November 18, 2024 5:16 am
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) — President-elect Donald Trump has named the senior Republican on the Federal Communications Commission as the new chairman of the agency tasked with regulating broadcasting, telecommunications and broadband. Brendan Carr is a longtime member of the commission and served previously as the FCC’s general counsel. He has been unanimously confirmed by the Senate three times and was nominated by both Trump and President Joe Biden to the commission. Carr made past appearances on “Fox News Channel,” including when he decried Democratic Vice President Kamala Harris’ pre-Election Day appearance on “Saturday Night Live.” He wrote an op-ed last month defending a satellite company owned by Trump supporter Elon Musk.
November 18, 2024 5:14 am
MANAUS, Brazil (AP) — President Joe Biden has authorized Ukraine to use U.S.-supplied missiles to strike deeper inside Russia. The move eases limitations on the weapons as Russia deploys thousands of North Korean troops to reinforce its war. Word of the decision comes from a U.S. official and three other people familiar with the matter. Thousands of North Korean troops have been sent to Ukraine’s northern border to help Russia reclaim hundreds of kilometers of territory seized by Ukrainian forces. President-elect Donald Trump has said he would bring about a swift end to the war and has expressed skepticism over continued support for Ukraine.
November 18, 2024 5:12 am
LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Some Arab Americans are expressing concern over Donald Trump’s picks for key positions in his next administration. The picks have been described as a pro-Israel “dream team” by a conservative group that helped with his outreach in the Jewish community. Arab Americans in Michigan helped Trump become the first Republican in over 20 years to win Dearborn, the nation’s largest majority-Arab city. Republicans who helped with Trump’s outreach with Arab Americans say it’s too soon to judge him based solely on the picks for his Cabinet and that he will be the final decisionmaker on policy. The two Trump advisers who led his outreach to Arab Americans have not secured appointments yet in Trump’s next administration.
November 18, 2024 5:06 am
The CDC warns of a new E. coli outbreak linked to organic carrots. According to information from the FDA, Grimmway Farms has recalled organic whole and baby carrots sold under multiple sizes and brands — including Target’s Good & Gather, Whole Foods’ 365 and Trader Joe’s — and sold at stores nationwide. The products should no longer be in grocery stores, but could still be in consumer fridges or freezers. The CDC says 39 people across 18 states have been infected by this E. coli outbreak, including one person in Pennsylvania. Of them, 15 people were hospitalized and one person has died. Anyone who has the recalled carrots in their home should not eat them. The CDC recommends throwing them away or returning them to the store where they were purchased. Anything that may have touched the carrots should be washed with hot soapy water. E. Coli can cause serious infections in children, the elderly and immunocompromised people. Symptoms of an infection usually appear within three to four days of ingesting the bacteria and include stomach cramping, bloody diarrhea, dehydration and vomiting. The CDC says anyone with severe symptoms should contact their healthcare provider.
November 18, 2024 5:03 am
COKEBURG, Pa. — Peoples Natural Gas tells WJPA News that almost all gas service has been restore in Cokeburg. An official says the only homes that were not restored by Monday morning were those in which they could not reach the homeowner. There is no word on what caused the outage that began on Saturday. The Cokeburg Volunteer Fire Department announced over the weekend that the outage was impacting the entire borough. Crews from Peoples Natural Gas went door-to-door to restore that service.
November 18, 2024 5:00 am
SOUTH UNION TOWNSHIP, Pa. — (WPXI) – Trading cards worth hundreds of dollars were stolen from a Walmart in Fayette County. Pennsylvania State Police said they were informed about the theft from a Walmart in South Union Township on Saturday. Walmart told them over $300 worth of trading cards had been stolen. They identified the suspects who were seen driving a 2016 Honda LTD CRV. Charges were filed for felony retail theft against two 36-year-old women from Uniontown.
November 18, 2024 4:58 am
WASHINGTON (AP) — One of the top remaining vacancies in President-elect Donald Trump’s proposed Cabinet is his treasury secretary — and the views of his top contenders there reflect broader questions about how the president-elect might wield tariffs in his new administration. Billionaire investor Scott Bessent, considered a leading candidate, has talked up tariffs as a negotiating ploy. Another prominent contender, Cantor Fitzgerald CEO Howard Lutnick, has expressed more support for broad tariffs. Lutnick is co-chair of Trump’s transition operation and is helping put forward candidates for key roles, including treasury. Trump is also looking at other potential candidates as he decides who can best implement his economic agenda — and how big a role tariffs will play.
November 17, 2024 6:15 am
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The U.S. antitrust watchdogs that pounced on Big Tech and deterred dealmaking throughout corporate America during President Joe Biden’s administration may be tamer and kept on a shorter leash by President-elect Donald Trump after he returns to the White House next year. Although regulators began to crack down on Google and Facebook during Trump’s first term as president, most experts are expecting his second administration to ease the Biden-era crackdown that resulted in additional cases targeting Apple and Amazon as abusive monopolies. And the Trump administration is expected to clear be more receptive to big businesses becoming bigger after the hypervigilance of Biden’s antitrust team squelched many deals from getting done.
November 17, 2024 6:11 am
SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) — Tropical Storm Sara is the third named storm to emerge this November, serving up a reminder that the Atlantic hurricane season isn’t quite over. Sara has dumped torrential rains in Central American since it made landfall Thursday on the Caribbean coast of Honduras. Scientists say we are seeing an unusually active end to the 2024 hurricane season that officially ends Nov. 30. The National Hurricane Center says November generally has one tropical storm every year or two and a hurricane roughly every other year. University of Miami hurricane researcher Brian McNoldy says 66 hurricanes have been recorded during November since 1851.
November 17, 2024 6:07 am
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says that Russia has launched 120 missiles and 90 drones in a large-scale attack across Ukraine targeting its energy infrastructure. Zelenskyy said on Sunday that Russia deployed various types of drones including Shaheds, cruise and ballistic missiles. He said Ukrainian defensed shot down 140 air targets. Russian strikes have hammered Ukraine’s power generation capacity since Moscow’s all-out invasion of its neighbor in February 2022, prompting repeated emergency power shutdowns and nationwide rolling blackouts. The combined drone and missile attack was said to be the most powerful in three months.
