November 2, 2020 6:52 am
MANILA, Philippines (AP) – Philippine officials say at least 16 people were killed as Typhoon Goni lashed the country over the weekend, and about 13,000 shanties and houses were damaged or swept away in the eastern island province that was first hit by the powerful storm. Goni blasted into Catanduanes province at dawn Sunday as a super typhoon with sustained winds of 140 miles per hour. But the ferocious storm weakened considerably after making landfall and shifted to spare the capital, Manila, before blowing out Sunday night into the South China Sea. The Office of Civil Defense said Monday that at least 16 people were killed in Catanduanes and nearby Albay province, where three others remain missing.
November 2, 2020 6:50 am
PETERS TOWNSHIP – The Peters Township School District is investigating allegations that members of its marching band wore black face. The allegations claim it happened during Friday night’s home football playoff game against Woodland Hills. The district released the following statement in regards to the allegations; “Peters Township School District does not condone or permit discrimination. The District is investigating the student costume choices from Friday night’s football game and reviewing the actions or inactions on behalf of District staff present at the game.” (Photo: Facebook)
November 2, 2020 4:12 am
WASHINGTON (AP) – President Donald Trump suggested the FBI should stop investigating an incident in which his supporters were seen surrounding a Biden campaign bus in Texas, leading Democrats to cancel planned events there. The president’s tweet on Sunday came hours after the FBI confirmed that it was “aware of the incident and investigating.” Trump retweeted a screenshot of the FBI statement, adding, “In my opinion, these patriots did nothing wrong.” He suggested the agents should instead be investigating protest-related violence in cities run by Democratic mayors. Videos posted online on Friday showed a group of cars and pickup trucks — many adorned with large Trump flags — riding alongside the Biden campaign bus as it traveled from San Antonio to Austin.
November 2, 2020 4:10 am
IZMIR, Turkey (AP) – Rescue teams in Turkey have brought two girls out alive from the wreck of their collapsed apartment buildings in the coastal city of Izmir, three days after a strong earthquake centered in the Aegean Sea hit Turkey and Greece. The overall death toll in Friday’s quake reached 85 after teams discovered more bodies amid toppled buildings in Izmir, Turkey’s third-largest city. Close to a thousand people were injured. The earthquake was centered in the Aegean northeast of the Greek island of Samos. It also killed two teenagers on Samos and injured at least 19 other people on the island.
November 2, 2020 4:09 am
MEXICO CITY (AP) – Tropical Storm Eta has powered up to near hurricane strength heading for Central America as forecasters warn it could bring a dangerous storm surge, damaging winds and the threat of floods and mudslides from heavy rains. Eta is expected to be a hurricane before dawn Monday and is predicted to be closing in on Nicaragua’s coast by early Tuesday. The U.S. National Hurricane Center said it had maximum sustained winds of 70 mph early Monday was centered about 185 miles east of the Nicaragua-Honduras border and heading westward at 13 mph. Forecasters said central and northern Nicaragua into much of Honduras could get 15 to 25 inches of rain. Heavy rains also are likely in eastern Guatemala, southern Belize and Jamaica.
November 2, 2020 4:08 am
OPA-LOCKA, Fla. (AP) – President Donald Trump is suggesting that he will fire Dr. Anthony Fauci after Tuesday’s election, as his rift with the nation’s top infectious disease expert widens while the nation sees its most alarming outbreak of the coronavirus since the spring. Speaking at a campaign rally in Opa-locka, Florida, Trump expressed frustration that the surging cases of the virus that has killed more than 230,000 Americans so far this year remains in the news, sparking chants of “Fire Fauci” from his supporters. “Don’t tell anybody but let me wait until a little bit after the election,” Trump replied to thousands of supporters just after midnight Monday.
November 2, 2020 4:06 am
Lady Gaga will join Joe Biden and Dr. Jill Biden at a campaign event in Pittsburgh on Monday. Joe Biden will kick off a canvas with union members in Beaver County and labor leaders, attend a drive-in event in Pittsburgh with African American community members and then hold an Election Night Eve drive-in event in Pittsburgh with Dr. Jill Biden and Lady Gaga. Biden’s visit to the Pittsburgh area will come after President Donald Trump rallied in Butler County Saturday night and shows the importance of Western Pennsylvania to both campaigns in the final hours before Election Day More details are expected to be released at a later time.
November 1, 2020 8:11 am
ANTIOCH, Illinois (AP) — A visibly upset 17-year-old accused of fatally shooting two demonstrators in Wisconsin told officers at his local police station in Illinois where to find an assault rifle he said he had used just two hours earlier to shoot several people, according to police records. Kyle Rittenhouse cycled through a range of emotions, crying and vomiting several times, as he described to police what happened late on Aug. 25 after he traveled to Kenosha, ostensibly to protect businesses from protesters following the police shooting of Jacob Blake, a 29-year-old Black man, the Antioch Police Department records show. “I shot two white kids,” Rittenhouse said, adding that he had “ended a man’s life.” Rittenhouse walked into the Antioch Police Department with his mother shortly before 1:30 a.m. on Aug. 26, according to records the department released to The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel and Chicago Tribune on Friday. He is accused in the killing of two protesters and the wounding of a third. Rittenhouse faces a misdemeanor charge of underage firearm possession in Wisconsin, in addition to first-degree intentional homicide, which carries a life prison sentence. He was extradited to Wisconsin on Friday. Rittenhouse’s case has taken on a political edge, with some conservatives portraying him as a patriot who was exercising his right to bear arms during unrest. Others see him as a domestic terrorist who incited protesters by showing up wielding a rifle.
November 1, 2020 8:09 am
NEW YORK (AP) — Television networks are adding experts in election law to their election night coverage teams so they’re prepared to explain legal challenges or irregularities that may come up during the vote. Veteran attorney Ben Ginsberg, who represented George W. Bush when the 2000 presidential race was decided in the Supreme Court, has joined CNN for this purpose. CBS News hired David Becker, founder of the Center for Election Innovation & Research. ABC and NBC have made similar arrangements, although some of those experts will have more offscreen roles. “If the country is going to war, you want an admiral or general to help you figure out what is going on,” said David Bohrman, executive producer of CBS’ coverage.
November 1, 2020 8:08 am
FLINT, Mich. (AP) — Barack Obama is hitting President Donald Trump right where he thinks it’ll hurt most: His ego. Campaigning for Joe Biden on Saturday, the former president painted Trump as insecure and self-absorbed, describing him as a failed president who cares more about himself than the country. “Trump cares about feeding his ego. Joe cares about keeping you and your family safe,” Obama said in Flint, Michigan. In a scathing speech, Obama mocked and belittled Trump for everything from the president’s criticism of the media coverage of the coronavirus pandemic — Trump, he said, was “jealous of COVID’s media coverage” — to his “obsession with crowd size.” “He’s still worried about his inauguration crowd being smaller than mine. It really bugs him. He’s still talking about that. Does he have nothing better to worry about?” Obama said. “Did no one come to his birthday party as a kid? Was he traumatized?” After delivering a sober indictment of Trump’s presidency and warning that America’s democracy is at stake this election at the Democratic National Convention, Obama has taken on a more lighthearted approach since returning to the campaign trail earlier this month for Biden. The personal attacks on Trump have been a centerpiece of Obama’s campaign pitch, and he seems to relish the opportunity to needle his successor. On Saturday, Obama at times smiled as he jabbed the president and often sounded incredulous at the state of his administration.
