeland Security Subcommittee hearing on the department's budget request on Capitol Hill in Washington, U.S., May 26, 2021. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque/File Photo
Peoria store owner recounts violent robbery
PEORIA, Ill. (25 News) - A quiet night at Superior Appliances off Sterling Avenue near Northwoods Mall quickly turned sinister after a surprise robbery. Police are still looking for two men who entere...
Jan 30, 2024 (25 News)
City says it's prepared if Illinois River flooding gets worse. Here's what could happen
PEORIA, Ill. - Peoria officials say the city is ready if the flooding along the Illinois River at Peoria gets any worse. Public Works officials say they're monitoring river levels this week; this, aft...
Jan 29, 2024 Flooding in Illinois as of Monday, January 29. (Graphics from National Weather Service)
Youngest US soldier killed in Jordan drone attack was 23
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. military on Monday released the names of the three Army Reserve soldiers killed in Sunday's drone attack by Iran-backed militants in Jordan, with the youngest victim ju...
Jan 29, 2024 U.S. Army Reserve Sgt. William Jerome Rivers, Spc. Breonna Alexsondria Moffett and Spc. Kennedy Ladon Sanders, who were killed in a drone attack on an outpost in northeast Jordan, are seen in a combination of undated photographs released by the U.S. Army Reserve Command. U.S. Army Reserve Command/Handout via REUTERS
