September 3, 2024 5:11 am
ULAANBAATAR, Mongolia (AP) — Russian President Vladimir Putin is visiting Mongolia with no sign that the host country will bow to calls to arrest him on an international warrant for alleged war crimes stemming from the invasion of Ukraine. The trip is Putin’s first to a member country of the International Criminal Court since it issued the warrant about 18 months ago. Ukraine has called on Mongolia to hand Putin over to the court, and the European Union has expressed concern that Mongolia might not execute the warrant. A spokesperson for Putin said that the Kremlin wasn’t worried.
September 3, 2024 5:09 am
LOS ANGELES (AP) — The teen idol who helped ignite the 1960s surfing craze as a handsome beach boy in the “Gidget” movies, James Darren has died at 88. In his long career, Darren acted, sang and built up a successful behind-the-scenes career as a television director, helming episodes of such well-known series as “Beverly Hills 90210” and “Melrose Place.” He both acted in and directed episodes of the 1980s cop show “T.J. Hooker.” But to movie fans, he was remembered best as Moondoggie, the surfer boy in the smash 1959 film “Gidget” and its two sequels. His son Jim Moret told news outlets he died in his sleep at a Los Angeles hospital on Monday.
September 3, 2024 5:07 am
REDSTONE TOWNSHIP, Pa. — A man is dead after a crash in Redstone Township. Fayette County dispatchers say police, firefighters and medics were called to the 250 block of Stone Church Road in Redstone Township at 4:46 p.m. on Sunday. The coroner’s office was called to the scene and Deputy Coroner Bob Furin announced Charles Bell, 35, from Brownsville dead at the scene. Officials say the crash only included one vehicle. Bell was the only person inside the vehicle when the crash happened.
September 3, 2024 5:04 am
A fire early Tuesday morning at Joe’s Bakery. Fire crews were called to the bakery along N. Main St. just after 3:30 a.m. Joe tells WJPA News that a combination of flour and lubricant caught fire in his large, commercial, revolving, gas-fired oven. He was able to control it but fire crews were called and helped to completely extinguish the blaze. The building was not damaged and there were no injuries. Joe says they will be open this week, however, he will only have donuts.
September 3, 2024 4:54 am
PITTSBURGH — (WPXI) – With Election Day just 64 days away, Vice President Kamala Harris spent part of her Labor Day making another campaign stop in Pittsburgh – this time alongside President Joe Biden, who called Harris the best choice in November. “It was the single best decision I made as President of the United States,” Biden said. Standing in front of a crowd of union members and supporters at the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW) union hall in the South Side, Harris made it clear — if elected, she would block the possible sale of U.S. Steel to Japan’s Nippon Steel. “U.S. Steel should remain American-owned and American-operated, and I will always have the backs of America’s steelworkers,” Harris said. International President of United Steelworkers David McCall applauded Harris in a statement Monday, saying the vice president has joined union members on the picket line before. U.S. Steel, however, said the deal with Japan would be best for its employees, shareholders, communities, and customers. Just last week, Nippon Steel announced plans to invest $1 billion in Mon Valley Works if the U. S. Steel merger gets approved. The White House announced late Monday night that Vice President Harris will be back in Pittsburgh this Thursday. No other details have been released.
September 3, 2024 2:56 am
Charleroi Fire Chief Bobby Whiten tells WJPA News that a house fire early Tuesday morning has been ruled arson. Whiten says the fire broke out around three o’clock in an abandoned house in the one-thousand block of Oakland Avenue. Whiten says the home has been abandoned for years. Firefighters say they were able to keep the fire from spreading to other nearby homes. Although the fire has been ruled as arson, investigators have not yet determined how the blaze started. There were no injuries. (Photo: Courtesy of Charleroi Fire Department)
September 2, 2024 11:35 am
WASHINGTON (AP) — Artificial intelligence is beginning to allow many employers to automate functions long performed by human workers. Yet the recent experiences of a number of companies suggests that AI may not prove to be the job killer that many people have feared. Instead, the technology might turn out to be more like major technological breakthroughs of the past — the steam engine, electricity, the Internet: That is, eliminate some jobs while creating others. And probably making workers more productive in general, to the eventual benefit of themselves, their employers and the economy.
September 2, 2024 11:32 am
WASHINGTON (AP) — Vice President Kamala Harris plans to use a joint campaign appearance in the industrial city of Pittsburgh with President Joe Biden to say that U.S. Steel should remain domestically owned — coinciding with the White House’s earlier opposition to the company’s planned sale to Nippon Steel of Japan. The two are both attending Pittsburgh’s Labor Day parade on Monday. It will be the first time the two have shared a speaking slot on the political stage together since the surprising election shakeup. Harris coinciding with Biden is little surprise, but marks her taking a major policy position when her nascent campaign has offered relatively few of them.
September 2, 2024 4:35 am
WASHINGTON (AP) — Worries of being uprooted from their jobs have returned for Laura Dodson and other federal workers, who have long been the economic backbone of the nation’s capital and its suburbs. Some federal workers already have experienced efforts to move federal workers to other parts of the country during former President Donald Trump’s administration. Now, with Trump proposing the relocation of up to 100,000 federal jobs, concerns about being abruptly moved are again dogging federal workers. Dodson, who is president of American Federation of Government Employees local 3403, says it’s causing a lot of anxiety and discomfort within the federal workforce.
September 2, 2024 4:33 am
BERLIN (AP) — The Alternative for Germany party’s success in two state elections has piled new pressure on Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s fractious government and left the country’s main opposition party facing political contortions to find a way to govern a pair of eastern regions without involving the far right party. Alternative for Germany, or AfD, became the first far-right party to win a state election in post-World War II Germany in Thuringia on Sunday. In neighboring Saxony, it finished only just behind the mainstream conservative Christian Democratic Union, which leads the national opposition. Voters punished the three parties in Scholz’s governing coalition, which took well under 15% of the vote between them.
