January 6, 2025 4:22 pm
NEW YORK (AP) — President-elect Donald Trump has asked a judge to halt this week’s sentencing in his New York hush money case while he appeals a ruling upholding the verdict. Trump’s lawyers said Monday they plan to ask a state appeals court to reverse Judge Juan M. Merchan’s decision last week, which set the case for sentencing Friday. Merchan rejected Trump’s bid to throw out the verdict and dismiss the indictment in light of his impending White House return. The Republican was convicted on 34 felony counts of falsifying business records. Trump’s lawyers argue their appeal should trigger an automatic pause in proceedings. Manhattan prosecutors urged Merchan to reject a delay.
January 6, 2025 4:08 pm
NEW YORK (AP) — A judge has found Rudy Giuliani in contempt of court for failing to properly respond to requests for information in response to a $148 million defamation judgment granted to two Georgia election workers. Judge Lewis J. Liman ruled on Monday after hearing Giuliani testify for a second day at a contempt hearing called after lawyers for the election workers said the former New York City mayor had failed to properly comply with evidence production requests over the last few months. Giuliani conceded during Monday’s testimony that he sometimes did not turn over everything requested because he believed the requests were overly broad or inappropriate.
January 6, 2025 12:57 pm
TORONTO (AP) — Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has announced his resignation after nearly a decade in power. The decision bows to rising discontent over his leadership and growing turmoil within his government signaled by the abrupt departure of his finance minister. Trudeau said Monday that “internal battles” mean that he “cannot be the best option” in the next election. He planned to stay on as prime minister until a new leader of the Liberal Party is chosen. He said Parliament would be suspended until March 24. The timing will allow for a Liberal Party leadership race. A spring election after the Liberals pick a new leader was almost assured. (Photo: AP)
January 6, 2025 9:44 am
WASHINGTON (AP) — Nippon Steel and U.S. Steel are filing a federal lawsuit challenging the Biden administration’s decision to block a proposed nearly $15 billion deal for Nippon to acquire Pittsburgh-based U.S. Steel. The companies in a separate lawsuit allege that the CEO of steel-making rival Cleveland-Cliffs, along with the head of the United Steelworkers union, worked together to scuttle the deal. The suits, filed Monday in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia, and a federal court in Pennsylvania, allege that it was a political decision and violated the companies’ due process. Nippon Steel had promised to invest $2.7 billion in U.S. Steel’s aging blast furnace operations in Gary, Indiana, and Pennsylvania’s Mon Valley.
January 6, 2025 5:10 am
A major winter blast of snow, ice, high winds and plunging temperatures are stirring up dangerous conditions across the U.S. central and southern states all the way to the East Coast. The disruptive winter storm brings the possibility Monday of the “heaviest snowfall in a decade” to some areas. Road conditions began deteriorating Sunday in several Midwest states, with forecasts calling for harsh winter conditions to spread eastward in the coming days. Blizzard conditions have been reported in parts of Kansas and Missouri. In Indiana, the National Guard has been activated to help stranded motorists. The storm is expected to reach the Mid-Atlantic states on Monday and bitter cold temperatures could grip much of the East Coast deep into the South.
January 6, 2025 5:09 am
President Joe Biden is decrying what he calls an “unrelenting effort” to downplay a mob of Donald Trump supporters overrunning the U.S. Capitol in an attempt to block certification of the election in 2020. He also sought to contrast that day’s chaos with what he promises will be an orderly transition returning Trump to power for a second term. In an opinion piece published in The Washington Post, Biden recalled Jan. 6, 2021, writing that “violent insurrectionists attacked the Capitol.” Congress convenes on Monday to certify Trump’s election victory and Biden wrote, “We will not see such a shameful attack again this year.”
January 6, 2025 5:08 am
WASHINGTON (AP) — Congress has convened under heavy security and a snowstorm to certify the 2024 election results for President-elect Donald Trump, with the reading of the electoral results from the states coming swiftly and without unrest. The legacy of Jan. 6, 2021, hangs over Monday’s proceedings as the Republican who tried to overturn the previous election is legitimately returning to power. As lawmakers gathered, the tightest national security is in place. It’s a reminder of what happened at the U.S. Capitol four years ago, when a defeated Trump sent a mob to “fight like hell.” Republicans who challenged Trump’s 2020 defeat support his White House return. Democrats accept the choice of the American voters.
January 6, 2025 5:06 am
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The man responsible for the deadly truck attack in New Orleans on New Year’s Day visited the city twice before and recorded video of the French Quarter with Meta smart glasses. That is according to FBI Deputy Assistant Director Christopher Raia. Authorities say the attack by Shamsud-Din Jabbar killed 14 people and injured dozens of others. The investigation is continuing into Jabbar’s motives and how he carried out the attack before he was killed by police during a firefight. The former U.S. Army soldier proclaimed his support for the Islamic State militant group in online videos posted hours before he struck.
January 6, 2025 5:03 am
PITTSBURGH — (WPXI)- A man was arrested for threatening people with a knife at Acrisure Stadium, police say. Pittsburgh Police said they were called to the stadium at 4 p.m. after receiving reports of an employee acting disorderly. They said the man was a kitchen worker and was threatening his coworkers with a knife. Court records allege the man, Ason Brown, 27, threatened to stab several of his coworkers, dumped food out of boxes and tried to throw hot grease. Brown’s coworkers were able to get the knife out of his hand and restrained him on the ground until police got there. Brown resisted arrest but was eventually taken into custody and taken to the Allegheny County Jail, the court documents state. Police initially said that no one was hurt in the incident, but court record states a man who helped get the knife away from Brown had a slice to the webbing between the index finger and thumb on one hand. Brown is now facing four counts of each of the following charges: terroristic threats, simple assault and recklessly endangering another person.
January 6, 2025 5:02 am
ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) — Much of the U.S. is being blasted by ice, snow and wind, as the polar vortex that dipped south over the weekend is keeping an area stretching from the Rocky Mountains to the coast of Maine in its frigid grip. By Monday, the wintry weather had made many roads treacherous, forced school closures, and caused widespread power outages and flight cancellations. Road conditions began deteriorating Sunday in several Midwestern states, with forecasts calling for harsh conditions to spread eastward in the coming days. In Indiana, the National Guard was activated to help stranded motorists. The storm is expected to bring bitter cold to the entire Eastern Seaboard.
