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US aid could buy Kyiv time, but Ukraine needs many more troops
KYIV/NEAR KUPIANSK, Ukraine (Reuters) -For the exhausted Ukrainian artillery gunners holding off Russian forces near the eastern town of Kupiansk, the U.S. aid package expected to finally pass this we...
TJ Carson Apr 22, 2024 FILE PHOTO: Servicemen of the 1148th separate artillery brigade of Air Assault Troops of Ukraine fire a M777 howitzer towards Russian troops, amid Russia's attack on Ukraine, in Donetsk region, Ukraine April 20, 2024. Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty/Serhii Nuzhnenko via REUTERS/File Photo
Investigation underway after fire destroyed Peoria house Monday morning
PEORIA, Ill. - A house will have to be torn down after a fire Monday morning in Peoria. Peoria Fire says crews responded just before 6:15 A.M. to the area of Brons and Broadway. The first crews on sce...
TJ Carson Apr 22, 2024 (Midwest Communications)
Chicago officer shot and killed over the weekend
CHICAGO, Ill. - A Chicago police officer was shot and killed on his way home from work Sunday morning, yet another tragic victim of the gun violence that continues to wreak havoc on the Windy City eve...
Julia Bradley Apr 22, 2024 Tony Webster / CC
UPDATE: Trump accepts new restrictions on $175 million bond in New York civil fraud case
UPDATED 2:20 P.M. NEW YORK (Reuters) -Former President Donald Trump agreed on Monday to additional restrictions on the $175 million bond in the former U.S. president's New York civil fraud case, resol...
Julia Bradley Apr 22, 2024 FILE PHOTO: Justice Arthur Engoron presides over Donald Trump Jr., son of Former President Donald Trump, testimony in his family's civil fraud case at the New York State Supreme Court on November 13, 2023 in New York City, NY. Erin Schaff/Pool via REUTERS/File Photo
Israeli military intelligence head resigns over Oct. 7 failures
JERUSALEM (Reuters) -The head of Israeli military intelligence has resigned after accepting responsibility for the failures that allowed the devastating Hamas-led attack on Israel on Oct. 7, the milit...
Julia Bradley Apr 22, 2024 FILE PHOTO: Smoke rises following Israeli strikes in Gaza, October 7, 2023. REUTERS/Mohammed Salem/File Photo
Biden to unveil $7 billion for rooftop solar in Earth Day message
(Reuters) - President Joe Biden on Monday will celebrate Earth Day by announcing $7 billion in grants for residential solar projects that will power nearly a million low-income households, the White H...
Julia Bradley Apr 22, 2024 FILE PHOTO: U.S. President Joe Biden delivers remarks on the White House initiative on climate change, at the White House in Washington, November 14, 2023. REUTERS/Tom Brenner/File Photo
UPDATE: Trump schemed to corrupt 2016 election, prosecutors say in hush money trial
UPDATE: 9:35 A.M. NEW YORK (Reuters) -New York prosecutors on Monday began telling a jury why Donald Trump's alleged cover-up of a hush money payment to a porn star during his 2016 campaign broke the ...
Julia Bradley Apr 22, 2024 Republican presidential candidate and former U.S. President Donald Trump departs Trump tower in Manhattan to attend his criminal trial over charges that he falsified business records to conceal money paid to silence porn star Stormy Daniels in 2016, in New York City, U.S., April 22, 2024. REUTERS/Mike Segar
GasBuddy: Peoria gas prices drop slightly
PEORIA, Ill. - Average gas prices in Peoria have fallen 5.2 cents per gallon in the last week, averaging $3.78 on Monday, according to GasBuddy's survey of 148 stations in Peoria. Prices in Peoria are...
Julia Bradley Apr 22, 2024 Mike Mozart / CC
Two dead, six injured in Memphis block party shooting, police say
MEMPHIS, TN - (Reuters) -At least two people are dead and six others injured in a shooting at a block party in Memphis, Tennessee, on Saturday, according to police. Police say the block party was unsa...
Ed Hammond Apr 21, 2024
U.S. House passes $95 billion Ukraine, Israel aid package, sends to Senate
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. House of Representatives on Saturday with broad bipartisan support passed a $95 billion legislative package providing security assistance to Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan, ...
Ed Hammond Apr 20, 2024 View of the U.S. Capitol, April 20, 2024. REUTERS/Ken Cedeno
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