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UPDATE: Hunter Biden says US Republican critics are 'trying to destroy a presidency'
UPDATED 1:41 P.M. (12/8) WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Joe Biden's son Hunter Biden said critics of his father are "trying to destroy a presidency" through relentless attacks on him and "tryin...
Dec 07, 2023 FILE PHOTO: Hunter Biden, son of U.S. President Joe Biden, departs federal court n Wilmington, Delaware, U.S. July 26, 2023. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst/File Photo
Two more arrests made -- one adult and one juvenile -- in connection with summer armed robberies
PEORIA, Ill. - Peoria Police have arrested another two people in connection with a string of armed robberies that occurred over the summer. Police said Thursday evening they arrested Omarvelous Blakes...
Dec 07, 2023 Omarvelous Blakes (1470 & 100.3 WMBD/Peoria County Jail)
Las Vegas campus gunman identified as struggling academic
(Reuters) -The gunman shot dead by police after he killed three professors and wounded a fourth at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, was a financially struggling academic who was denied employment ...
Dec 07, 2023 Law enforcement officers head into UNLV campus after reports of an active shooter in Las Vegas, Nevada, U.S. December 6, 2023. Steve Marcus/Las Vegas Sun via REUTERS
UPDATE: Woman pleads guilty to murder in 2022 death of 8-year-old son
UPDATED 12:24 P.M. 12/8/23 PEORIA, Ill. - One of two people accused in the death of an eight-year-old child last year has pleaded guilty. According to Peoria County Court records, Stephanie Jones, 37,...
Dec 07, 2023 Stephanie Jones (25 News/Pool video)
Hundreds more Palestinians killed as Israel pursues Hamas in south Gaza
GAZA/JERUSALEM (Reuters) -Israel battled Hamas militants in the Gaza Strip's biggest cities on Thursday, leaving hundreds more Palestinians dead as almost 2 million displaced Gazans struggled to find ...
Dec 07, 2023 Smoke rises over Gaza, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas, as seen from southern Israel, December 6, 2023. REUTERS/Athit Perawongmetha
US House Committee opens investigation into Harvard, Penn, MIT after antisemitism hearing
(Reuters) - A U.S. House of Representatives committee opened an investigation into three of the country's most prestigious universities on Thursday, two days after lawmakers expressed dissatisfaction ...
Dec 07, 2023 A view of Harvard campus on John F. Kennedy Street at Harvard University is pictured in Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S., December 7, 2023 as leaders of various universities come under fire from their schools' Jewish communities for their handling of clashes between pro-Israel and pro-Palestinian contingents since Hamas' October 7 attack on Israel. REUTERS/Faith Ninivaggi/File Photo
Congressman with Peoria ties discusses concerns with relationship between the United States and China
PEORIA, Ill. - A Congressman with ties to Peoria says there's multiple concerns with China's relationship with the United States. Democrat Raja Krishnamoorthi, a graduate of Richwoods High School, ser...
Dec 07, 2023 U.S. Rep.. Raja Krishnamoorthi (House of Representatives)
UPDATE: Texas AG threatens to prosecute doctors in emergency abortion
UPDATED 6:41 p.m. (Reuters) - Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton on Thursday threatened to prosecute any doctors involved in providing an emergency abortion to a woman, hours after she won a court orde...
Dec 07, 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
State health plan declares racism a public health crisis
(Capitol News Illinois) - A new state health report pinpoints racism as a public health crisis while also noting Illinois needs to improve in the areas of maternal and infant health, mental health and...
Dec 07, 2023 (Illinois Department of Public Health)
City awarded funding, entrance into federal program for rail corridor development
PEORIA, Ill. - The proposed Chicago to Peoria rail corridor line is one of twelve in Illinois able to move on in the process potentially leading to reality. Peoria Mayor Rita Ali says inclusion in a n...
Dec 07, 2023 A press conference was held Thursday, December 7, announcing the proposed Peoria to Chicago passenger line is included in the Federal Railroad Administration's Corridor Identification and Development program. Mayor Rita Ali and former Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood is joined by other city and county officials, as well as some from other cities along the proposed route. (Will Stevenson/1470 & 100.3 WMBD)
