The president dropped out of the race four months before the election after facing weeks of pressure following a disastrous debate with Republican nominee Donald Trump.
Campaign finance reports list the $25,000 expense as a donation from Mike Kehoe, who personally leased the bus because he "didn’t want to use campaign funds."
The pause opens the door to further arguments about whether the $6 million program, paid for largely with federal pandemic aid, should be shut down entirely.
The money comes through the federal CHIPS and Science Act, approved in 2022 to help localize semiconductor wafer production and advance U.S. technology leadership.
Controversy stems from how Andrew Bailey handled prosecution of Kenneth Lee Simpson in 2017. Simpson is now charged with the murder in 2023 of a Hermann police officer.
First Baptist Church of Mt. Vernon, Illinois, plans to hold the last service of its 156-year history on Sunday. It's among many U.S. churches that close their doors each year. But there’s a poignant twist in this story. First Baptist’s…
A solid gold medal for rope climbing earned in 1904 by St. Louis resident George Eyser, a one-legged gymnast with a wooden prosthetic leg, recently sold for $80,163.
Illinois does not have an established population of black bears, but officials believe the bears seen in southern Illinois have traveled from Missouri, which has an estimated 900 bears.
"Local families deserve to know how this happened and how their safety will be ensured going forward," Budzinski said in a statement sent Friday to the Post-Dispatch.