April 1, 2025 5:09 am
WASHINGTON (AP) — With President Donald Trump’s so-called “Liberation Day” of tariff implementation fast approaching, Senate Democrats are putting Republican support for some of those plans to the test by forcing a vote to nullify the emergency declaration that underpins the tariffs on Canada. Republicans have watched with some unease as the president’s attempts to remake global trade have sent the stock market on downward swings. But they have so far stood by Trump’s threats to levy taxes on imported goods. A resolution from Democratic Sen. Tim Kaine offers them a potential off-ramp to the tariffs levied on Canadian imports. But Republican leadership is trying to keep senators in line.
April 1, 2025 5:11 am
WASHINGTON (AP) — Harvard University has become the latest target in the Trump administration’s approach to fight campus antisemitism. The federal government said Monday it is reviewing billions of dollars in grants and contracts with the Ivy League college, saying it will ensure the school is following civil rights laws. A federal antisemitism task force is reviewing more than $255 million in contracts and $8.7 billion in grant commitments. The same task force cut $400 million from Columbia University and threatened to slash billions more if it refused a list of demands from President Donald Trump’s administration. Columbia agreed to many of the changes this month.
April 1, 2025 5:08 am
TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — The Chinese military has announced large-scale drills around Taiwan as it again warned the self-ruled island against seeking formal independence. A spokesperson for the People’s Liberation Army’s Eastern Theater Command said the joint drills involve navy, air ground and rocket forces. The exercises are meant to be a “severe warning and forceful containment against Taiwan independence,” the spokesperson, Shi Yi, said in a statement. Tuesday’s drills comes just two weeks after a large-scale exercise in mid-March, when Beijing sent a large number of drones and ships toward the island. Taiwan’s Ministry of National Defence said it had tracked 19 Chinese navy vessels in the waters surrounding the island in a 24-hour period from 6 a.m. Monday until 6 a.m. Tuesday.
April 1, 2025 5:51 pm
MAPLE VALLEY, Calif. (AP) — Former NFL player Richard Sherman is the latest sports figure whose home has been burglarized. The Super Bowl champion posted pictures and a video on social media asking if anyone recognized three armed intruders that broke into his house last weekend. Sherman was a three-time All-Pro and five-time Pro Bowl defensive back from 2011 to 2021 with Seattle, San Francisco and Tampa Bay. He helped the Seahawks win the Super Bowl in 2014. The FBI has warned sports leagues about crime organizations targeting professional athletes following a string of burglaries at the homes of prominent players.
April 1, 2025 5:52 pm
(AP) – Hooters is going bust. The U.S. restaurant chain, known for chicken wings and its skimpy “Hooters Girls” wait-staff outfits, has filed for bankruptcy protection. HOA Restaurant Group filed the motion for Chapter 11 protection Monday. Under the bankruptcy plan, Hooters will sell its 100 company-owned U.S. restaurants to a group of Hooters franchisees. Hooters is the latest legacy chain to run into financial trouble amid high food and labor price, growing competition and changing customer tastes. Last year, Red Lobster and TGI Fridays both filed for bankruptcy, and the Tex-Mex chain On the Border filed for bankruptcy last month.
March 31, 2025 4:57 pm
NEW YORK (AP) — As the trade wars launched by U.S. President Donald Trump continue to escalate, all eyes are on Wednesday. Trump has repeatedly called April 2 “Liberation Day,” with promises to roll out a set of tariffs, or taxes on imports from other countries, that he says will free the U.S. from a reliance on foreign goods. To do this, Trump has said he’ll impose “reciprocal” tariffs to match the duties that other countries charge on U.S. products. But a lot remains unknown about how these levies will actually be implemented. And it’s possible that we’ll see more delays or confusion this week.
March 31, 2025 12:53 pm
State Police are investigating the traffic death of a Greene County man over the weekend. Washington County Coroner Tim Warco says 75-year-old David Brendel of Sycamore was killed Saturday morning in a one-vehicle accident that occurred around nine-thirty on Route 18 in Morris Township. No further information has been released.
March 31, 2025 1:30 pm
(WPXI) – One person is dead following a multi-vehicle crash on the Parkway East Monday morning. Troopers responded to the crash involving four vehicles near the Squirrel Hill Tunnel around 1:50 a.m. State police said a silver Corvette was speeding in the westbound lanes before crashing into a Honda Civic that was stopped due to a temporary closure of the tunnel. The impact of the crash pushed the Civic into two other vehicles. The driver of the Civic, Landon Ray, was extricated from the vehicle and taken to a hospital where he later died. All other people involved in the crash were treated on the scene by medics. The road was shut down for 4 hours before reopening at 5:45 a.m. The investigation into the crash is still ongoing.
March 30, 2025 5:18 am
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) — President Donald Trump says he’s considering ways to serve a third term. “I’m not joking,” he says in an NBC News interview. It’s the clearest indication he’s looking for ways to breach a constitutional barrier against continuing to lead the country after his second term ends in early 2029. He later told reporters Sunday on Air Force One that ““I have had more people ask me to have a third term.” The 22nd Amendment says no one can be elected president more than twice. It was added to the Constitution in 1951 after President Franklin Roosevelt was elected four times in a row.
March 31, 2025 5:16 am
GREEN BAY, Wis. (AP) — Elon Musk has given out $1 million checks to two Wisconsin voters, declaring them spokespeople for his political group. That’s ahead of a Wisconsin Supreme Court election that the tech billionaire cast as critical to President Donald Trump’s agenda and “the future of civilization.” A unanimous court on Sunday refused to hear a last-minute attempt by the state’s Democratic attorney general to stop Musk from handing over the checks to two voters, a ruling that came just minutes before the planned start of the rally.
