July 21, 2024 6:12 am
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (AP) — Republican Donald Trump held his first public campaign rally since he was injured in an assassination attempt, an event in the battleground state of Michigan alongside his new running mate. The joint rally with Ohio Sen. JD Vance on Saturday was the first for the pair since they became the GOP’s nominees at the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee. After appearing uncharacteristically subdued and emotional during the Republican convention, Trump on Saturday returned to his usual rally mode, insulting his Democratic rivals, repeating his lies about the 2020 election, and peppering his address with jokes that sparked laughter from an enthusiastic audience.
July 21, 2024 6:06 am
SPRING, Texas (AP) — A rising number of heat-related deaths in Texas among residents who lost power during Hurricane Beryl has pushed the number of storm fatalities to at least 23. Most Houston-area residents had their power back after more than a week of widespread outages across the nation’s fourth-largest city. Beryl knocked out electricity to nearly 3 million people in Texas at the height of the outages. Hospitals reported a spike in heat-related illnesses. Experts say that while it may be weeks or even years before the full human toll of the storm in Texas is known, understanding that number helps plan for the future.
July 21, 2024 6:03 am
SANAA, Yemen (AP) — The Israeli army says it has struck several Houthi targets in western Yemen following a fatal drone attack by the rebel group in Tel Aviv the previous day. Saturday’s strikes appeared to be the first by Israel on Yemeni soil since the Israel-Hamas war began in October. The Israeli army says a number of “military targets” were hit in the port city of Hodeidah, a Houthi stronghold. The army adds that its attack was in response to “hundreds of attacks” against Israel in recent months. A Houthi spokesman says the “blatant Israeli aggression” targeted fuel storage facilities and the province’s power station.
July 21, 2024 5:56 am
PITTSBURGH —(WPXI)-The City of Pittsburgh hosted a special event celebrating the life of a beloved iceball stand owner. Gus Kalaris, owner of Gus & YiaYia’s Cart on the city’s North Side, died on June 29. He had served flavored iceballs for decades. The stand opened in 1934 and he took over in 1951. Pittsburgh officials and community members decided to take some time on Saturday to officially honor Kalaris with a celebration of life event on Saturday. Visitors left flowers on the stand at Allegheny Commons Park and shared photos of Kalaris as they had some flavored iceballs. Mayor Ed Gainey attended the event and later made a special statement about Kalaris. “Gus Kalaris embodied Pittsburgh. You got more than just an ice ball when you came to see Gus. You had someone to care about you, even if he didn’t know you. It takes somebody special to make others feel special, and Gus did that for so many people,” Gainey said. Gainey encouraged others to continue Kalaris’s legacy by treating others with kindness and wished everyone a Happy Gus Kalaris Day.
July 21, 2024 5:46 am
WASHINGTON (AP) — The gunman in the attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump is believed to have flown a drone around the Pennsylvania rally site ahead of time in an apparent attempt to scope out the site before the event. That’s according to a law enforcement official familiar with the situation. The drone has been recovered by the FBI, which is leading the investigation into last Saturday’s shooting at the rally by 20-year-old Thomas Matthew Crooks. Details of the drone were first reported by The Wall Street Journal.
July 21, 2024 5:06 am
NEW YORK (AP) — Donald Trump’s campaign has spent the last year-and-a-half viciously attacking Joe Biden, ridiculing his policies, mocking his fumbles and relishing a rematch they felt they were winning. But they have also spent weeks preparing for the possibility that Biden might exit the race, readying a bevy of attacks against Vice President Kamala Harris that they unleashed as soon as Biden made his stunning announcement Sunday that he would step aside. Biden soon after endorsed Harris, who was quickly winning support from Democrats to be the party’s nominee. The shakeup less than four months before Election Day lays out new challenges for Trump’s team, which had until recently been focused on contrasting the former president’s vigor and mental acuity with Biden’s.
July 21, 2024 5:00 am
WASHINGTON (AP) — Vice President Kamala Harris is moving swiftly to lock up Democratic delegates behind her campaign for the White House after President Joe Biden stepped aside amid concerns from within their own party that he would be unable to defeat Donald Trump. Biden’s exit is a seismic shift to the presidential contest that upends both parties’ carefully honed plans for the race. Prominent Democratic elected officials, party leaders and political organizations have quickly lined up behind Harris since Biden announced he was dropping his reelection campaign. They’re trying to put weeks of intraparty drama over Biden’s candidacy behind them.
July 21, 2024 1:43 am
Multiple emergency responders were called out Friday afternoon to Speers Borough for reports of a vehicle that had left the roadway and went into the Monongahela River. Charleroi fire officials say one female was trapped in the vehicle. Rescue boats were called and a landing zone was set up. Crews worked what they said was a complicated rescue for approximately 30 minutes when the woman was extricated from the vehicle and loaded onto a boat, where she was transported down river to the landing zone. There’s been no word on the extent of her injuries. (Photo: Charleroi Fire Department Facebook Page)
July 20, 2024 6:15 am
WASHINGTON (AP) — Democrats are not only split on whether President Joe Biden should quit his reelection race, they’re also not on the same page about what to do if he goes. Some Democrats want the president to tap Vice President Kamala Harris to succeed him on the ticket. Other Democrats favor an open process at the party convention next month in Chicago to nominate their candidate, with Harris among those participating. Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi is among those who favor an open process, her thinking being that whoever emerges as the candidate will be in the strongest position to challenge Republican Donald Trump for the presidency.
July 20, 2024 6:09 am
NEW YORK (AP) — Donald Trump’s campaign released an update on the former president’s health Saturday, one week after he survived an attempted assassination at a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania. The memo, from Texas Rep. Ronny Jackson, who served as Trump’s White House physician, offers new details on the nature of the GOP nominee’s injuries and the treatment he received in the immediate aftermath of the attack. According to Jackson, Trump sustained a gunshot wound to the right ear that came “less than a quarter of an inch from entering his head, and struck the top of his right ear.” He also received a CT scan at the hospital.
