Category Archives: (1470 & 100.3 WMBD) Breaking News

Biden tests positive for COVID, has mild symptoms, taking Paxlovid treatment
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Joe Biden, the oldest person ever to serve as president of the United States, has tested positive for COVID-19, is experiencing mild symptoms and will continue working but...
Julia Bradley Jul 21, 2022

Japan ex-PM Abe dies after being shot while making a speech
NARA, Japan (Reuters) -Former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, Japan’s longest-serving leader, died on Friday hours after he was shot while campaigning for a parliamentary election, shocking a country...
Julia Bradley Jul 08, 2022

Rooftop shooter kills 6 at July 4 parade in Chicago suburb of Highland Park
UPDATED: 6:46 p.m. BREAKING: Police say they have the gunman from Highland Park, 22-year-old Bobby Crimo III in custody now, reportedly catching up with the alleged 4th of July shooter roughly six mil...
Cooper Banks Jul 04, 2022

Biden says he supports overriding filibuster to protect abortion rights
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. President Joe Biden on Thursday said he thinks the Senate should override the legislative filibuster to protect abortion and other privacy rights. Biden said he will ...
Julia Bradley Jun 30, 2022

Man injured in late-afternoon shooting
PEORIA, Ill. – Peoria Police say one man is in critical condition following a late-afternoon shooting. Police say officers were called to West McClure, inbetween Broadway and Isabell Avenues, ju...
Will Stevenson Jun 28, 2022

Biden signs bipartisan gun safety bill into law
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. President Joe Biden on Saturday signed a bipartisan gun safety bill into law, the first major federal gun reform in three decades, days after the Supreme Court expanded gun ...
Julia Bradley Jun 25, 2022

U.S. Supreme Court overturns abortion rights landmark
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Supreme Court on Friday took the dramatic step of overturning the landmark 1973 Roe v. Wade ruling that recognized a woman’s constitutional right to an abor...
Julia Bradley Jun 24, 2022

U.S. Supreme Court strikes down New York limits on concealed handguns
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday struck down as unconstitutional New York state’s limits on carrying concealed handguns in public, handing a landmark victory to gun right...
Julia Bradley Jun 23, 2022

At least 3 killed after assailant opens fire at Maryland factory
UPDATED: 9:19 p.m. WASHINGTON (Reuters) -A gunman opened fire on his co-workers at a manufacturing facility in northern Maryland on Thursday, killing at least three people and critically wounding a fo...
Will Stevenson Jun 09, 2022

Armed man arrested near home of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Kavanaugh
UPDATED 10:36 a.m. WASHINGTON (Reuters) -An armed man who made threats against Brett Kavanaugh was arrested early on Wednesday near the conservative U.S. Supreme Court justice’s Maryland home, t...
Julia Bradley Jun 08, 2022
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