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Judge bars Trump from targeting prosecutors, witnesses in election case
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A federal judge on Monday barred Donald Trump from targeting U.S. prosecutors, court staff and potential witnesses involved in a criminal case accusing him of trying to overturn...
Oct 16, 2023 FILE PHOTO: Former U.S. President and Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump delivers remarks to supporters at the Club 47 USA event in West Palm Beach, Florida, U.S. October 11, 2023. REUTERS/Shannon Stapleton/File Photo
UPDATE: One arrested after Monday morning fatal shooting
UPDATED 4:39 P.M. PEORIA, Ill. - A Peoria woman is under arrest for the city's 23rd homicide of the year Monday morning. Peoria Police say TNashia Wash, 18, was arrested for First-Degree Murder and ta...
Oct 16, 2023 TNashia Wash (1470 & 100.3 WMBD/Peoria County Jail)
Price of gas falls again in central Illinois. Here's what we know
PEORIA, Ill. - The trend of gas prices falling in central Illinois continues for another week. GasBuddy reports the average price of a gallon of unleaded sits at $3.59/g. That's a 6.4 cent drop in the...
Oct 16, 2023 Mike Mozart / CC
Ford chairman calls for deal to end UAW strike
DEARBORN, Michigan (Reuters) - Ford executive chairman Bill Ford on Monday urged the United Auto Workers union to end a 32-day strike and reach a new labor agreement, warning of the growing impact to ...
Oct 16, 2023 FILE PHOTO: United Auto Workers (UAW) union members picket outside Ford's Kentucky truck plant after going on strike in Louisville, Kentucky, U.S. October 12, 2023. REUTERS/Luke Sharrett/File Photo
Israeli strikes on Gaza intensify as humanitarian crisis deepens
GAZA/JERUSALEM (Reuters) -Israeli forces kept up their bombardment of Gaza on Monday after diplomatic efforts to arrange a ceasefire to allow foreign citizens to leave and aid to be brought into the b...
Oct 16, 2023 Smoke rises in the air following Israeli bombings in Gaza, as seen from Israel's border with the Gaza Strip, in southern Israel October 15, 2023. REUTERS/Amir Cohen
Former developers of Peoria's Hotel Pere Marquette go to trial Monday
PEORIA, Ill. - A trial for the former developers of the Hotel Pere Marquette is set to begin Monday. Chief U.S. District Judge Sara Darrow is overseeing the case against Gary Matthews and Monte Branna...
Oct 16, 2023 (25 News)
Hardline Republican Jim Jordan to push bid for US House speaker
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Hardline Republican Jim Jordan is set to take his sputtering bid for speaker to the floor of the U.S. House of Representatives this week, hoping to bulldoze opposition from doze...
Oct 16, 2023 FILE PHOTO: House Judiciary Committee Chairman Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH), a prime contender in the race to be the next Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives, speaks to reporters during a break in a House Republican Conference meeting as Republicans work to restart their effort to pick a new leader for the House after party infighting led nominee Steve Scalise to withdraw from the race for speaker, on Capitol Hill in Washington, U.S., October 13, 2023. REUTERS/Elizabeth Frantz/File Photo
Exclusive-Americans want US to help get Gaza civilians out of harm's way-Reuters/Ipsos
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A bipartisan majority of Americans wants the U.S. to help get Palestinian civilians out of harm's way in Gaza amid Israel's war against Hamas militants, but the American public'...
Oct 16, 2023 Palestinians gather to collect water, amid shortages of drinking water, as the Israeli-Palestinian conflict continues, in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip October 15, 2023. REUTERS/Mohammed Salem
UPDATED: Slain Palestinian boy mourned in Illinois after suspect appears in court
UPDATED 2:18 P.M. 10/16 BRIDGEVIEW, Illinois (Reuters) - Mourners gathered in a Chicago suburb on Monday for the funeral of a 6-year-old Muslim boy who was stabbed to death over the weekend by a man w...
Oct 15, 2023 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 ongoing conflict between Israel and Hamas, poses in an undated family photograph obtained by Reuters on October 15, 2023. CAIR/Handout via REUTERS
Actor Suzanne Somers dies at 76
(Reuters) -Actor Suzanne Somers, best known for her role on the television show "Three's Company" and for fitness and health business ventures, died Sunday at age 76, according to a statement from her...
Oct 15, 2023 FILE PHOTO: Actress Suzanne Somers arrives at the Vanity Fair Oscar Party in Beverly Hills, California February 28, 2016. REUTERS/Danny Moloshok/File Photo
