November 5, 2022 8:47 am
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) – Swing-state Pennsylvania is the stage for a clash of presidents on Saturday as each party’s biggest stars work to energize voters just days before voting concludes in pivotal midterm elections. Former President Barack Obama will open the day at a Pittsburgh rally with Democratic Senate hopeful John Fetterman. Obama and Fetterman will appear alongside President Joe Biden and gubernatorial candidate Josh Shapiro later in the day in Philadelphia. Former President Donald Trump, meanwhile, will hold a rally in southwestern Pennsylvania with Senate candidate Dr. Mehmet Oz and gubernatorial candidate Doug Mastriano. The flurry of presidential attention underscores the high stakes in the traditional battleground state.
November 5, 2022 8:43 am
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) – North Korea has added to its recent barrage of weapons demonstrations by launching four ballistic missiles into the sea while the United States sent two supersonic bombers over South Korea in a dueling display of military might. South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff says the four short-range missiles fired Saturday flew about 80 miles toward the country’s western sea. North Korea has test-fired more than 30 missiles this week, including an intercontinental ballistic missile on Thursday that triggered evacuation alerts in northern Japan. It also flew large numbers of warplanes inside its territory in an angry reaction to a massive combined aerial exercise between the United States and South Korea. It included two B-1B bombers for the first time since 2017.
November 5, 2022 8:41 am
MOSCOW (AP) – Russian authorities say a fire in a cafe in the Russian city of Kostroma killed at least 13 people and injured five others. The governor of the Kostroma region said 13 people died in the fire and five more were slightly injured. Russian news agency Interfax cited local emergency officials as saying that the death toll stood at 15. The contradicting numbers couldn’t be immediately reconciled. The blaze erupted in the early hours after someone apparently used a flare gun. Rescuers were able to evacuate 250 people. Kostroma is located roughly 340 kilometers (210 miles) north of Moscow. A criminal investigation has been launched and a suspect has been apprehended.
November 5, 2022 8:40 am
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) – Iran’s foreign minister has acknowledged for the first time that his country has supplied Russia with drones, insisting the transfer came before Moscow’s war on Ukraine. The comments on Saturday by Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian come after months of confusing messaging from Iran about the weapons shipment, as Russia sends the drones slamming into Ukrainian energy infrastructure and civilian targets. Previously Iranian officials had denied arming Russia in its war on Ukraine. Even so, Iran’s paramilitary Revolutionary Guard has vaguely boasted of providing drones to the world’s top powers. Amirabdollahian told reporters: “We gave a limited number of drones to Russia months before the Ukraine war.” He said Iran remained committed to stopping the conflict.
November 5, 2022 3:48 am
Pennsylvania voters can take steps to make sure their mail-in ballots are counted. Acting Secretary of State Leigh M. Chapman says Pennsylvania voters who have been contacted by their county elections office notifying them that their ballot has been cancelled or who are concerned that their ballot may have been cancelled due to an error on the outside envelope should contact their county election office or call the Department of State voter hotline at 1-877-VOTESPA. Voters are reminded to return their ballot immediately, delivering it in person to their county election board. The deadline for the county election board to receive your vote is 8:00 PM Tuesday November 8. Postmarks of November 8 do not count.
November 5, 2022 3:46 am
The Powerball jackpot for Saturday’s drawing is now the world’s largest lottery prize ever offered. The estimanted annual annuity prize is estimated at $1.6 billion. The cash option is worth $782.4 million. The Powerball was last won on August 3. Lottery officials say that if there is no winner in tonight’s drawing, the next drawing on Monday would be worth an estimated $1.9 billion or $929.1 million in cash.
November 5, 2022 3:29 am
(AP) – A transition is coming this weekend across most of the United States, and it has nothing to do with the election: Daylight saving time is out, standard time is in this weekend. Standard time begins at 2 a.m. local time Sunday and lasts until March 12. Relish the chance to catch up on sleep and remember to set clocks back an hour before going to bed Saturday night. The time change means darkness will arrive earlier in the evening but it will be lighter earlier in the morning than now. Hawaii, American Samoa, Guam, Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands and most of Arizona do not observe daylight saving time. The International Association of Firefighters also recommends that people replace batteries in their smoke detectors when we switch to and from daylight saving time. The group says that 60 percent of home fire deaths occur in homes without working smoke alarms.
November 4, 2022 3:50 pm
UNDATED (AP) – House Speaker Nancy Pelosi says her husband is out of the hospital. She says Paul Pelosi “remains under doctors’ care” as he continues what she calls a “a long recovery process and convalescence” from a hammer assault last week. Paul Pelosi was treated at Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital and Trauma Center. The House Speaker thanked the 911 operator who sent police to the Pelosi home as well as emergency responders and hospital doctors and staff. She also expressed thanks for the love, support and prayers the family has received from around the world.
November 4, 2022 1:53 pm
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — TV icon Oprah Winfrey on Thursday endorsed Democrat John Fetterman in Pennsylvania’s hotly contested Senate race and rejected Republican Dr. Mehmet Oz, whom she had helped launch to stardom nearly two decades ago when she brought him on her popular daytime talk show as a regular guest. Until now, Winfrey had said she would leave the election to Pennsylvanians, but she changed that position in an online discussion on voting in next Tuesday’s election. “I said it was up to the citizens of Pennsylvania and of course, but I will tell you all this, if I lived in Pennsylvania, I would have already cast my vote for John Fetterman for many reasons,” Winfrey said, before going on to urge listeners to vote for Democrats running for governor and Senate in various states. The Pennsylvania seat has for months been seen as the most likely pickup opportunity for Democrats in the evenly divided Senate. Polls show a close race between Fetterman and Oz, a celebrity heart surgeon who is endorsed by former President Donald Trump. (Photo: ABC News)
November 4, 2022 9:26 am
WASHINGTON (AP) – America’s employers kept hiring briskly in October, adding a substantial 261,000 positions, a sign that as Election Day nears, the economy remains a picture of solid job growth and painful inflation. Last month’s hiring remained near the robust pace it has maintained in the two-plus years since the pandemic recession ended. The unemployment rate rose to 3.7% from a five-decade low of 3.5%. A robust job market is deepening the challenges the Federal Reserve faces as it raises interest rates at the fastest pace since the 1980s to try to bring inflation down from near a 40-hear high.
