May 6, 2025 3:21 pm
WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. President Donald Trump and new Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney faced off in the Oval Office on Tuesday and showed no signs of retreating from their gaping differences in an ongoing trade war that has shattered decades of trust between the two countries. The two kept it civil, but as for Trump’s calls to make Canada the 51st state, Carney insisted his nation was “not for sale” and Trump shot back, “time will tell.” Asked by a reporter if there was anything Carney could tell him to lift his tariffs of as much as 25% on Canada, Trump bluntly said: “No.” The U.S. president added for emphasis, “Just the way it is.” (Photo: AP)
May 6, 2025 2:55 am
Washington City Police, in a release issued on Monday, say they are investigating the discovery of human remains Sunday morning around ten-thirty as a criminal investigation, as is their protocol. Police say they were called to 104 East Wylie Avenue at the Get Go to speak with a woman who claimed she found a human skull along a fence line behind 150 Terrace Avenue. The Detective Unit notified Washington County Coroner Tim Warco who said that, at this time, he doesn’t believe the death was suspicious but won’t be able to make a final determination until the remains are looked at. At t this point in time, authorities say they can not say whether the remains are male or female or what the cause of death may have been. Police say they called in the Mercyhurst Forensic Anthropology group, who specializes in the recovery of human remains. Authorities say determining gender, identity and cause of death could take day, weeks or even months.
May 6, 2025 2:59 am
Cecil Township Supervisors spent a large part of their meeting considering actions that will help their Fire Department. Currently, the three volunteer fire departments are working on guidelines and bylaws to combine their efforts and become one unified department within the township with volunteer and paid firefighters working in unison. In Monday’s meeting, supervisors approved the creation of the Cecil Volunteer Fire Department 501(c)(3) organization. The organization will allow the current volunteer units to fundraise and write grants to help them acquire turnout gear and any other apparatus equipment that they need under one unified organization. In other related business, Supervisor Chairman Tom Casciola introduced the idea of reinstituting the Township Fire Tax. Currently, fire department expenses are paid as line items within the general budget. Casciola suggests that a flat fee, equal to what is currently spent by the township be introduced as, possibly a flat fee, so residents would pay an equal amount for fire department services and they would be cognizant of the amount of money being spent on the fire department. The idea is in its infancy and no decision is imminent. Additionally, the home security website Safewise recognized Cecil Township as the number one safest municipality in Pennsylvania for the year 2025.
May 6, 2025 4:55 am
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Barstool Sports founder Dave Portnoy has retracted his offer to at least one of two customers to tour a former Nazi concentration camp after he says the person denied responsibility for antisemitic behavior at a Barstool pub in Philadelphia. A video posted online over the weekend shows a sign with an antisemitic message that had been ordered along with bottle service. Portnoy says he fired two servers who were involved. Portnoy, who is Jewish, said he had hoped to turn the event into a teachable moment but said the customer who initially took responsibility for the actions changed course Monday saying he had nothing to do with it. Police are investigating the incident.
May 6, 2025 4:51 am
PITTSBURGH (AP) — The 20-year-old man who fell from the top of a 21-foot-high wall onto the warning track at PNC Park during a Pittsburgh Pirates game last week has taken his first steps since the accident. Kavan Markwood still has a long way to go in his recovery after Monday’s steps. He slipped off a railing and onto the field during the seventh inning of Pittsburgh’s 4-3 win over the Chicago Cubs last Wednesday. Jennifer Phillips, the organizer of a GoFundMe page for Markwood, says seeing him up and moving lifted everyone’s spirits. She says he is dealing with a broken neck, clavicle and back.
May 6, 2025 3:18 pm
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — City officials in Philadelphia say an eighth person has died from the crash of a medical transport plane in January. They say 34-year-old Dominique Goods-Burke died in a local hospital on April 27, months after her fiance died after their vehicle was hit by debris. The other six victims were all in the plane. They include a girl from Mexico who was traveling home after receiving medical treatment in Philadelphia. About two dozen people were injured on the ground and more than a dozen homes damaged when the plane crashed in the busy northeast Philadelphia neighborhood. (Photo: AP)
May 5, 2025 5:02 am
WASHINGTON (AP) — Congress is drafting President Donald Trump’s big bill of tax breaks, spending cuts and beefed-up border security and deportation funds. But there’s still a lot of work to do, with “bumps in the road,” in the words of Republican Jason Smith, the chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee. The tax cuts portion is still a work in progress, as are the reductions in Medicaid and other mainstay government programs. House Speaker Mike Johnson’s goal is to pass the package out of his chamber by Memorial Day. Mostly, the Republicans in Congress have made progress on spending, adding some $350 billion to the Pentagon and Homeland Security.
May 6, 2025 5:03 am
WASHINGTON (AP) — Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is directing the active duty military to shed 20% of its four-star general officers. The deep cuts are part of what the Trump administration says is an effort to promote efficiency but that critics worry could result in a more politicized force. Hegseth also is telling the National Guard to shed 20% of its top positions. In a memo dated Monday, he said the cuts will remove “redundant force structure to optimize and streamline leadership.” The Pentagon is under pressure to slash spending and personnel as part of the broader federal government cuts pushed by President Donald Trump and ally Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency.
May 6, 2025 5:00 am
Russia said it intercepted more than 100 Ukrainian drones fired at almost a dozen of its regions in an attack that forced all four airports around Moscow to temporarily suspend flights. The overnight assault came two days ahead of a unilateral 72-hour ceasefire in the more than three-year war announced by President Vladimir Putin to coincide with celebrations in Moscow marking Victory Day in World War II. The day celebrating Moscow’s defeat of Nazi Germany in 1945 is Russia’s biggest secular holiday when foreign dignitaries will gather in the Russian capital.
May 5, 2025 4:58 am
NEW YORK (AP) — A bipartisan group of President Donald Trump’s critics is launching a new organization, dubbed the Cost Coalition, to highlight Trump’s struggle to control rising costs in the early months of his new presidency. The group expects to be active ahead of upcoming elections in Virginia, New Jersey and Pennsylvania. That’s according to preliminary plans shared with The Associated Press ahead of a formal announcement. The Cost Coalition plans to push its message through a combination of paid advertising, social media, press interviews and on-the-ground events. Trump vowed to “end inflation” on Day 1 of his new presidency, but he’s launched a trade war that has pushed some costs higher and threatens to send the economy into recession.
