March 10, 2025 5:17 am
NEW YORK (AP) — The U.S. stock market is sinking further after President Donald Trump raised the stakes in his trade war, pulling Wall Street more than 9% below its record set just a month ago. The S&P 500 fell 1.1% Tuesday after Trump said he would raise tariffs on steel and aluminum coming from Canada, doubling them to 50%. The president said it was in direct response to moves Canada has made after Trump earlier began his trade war with one of the country’s most important business partners. The Dow Jones Industrial Average dropped 517 points, and the Nasdaq composite was 0.9% lower.
March 10, 2025 5:11 am
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Saudi Arabia is to host talks on Tuesday between the United States and Ukraine after an argument erupted during President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s Feb. 28 visit to the White House. The oil-rich kingdom may seem like an unusual venue for talks aimed at smoothing over relations after the blowup. But Saudi Arabia under its assertive Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman has been positioning itself as an ideal location for possible peace negotiations between Kyiv and Moscow and even the first face-to-face talks between Russian President Vladimir Putin and U.S. President Donald Trump. On Friday, the Saudi Foreign Ministry said the talks would take place in Jeddah, a port city on the Red Sea.
March 10, 2025 5:08 am
TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — Israel has cut off the electricity supply to Gaza. The move has affected a desalination plant producing drinking water for part of the arid territory. Hamas calls it part of Israel’s “starvation policy.” Sunday’s announcement came a week after Israel suspended supplies of goods to the territory of more than 2 million people. It’s pressing Hamas to accept an extension of the first phase of their ceasefire. That phase ended last weekend. Hamas instead wants to start negotiations on the ceasefire’s more difficult second phase. Gaza has been largely devastated, and Israel has faced sharp criticism over cutting off supplies.
March 10, 2025 5:07 am
TORONTO (AP) — Canada’s next prime minister has helped run two Group of Seven economies in crisis before and now will try to steer Canada through a looming trade war brought by U.S. President Donald Trump, a threat of annexation and an expected federal election. Former central banker Mark Carney will become prime minister after the governing Liberal Party elected him its leader Sunday in a landside vote with 85.9% support. Carney replaces Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, who announced his resignation in January but remains prime minister until his successor is sworn in in the coming days.
March 10, 2025 5:05 am
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korea’s military says North Korea has fired several ballistic missiles into the sea. The launch Monday happened hours after South Korean and U.S. troops kicked off their large annual combined drills, which the North views as an invasion rehearsal. South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff said the missile firings, North Korea’s fifth missile launch event this year, were detected from the North’s Hwanghae province but gave no further details such as how far they flew. Earlier Monday, the South Korean and U.S. militaries began their drills. The exercises began after the South Korean and U.S. militaries paused live-fire training while Seoul investigates how two of its fighter jets mistakenly bombed a civilian area during a warm-up drill last week.
March 10, 2025 5:01 am
Investigators are working to find a missing University of Pittsburgh student last seen at a resort in the Dominican Republic. Sudiksha Konanki went missing Thursday in a resort area of Punta Cana, according to a spokesperson for the Loudoun County Sheriff’s Office in Virginia. Konanki is also a citizen of India. Konanki traveled to Punta Cana with five other women who are all Pitt students. The group of women reported Konanki missing on Thursday evening, the spokesperson confirmed. The spokesperson says the Department of State has been contacted and the embassy of India in the Dominican Republic is taking the lead, working closely with local law enforcement. Loudoun County authorities are also supporting the investigation. A Pitt spokesperson said in a statement that the university has been in contact with Konanki’s family. “We have offered our full support in their efforts to find her and bring her home safely,” the statement reads in part. The Loudoun County Sheriff’s Office spokesperson says, “it is our understanding that the US is deploying considerable federal assets” to locate Konanki and support the Dominican National Police. The Pitt spokesperson suggests that anyone with information on Konanki’s whereabouts call the Loudoun County Sheriff’s Office at 703-777-1021.
March 10, 2025 4:55 am
A single-engine airplane with five people on board crashed and burst into flames in a parking lot near a small airport in suburban Pennsylvania. Police say all five occupants survived the fiery crash around 3 p.m. Sunday just south of Lancaster Airport in Manheim Township. Nobody on the ground was hurt. The Federal Aviation Administration confirms there were five people aboard the Beechcraft Bonanza. Footage shared on social media showed black smoke billowing from the plane’s wreckage and multiple parked cars engulfed in flames at the crash site about 75 miles (120 km) west of Philadelphia.
March 10, 2025 2:52 am
WASHINGTON COUNTY —(WPXI)- Two puppies were abandoned along a busy highway, a Washington County shelter said. The animal rescue Pet Search said they received two puppies who were rescued on Friday. The person who brought the dogs to the shelter said they saw a car stop on I-79, drop the dogs off on the side of the road and drive away. The dogs are only 3 months old and are chihuahua and chi-weenie types, the shelter said. Anyone with information about the abandoned dogs is asked to call Pet Search at 724-228-7335.
March 10, 2025 2:34 am
A car chase that began in Fayette County and continued at high rates of speed ended with an arrest in the City of Washington. Pennsylvania State Police received information that Eric Johnson, 36 of Canonsburg, who was wanted on arrest warrants from Washington County for failure to appear at a hearing, was in Fayette County near State Rt. 119. According to Trooper Rocco Gagliardi, Public Information Officer for Pennsylvania State Police, troopers tried to pull Johnson over but he took off. The pursuit ran along Rt. 119, Interstate 70 and Rt. 40 before Johnson was apprehended in a parking lot Washington. Johnson was wanted for felony possession with intent to deliver, possession of firearms prohibited and firearms not to be carried without a license charges. Police expect to add at least a felony attempt to elude police charge. Johnson is being processed in the Washington County Jail.
March 10, 2025 2:29 am
A Washington County Court Jury deliberated for a just few hours Thursday before returning a not guilty verdict in the trial of 81-year-old Victor Ardeno of Canton Township. Ardeno was facing multiple charges related to the alleged rape of a girl over a period of several years, from the time she was five-years-old until she was eleven. Prosecutors laid out their case during the trial, by calling on the victim’s divorced parents who had entrusted the care of the victim and her brother to Ardeno several days a week when the mother had to work at night during her days of custody. Testimony revealed that Ardeno told the girl not say anything to anyone regarding the assaults. Finally, a school counselor was told of the assaults while they were trying to figure out the victim’s chronic absenteeism at school and failing grades. Victim testimony described the assaults that started as inappropriate touching all the way to full acts of intercourse. Defense attorneys tried to poke holes in the victim testimony pointing to differences in a forensic interview and direct testimony on the stand regarding the timeline of events. Ardeno’s attorney, Lane Turturice told WJPA that the verdict gives him hope for our system of justice and that things went the way for someone whom he thinks is a good man.
