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Southwest Airlines flight attendants vote to approve strike authorization
(Reuters) -Southwest Airlines flight attendants voted to approve a strike against the carrier, the Transport Workers Union of America Local 556 union said on Tuesday. Over 98% of the members voted in ...
Jan 23, 2024 Southwest Airlines planes sit idle on the tarmac at Chicago Midway International Airport in Chicago, Illinois, U.S. April 18, 2023. REUTERS/Jim Vondruska/File Photo
US appeals court rebuffs Trump request to reconsider gag order in 2020 election case
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A federal appeals court on Tuesday declined to reconsider its decision to largely uphold a judge's order limiting former President Donald Trump's statements about people involve...
Jan 23, 2024 FILE PHOTO: Former U.S. President and Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump attends a rally in advance of the New Hampshire primary election in Laconia, New Hampshire, U.S. January 22, 2024. REUTERS/Mike Segar
UPDATE: Biden to court support of auto workers at UAW event
UPDATED 2:37 P.M. WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Joe Biden will speak to United Auto Workers members on Wednesday at a legislative conference in Washington, the union said Tuesday, as he looks ...
Jan 23, 2024 U.S. President Joe Biden joins striking members of the United Auto Workers (UAW) on the picket line outside the GM's Willow Run Distribution Center, in Belleville, Wayne County, Michigan, U.S., September 26, 2023. REUTERS/Evelyn Hockstein/File Photo
Netflix to stream WWE Raw in $5 billion bet on live events
(Reuters) -Netflix took a big step into live events on Tuesday with a more than $5 billion rights deal that would make it the exclusive home of World Wrestling Entertainment's Raw from January 2025. T...
Jan 23, 2024 Apr 2, 2023; Inglewood, CA, USA; Omos (black pants) and Brock Lesnar (black shorts) during Wrestlemania Night 2 at SoFi Stadium. Mandatory Credit: Joe Camporeale-USA TODAY Sports/files
Atomic bomb blockbuster 'Oppenheimer' leads Oscar nominations
BEVERLY HILLS, California (Reuters) - "Oppenheimer," the epic film about the World War Two race to build the first atomic bomb, landed a leading 13 Oscar nominations on Tuesday and will compete for th...
Jan 23, 2024 Actors Zazie Beetz and Jack Quaid host the announcement of the 96th Oscars Nominations, in Beverly Hills, California, U.S., January 23, 2024. REUTERS/Mario Anzuoni
UPDATE: US pushes for pause in Gaza as Israel suffers worst loss of soldiers
UPDATED 3:20 P.M. GAZA/JERUSALEM/WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The White House said on Tuesday its envoy was having active discussions about ensuring the release of hostages in Gaza and securing a humanitaria...
Jan 23, 2024 Friends and family mourn Israeli military reservist Sergeant First Class Hadar Kapeluk, 23, who was killed in the southern Gaza Strip amid the ongoing ground operation of the Israeli army against Palestinian Islamist group Hamas, at his funeral at the Mount Herzl military cemetery in Jerusalem, January 23, 2024. REUTERS/Ronen Zvulun
Peoria Co. roads may still be slick and icy. Here's what we know
PEORIA COUNTY, Ill. - Peoria County plow drivers are reporting that roads are still very slick and icy outside of the City of Peoria. Mark Gilles, with the Peoria County Highway Department, says crews...
Jan 23, 2024 A Peoria County Highway Department snow plow works to clear roads in the Dunlap area during a winter storm on January 9th, 2024. (T.J. Carson/1470 & 100.3 WMBD)
PPS Board rejects contract renewal with Quest Charter Academy
PEORIA, Ill. (25 News) - Peoria Public Schools Board of Education wants to end its association with Quest Charter Academy. The board voted 5-1 Monday night not to renew Quest's contract because the ch...
Jan 23, 2024 (1470/100.3 WMBD)
Suspect in 8 Chicago-area slayings turns up dead in Texas
(Reuters) -A man suspected of shooting eight people to death and wounding another in suburban Chicago has turned up dead hundreds of miles away in Texas, where he apparently took his own life after an...
Jan 23, 2024 Romeo Nance, sought by the Joliet Police Department as a suspect in the shooting deaths of seven people in two homes, poses in an undated photograph released by investigators in Joliet, Illinois, U.S. Joliet Police Department/Handout via REUTERS
UPDATED: Trump seeks a big victory, Haley tries to stop him as New Hampshire votes
UPDATED 1:19 P.M. MANCHESTER, New Hampshire (Reuters) -Voters in New Hampshire were choosing whether to give Donald Trump a smooth glide to the Republican presidential nomination or bolster rival Nikk...
Jan 23, 2024 Former U.S. President and Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks at a rally in advance of the New Hampshire primary election in Laconia, New Hampshire, U.S. January 22, 2024. REUTERS/Elizabeth Frantz
