June 14, 2024 5:39 pm
LONDON (AP) — The Princess of Wales says she is “making good progress” in her cancer treatment and will attend Saturday’s royal Trooping the Color ceremony, Kate’s first public appearance since her diagnosis. The 42-year-old wife of Prince William has not made any public appearances this year. She announced in March that she was undergoing chemotherapy for an unspecified form of cancer. She says in a statement Friday: “I am making good progress, but as anyone going through chemotherapy will know, there are good days and bad days.” She added that she faces “a few more months” of treatment. (Photo: AP)
June 14, 2024 10:21 am
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court has struck down a Trump-era ban on bump stocks, a gun accessory that allows semi-automatic weapons to fire rapidly like machine guns. They were used in the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history. The high court found the Trump administration did not follow federal law when it reversed course and banned bump stocks after a gunman in Las Vegas attacked a country music festival with assault rifles in 2017. A Texas gun shop owner challenged the ban, arguing the Justice Department wrongly classified the accessories as illegal machine guns. The Biden administration said it was the right call for the accessories that can allow a rate of fire similar to an automatic weapon.
June 14, 2024 5:06 am
MOGI GUACU, Brazil (AP) — Orange juice prices have always been volatile and highly dependent on the weather. But the record-high prices the world is seeing for OJ right now may be on the table for a while. An invasive pest that has been killing Florida’s orange trees since 2005 also is spreading in Brazil, the world’s largest orange juice exporter. Extreme weather is another factor. This year’s orange harvest in Brazil is likely to be the worst in 36 years due to flooding and drought. Florida’s orange production fell 62% last year in the wake of Hurricane Ian. In the U.S., a 12-ounce can of frozen orange juice concentrate cost 42% more in April than a year earlier
June 14, 2024 5:04 am
BARI, Italy (AP) — Pope Francis has challenged leaders of the world’s wealthy democracies to keep human dignity foremost in developing and using artificial intelligence. He warned that human relations themselves could be reduced to algorithms. Francis brought his moral authority to bear on the Group of Seven. In doing so, he became the first pope to attend the G7, offering an ethical take on an issue that is increasingly on the agenda of international summits, government policy and corporate boards alike. The final G7 communique largely reflected his concerns. The leaders pledged to better coordinate the governance and regulatory frameworks surrounding AI to keep it “human-centered.”
June 14, 2024 2:16 am
Washington County District Attorney Jason Walsh announced Thursday that they now believe a Wellsburg, West Virginia man who is wanted in connection with the robbery last week of the First National Bank on Route Nineteen in North Strabane Township is the same man who robbed the Washington Financial Bank on East Wylie Avenue in Washington two days earlier. Walsh said earlier this week that warrants had been issued for the arrest of Brandon Scerri and Kayla Pruett for the hold up of the First National Bank and now, investigators believe Scerri is also the man who robbed the Washington Financial Bank on East Wylie Avenue in Washington two days earlier.. Authorities say say the two were identified using their tattoos and driver’s license photos, along with the description of their car, a blue-colored Ford Focus. Walsh says Scerri got away with more than seventy-four-hundred-dollars in the North Strabane robbery, but only a little over one-hundred and fifty-dollars in the Washington hold-up. Police did not include Pruett in the arrest warrant for the Washington bank robbery. (Photo: North Strabane Township Police)
June 14, 2024 1:56 am
CANONSBURG, Pa. — (WPXI) – A Canonsburg man is facing charges after he allegedly used a drone to stalk teenage girls. According to police, the situation started when Michael Brackman, 44, used a drone to follow a 13-year-old neighbor. Brackman allegedly used his drone at least 120 times to stalk girls, following them when they left their house, jumped on trampolines and at the playground. Brackman allegedly flew the drone outside some of their bedroom windows. Officers say more underage victims and their parents came to the police station with sexual notes that they say Brackman left for their child on their porch, as well as flyers he put up around the neighborhood using actual photos he took of kids with his drone. Brackman was taken to the Washington County Jail.
June 13, 2024 5:22 pm
FASANO, Italy (AP) — President Joe Biden says he will not use his presidential powers to lessen the eventual sentence that his son Hunter will receive for his federal felony conviction on gun crimes. Biden, following the conclusion of a news conference held Thursday at the Group of Seven summit of the world’s wealthiest democracies, responded he would not when asked whether he plans to commute the sentence for his son. Hunter Biden’s sentencing date has not been set, and the three counts carry up to 25 years in prison, though that’s unlikely as a first-time offender.
June 13, 2024 10:22 am
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court has preserved access to a medication that was used in nearly two-thirds of all abortions in the U.S. last year. It’s the court’s first abortion decision since conservative justices overturned Roe v. Wade two years ago. The justices ruled Thursday that abortion opponents lacked the legal right to sue over the federal Food and Drug Administration’s approval of the medication, mifepristone, and the FDA’s subsequent actions to ease access to it. The case had threatened to restrict access to mifepristone across the country, including in states where abortion remains legal. It’s one of two abortion cases at the high court this term.
June 13, 2024 6:27 am
Emergency crews were called to the Town and Country mobile home park in Canton Township early Thursday morning. Washington County 9-1-1 dispatchers tell WJPA News that they received numerous calls about an explosion just after 5 a.m. According to dispatchers, fire crews discovered a shed on fire upon their arrival in the 300-block of Beacon Avenue. We are told a nearby trailer was also damaged. One person was transported from the scene for smoke inhalation. No other details are currently available.
June 13, 2024 5:08 am
WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal Reserve officials said inflation has fallen further toward their target level in recent months but signaled that they expect to cut their benchmark interest rate just once this year. The policymakers’ forecast for one rate cut was down from their previous projection of three cuts, because inflation, despite having cooled in the past two months, remains persistently above their target level. The scaled-back estimate for rate cuts came as something of a surprise, given that the government reported that inflation slowed in May more than most economists had expected. Financial markets took encouragement, though, from the statement the Fed issued after its latest meeting, which underscored that it sees progress in its fight against high inflation.
