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UPDATE: Donald Trump appears in New York court again for civil trial
Updated 9:20 a.m. (Reuters) - Donald Trump appeared in New York court on Tuesday for the third week of a civil fraud trial that could dismantle pillars of the former U.S. president's business empire. ...
Oct 17, 2023 FILE PHOTO: Former U.S. President Donald Trump arrives at Trump Tower after giving a deposition to New York Attorney General Letitia James who sued him and his Trump Organization, in New York City, U.S., April 13, 2023. REUTERS/Bing Guan/File Photo
UPDATE: Gaza death toll rises to 3,000 with Biden due to visit Israel
UPDATED 1:11 P.M. GAZA (Reuters) -The Palestinian death toll from Israel's bombardment of Gaza climbed to about 3,000 on Tuesday, health authorities said, and at least six people were killed in an Isr...
Oct 17, 2023 Palestinians search for casualties under the rubble of a building destroyed by Israeli strikes in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip, October 17, 2023. REUTERS/Mohammed Salem
Slain Palestinian boy mourned in Illinois; stabbing suspect appears in court
BRIDGEVIEW, Illinois (Reuters) -Tearful mourners on Monday gathered in prayer at a mosque and placed white and yellow roses at the gravesite of a 6-year-old Muslim boy stabbed to death by a man who po...
Oct 16, 2023 Mourners place flowers at the grave of Wadea Al-Fayoume at Parkholm Cemetery where the burial took place of Wadea Al-Fayoume, 6, a Muslim boy who according to police was stabbed to death in an attack that targeted him and his mother for their religion and as a response to the war between Israel and Hamas, in LaGrange, Illinois, U.S. October 16, 2023. REUTERS/Jim Vondruska
Biden postpones Colorado trip to focus on national security, White House says
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Joe Biden postponed a trip to a wind tower plant in Colorado on Monday to stay at the White House for national security meetings, the White House said, as Biden c...
Oct 16, 2023 U.S. President Joe Biden speaks at a dinner hosted by the Human Rights Campaign at the Washington Convention Center in Washington, U.S., October 14, 2023. REUTERS/Ken Cedeno/File Photo
Using SAFE-T Act, judge orders murder suspect to remain in jail
PEORIA, Ill. - A Peoria man will continue to be held in jail prior to trial on charges connecting him to the city's 19th homicide of the year. While bond is no longer set under the state's SAFE-T Act,...
Oct 16, 2023 Amorta Nelson (1470 & 100.3 WMBD)
Family, doctors hope Gordon-Booth legislation brings awareness to pulmonary embolisms
PEORIA, Ill. - A Peoria lawmaker has filed legislation in Springfield that, if approved, would funnel money into research on, and education about, blood clots. State Representative Jehan Gordon-Booth ...
Oct 16, 2023 (Bleeding and Clotting Disorders Institute)
Sam Bankman-Fried jury sees photo of FTX founder with Katy Perry, Orlando Bloom
NEW YORK -The jury at Sam Bankman-Fried's fraud trial on Monday saw a photograph of the FTX cryptocurrency exchange founder with singer Katy Perry and actor Orlando Bloom at the 2022 NFL Super Bowl, a...
Oct 16, 2023 FILE PHOTO: Former FTX Chief Executive Sam Bankman-Fried, who faces fraud charges over the collapse of the bankrupt cryptocurrency exchange, leaves following a hearing at Manhattan federal court in New York City, U.S. January 3, 2023. REUTERS/Andrew Kelly/File Photo
US offers legal status, benefits to migrant families separated under Trump
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. will offer migrant families separated at the U.S.-Mexico border under then-President Donald Trump temporary legal status and other benefits while barring similar separat...
Oct 16, 2023 Migrants seeking asylum in the United States walk on the banks of the Rio Bravo river, the border between the U.S. and Mexico, in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico September 11, 2023. REUTERS/Jose Luis Gonzalez/File Photo
Donald Trump wants London court to rule 'Steele dossier' sex claims are false
LONDON (Reuters) - Donald Trump is suing a British private investigations firm in a London court to prove claims that he engaged in "perverted sexual acts" in Russia are false, the former U.S. preside...
Oct 16, 2023 FILE PHOTO: Donald Trump, former U.S. president and Republican presidential candidate, waves at the Club 47 USA event in West Palm Beach, Florida, U.S., October 11, 2023. REUTERS/Marco Bello/File Photo
Peoria Civic Center announces two shows for early 2024. Here's who is performing
PEORIA, Ill. - Grammy-nominated artists will be making stops at the Peoria Civic Center in the first quarter of 2024. Chicago-based rock band Disturbed will be kicking off their 23-date "Take Back You...
Oct 16, 2023 (File-Dalton Kemper/1470-100.3 WMBD)
