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Michigan teen sentenced to life without parole in 2021 school shooting
(Reuters) -A teenager who fatally shot four classmates two years ago at his high school outside Detroit was sentenced to life in prison without parole on Friday, after grieving family members describe...
Dec 08, 2023 FILE PHOTO: Ethan Crumbley, 15, charged with first-degree murder in a high school shooting, poses in a jail booking photograph taken at the Oakland County Jail in Pontiac, Michigan, U.S. December 1, 2021. Picture taken December 1, 2021. Oakland County Sheriff's Office/Handout via REUTERS
Israel increases Gaza strikes, UN decries 'humanitarian nightmare'
GAZA/CAIRO (Reuters) -Israel sharply increased strikes on the Gaza Strip, pounding the length of the Palestinian enclave and killing hundreds in a new, expanded phase of the war, as Washington again s...
Dec 08, 2023 Rubble of destroyed buildings lies at the site of Israeli strikes, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and Palestinian Islamist group Hamas, in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip, December 8, 2023. REUTERS/Bassam Masoud
UPDATE: US appeals court narrows Trump gag order in federal 2020 election case
UPDATED 3:13 P.M. WASHINGTON (Reuters) -A U.S. appeals court on Friday narrowed but largely upheld a gag order that bars Donald Trump from assailing prosecutors, court staff and potential witnesses in...
Dec 08, 2023 FILE PHOTO: Former U.S. President Donald Trump speaks as he attends the Trump Organization civil fraud trial, in New York State Supreme Court in the Manhattan borough of New York City, U.S., December 7, 2023. REUTERS/Mike Segar/File Photo
Pajamas and reading help celebrate memory of former student at Peoria's Northmoor Primary School
PEORIA, Ill. - Students and teachers at Northmoor Primary School came to school on Friday in their pajamas to honor the memory and legacy of a former student. It was part of the school's 20th Cuddle C...
Dec 08, 2023 Marilyn Mowder, mother of Aaron Hunter (T.J. Carson/1470 & 1003. WMBD)
Chicago utility pushes back against state oversight, asks for further rate increase
CHICAGO (Capitol News Illinois) - Chicago utility Peoples Gas is requesting a multimillion-dollar bump to its already record-high rate increase approved by regulators last month. In November, the Illi...
Dec 08, 2023 Illinois Commerce Commission Chair Doug Scott looks on at activists during a public comment period at an Oct. 19 ICC meeting in Chicago. (Capitol News Illinois photo by Andrew Adams)
UPDATE: US blocks UN Security Council demand for humanitarian ceasefire in Gaza
UPDATED 3:09 P.M. UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - The United States on Friday vetoed a United Nations Security Council demand for an immediate humanitarian ceasefire in the war between Israel and Palestini...
Dec 08, 2023 United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres speaks during a United Nations Security Council meeting about his invoking Article 99 of the United Nations charter to address the humanitarian crisis in the midst of conflict between Israel and the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas at the UN headquarters in New York City, U.S., December 8, 2023. REUTERS/Shannon Stapleton
Strong US jobs data throws rate cut bets into doubt
LONDON/SINGAPORE (Reuters) - World stocks teetered close to their first weekly loss since October, government bond prices dropped and the dollar firmed as strong U.S. jobs data signaled the U.S. econo...
Dec 08, 2023 FILE PHOTO: An employee hiring sign with a QR code is seen in a window of a business in Arlington, Virginia, U.S., April 7, 2023. REUTERS/Elizabeth Frantz/File Photo
Russia's Putin tells soldiers: I will run for president again in 2024
MOSCOW (Reuters) -Russian President Vladimir Putin on Friday told soldiers who had fought in the Ukraine war that he would run for president again in the 2024 election, a move that will allow the form...
Dec 08, 2023 Russia's President Vladimir Putin attends a ceremony to present Gold Star medals to service members, bearing the title of Hero of Russia and involved in the country's military campaign in Ukraine, on the eve of Heroes of the Fatherland Day at the St. George Hall of the Grand Kremlin Palace in Moscow, Russia, December 8, 2023. Sputnik/Valeriy Sharifulin/Pool via REUTERS
"Drive for Miracles" raising money for OSF Children's Hospital of Illinois
PEORIA, Ill. - Each year, OSF HealthCare Children's Hospital of Illinois cares for more children than any other hospital between St. Louis and Chicago, with 7,000 admissions, 2,500 newborn deliveries ...
Dec 08, 2023 (93.3 The Drive)
Israel sharply ramps up Gaza strikes, U.S. alarmed
GAZA/CAIRO (Reuters) -Israel sharply intensified its strikes on the Gaza Strip, pounding the length of the Palestinian enclave and killing hundreds in a new, expanded phase of the war that Washington ...
Dec 08, 2023 Palestinians walk among the rubble at the site of Israeli strikes on a house, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and Palestinian Islamist group Hamas, in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip, December 8, 2023. REUTERS/Bassam Masoud
