Category Archives: Top Stories
US Justice Dept cites 'critical failures' in Uvalde school shooting response
(Reuters) -The U.S. Justice Department found "critical failures" in the delayed police response to the 2022 school shooting in Uvalde, Texas, that killed 19 children and two teachers, the department s...
Jan 18, 2024 Attendees hold candles during a vigil at Uvalde Memorial Park, one year after a gunman killed 19 children and two adults in Robb Elementary School, in Uvalde, Texas, May 24, 2023. REUTERS/ Evan Garcia/ File Photo
Pakistan fires retaliatory strike at Iran, stoking regional tension
ISLAMABAD (Reuters) -Pakistan said it used killer drones and rockets to strike separatist Baloch militants inside Iran on Thursday, in a retaliatory strike two days after Tehran said it attacked the b...
Jan 18, 2024 A man looks at a television screen after the Pakistani foreign ministry said the country conducted strikes inside Iran targeting separatist militants, two days after Tehran said it attacked Israel-linked militant bases inside Pakistani territory, in Karachi, Pakistan January 18, 2024. REUTERS/Akhtar Soomro
US Congress scrambles to pass stopgap bill to avert government shutdown
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Senate on Thursday will aim to approve a stopgap measure keeping the federal government funded through early March, averting a partial shutdown that would begin in less...
Jan 18, 2024 People walk past a snowy U.S. Capitol building in Washington, U.S., January 16, 2024. REUTERS/Leah Millis/ File Photo
Analysis-Biden's strategy on Yemen aims to weaken, not destroy, Houthis
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Joe Biden's emerging strategy on Yemen aims to weaken the Houthi militants but stops well short of trying to defeat the group or directly address Iran, the Houthi...
Jan 18, 2024 FILE PHOTO: U.S. President Joe Biden speaks to the press, as he visits Allentown Fire Training Academy, in Allentown, Pennsylvania, U.S., January 12, 2024. REUTERS/Leah Millis/File Photo
Biden aims for North Carolina as 2024 election comes into focus
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Joe Biden will fix his gaze on one of the prizes of the 2024 election three days after Donald Trump's Iowa Republican primary triumph, taking his economic pitch t...
Jan 18, 2024 FILE PHOTO: U.S. President Joe Biden makes remarks to promote his infrastructure spending proposals during a visit to the Flatirons Campus Laboratories and Offices of the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), in Arvada, Colorado, U.S. September 14, 2021. REUTERS/Leah Millis/File Photo
County clerks from across Illinois discuss improving communications with media at conference in East Peoria
EAST PEORIA, Ill. - Working relationships between government entities and news media was a topic of discussion for county clerks and recorders from across Illinois this week. "Who Called the Press!" w...
Jan 17, 2024 (Will Stevenson/1470 & 100.3 WMBD)
Israel presses southern Gaza assault, Jordan decries damage to hospital
GAZA/ISRAEL-GAZA BORDER/DOHA (Reuters) - Israel pressed its assault on Khan Younis in southern Gaza on Wednesday, sending tanks westwards while Jordan decried shelling that badly damaged its field hos...
Jan 17, 2024 A Palestinian walks at the site of an Israeli strike, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas, in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip, January 17, 2024. REUTERS/Ibraheem Abu Mustafa
Trump is warned he may be ejected from Carroll trial
NEW YORK (Reuters) -A federal judge warned Donald Trump on Wednesday he could be kicked out of writer E. Jean Carroll's defamation trial if he kept making disparaging comments that the jury could hear...
Jan 17, 2024 E. Jean Carroll testifies before Judge Lewis Kaplan as former U.S. President Donald Trump watches footage of himself appearing on a CNN Town Hall event, during the second civil trial where Carroll accused Trump of raping her decades ago, at Manhattan Federal Court in New York City, U.S., January 17, 2024 in this courtroom sketch. REUTERS/Jane Rosenberg
UPDATE: New WTVP board chair apologizes, says the station wants to regain public trust. Here's what he told us
UPDATED 6:57 P.M. PEORIA, Ill. - He's been on the job of sorts for one full day; but John Wieland, the new chair of the WTVP Board of Directors, says he's sorry to viewers and the public for what's le...
Jan 17, 2024 John Wieland (25 News)
Cold temperatures a factor in death of elderly Pekin woman. Here's what we know
PEORIA, Ill. - The death of a Pekin woman on Tuesday is being partly blamed on frigid weather. The Peoria County Coroner's Office says first responders responded to a house in the area of South and S....
Jan 17, 2024 Midwest Communications
