November 21, 2022 4:37 am
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) – The lack of electricity turned Anastasia Pyrozhenko’s apartment into a deathtrap. Without electricity, there’s no water and no way to cook food, and the woman and her husband won’t even have time to run to the shelter from their 21st floor in the event of missile strikes, because the elevator isn’t working. “Russian strikes are plunging Ukraine into the stone age,” 25-year-old Pyrozhenko said. The situation in Ukraine’s capital Kyiv and other major cities has deteriorated drastically after the largest missile attack on the country’s power grid on Tuesday. Ukrainian state-owned grid operator Ukrenergo reported that 40% of Ukrainians were experiencing difficulties, due to damage to at least 15 major energy hubs across the country.
November 21, 2022 4:35 am
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) – NASA’s Orion capsule has reached the moon, whipping around the far side and passing within about 80 miles. The close approach occurred Monday as the crew capsule and its three test dummies were on the far side of the moon. Because of the communication blackout, flight controllers in Houston did not know if the critical engine firing went well until the capsule emerged from behind the moon. It’s the first time a capsule has visited the moon since the Apollo program 50 years ago. Orion blasted off last Wednesday from Florida’s Kennedy Space Center on a three-week flight. (Photo: ABC)
November 21, 2022 4:34 am
BURBANK, Calif. (AP) – The Walt Disney Company has tapped its former CEO Bob Iger to return to head the company for two years, firing his successor Bob Chapek, who took the post in 2020. The move late Sunday stunned the entertainment industry. Disney said in a statement that Iger “has the deep respect of Disney’s top leadership team” and is admired by the company’s employees “worldwide.” Disney board chair Susan Arnold thanked Chapek for his leadership during the pandemic but said the company’s board believed Iger was “uniquely situated” to guide it during “increasingly complex” times. Iger, 71, led Disney for 15 years as it absorbed Pixar, Lucasfilm, Marvel and Fox’s entertainment businesses, then launched Disney+ streaming service.
November 21, 2022 4:32 am
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (AP) – The man suspected of opening fire at a gay nightclub in Colorado Springs is being held on murder and hate crime charges. The charges surfaced in online court records Monday, two days after the attack that killed five people and wounded many others. The records showed that 22-year-old Anderson Lee Aldrich faced five murder charges and five charges of committing a bias-motivated crime causing bodily injury in Saturday night’s attack at Club Q. The charges were preliminary, and prosecutors had not filed them in court. Officials on Monday revised the number of people hurt down to 18, including 17 who suffered gunshot wounds.
November 21, 2022 4:28 am
State Police Washington are investigating a shooting late Sunday night In East Bethlehem Township. Few details are available, but Troopers say an unidentified 26 year old man went to a home along Ziskand Road just after 10 p.m. According to police, the man’s former girlfriend lived at the home and he attempted to gain entry through a locked screen door. The unidentified home owner advised him to leave. The man, however, continued to break the screen door and attempt to make entry. He was then shot by the resident one time in the torso. He was flown from the scene by medical helicopter. No other information is being released at this time.
November 21, 2022 4:21 am
EAST HUNTINGDON TOWNSHIP, Pa. — (WPXI) – The Westmoreland County coroner’s office says they have found family members of a couple who died in a house fire. Nancy Wright, 83, and Ernest Elmer Wright, 87, died Saturday in a house fire in East Huntingdon Township, the coroner’s office said. No further information has been released.
November 21, 2022 4:17 am
FRANKLIN PARK, Pa. — (WPXI) – A man was killed in a car crash on Interstate 279. According to Pennsylvania State Police, the crash happened on the interstate in Franklin Park at mile marker 12.8 at 12:53 a.m. Police said the driver, later identified by the Medical Examiner’s office as 34-year-old Derwin Raheem Milligan, was traveling north on I-279 when he went off of the roadway and hit a utility pole. The car then rolled over multiple times. Milligan was pronounced deceased at the scene. The crash is under investigation.
November 20, 2022 8:10 am
SHARM EL-SHEIKH, Egypt (AP) — Negotiators have approved a historic deal to create a fund for compensating poor nations that are victims of extreme weather worsened by rich countries’ carbon pollution. However, there was little progress in addressing the root cause of climate change, the burning of fossil fuels. The decision establishes a fund for what negotiators call loss and damage. It is a big win for poorer nations which have long called for cash _ sometimes viewed as reparations _ because they are often the victims of climate disasters despite having contributed little to the pollution that heats up the globe. Next year’s talks, in the United Arab Emirates, will see further negotiations to work out details of the new fund.
November 20, 2022 8:09 am
WASHINGTON (AP) — Even with their threadbare House majority, Republicans doubled down this week on using their new power to investigate the Biden administration and in particular the president’s son. But their midterms miss has emboldened a White House that has long prepared for this moment. Republicans secured much smaller margins than anticipated, with Biden aides and Democrats feeling like voters punished the GOP for reliance on conspiracy theories and Donald Trump-fueled lies over the 2020 election. Democrats outside the White House have mobilized to combat what they anticipate will be a steady stream of misinformation from the House.
November 20, 2022 8:08 am
BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — Piles of snow taller than most people have buried parts of western and northern New York. Snowfall totals as high as 77 inches have been reported in the Buffalo suburb of Orchard Park, home to the NFL’s Buffalo Bills. A lake-effect storm caused by cold air picking up moisture from warmer lakes has pounded areas east of Lake Erie and Lake Ontario for a third straight day. The snowfall in some spots ranked among the highest ever recorded in the area. Up to 2 feet of snow has been dumped on some communities in Michigan south of Lake Superior and east of Lake Michigan.
