June 10, 2024 2:09 am
A driver at the Meadows Racetrack and Casino in North Strabane Township was injured Saturday, during a harness race and flown to a Pittsburgh area hospital. According to reports, the driver Mike Wilder was hurt after three horses got tangled up during the race. One of the horses started falling back and the injured horse and driver were thrown onto the track. Wilder, according to his wife, did not suffer life-threatening injuries and is recovering. The horse had to be euthanized.
June 10, 2024 4:49 am
WASHINGTON (AP) — Pennsylvania Sen. John Fetterman was treated at a hospital for a bruised shoulder after a car accident Sunday morning, according to a statement from his Senate office. He was released from the hospital Sunday afternoon. The statement said that Fetterman and his wife Gisele were involved in a car accident with another driver. They were both evaluated at a local hospital and discharged within hours. The senator returned to his home in Braddock, Pennsylvania, and is expected to be back in the Senate for votes this week. A spokeswoman for Fetterman said that the senator was driving the car and the accident was on Interstate 70 in Maryland.
June 11, 2024 5:01 am
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N. Security Council has approved its first resolution endorsing a cease-fire plan aimed at ending the eight-month Israel-Hamas war in Gaza. The vote on Monday on the U.S.-sponsored resolution was 14-0, with Russia abstaining. The resolution welcomes a proposal announced by President Joe Biden that the United States says Israel has accepted. It calls on the militant Palestinian group Hamas, which initially said it viewed the proposal “positively,” to accept the three-phase plan. It urges Israel and Hamas “to fully implement its terms without delay and without condition.” Hamas later responded by saying in a statement it welcomed the resolution and was ready to work with mediators in indirect negotiations with Israel to implement it.
June 11, 2024 5:02 am
Hamas said that one of its commanders in the occupied West Bank was killed in a clash with Israeli forces. In a statement released late Monday, Hamas said Mohammed Jaber Abdo was killed along with three other fighters in a village near Ramallah, where the Western-backed Palestinian Authority is headquartered. A joint statement by the Israeli army and police earlier on Monday said undercover forces had tracked down a suspect wanted in an attack on a nearby Jewish settlement. Violence has surged in the West Bank since the start of the war in Gaza, which was ignited by Hamas’ Oct. 7 attack into southern Israel.
June 11, 2024 5:04 am
ATLANTA (AP) — Gun-control advocates and many Democrats see additional openings created by hardline positions of the gun lobby. President Joe Biden’s campaign says gun control could be a motivating issue for suburban college-educated women who may be decisive in several key battlegrounds this fall. The campaign and its allies have already circulated clips of former President Donald Trump saying after an Iowa school shooting in January that “we have to get over it.” Trump has also promised that he would impose no new restrictions on guns if elected again. About 7 in 10 college-educated women who voted in the 2022 midterm elections supported stricter gun control laws.
June 11, 2024 5:06 am
WASHINGTON (AP) — After Federal Reserve officials meet this week, a statement they will issue may suggest that they’ve seen meaningful progress on inflation this year — a prelude to eventual interest rate cuts. Yet it’s hard to say, because the officials themselves may not know for sure until they begin their meeting. That’s because the government’s latest snapshot of U.S. inflation will be released Wednesday morning, just before the Fed begins the second day of its policy discussions. At a news conference, though, Chair Jerome Powell will likely reiterate that Fed officials need further confidence that inflation is returning to 2% before they would consider rate cuts.
June 11, 2024 5:07 am
CUPERTINO, Calif. (AP) — Apple has jumped into the race to bring generative artificial intelligence to the masses. During its World Wide Developers Conference Monday the tech giant spotlighted a slew of features designed to soup up the iPhone, iPad and Mac. Even as it tried to put its own stamp on the hottest area of technology, Apple tacitly acknowledged it needed help to catch up with companies like Microsoft and Google, which have emerged as the early leaders in the AI field. Apple is leaning on ChatGPT, made by the San Francisco startup OpenAI, to help make its often-bumbling virtual assistant Siri smarter and more helpful.
June 10, 2024 5:00 pm
WILMINGTON, Del. (AP) — Jurors have begun deliberating to decide whether Hunter Biden is guilty of federal firearms charges over a gun the president’s son bought when prosecutors say he was in the throes of a crack cocaine addiction. President Joe Biden’s son faces three felony charges stemming from the purchase of the revolver in 2018. Prosecutors say Hunter Biden lied on a gun purchase form by saying he was not illegally using or addicted to drugs. Defense lawyers argue prosecutors failed to prove Hunter Biden was using drugs in the 11 days he possessed the gun.
June 10, 2024 4:58 pm
(WPXI) – Sen. John Fetterman and his wife Gisele were involved in a car crash on Sunday morning. The crash happened at the Interstate 70 and Interstate 68 interchange in Maryland. Fetterman was evaluated at a local hospital and was treated for a bruised shoulder. He and his wife were discharged from the hospital on Sunday afternoon.
June 9, 2024 1:52 pm
WILMINGTON, Del. (AP) — A prosecutor told jurors that “no one is above the law” as he urged them to convict President Joe Biden’s son Hunter on charges that he lied about his drug use when he bought a gun in 2018. Prosecutor Leo Wise began his closing argument soon after the defense rested without calling Hunter Biden to the witness stand. The case has laid bare some of the darkest moments of his drug-fueled past. The prosecutor said the evidence was “ugly” and “overwhelming” but also “absolutely necessary.” (Photo: AP)
