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 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 4:48 am
WASHINGTON, Pa. — The City of Washington is anxious for its day in court as they take legal action against a business owner and property owner to clean up a mounting pile of waste along Jefferson Avenue. It’s called ‘Hauling and That’ and its a junk removal business. Mayor JoJo Burgess says the property is not zoned for such a business. Burgess says the business owner, Michael Lynch, moved in over the summer. Burgess said he spoke with Lynch personally then, asking if he’d obtained the proper permits from the city. Months later, that still hasn’t happened. As a result, there are now tens of thousands of dollars in unpaid fines after the city cited Lynch, as well as the property owner, Talebi Homes. Burgess said Lynch brought in dumpsters and cleared the property in October, but less than a month later, it’s even worse. Burgess says a hearing is scheduled for November 25.
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 1:22 am
Former Washington City Councilman Matt Staniszewski has been sentenced to house arrest for violating his probation for a DUI incident in Bedford County in 2022. According to court records on line, Staniszewski pleaded guilty to a DUI second offense charge in March of 2022 that saw him serve 30 days in jail with a three year probation sentence to follow. In June of 2024, Staniszewski was arrested for his third DUI in Allegheny County. He pleaded guilty to that charge and was sentenced to seven years probation. That guilty plea triggered the probation revocation in Bedford County on November 17 and Staniszewski was sentenced to serve 30 days to 23 1/2 months confinement followed by 12 months probation. He was transferred to Allegheny County where he had a review hearing Wednesday and is now on house arrest. (File Photo)
November 20, 2025 4:56 am
More than 30 babies in 15 states, including Pennsylvania, have been sickened in a growing outbreak of infant botulism linked to recalled ByHeart infant formula, federal health officials said Wednesday. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported 31 cases of confirmed or suspected illness in babies who consumed ByHeart formula since August. The most recent case was reported on Nov. 13. No deaths have been reported in the outbreak, which was announced Nov. 8. “Do not use any ByHeart Whole Nutrition infant formula,” the CDC said. ByHeart, a New York-based manufacturer of organic infant formula, has recalled all its products sold in the U.S. The company, which accounts for about 1% of the U.S. infant formula market, had been selling about 200,000 cans of the product each month. It can take up to 30 days for symptoms of infantile botulism to develop, medical experts said.
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 5:04 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 4:58 am
The U.S. Border Patrol is monitoring millions of American drivers nationwide in a secretive program to identify and detain people whose travel patterns it deems suspicious. The Associated Press has found that the predictive intelligence program has resulted in people being stopped, searched, and in some cases arrested. A network of cameras scans and records vehicle license plate information, and an algorithm flags vehicles deemed suspicious based on where they came from, where they were going, and which route they took. Federal agents in turn may then flag local law enforcement. The Border Patrol’s parent agency said they use license plate readers to help identify threats and disrupt criminal networks and are governed by “federal law and constitutional protections.”
