October 21, 2024 5:19 am
FEASTERVILLE-TREVOSE, Pa. (AP) — Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump has manned the fry station at a McDonald’s in Pennsylvania before staging an impromptu news conference, answering questions from reporters through the drive-thru window. After an employee showed Trump how to dunk baskets of fries in the oil, the former president took his turn Sunday and even helped fill some takeout bags after a bit. Trump’s assessment? “It requires great expertise, actually, to do it right and to do it fast.” The visit came as he dug into his claim — one that’s spreading without offering evidence — that Democratic nominee Kamala Harris never worked at the fast-food chain while in college.
October 21, 2024 8:19 am
One of the late golf legend Arnold Palmer’s daughters calls Donald Trump’s references to her father’s genitalia “a poor choice of approaches” to honoring his memory. Peg Palmer Wears told The Associated Press on Sunday that she wasn’t upset by the remarks. Trump opened his rally Saturday in Latrobe, Pennsylvania, which is Palmer’s hometown, with a detailed, 12-minute story about Palmer that included praise of the the golfer’s genitalia. Wears said that she had only had passing encounters with Trump but that her father and Trump, an avid golfer, had primarily shared a kinship over the sport they both enjoyed. Arnold Palmer died in 2016 at age 87.
October 21, 2024 5:15 am
RUTHERFORDTON, N.C. (AP) — The presidential campaign in North Carolina is playing out in the aftermath of a devastating hurricane and a tumultuous governor’s race. Both sides are ramping up their activity here again after Hurricane Helene. And Donald Trump’s endorsed GOP candidate for governor, Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson, has seen his campaign collapse amid multiple controversies, potentially splintering GOP unity. Trump, the Republican nominee, has three North Carolina stops Monday, including a visit to see storm damage in Asheville. With 15 days until Election Day, North Carolina is critical to the Electoral College math for both Trump and Democratic Vice President Kamala Harris.
October 21, 2024 5:13 am
BEIRUT (AP) — Israel’s military says it is now taking aim at the Lebanon-based Hezbollah’s financial arm and plans to attack a “large number of targets” in Beirut and elsewhere. Explosions have begun in Beirut’s southern suburbs, about an hour after the announcement Sunday. A senior Israeli intelligence official says the strikes target al-Qard al-Hassan. The registered nonprofit is sanctioned by both the U.S. and Saudi Arabia and provides financial services. It is also used by ordinary Lebanese. Israel says it is a Hezbollah unit and is used to pay operatives of the Iran-backed militant group.
October 20, 2024 6:23 am
ATLANTA (AP) — Vice President Kamala Harris says Republican former President Donald Trump was “cruel” for how he talked about the grieving family of a Georgia mother who died after waiting 20 hours for a hospital to treat her complications from an abortion pill. Harris on Saturday put combating restrictions on reproductive care at the center of her pitch to voters at a rally in Atlanta. Harris blamed Amber Thurman’s death on Georgia’s abortion restrictions that took effect after the Supreme Court in 2022, with three Trump-appointed justices, overturned Roe v. Wade. Harris said: “Donald Trump still refuses to take accountability, to take any accountability, for the pain and the suffering he has caused.”
October 20, 2024 6:17 am
SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) — Authorities say at least seven people were killed Saturday after part of a ferry dock collapsed on Georgia’s Sapelo Island. Tyler Jones is a spokesman for the Georgia Department of Natural Resources. He says the dock collapsed and sent people plunging into the water. Multiple people were taken to hospitals. Crews from the U.S. Coast Guard, the McIntosh County Fire Department, the Georgia Department of Natural Resources and others were searching for any other survivors. The collapse happened as crowds gathered on the island for a celebration of its tiny Gullah-Geechee community of Black slave descendants.
October 20, 2024 6:13 am
DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — Gaza’s Health Ministry says 87 people are dead or missing after Israeli strikes on multiple homes in northern Gaza. It says another 40 people were wounded in the strikes on the town of Beit Lahiya overnight and into Sunday. Beit Lahiya, on the northern edge of Gaza, was among the first targets of Israel’s ground invasion nearly a year ago. There was no immediate comment on the strikes from the Israeli military, which said it was “continuing to operate across Gaza in both aerial strikes and ground operations.”
October 20, 2024 6:09 am
CLEVELAND (AP) — Hollywood stars Julia Roberts and Zendaya bookended Saturday’s inductions into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, giving a little stardust to an eclectic lineup that included pop icon Cher, heavy metal’s Ozzy Osbourne, hip-hop soul queen Mary J. Blige, soft rockers Foreigner and 83-year-old soul icon Dionne Warwick. It was a five-hour-plus show that also honored hip-hop trailblazers A Tribe Called Quest, punk pioneers the MC5, the hip-hop soul of Mary J. Blige, the effortless dance music of Kool & the Gang, the soft rock of Foreigner, the beach bum tunes of Jimmy Buffett and the jam band fusion of Dave Matthews Band.
October 20, 2024 6:00 am
LATROBE, Pa. (AP) — His campaign suggested Donald Trump would begin previewing his campaign’s closing arguments in a final push to win over voters with Election Day barely two weeks off. But the former president spent more time at a raucous rally Saturday night talking about Arnold Palmer. He even praised the late, legendary golfer’s genitalia. Trump was campaigning in Latrobe, Pennsylvania, where Palmer was born in 1929. Trump spent 12 minutes saluting Palmer and noted, “When he took the showers with other pros, they came out of there. They said, ‘Oh my God. That’s unbelievable,’” Trump said with a laugh.
October 20, 2024 1:58 am
The bridge that carries Pennsylvania Turnpike 576 over Pennsylvania State Route 980 just outside of McDonald was dedicated to a Presto Volunteer Fireman. The Terry D. Tackett, Jr. Memorial Bridge was named because of the heroics that Tackett performed to save a woman’s life in Pittsburgh after her car ran into a building leaving her bleeding and unconscious. The bridge is located just feet away from the home where he grew up. Tackett’s father, Terry D. Tackett, Sr. was emotional and humbled as he spoke of his son’s heroics that day and how he misses his son since he was killed in an automobile accident in 2022. Tackett, Sr. spoke of how he did battle with Matt Burd of the Turnpike Commission over flooding that occurred 17 times because of the bridge’s construction. He said he now considers Burd a friend and he looks at the bridge that he hated in a different light. Tackett said that Terry was not just a hero for the Presto Fire Department, Terry was his own personal hero. State Representative Jason Ortitay (R-46) was responsible for the legislative work necessary to have the bridge dedicated in Tackett’s honor.
