2+ hour, 9+ min ago   (180+ words) Sept 13 (Reuters) – A newly installed memorial statue of slain conservative activist Charlie Kirk was vandalized overnight in Phoenix ​on Sunday, according to the organization that he ‌founded. The statue was defaced with red paint, according to a post on X…...

9+ hour, 52+ min ago   (325+ words) CAIRO, Sept 13 (Reuters) – Libyan authorities have seized a shipment of tens of thousands of ecstasy pills, each marked with the face of ousted leader Muammar Gaddafi and smuggled ​in from Europe, security officials said. Images released by a ‌security agency…...

21+ hour, 42+ min ago   (269+ words) SEOUL, Sept 13 (Reuters) – South Korea’s expanded espionage law takes effect on Sunday, broadening espionage offences beyond acts involving North Korea to include all foreign countries as Seoul seeks to protect key technologies ​amid intensifying competition in semiconductors and other strategic…...

1+ day, 6+ hour ago   (495+ words) Sept 12 (Reuters) – A U.S. judge has ruled that the Trump administration broke the law by ordering the Federal Emergency Management Agency to cut its workforce in half. U.S. District Judge Susan Illston in San Francisco in a decision issued late Friday,…...

1+ day, 9+ hour ago   (122+ words) ELMWOOD, Ill. (25 News) – An abrupt end to a lengthy law enforcement career for one Peoria County police chief. The mayor of Elmwood tells 25News that Aaron Bean was fired from his position as Chief of Police for the City of Elmwood on…...

1+ day, 10+ hour ago   (710+ words) By Sarah Morland and Daniel Becerril TLAOLA, Mexico, Sept 12 (Reuters) – Nestled in the lush green mountains of Central Mexico, next to a sparsely traveled gravel road, few people had reason to wander close enough to hear the loud, mechanical whirring…...

1+ day, 11+ hour ago   (454+ words) CHICAGO, Ill. (Capitol News Illinois) — Nearly three years ago, Illinois became the first state in the nation to fully abolish its cash bail system, an effort pushed by criminal justice reform advocates who argued that the ability for a person to…...

1+ day, 16+ hour ago   (250+ words) SOFIA, Sept 12 (Reuters) – An explosion caused a fire at a weapons storage site in central Bulgaria overnight, local media and officials ​said on Saturday, the second blaze at ‌a munitions facility in the past few weeks. No one was reported…...

1+ day, 18+ hour ago   (383+ words) LOS ANGELES, Sept 11 (Reuters) – Grammy-winning rap artist Lil Durk was acquitted on Friday of all charges in a federal murder-for-hire case accusing him of orchestrating the revenge killing of a man shot dead in a daytime ambush ​in Los Angeles…...

1+ day, 21+ hour ago   (458+ words) BOSTON, Sept 11 (Reuters) – A federal judge on Friday blocked U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration from continuing to ask applicants for civil service jobs throughout the government to respond to what unions described as a partisan “loyalty question.” U.S. District…...