October 22, 2024 5:00 am
TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — China is holding live-fire drills off the coast of its southern Fujian province that faces Taiwan. The new exercises Tuesday are taking place just a week after China held a massive air-and-sea drill it described as punishment for Taiwan’s president rejecting Beijing’s claims of sovereignty. The Marine Safety Administration said the drills were being held near the Pingtan islands. It did not offer additional details. Taiwan’s Defense Ministry said China’s drills were part of an annual exercise but also could be part of China’s overall approach to warn off any ideas of independence for Taiwan.
October 21, 2024 5:08 am
A Washington Woman was killed in a motorcycle crash Sunday night in Donegal Township. The Washington County Coroner’s office says 23 year old Alyssa Hutchison was pronounced dead at UPMC Washington Hospital just before 9 p.m. Officials say she was traveling eastbound on State Route 40 when she was struck by another vehicle just after 7:30 p.m. A cause and manner of death death are pending investigation. Washington County 9-1-1 says the driver of the car was also transported from the scene by ambulance but there is no word on their identity or condition. Donegal Township Police are investigating.
October 21, 2024 7:51 am
A man is facing multiple counts of aggravated animal cruelty after State Police were called to a home along Beacon Avenue in Canton Township Sunday morning. State Police say neighbors reported hearing dogs crying from inside a trash can. Troopers say four pit bull-style puppies were found in plastic grocery bags inside the trash can. One of the puppies was deceased. The other three had suffered severe injuries. Police say neighbors performed life-saving measures on those puppies until troopers arrived. The three injured puppies were transported for veterinary care and are awaiting surgery to address serious leg injuries. The ongoing investigation is being assisted by the Pennsylvania State Police Bureau of Criminal Investigation Animal Cruelty Officer and the Washington County Humane Officer.
October 21, 2024 4:59 am
Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump attended the NFL game between the Pittsburgh Steelers and New York Jets as the guest of an unidentified suite holder at Acrisure Stadium in Pittsburgh. Trump arrived about midway through the first quarter and was greeted by a small crowd of supporters wearing Steelers jerseys toting a banner that read “Trump Nation.” The former president’s visit capped a weekend in pivotal Pennsylvania for Trump’s campaign with the election a little over two weeks away. He received endorsements from a pair of former Steelers in wide receiver Antonio Brown and running back Le’Veon Bell. Brown and Bell greeted Trump when his plane landed outside Pittsburgh and attended a Trump-backed voter registration drive in the afternoon.
October 21, 2024 5:01 am
Elon Musk is pledging to give away $1 million a day to voters for signing his political action committee’s petition backing the Constitution. The giveaway by the Donald Trump supporter is raising questions and alarms among some election experts who say it’s a violation of the law to link a cash handout to signing a petition that also requires a person to be registered to vote. Musk promised on Saturday that he’d give away that daily amount until the Nov. 5 election for people signing his PAC’s petition supporting the First Amendment, which protects freedom of speech, and the Second Amendment, with its right “to keep and bear arms.”
October 21, 2024 5:19 am
FEASTERVILLE-TREVOSE, Pa. (AP) — Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump has manned the fry station at a McDonald’s in Pennsylvania before staging an impromptu news conference, answering questions from reporters through the drive-thru window. After an employee showed Trump how to dunk baskets of fries in the oil, the former president took his turn Sunday and even helped fill some takeout bags after a bit. Trump’s assessment? “It requires great expertise, actually, to do it right and to do it fast.” The visit came as he dug into his claim — one that’s spreading without offering evidence — that Democratic nominee Kamala Harris never worked at the fast-food chain while in college.
October 21, 2024 8:19 am
One of the late golf legend Arnold Palmer’s daughters calls Donald Trump’s references to her father’s genitalia “a poor choice of approaches” to honoring his memory. Peg Palmer Wears told The Associated Press on Sunday that she wasn’t upset by the remarks. Trump opened his rally Saturday in Latrobe, Pennsylvania, which is Palmer’s hometown, with a detailed, 12-minute story about Palmer that included praise of the the golfer’s genitalia. Wears said that she had only had passing encounters with Trump but that her father and Trump, an avid golfer, had primarily shared a kinship over the sport they both enjoyed. Arnold Palmer died in 2016 at age 87.
October 21, 2024 5:15 am
RUTHERFORDTON, N.C. (AP) — The presidential campaign in North Carolina is playing out in the aftermath of a devastating hurricane and a tumultuous governor’s race. Both sides are ramping up their activity here again after Hurricane Helene. And Donald Trump’s endorsed GOP candidate for governor, Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson, has seen his campaign collapse amid multiple controversies, potentially splintering GOP unity. Trump, the Republican nominee, has three North Carolina stops Monday, including a visit to see storm damage in Asheville. With 15 days until Election Day, North Carolina is critical to the Electoral College math for both Trump and Democratic Vice President Kamala Harris.
October 21, 2024 5:13 am
BEIRUT (AP) — Israel’s military says it is now taking aim at the Lebanon-based Hezbollah’s financial arm and plans to attack a “large number of targets” in Beirut and elsewhere. Explosions have begun in Beirut’s southern suburbs, about an hour after the announcement Sunday. A senior Israeli intelligence official says the strikes target al-Qard al-Hassan. The registered nonprofit is sanctioned by both the U.S. and Saudi Arabia and provides financial services. It is also used by ordinary Lebanese. Israel says it is a Hezbollah unit and is used to pay operatives of the Iran-backed militant group.
October 20, 2024 6:23 am
ATLANTA (AP) — Vice President Kamala Harris says Republican former President Donald Trump was “cruel” for how he talked about the grieving family of a Georgia mother who died after waiting 20 hours for a hospital to treat her complications from an abortion pill. Harris on Saturday put combating restrictions on reproductive care at the center of her pitch to voters at a rally in Atlanta. Harris blamed Amber Thurman’s death on Georgia’s abortion restrictions that took effect after the Supreme Court in 2022, with three Trump-appointed justices, overturned Roe v. Wade. Harris said: “Donald Trump still refuses to take accountability, to take any accountability, for the pain and the suffering he has caused.”
