January 14, 2025 4:33 am
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — The bid by Japan’s Nippon Steel to buy U.S. Steel may have a new lease on life, even as the potential for a new bid for the storied Pittsburgh steelmaker began to emerge Monday. Lourenco Goncalves, the CEO of Ohio-based steelmaker Cleveland Cliffs, said Monday that he wanted to make a new bid for U.S. Steel. He spoke a day after the Biden administration pushed back the deadline it imposed for the Japanese steelmaker to abandon its plan to acquire U.S. Steel. That’s after President Joe Biden blocked the deal. The extra time was viewed by U.S. Steel as an opportunity for the companies to complete the acquisition.
January 14, 2025 2:53 am
The Charleroi Area School District says a student, who attended class at the district’s high school on Monday, has been diagnosed with tuberculosis. District superintendent Ed Zelich, in a letter sent to families, says the student was diagnosed with the disease “a couple of weeks ago.” After learning that the student had returned to school without a doctor’s clearance, they were isolated from other people and then sent home. The area where the student was isolated has since been “thoroughly cleaned.” Zelich said after a conversation with the district’s principals, school nurses and the Pennsylvania Department of Health in Monessen, it was determined there is currently “no public health action” necessary for the district. The district will be “promptly” notified if that changes. Zelich said the district is “closely monitoring the situation” and plans to keep working with area health authorities to ensure student and staff safety.
January 13, 2025 5:47 pm
(WPXI) – There are still a lot of questions to answer in Beaver County, but police do believe this was a murder-suicide with the oldest son pulling the trigger and the youngest son making the 911 call from inside the home. “The family, all of them, were avid hunters and in my conversations with them, hunting always comes up. I knew they had a lot of firearms in the house,” said North Sewickley Township Police Chief Jeff Becze. That family is now gone in what Becze is calling a tragedy. “We can’t conclusively determine but it does appear it was a murder and a suicide,” said Beaver County DA Nate Bible. Police believe Clifford Hunt Jr, 19 shot his father Clifford, mother Michelle, and his 16-year-old brother all in the head before turning the gun on himself.
January 13, 2025 4:48 pm
WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal judge says the Justice Department can release special counsel Jack Smith’s investigative report on President-elect Donald Trump’s 2020 election interference case. The ruling from U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon, who was appointed to the bench by Trump, is the latest in the back and forth in a court dispute over the report from the special counsel who prosecuted Trump in two cases the Justice Department abandoned in November. Cannon had earlier temporarily blocked the department from releasing the report. Cannon on Monday cleared the way for the release of the volume on Trump’s 2020 election interference case. A temporary injunction barring the immediate release of the report remains in effect until Tuesday. (Photo: AP)
January 13, 2025 4:45 pm
LOS ANGELES (AP) — A growing force of firefighters and equipment moved into the Los Angeles area as another round of powerful winds threatened to trigger new wildfires and set back recent progress in containing blazes that have destroyed thousands of homes and killed at least 24 people. Planes that drop firefighting chemicals and crews ready to pounce on hotspots were positioned across the city and the parched, brush-filled hillsides that surround it. Dozens of water trucks were in place to replenish supplies after hydrants ran dry last week.. LA County’s fire chief says crews are better prepared but warns that everyone in the potential fire zones should be ready to evacuate. The National Weather Service warned that the coming days could become “particularly dangerous.” (Photo: AP)
January 13, 2025 4:43 pm
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) — U.S. flags at President-elect Donald Trump’s private Mar-a-Lago club are back to flying at full height. Flags are supposed to fly at half-staff through the end of January out of respect for former President Jimmy Carter, who died on Dec. 29. Both President Joe Biden and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis have directed that U.S. flags be flown at half-staff for 30 days from the date of Carter’s death — or through Jan. 28. Trump has expressed annoyance that flags will be at half-staff when he takes office on Jan. 20. Texas Gov. Greg Abbott on Monday ordered flags on state buildings to be flown at full-staff on Inauguration Day.
January 13, 2025 5:26 am
The driver of a sweeper truck was injured in a crash early Monday in Hanover Township. Washington County 9-1-1 says it happened just after 1:30 a.m at the two mile marker along Route 22. The truck went over a hillside and into some trees and ended up on its roof. The driver was entrapped. Dispatchers say the man was then transported by ambulance to Allegheny General Hospital in Pittsburgh. There is no word on his identity or condition.
January 13, 2025 5:17 am
LOS ANGELES (AP) — The wildfires that erupted this week across Los Angeles County are far from contained, but they’re already expected to be the costliest in U.S. history and among the worst natural disasters. The devastating blazes have killed at least 11 people and incinerated more than 12,000 structures since Tuesday. While California is no stranger to major wildfires, they have generally been concentrated in inland areas that are not densely populated. That’s far from the case this time, with one of the largest conflagrations destroying thousands of properties across the Pacific Palisades and Malibu, home to many Hollywood stars and executives with multimillion-dollar properties.
January 13, 2025 5:16 am
HONG KONG (AP) — China’s exports in December grew at a faster pace than expected, as factories rushed to fill orders to beat higher tariffs that U.S. President-elect Donald Trump has threatened to impose once he takes office. Exports rose 10.7% from a year earlier. Economists had forecast they would grow about 7%. Imports rose 1% year-on-year. Analysts had expected imports to shrink about 1.5%. Trump has pledged to raise tariffs on Chinese goods and close some loopholes that exporters now use to sell their products more cheaply in the U.S. If enacted, his plans would likely raise prices in America and squeeze sales and profit margins for Chinese exporters.
January 13, 2025 5:15 am
WASHINGTON (AP) — As President Joe Biden prepares to leave office next week, he remains insistent that his one-term presidency has made strides in restoring American credibility on the world stage and has proved that the U.S. remains an indispensable partner around the globe. That’s the message that will be at the center of a capstone address he will deliver on Monday reflecting on his foreign policy legacy. Yet, Biden’s case for his foreign policy achievements will be shadowed and shaped, at least in the near term, by the messy counterfactual that American voters are returning the country’s stewardship to Donald Trump and his protectionist worldview.
