November 21, 2025 4:46 am
The Trump administration has threatened to withhold nearly $75 million in funding if Pennsylvania does not immediately revoke what the administration claims are illegally issued commercial driver’s licenses to immigrants. The move on Thursday by U.S. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy to target Pennsylvania follows similar action against California. Duffy has made it a priority to scrutinize how the licenses are issued since August, when a tractor-trailer driver not authorized to be in the U.S. made an illegal U-turn and caused a crash in Florida that killed three people. That incident thrust the issue into the public’s consciousness.
November 21, 2025 2:57 am
Washington County Commissioners voted 2-1 to authorize the release of a letter of intent to the State Department of Drug and Alcohol Programs of their desire to assume the responsibilities of drug and alcohol programs under the County’s department of Human Services. The measure calls into question the continued existence of the Washington Drug and Alcohol Commission (WDAC). During public comment at the meeting, Cheryl Andrews, Executive Director of the WDAC, said the county relinquished responsibility of the programs more than 20 years ago. She felt that the transition would be detrimental to recovery efforts of addicts. Several people in public comment characterized the measure as a money and power grab. Heaven Sensky-Kirsch from the Center for Coalfield Justice is one of those people. She also said that the county being closely affiliated with law enforcement may deter people from seeking recovery. Commissioner Larry Maggi dissented saying that the WDAC has done a great job all these years. He is concerned that the move is an expansion of government and the county should let the experts continue to do their job and keep government out of it.
November 21, 2025 2:54 am
Thanksgiving is now less than one week away. Our annual 2000 Turkeys campaign is headed down the final stretch and we still need your help. We are closing in on $200,000. Hundreds of Range Resources staff and area school students took to the streets Wednesday to collect donations. They spent hours in both downtown Washington and Canonsburg and the community gave more than $30,600! Range Resources matched donations up to $20,000, so when all was said and done the total was $50,675! All money raised goes towards providing a complete Thanksgiving Day meal to needy families throughout the county. You can still make your donation by sending it to 2000 Turkeys, P.O. Box 2000 Washington, PA 15301.
November 20, 2025 4:28 pm
President Donald Trump is accusing half a dozen Democratic lawmakers of sedition “punishable by DEATH” after the lawmakers called on U.S. military members to uphold the Constitution and defy “illegal orders.” The 90-second video was first posted early Tuesday from Sen. Elissa Slotkin’s X account. It features six lawmakers, all veterans of the armed services and intelligence community. In the video, they speak directly to U.S. service members, whom Slotkin acknowledges are “under enormous stress and pressure right now.” Trump on Thursday reposted messages from others about the video, amplifying it with his own words. Democrats accused him of acting like a king and trying to distract from the soon-to-be-released files about disgraced financier and sexual abuser Jeffrey Epstein.
November 20, 2025 4:25 pm
WASHINGTON (AP) — Washington National Cathedral hosted a bipartisan show of respect and remembrance for Dick Cheney, the consequential and polarizing vice president who became an acidic scold of fellow Republican President Donald Trump. Trump has been publicly silent about Cheney’s Nov. 3 death and was not invited to the funeral Thursday. Two ex-presidents came. Republican George W. Bush eulogized the man who served him as vice president, calling Cheney “smart and polished, without airs.” Democrat Joe Biden sat in a row with Bush and their wives. Among the eulogists, Liz Cheney, the eldest daughter, only obliquely addressed what amounted to a father-daughter feud with the president — a man her dad had called a “coward” for trying to overturn his loss in the 2020 election.
November 20, 2025 5:04 am
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — Federal agents have now arrested more than 250 people during an immigration crackdown in North Carolina centered around Charlotte, the state’s largest city. Those totals released Wednesday by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security are about double the arrest figures announced earlier this week. The operation that began over the weekend is the latest phase of Republican President Donald Trump’s aggressive mass deportation efforts. Military and immigration agents have converged on Democratic-run cities, including Chicago and Los Angeles. The push to carry out arrests in North Carolina expanded to areas around the state capital of Raleigh in just the last day.
November 20, 2025 5:03 am
Former U.S. Treasury Secretary Larry Summers has abruptly gone on leave from teaching at Harvard University over recently released emails showing he maintained a friendly relationship with Jeffrey Epstein. That’s according to Summers’ spokesperson. Summers has been retreating from his public commitments amid the fallout of the emails revelation. Earlier Wednesday, Summers severed ties with OpenAI, the maker of ChatGPT, and other organizations over the emails. He was also affiliated with multiple think tanks, research centers and media organizations. Several of them confirmed that those affiliations have ended.
November 20, 2025 5:02 am
ALEXANDRIA, Va. (AP) — The prosecution of former FBI Director James Comey has hit another hurdle. The Justice Department acknowledged in court Wednesday a possible lapse in how the case was presented to a grand jury. The revelation that the full grand jury didn’t review a copy of the final indictment came during a hearing where Comey’s lawyers asked a judge to throw out the case on grounds the government is being vindictive. Comey has pleaded not guilty to charges accusing him of making a false statement and obstructing Congress. President Donald Trump’s Justice Department says Comey was indicted because he broke the law, not because Trump ordered it.
November 20, 2025 5:01 am
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump has signed a bill to compel the Justice Department to make public its case files on the convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. It’s a potentially far-reaching development in survivors’ yearslong push for a public reckoning over how the well-connected financier sexually abused and trafficked teenage girls for more than a decade. Now that the bill has been signed by the president, there’s a 30-day countdown for the Justice Department to produce what’s commonly known as the Epstein files. The bill will most likely trigger a rarely seen baring of a sprawling federal investigation. It also creates the potential for unintended consequences.
November 20, 2025 5:00 am
WASHINGTON (AP) — For the second time in two days, President Donald Trump said he would like to appoint Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent to chair the Federal Reserve. Despite his protestations, Bessent is widely seen as a leading potential replacement for Powell. Trump has been sharply critical of the current Fed chair, Jerome Powell, whose term ends in May, for not cutting interest rates quickly enough. Trump’s pick will almost certainly push for rapid interest rate cuts and likely institute wide-ranging changes in how the Fed operates.
