February 2, 2025 3:52 am
(WPXI)-Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents were out in Washington County on Friday. According to our news partner Channel 11, Tiffany Enamorado was approached by ICE agents as she was transporting some of her employees for her subcontracting business. She just picked up three of her employees, who she admits are undocumented immigrants. One of them is 17, and the two others both have been previously charged with crimes. All three were taken to ICE headquarters in Pittsburgh. She is unaware what has happened to the men. The sister of the 17 year old was told to have them enrolled in school or they will be back. ICE enforcement has been active in Washington County as it has been described by commissioners as a county that is not a Sanctuary County
February 1, 2025 10:17 am
WASHINGTON (AP) — Secretary of State Marco Rubio embarks this weekend on his first foreign trip in office. He’s heading to Central America to press President Donald Trump’s top priority — curbing illegal immigration — and bring the message that the U.S. wants to reclaim control over the Panama Canal despite intense resistance from regional leaders. It’s an unusual destination for the maiden voyage of America’s top diplomat and reflects not only Rubio’s personal interest in the region but also the Trump administration’s intent to focus much of its foreign policy energy close to home. Limiting immigration and fighting narcotics smuggling are major elements of that effort, but another priority will be curbing China’s growing influence in the Western Hemisphere
February 1, 2025 10:13 am
President Donald Trump has fired the director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, Rohit Chopra, in the latest purge of a Biden administration holdover. Chopra was one of the more important regulators from the previous Democratic administration who was still on the job since Trump took office on Jan. 20. During Trump’s first term, he had picked Chopra as a Democrat member of the Federal Trade Commission. Chopra was notified of his firing in an email from the White House. That’s according to a person familiar with the notice who was not authorized to discuss the matter publicly and spoke on condition of anonymity.
February 1, 2025 4:24 am
Hamas has freed three hostages as part of the ceasefire deal in the Gaza Strip. Two released hostages, Ofer Kalderon and Yarden Bibas, arrived in Israel and were on their way to an initial reception point. Along the road leading to the military base, small groups of supporters waited for the convoys waving Israeli flags. Later Saturday, American-Israeli Keith Siegel was handed over to the Red Cross. The six-week phase one truce calls for the release of 33 hostages and nearly 2,000 prisoners, as well as the return of Palestinians to northern Gaza and an increase in humanitarian aid to the devastated territory. Israel and Hamas are set next week to begin negotiating a second phase of the ceasefire.
February 1, 2025 4:21 am
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — A letter submitted to the U.S. Senate that states it was sent by physicians in support of Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s nomination as secretary of Health and Human Services includes the names of doctors who have had their licenses revoked, suspended or faced other discipline. The Associated Press has also found that many of the nearly 800 signers of the letter are not doctors. Among those who signed it were a self-described journalist, a certified public accountant, a firefighter/paramedic, a certified health coach and someone who said they had a bachelor’s degree “with an emphasis on Jungian Psychology.”
February 1, 2025 4:16 am
A government memo aimed at implementing President Donald Trump’s order rolling back protections for transgender people has rippled through the federal government as agencies scramble to make changes to strip “gender ideology” from websites, contracts and emails. The Office of Personnel Management directed agency heads to have staff remove pronouns from their government emails, disband employee resource groups, and terminate grants and contracts related to the issue. The directive was sent Wednesday and ordered the changes instituted by 5 p.m. Friday. It also asked agencies to remove the term “gender” from government forms and swap it out with “sex.”
February 1, 2025 4:08 am
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — A medical transport jet carrying a child patient, her mother and four others has crashed into a Philadelphia neighborhood about 30 seconds after taking off, erupting in a fireball and engulfing several homes in flames. All six people aboard were from Mexico. The child had been treated in Philadelphia for a life-threatening condition and was being transported home. The crash comes two days after the country’s deadliest aviation disaster in almost a quarter century, in Washington, D.C.
January 31, 2025 5:41 pm
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — New data from Pennsylvania’s statewide elections agency indicates about 2,600 mail-in ballots were turned down in the November presidential contest for having the wrong date and nearly 2,100 for having no date at all. Pennsylvania Secretary of State Al Schmidt says the rate of rejected ballots fell between the spring primary and the fall general election as his agency redesigned the ballot return envelopes and engaged in a voter education campaign. The Pennsylvania Supreme Court said in mid-January it will rule on whether the envelope date requirement violates a state constitutional mandate that elections be free and equal.
January 31, 2025 5:39 pm
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Gov. Josh Shapiro will deliver his third budget proposal to lawmakers next week, a plan that’s expected to seek substantially more aid for the poorest public schools, emphasize frugality and push for more aid to public transit and legalize marijuana. The plan to be unveiled Tuesday also is expected to carry aid for rural hospitals, boost pay for home care workers and introduce taxes on skill games. It’ll come at a time of enormous surpluses. But the state also has big deficits and numerous cost pressures. Passage will require approval from Pennsylvania’s Democratic-controlled House of Representatives and the Republican-controlled Senate.
January 31, 2025 2:12 pm
(WPXI) – A massive fire broke out early Friday morning at a marina along the Monongahela River in Forward Township. Fire crews were called to McCrossin’s Landing along Edsel Lane a little after 1 a.m. after a CSX train crew spotted the fire and called 911. The fire quickly grew to two alarms and crews from neighboring Westmoreland and Washington counties were called in to assist. The assistant fire chief told Channel 11 that the marina had been closed for some time but the owner says he was planning to reopen. One firefighter suffered a minor injury due to a fall. They were checked out at the scene and are expected to be okay. The owner says he is offering a $5,000 reward for any information to any type of arrest in this situation. The Allegheny County Fire Marshal is investigating.
