October 17, 2023 1:59 pm
Washington County 911 tells WJPA News that a car went into a house in the 600 block of Water Dam Road around one-thirty Tuesday afternoon. Dispatchers say there were no apparent injuries and no one was transported from the scene. There was no word on how much damage the home sustained. West Penn Power crews were called for reports of downed wires.
October 17, 2023 10:41 am
NEW YORK (AP) — Former President Donald Trump has returned to the Manhattan civil fraud trial that threatens to upend his real estate empire. But he won’t be seeing his lawyer-turned-foe Michael Cohen on the witness stand — at least not yet. Cohen, citing a health problem, has postponed his testimony as a key witness in New York Attorney General Letitia James’ case at least until next week. Cohen said on X, formerly known as Twitter, that he isn’t dodging Trump. Instead of Cohen, Trump’s courtroom visit on Tuesday is likely to overlap with the resumption of testimony from his company’s assistant controller, Donna Kidder. Trump denies any wrongdoing.
October 17, 2023 5:09 am
WASHINGTON (AP) — At a time when Americans are deeply divided along party lines, a new poll shows agreement on at least one issue: The United States’ two-decade-long war in Afghanistan was not worth fighting. The new Pearson Institute/AP-NORC poll comes two years after the U.S. pulled out of Afghanistan and the Taliban returned to power. Sixty-five percent of Democrats and 63% of Republicans said the war wasn’t worth fighting. Many have doubts about how successful the U.S. was at accomplishing specific goals such as eliminating the threat from extremists or improving opportunities for women. One Republican respondent, Martin Stefan from Nevada, says the war was “unwinnable from the beginning.”
October 17, 2023 5:06 am
WASHINGTON (AP) — Donald Trump says in a social media post he’ll appeal a narrow gag order imposed on him in his 2020 election interference case in Washington. U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan’s Monday order bars the Republican presidential candidate from making statements targeting prosecutors, possible witnesses and the judge’s staff. The judge says the former president can’t mount a “smear campaign” against prosecutors. Monday’s order marks a milestone moment in the federal case that accuses Trump of illegally conspiring to overturn his 2020 election loss to Democrat Joe Biden. During a campaign appearance in Iowa later Monday, Trump decried the order as unconstitutional, and claimed it would only help him in the polls.
October 17, 2023 5:05 am
WASHINGTON (AP) — Republicans have rejected congressman Jim Jordan for House speaker on the first ballot. More voting is expected Tuesday as the staunch ally of Donald Trump works to shore up support and seize the speaker’s gavel. Clearly, not all Republicans are ready to elevate Judiciary Committee Chairman Jordan to the center seat of U.S. power, second in line to the presidency. Twenty Republicans voted against Jordan. Some are still upset over Kevin McCarthy’s sudden ouster as speaker two weeks ago. With Trump’s backing, a win for the Ohio congressman would show just how far the GOP’s once far-right flank has moved into the party’s mainstream.
October 17, 2023 5:04 am
WASHINGTON (AP) — The explosion of Israeli-Palestinian violence has Arab leaders faulting a Biden administration policy that moved away from big U.S. pushes for a broad Israeli-Palestinian peace deal. Biden officials have made clear from early on they would focus instead on seeking modest improvements of conditions for Palestinians in Israeli-occupied territory. Regionally, President Joe Biden has concentrated efforts on pushing more Arab countries to sign one-on-one accords with Israel, as hoped-for stabilizing measures. The 1973 Arab-Israeli war had led a half-century of U.S. leaders to push for a big Israeli-Palestinian accord as a regional priority.
October 17, 2023 5:03 am
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N. Security Council has scheduled a vote Wednesday on a resolution that initially condemned “the heinous terrorist attacks by Hamas” on Israel as well as all violence against civilians. It also called for “humanitarian pauses” to deliver desperately needed aid to millions in Gaza. Negotiations on the Brazil-sponsored resolution continued throughout Tuesday, and the final version to be voted on had not been released by late Tuesday. The vote follows the council’s rejection Monday evening of a Russian-drafted resolution that condemned violence against civilians and called for a “humanitarian cease-fire” but made no mention of Hamas. Brazil says the vote will be followed by an emergency meeting to discuss the huge explosion at a Gaza City hospital Tuesday.
October 17, 2023 5:02 am
KHAN YOUNIS, Gaza Strip (AP) — The Israeli military says it had no involvement in an explosion that killed hundreds of people at a Gaza City hospital and that the blast was caused by a misfired Palestinian rocket.The Hamas-run Health Ministry in Gaza says an Israeli airstrike caused the blast, and that it killed some 500 people, many of whom had sought shelter from an ongoing Israeli offensive.The Israeli military, however, said Palestinian militants had fired a barrage of rockets near the hospital at the time.
October 17, 2023 5:01 am
President Joe Biden is in Israel on an urgent mission to keep the Israel-Hamas war from spiraling into a broader regional conflict and to encourage the delivery of humanitarian aid to the Palestinians. The visit on Wednesday comes after hundreds of people were reported killed in an explosion at a Gaza Strip hospital a day earlier. The Hamas militant group blamed the blast on an Israeli airstrike, while the Israeli military blamed a rocket misfired by other Palestinian militants. The war that began Oct. 7 has become the deadliest of five Gaza wars for both sides.
October 17, 2023 4:57 am
Former Pittsburgh Steelers wide receiver Antonio Brown has been arrested in Florida for failing to pay his child support, according to court documents. Brown was arrested outside of his Dania Beach, Florida home, booked into the Broward County, Florida jail on Sunday and subsequently released on a $15,000 bond. Brown has had several warrants issued for his arrest for non-payment of child support over the last few years, but has never actually been arrested.
