November 21, 2024 5:05 am
WASHINGTON (AP) — Republicans on the House Ethics Committee voted Wednesday against releasing a report on their long-running investigation into President-elect Donald Trump’s nominee for attorney general, former Rep. Matt Gaetz. That’s according to the top Democrat on the panel, Rep. Susan Wild of Pennsylvania. She said the ethics panel, which is evenly split between the two parties, voted at a lengthy closed-door meeting, and no Republican joined Democrats who wanted to release the report. The panel will meet again Dec. 5. Meanwhile, Gaetz met for hours behind closed doors Wednesday with Republican senators who have questions about the sexual misconduct and other allegations against him. At least one Republican, Sen. Lindsey Graham, decried the “lynch mob” forming against Gaetz.
November 21, 2024 5:03 am
U.S. regulators want a federal judge to break up Google to prevent the company from continuing to squash competition through its dominant search engine after a court found it had maintained an abusive monopoly over the past decade. The proposed breakup floated in a 23-page document filed late Wednesday by the U.S. Justice Department calls for Google to sell its industry-leading Chrome web browser and impose restrictions designed to prevent Android from favoring its search engine. Regulators also want to ban Google from forging multibillion-dollar deals to lock in its dominant search engine as the default option on Apple’s iPhone and other devices.
November 21, 2024 5:02 am
SANTA CRUZ, Calif. (AP) — A woman told police that she was sexually assaulted in 2017 by Pete Hegseth after he took her phone, blocked the door to a California hotel room and refused to let her leave. That’s according to a detailed investigative report made public late Wednesday. Hegseth, a Fox News personality and President-elect Donald Trump’s nominee to be defense secretary, told police at the time that the encounter had been consensual and denied any wrongdoing, the report said. The police report offers the first detailed account of what the woman alleged to have transpired — one that is at odds with Hegseth’s version of events.
November 21, 2024 5:00 am
GRINDAVIK, Iceland (AP) — A volcano on the Reykjanes Peninsula in southwestern Iceland is spewing lava from a fissure in its seventh eruption since December. Iceland’s seismic monitors said the eruption started with little warning late Wednesday and created a long fissure but looked to be smaller than eruptions in August and May. Around 50 houses were evacuated after the Civil Protection agency issued the alert, along with guests at the famous Blue Lagoon resort, according to the national broadcaster. The repeated eruptions over the past year have caused damage to the town of Grindavík and forced people to relocate.
November 21, 2024 4:58 am
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukraine says Russia has launched an intercontinental ballistic missile overnight targeting Dnipro city in the central-east of the country, which, if confirmed, would be the first time Moscow has used such a missile in the war. In a statement Thursday, Ukraine’s air force said an intercontinental ballistic missile was fired at Dnipro city along with eight other missiles, and that the Ukrainian military shot down six of them. Local officials say two people were wounded and an industrial facility and a rehabilitation center for people with disabilities were damaged. ICBMs are designed to carry nuclear warheads, and the use of one would serve as a chilling reminder of Russia’s nuclear capability and a powerful message of potential escalation.
November 21, 2024 4:52 am
Get ready for a little blast of winter. We’ll see rain Thursday morning but that will turn over to all snow by 2 p.m. The National Weather Service says total daytime accumulation will be less than a half-inch. Tonight we will see a chance for more snow and it will be windy with gusts approaching 30 mph. Any new accumulation will be less than one-inch. As for Friday, we can expect snow before 1 p.m with any new accumulation of less than a half-inch. It will still be windy and the snow will change over to all rain by Friday afternoon.
November 21, 2024 2:54 am
The City Mission released its’ annual community impact report on Wednesday. In the 2023/2024 fiscal year, the City Mission served 1,453 unique individuals, serving street homeless, sheltered homeless, and the working poor in our area. The Mission provided 84,912 meals, 47,288 nights of shelter, 14,319 medical clinic services, and 9,390 grocery bags to residents and community. Additionally, the Mission helped 150 homeless individuals transition into their very own homes. Their Career Training and Education Center helped 129 individuals obtain jobs. City Mission’s compassionate and holistic residential programs and services guided their residents who stay in the program for at least 90 days to a 69% overall success rate. President and CEO Diana Irey Vaughan commented on the significance of the annual impact, “City Mission continually measures the impact we are making in the lives of our residents and the community. Our mission to share Christ, to shelter, to heal, and to restore the homeless to independent living—without discrimination. (Photo: City Mission President and CEO Diana Irey Vaughan)
November 21, 2024 2:51 am
(WPXI) – An Indiana County man was found to have a loaded handgun in his carry-on bag at Pittsburgh International Airport Wednesday morning. Transportation Security Administration officials said TSA officers intercepted the loaded .380 caliber handgun in the checkpoint lane. “This individual claimed that he had no idea how the firearm got into his bag,” said Donald Weston, TSA’s Acting Federal Security Director. “What that tells us is that this individual is careless with how he handles his firearm. Loaded guns are deadly weapons and if you own a firearm, you need to know where it is at all times. That’s part of being a responsible gun owner. One of the main reasons we are here at a checkpoint is to help ensure that weapons are not carried onto flights. So don’t come to the airport expecting to carry your gun through the checkpoint. If you must travel with your firearm, the proper way to do it is to make sure it’s unloaded, packed in a hard-sided locked case and taken to the airline check-in counter. The airline will ensure it is transported in the belly of the aircraft.”
November 21, 2024 4:55 am
Philadelphia’s mass transit system has reached a tentative contract deal with its largest workers union. The agreement announced Wednesday averts a strike that could have seen thousands of employees walk off the job. The one-year deal between the Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority and Transport Workers Union Local 234 calls for union members to receive a 5% raise and an unspecified pension adjustment. It also has language aimed at improving the personal safety of frontline workers, including installing bulletproof enclosures for drivers since many face violence and harassment. Union President Brian Pollitt says a ratification vote will be held Dec. 6.
November 21, 2024 2:00 am
A big THANK-YOU goes out to Range Resources and some one-hundred-and fifty volunteers who hit the downtown streets of Washington and Canonsburg for several hours on Wednesday to solicit donations for the 2000 Turkeys Campaign. The money raised will go directly toward making sure area families who are in need have a traditional Thanksgiving Day meal. Volunteers hit the streets at eight-thirty a.m. and braved the rain until two-thirty, collecting donations, and their efforts paid off. Range Resources had promised a matching donation of all funds raised on Wednesday, up to twenty-five-thousand-dollars. They did it! With the collections and Range’s matching donation, more than fifty-thousand-dollars was raised. Donations are still being accepted. If you would like to donate, you can send a check to; 2000 Turkeys P.O. Box 2000 Washington, Pa. 15301 or go to Range Resources Facebook Page and click on the link for the Pittsburgh Food Bank. (Pictured: Josh from ARC in Canonsburg)
