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US House expects Wednesday vote on formalizing Biden impeachment inquiry - aide
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The Republican-controlled U.S. House of Representatives is expected to vote on Wednesday to formalize its impeachment inquiry of Democratic President Joe Biden, a Republican lead...
Dec 12, 2023 U.S. President Joe Biden walks from Marine One as he returns to the White House in Washington, U.S., December 11, 2023. REUTERS/Elizabeth Frantz
UPDATE: Zelenskiy makes 11th hour plea for Ukraine war funds in Washington
UPDATED 1:12 P.M. WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy met with U.S. lawmakers on Capitol Hill on Tuesday to make a last-ditch plea to keep military support flowing as he bat...
Dec 12, 2023 Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy walks next to U.S. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) and U.S. Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) as he arrives for a meeting with all U.S. senators at the Capitol in Washington, U.S., December 12, 2023. REUTERS/Elizabeth Frantz
Israel pummels southern Gaza as hunger tightens grip
CAIRO/UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) -Israeli warplanes and tanks pounded southern Gaza overnight and on Tuesday, and the U.N. said aid distribution to Gazans facing growing hunger had largely stopped becau...
Dec 12, 2023 Smoke and debris rises over Gaza, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas, as seen from southern Israel, December 11, 2023. REUTERS/Clodagh Kilcoyne
UPDATE: Man seriously injured in Peoria shooting Monday night
PEORIA, Ill. - A shooting left a man seriously injured Monday night, not far from Bradley University. Peoria Police Spokesperson Semone Roth says officers were called around 6:35 p.m. to the area of C...
Dec 12, 2023 (25 News)
UPDATE: Testimony begins in child death trial
UPDATED 11:54 A.M. PEORIA, Ill. - Testimony is underway in the trial of one of two people accused of killing eight-year-old Navin Jones more than a year and a half ago. Brandon Walker, 42, is being pr...
Dec 12, 2023 (25 News)
Secretary of State helps launch first-of-its-kind state ID program for inmates exiting Cook County Jail
CHICAGO (Capitol News Illinois) - Certain detainees leaving Cook County jail will now be given a state ID card upon release in a new pilot program announced Monday by Sheriff Tom Dart and Illinois Sec...
Dec 11, 2023 Illinois Secretary of State Alexi Giannoulias announces a pilot program in partnership with the Cook County Sheriff Tom Dart that will offer state IDs to inmates exiting the Cook County jail. (Capitol News Illinois photo by Andrew Adams)
Former Peoria County K-9 passes away
PEORIA COUNTY, Ill. - The Peoria County Sheriffs Department is honoring a fallen hero of the four-legged variety. The department says K-9 Deputy "Tim" passed away over the weekend. "Tim" retired two y...
Dec 11, 2023 (Peoria County Sheriffs Department via Facebook)
Giuliani destroyed Georgia poll workers' reputations with fraud claims, lawyer says
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -A lawyer for two Georgia election workers accused Rudy Giuliani on Monday of "destroying" his clients' reputations by falsely accusing them of working to rig the 2020 U.S. presid...
Dec 11, 2023 Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani arrives to deliver remarks on the September 11 attacks during a news conference in New York, U.S., September 9, 2022. REUTERS/Amr Alfiky/File Photo
Activists calling for Gaza ceasefire protest in US Senate office building
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Several dozen activists calling for the United States to push for a permanent ceasefire between Israel and Hamas briefly protested in a U.S. Senate office building on Monday bef...
Dec 11, 2023 Activists engage in civil disobedience in Hart Senate Office Building, part of the U.S. Capitol complex, to call for a permanent ceasefire in Gaza and redirection of military aid for Israel, in Washington, U.S. December 11, 2023. REUTERS/Allison Bailey.
Texas woman who asked court to allow emergency abortion will leave state for care
(Reuters) - A woman who had asked a court for an order allowing her to get an abortion under the medical emergency exception to Texas' near-total ban will leave the state to receive care while the sta...
Dec 11, 2023 FILE PHOTO: A few abortion rights demonstrators remain in the crowd after hours of public comments and discussion as Denton’s city council meets to vote on a resolution seeking to make enforcing Texas’ trigger law on abortion a low priority for its police force, in Denton, Texas, June 28, 2022. REUTERS/Shelby Tauber/File Photo
