February 20, 2022 8:09 am
TORONTO (AP) — Most of the streets around the Canadian Parliament are quiet now. The Ottawa protesters who vowed never to give up are largely gone, chased away by policemen in riot gear. The relentless blare of truckers’ horns has gone silent. But the trucker protest, which grew until it closed a handful of Canada-U.S. border posts and shut down key parts of the capital city for weeks, could echo for years in Canadian politics and perhaps south of the border. The protest, which was first aimed at a COVID-19 vaccine mandate for cross-border truckers also encompassed fury over the range of COVID-19 restrictions and hatred of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. “I think we’ve started something here,” said Mark Suitor, a 33-year-old protester from Hamilton, Ontario, speaking as police retook control of the streets around Parliament. Protesters had essentially occupied those streets for more than three weeks, embarrassing Trudeau. Suitor believes the protests will divide the country, something he welcomes.
March 27, 2021 4:23 am
DALLAS (AP) – Federal officials are investigating a Southwest Airlines pilot whose R-rated rant about liberals in Northern California was captured on air traffic control transmissions. A spokesman for the Federal Aviation Administration confirmed the investigation Friday. He says FAA rules prohibit pilots from talking about things other than the flight while taxiing and at low altitudes. It happened earlier this month as a Southwest plane was getting ready to take off from San Jose, California. The pilot makes a profanity-filled tirade, apparently against liberal attitudes in the San Francisco Bay Area. He mixes in a few G-rated words too, like “weirdos.”
May 29, 2020 4:05 am
WASHINGTON (AP) – President Donald Trump is calling protesters in Minneapolis “thugs” and vowing that “when the looting starts, the shooting starts.” Trump tweeted as violence boiled over Thursday night, with protesters torching a police station. Trump and his allies had taken a very different tone with the in-custody death of a black man in Minneapolis compared with past instances of police brutality involving African Americans, questioning the officers and sympathizing with the man who died. Trump said earlier Thursday that he felt “very, very badly” about George Floyd’s death, calling it “a very shocking sight.”
August 9, 2019 4:12 am
WILLOW GROVE, Pa. (AP) – A small plane has crashed in the backyard of a suburban Philadelphia home, killing a husband and wife and their 19-year-old daughter, who were the only people on board. The plane went down around 6:20 a.m. Thursday in Willow Grove, shortly after taking off from Northeast Philadelphia Airport en route to Columbus, Ohio. Upper Moreland Police Chief Michael Murphy says the plane hit several trees before it came to rest. The victims were identified as 60-year-old Jasvir Khurana, his 54-year-old wife Divya Khurana and their daughter Kiran, all from the Philadelphia suburbs. No one on the ground was injured and no homes were damaged. There is no indication the pilot made a distress call before the crash. The National Transportation Safety is at the scene, about 30 miles (48 kilometers) north of Philadelphia.
September 22, 2024 3:58 am
On Friday U.S. Senator Bob Casey sent a letter to the Senate Finance Committee Chairman Ron Wyden requesting a confidential briefing from the Federal Trade Commission on questions concerning Anchor Hocking’s assumption of control over the Corelle manufacturing operation in Charleroi. He wants to know about the failed acquisition of Instant Brand’s Houseware division that included the Charleroi plant by Centre Lane Partners during Instant Brand’s bankruptcy proceedings in 2023. After the failed acquisition, Anchor Hocking, a Centre Lane Partners company assumed control of the plant and now plans its closure. In his letter Casey states that the actions now being taken by Anchor Hocking raise serious questions regarding the transaction by Centre Lane Partners.
November 23, 2023 4:28 am
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korea says North Korea has fired a ballistic missile toward the sea but the launch likely failed. South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff says the launch was made from North Korea’s capital region on Wednesday night. It came a day after North Korea launched a spy satellite and claimed to have put it into orbit. South Korea says it has decided to partially suspend an inter-Korean agreement and restart front-line aerial surveillance of North Korea. U.N. Security Council resolutions prohibit any satellite liftoffs by North Korea, viewing them as covers for testing its long-range missile technology.
January 2, 2023 3:37 am
VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI’s body is lying in state as thousands of people lined up across St. Peter’s Square hours before dawn on Monday to pay their respects. The doors of St. Peter’s Basilica opened for viewing by the public at just past 9 a.m. when the first faithful entered. Public viewing lasts for 10 hours on Monday in St. Peter’s Basilica. Twelve hours of viewing are scheduled for Tuesday and Wednesday before Thursday morning’s funeral which will be led by Pope Francis in the square.
February 20, 2022 8:06 am
LONDON (AP) — Queen Elizabeth II tested positive for COVID-19 on Sunday and is experiencing mild, cold-like symptoms, Buckingham Palace said, adding that the 95-year-old monarch would carry on working. The palace said the queen would continue with “light” duties at Windsor Castle over the coming week. People in the U.K. who test positive for COVID-19 are required to self-isolate for at least five days, though the British government says it plans to lift that requirement for England in the coming week. The queen has received three doses of coronavirus vaccine. Both her eldest son Prince Charles, 73, and 74-year-old daughter-in-law Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall have also recently contracted COVID-19. Charles has since returned to work.
March 27, 2021 4:23 am
NEW YORK (AP) – U.S. stocks burst to their best day in three weeks Friday, helping Wall Street to return to record heights and avoid what could have been a second straight weekly loss. The S&P 500 added 1.7%, and both it and the Dow set all-time highs. Some of the biggest gains came from companies whose profits are likely to jump the most if COVID-19 vaccinations and massive spending by the U.S. government juice the economy as much as economists expect. Banks got a boost from some loosening of regulatory restrictions by the Federal Reserve and a continued rise in bond yields. Crude oil jumped and helped lift energy stocks.
May 29, 2020 4:03 am
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) – Some county and state officials are warning that a flood of mail-in ballots in Pennsylvania will create problems in Tuesday’s primary election that must be fixed before November’s presidential election. For one, they are warning that there will be no way to produce timely election results in November unless the law changes. Even in Tuesday’s relatively low turnout primary election, election-night results might be unlikely in closely contested races. Of more immediate concern is the question of whether voters can mail their ballots back to county election offices in time to be counted in Tuesday’s primary election.
