December 4, 2023 5:14 am
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden is spending most of this week raising money for his reelection campaign. Biden is traveling to Boston on Tuesday to schmooze with donors at three fundraisers. One of the events features a concert by singer-songwriter James Taylor. On Friday, Biden will hit Los Angeles for his first fundraisers there since actors and screenwriters ended their strikes. Biden also has a fundraiser in Washington, D.C., this week and one in Philadelphia on Monday. The burst of fundraising comes as the holiday season sets in and as candidates make a final big push to raise money before the fundraising quarter ends on Dec. 31.
December 4, 2023 5:14 am
(AP) – Israel’s military has called for more evacuations in southern Gaza as it widens its offensive aimed at eliminating the territory’s Hamas rulers. The war has already killed thousands of Palestinians and displaced most of Gaza’s residents, who are running out of safe places to go. The Health Ministry in Hamas-run Gaza says the death toll in the territory since Oct. 7 has surpassed 15,500. Israel says it targets Hamas operatives and blames civilian casualties on the militants, accusing them of operating in residential neighborhoods. Hopes for another temporary truce faded after Israel called its negotiators home. Hamas says talks on releasing more hostages must be tied to a permanent cease-fire. The United States, Qatar and Egypt say they are working on a longer truce.
December 4, 2023 5:11 am
HARMONY TOWNSHIP, Pa. — (WPXI) – A mother in Beaver County is facing homicide charges after she allegedly strangled her 4-month-old son and suffocated her 2-year-old son to death. Beaver County District Attorney David Lozier says Quanesha Lindsey, 27, admitted to the murders. Police went to the 1120 block of 8th Street Extension in Harmony Township on Saturday after receiving a call about an infant not breathing. According to court documents, officers from the Ambridge Police Department went into the basement of a house where they found a man performing CPR on the baby. Officers took over the process but were unable to resuscitate the child. When police questioned Lindsey, the child’s mother, she told them she knew the baby was last alive at 2 a.m. that morning when she put him down for bed. She said he began crying at 5:00 a.m. and had not moved or made noise since. Police took her to the Beaver Valley Regional Police Department headquarters to begin an interview. They say during the interview Lindsey admitted to strangling the baby. Court documents say Lindsey also told police she killed her 2-year-old son 6 weeks ago by suffocating him. The names of the children have not been released at this time. Lindsey is being held in the Beaver County Jail without bond.
December 4, 2023 5:05 am
PITTSBURGH — (WPXI) – Two women were injured after a head-on crash in Pittsburgh. Allegheny County dispatchers say police officers, firefighters and medics were called to Washington Boulevard at 6:15 p.m. on Sunday. Pittsburgh Public Safety officials say a sedan had crashed into an SUV. The woman driving the sedan was taken to a hospital in critical condition. The woman driving the SUV was taken to a hospital in stable condition. Washington Boulevard was closed between Allegheny River Boulevard and Highland Drive while crews responded to the scene.
December 4, 2023 5:03 am
ROBINSON TOWNSHIP, Pa. — (WPXI)- At least one person was injured in a crash in Robinson Township. Allegheny County dispatchers say police, firefighters and medics were called to I-79 in the southbound lanes between Exit 60B- PA 60 North and Exit 60A- PA 60 South at 5:20 p.m. on Sunday. PennDOT confirmed there were multiple vehicles involved. It is unclear how many people were hurt in the crash at this time.
December 3, 2023 6:55 am
KHAN YOUNIS, Gaza Strip (AP) — Israel’s military has ordered more areas in and around Gaza’s second-largest city of Khan Younis to evacuate as it shifts its offensive to the southern half of the territory where it says many Hamas leaders are hiding. Heavy bombardments were reported overnight and into Sunday in the area of Khan Younis and the southern city of Rafah, as well as parts of the north that had been the focus of Israel’s blistering air and ground campaign. Many of the territory’s 2.3 million people are crammed in the south after Israeli forces ordered civilians to leave the north in the early days of the 2-month-old war.
December 3, 2023 6:52 am
CHICAGO (AP) — Muslim community leaders from several swing states are pledging to withdraw support for U.S. President Joe Biden, citing his refusal to call for a ceasefire in Gaza. Democrats in Michigan have warned the White House that Biden’s handling of the Israel-Hamas war could cost him enough support within the Arab American community to sway the outcome of the 2024 presidential election. Leaders from Michigan, Minnesota, Arizona, Wisconsin, Florida, Georgia, Nevada and Pennsylvania gathered behind a lectern that read “Abandon Biden, ceasefire now” in Dearborn, Michigan, the city with the largest concentration of Arab Americans in the United States.
December 3, 2023 6:50 am
On Saturday night, Kiss closed out the final performance of their “The End of the Road” farewell tour at New York City’s famed Madison Square Garden. But will it really be the end? During their encore, the band’s current lineup — founders Paul Stanley and Gene Simmons as well as guitarist Tommy Thayer and drummer Eric Singer — transformed themselves into avatars to perform “God Gave Rock and Roll to You.” The cutting-edge technology will be used to tease a new chapter of the rock band. After 50 years of Kiss, the band is now interested in a kind of virtual immortality.
December 3, 2023 6:48 am
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — With Planet Earth running a fever, U.N. climate talks have turned their focus on contagious effects on human health. Under a brown haze over Dubai, participants at the COP28 summit moved beyond lofty rhetoric and calls for unity to curb global warming to concerns like the deaths of at least 7 million people globally from air pollution each year and the spread of diseases like cholera and malaria as global warming upends weather systems. In the background and off-stage — participants were also turning attention to tough negotiations over the next nine days to push for more agreement on ways to cap global warming at 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.7 Fahrenheit) since pre-industrial times.
December 3, 2023 5:56 am
ROBINSON, Pa. – (WPXI) – A woman is sharing a frightening ordeal after she said an Uber driver hit a car and fled the scene all with her in the backseat. The young woman, Kiara, said she begged her Uber driver to stop after hitting the other vehicle. But when he didn’t, she feared for her own life, that’s when she jumped out along a busy stretch of highway into traffic. Photos taken by the woman show the vehicle’s damage: a missing tire, mangled back door, and damaged bumper. Kiara said she ordered the Uber from Washington Pennsylvania to Pittsburgh, a roughly 40-minute drive. She explained things were going smoothly until just before 1 a.m. when the driver missed her exit along Interstate 79 near Robinson. “He put it in reverse to get back onto the exit,” Kiara said. State police confirmed that’s when the Uber driver, identified as Gue Cristiano, rammed into another vehicle causing it to roll over. But instead of stopping, he kept going, with Kiara still in the back seat begging him to pull over. “I kept saying please stop just please stop the car. I want to get out. I asked several times and at that point had to just jump out,” she said. After she jumped out the Uber driver finally stopped, and Kiara grabbed her cell phone and called for help. She endured several serious friction burns and had to be taken to the hospital. Now she wants accountability from not only the driver but the company. “It’s hard to contact for help on the Uber app, I feel like there should be some type of emergency button,” she explained. No charges have been filed but Uber confirmed that they are working with police to help with the investigation.
