March 6, 2025 1:52 pm
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump is postponing the 25% tariffs on most goods from Mexico for a month after a conversation with that country’s president. Trump’s announcement comes after his Commerce Secretary, Howard Lutnick, said tariffs on both Canada and Mexico would “likely” be delayed. This is the second one-month postponement Trump has announced since first unveiling the import taxes in early February. The reprieve would apply to goods that are compliant with the trade agreement Trump negotiated with Canada and Mexico in his first term. “We are working hard, together, on the Border, both in terms of stopping Illegal Aliens from entering the United States and, likewise, stopping Fentanyl,” Trump said on Truth Social.
March 6, 2025 1:45 pm
(WPXI) – Seven students and a bus driver were taken to the hospital after a school bus for the Mars Area School District crashed into a tree in Butler County. The crash happened a little after 8 o’clock Thursday morning in the 1600 block of Three Degree Road in Adams Township. A mass-casualty incident was initially declared for crews to get enough EMS resources to the scene. Mars Area School District superintendent Dr. Mark Gross said the all students on the bus at the time of the crash were evaluated by medics, and their parents were contacted. UPMC says seven students were treated at various hospitals and one student remains hospitalized under observation. The bus driver’s condition is currently not known. That individual was taken to Allegheny General Hospital. Gross said students who were determined by medics to be “not injured” were placed on another bus to continue to school. When those students arrived, they were checked by the school nurse before going to class. Social workers and guidance counselors will be available for any students who need assistance on Friday even though it is an in-service day for students.
March 6, 2025 12:54 pm
Parents and Guardians in the Albert Gallatin School District in Uniontown received a letter this week informing them of reports of a suspicious vehicle and person near the Edenborn, Footedale and McClellandtown areas. Officials said schools in those areas along with the district’s bus contractor have been notified as well. They say state and local police have also been contacted and will increase their presence around those areas for the next few days. The vehicle involved is described as a grey Ford Focus with a Pennsylvania license plate with the number LTL 1956.
March 6, 2025 12:52 pm
Officials in the Ringgold School District sent a letter to parents and guardians informing them of a case of Whooping Cough at their South Elementary School. Officials said children may have been exposed to a person suffering from the highly contagious disease. It is spread through the air when an infected person sneezes or coughs. It begins with a cold and cough and worsens over one to two weeks. The letter included recommendations from the Pennsylvania Department of Health along with a phone number to call for questions or concerns.
March 6, 2025 10:44 am
WASHINGTON (AP) — The House has voted to censure Al Green, Democratic congressman from Texas, for disrupting President Donald Trump’s address to Congress earlier in the week. Green offered no regrets when he explained his actions on the House floor and said he’d do it again. The resolution against Green was approved in a mostly party-line vote of 224-198 on Thursday. House Speaker Mike Johnson had Green removed from the chamber during the early moments of Trump’s speech Tuesday night. Green shouted at Trump after the Republican president said voters had given him a mandate not seen for decades. Green said Trump has no mandate to cut Medicaid. Trump has said about the health care program that “we’re not going to touch it.”
March 6, 2025 8:57 am
Applications for U.S. jobless benefits fell last week as the labor market remains sturdy ahead of an expected purge of federal government employees. The number of Americans filing for jobless benefits fell by 21,000 to 221,000 for the week ending March 1, the Labor Department said Thursday. That’s significantly fewer than the 236,000 new applications analysts expected. Weekly applications for jobless benefits are considered a proxy for layoffs, which have remained mostly in a range between 200,000 and 250,000 for years. The total number of Americans receiving unemployment benefits for the week of Feb. 22 rose by 42,000 to 1.9 million.
March 6, 2025 5:05 am
WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal judge has ruled Thursday that President Donald Trump acted illegally when he fired a member of an independent labor agency, and the judge ordered that she be allowed to remain on the job. National Labor Relations Board member Gwynne Wilcox sued Trump after he fired her and the agency’s general counsel. U.S. District Judge Beryl Howell in Washington, D.C., found that Trump did not have the authority to remove Wilcox. Government attorneys argued that NLRB members should be “removable at will to ensure democratic accountability.” Wilcox was the first Black woman to serve on the five-member board in its 90-year history.
March 6, 2025 4:56 am
ROME (AP) — Pope Francis is resting Thursday after a peaceful night during his third week of hospital treatment for double pneumonia. The pope has been sleeping with a non-invasive mechanical mask to guarantee that his lungs expand properly overnight and help his recovery. He has been transitioning to receiving oxygen with a nasal tube during the day. The 88-year-old pope has been stable for two days after suffering two respiratory crises on Monday. Doctors underlined that his prognosis remained guarded.
March 6, 2025 4:54 am
Veterans who have been abruptly fired from federal jobs say they feel betrayed by the Trump administration’s dramatic downsizing of government. Nathan Hooven, who voted for Trump in November, lost his job last month as an inventory management specialist at the Salem VA Medical Center in Virginia. He says the administration didn’t take the time to think about veterans who have served their country. Hooven and other veterans also say they’re particularly angered by how they were fired: in an email that cited inadequate job performance — despite receiving positive reviews while they were working.
March 6, 2025 4:50 am
CAIRO (AP) — The Hamas militant group has brushed off President Donald Trump’s latest threat and reiterated that it will only free the remaining Israeli hostages in exchange for a lasting ceasefire in the Gaza Strip. Hamas accused Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of trying to back out of the ceasefire agreement they reached in January. The agreement calls for negotiations over a second phase in which the hostages would be released in exchange for more Palestinian prisoners, a lasting ceasefire and an Israeli withdrawal from Gaza. Negotiations on that phase were supposed to begin in early February. Only limited preparatory talks have been held so far.
