March 30, 2023 9:33 am
Russia’s top security agency says an American reporter for The Wall Street Journal has been arrested on espionage charges. The Federal Security Service said Thursday that Evan Gershkovich was detained in the Ural Mountains city of Yekaterinburg while allegedly trying to obtain classified information. The Wall Street Journal said it “vehemently denies the allegations” and is seeking Gershkovich’s immediate release. The FSB didn’t say when the arrest took place. Gershkovich could face up to 20 years in prison if convicted of espionage. He is the first American reporter to be arrested on espionage charges in Russia since the Cold War. A Moscow court quickly ruled to keep Gershkovich behind bars pending the investigation.
March 30, 2023 9:32 am
Authorities say a train hauling ethanol and corn syrup derailed and caught fire in Minnesota and nearby residents were ordered to evacuate from their homes. Kandiyohi County Sheriff Eric Tollefson says in a statement that the BNSF train derailment was reported about 1 a.m. Thursday in Raymond, about 100 miles west of Minneapolis. BNSF said 22 cars derailed and four caught fire, but there were no injuries. Tollefson says homes in an area 1/2 mile around the site were evacuated. BNSF says there was no other hazardous material in the cars. U.S. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg told CNN that about 14 cars were carrying hazardous materials. BNSF said ethanol was the only hazardous material.
March 30, 2023 4:21 am
VATICAN CITY (AP) — The Vatican says Pope Francis will be hospitalized for several days for treatment of a respiratory infection after experiencing difficulty breathing in recent days. Vatican spokesman Matteo Bruni says Francis, 86, does not have COVID-19, but requires several days of therapy. He said Wednesday that Francis had been suffering some breathing trouble in recent days and went to the Gemelli hospital for tests. “The tests showed a respiratory infection (COVID-19 infection excluded) that will require some days of medical therapy,” Bruni’s statement said. Francis had part of one lung removed when he was a young man due to a respiratory infection, and he often speaks in a whisper.
March 30, 2023 4:16 am
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Hundreds of people have gathered at a candlelight vigil to mourn the three children and three adults slain in a school shooting in Nashville, Tennessee. The crowd in the city’s downtown was largely somber and silent and filled with young people. First lady Jill Biden and Sheryl Crow were among those featured. So were fellow musicians Margo Price and Ketch Secor. Civic leaders were also in the evening’s lineup. Mayor John Cooper called Monday’s shootings at the private Christian school “our worst day.” Earlier in the day, Pope Francis sent his condolences to the city and offered prayers to those affected.
March 30, 2023 4:10 am
FORT CAMPBELL, Ky. (AP) — A military spokesperson says nine people were killed in a crash involving two Army Black Hawk helicopters in Kentucky. Nondice Thurman, a spokesperson for Fort Campbell, said Thursday morning that the deaths happened the previous night in southwestern Kentucky during a routine training mission. A statement from Fort Campbell says the two HH-60 Black Hawk helicopters, part of the 101st Airborne Division, crashed around 10 p.m. Wednesday in Trigg County, Kentucky. The 101st Airborne confirmed the crash about 30 mile northwest of Fort Campbell. The crash is under investigation.
March 30, 2023 2:38 am
(WPXI) – An investigation is underway after a train derailed in northern Butler County. The derailment happened Wednesday morning in the area of Hallston Road and St. John Road in Brady Township, according to Butler County 911. A spokesperson from Canadian National Railways told our news partners at Channel 11 that around 15 rail cars went off the track in the accident. The train was transporting iron ore and nothing it was carrying is considered to be dangerous, the spokesperson said. Officials with CN also that no one was hurt and there were no fires involved in the accident.
March 30, 2023 2:18 am
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — A person close to Pennsylvania Sen. John Fetterman says he’ll return to the Senate in April, two months after the freshman Democrat sought inpatient treatment for clinical depression. The person, who was not authorized to discuss Fetterman’s plans and spoke on condition of anonymity, said Wednesday that Fetterman will return the week of April 17. It wasn’t immediately clear when Fetterman will leave Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, where he checked in Feb. 15. The 53-year-old Fetterman was still recovering from the aftereffects of a stroke he suffered last May when he went to Walter Reed. Doctors say post-stroke depression is common and treatable.
March 29, 2023 5:24 pm
(AP) – Meteorologists are warning of a series of severe storms that could rip across America’s Midwest and South over the next couple of weeks, with the first and perhaps most dangerous outbreak forecast to strike Friday. They expect tornadoes and damaging winds in a barrage of three or four bursts of storms through mid-April. The weather service says more than 66 million people are at risk for tornadoes and damaging winds Friday. Big cities in the highest-danger area include Memphis, St. Louis, Des Moines and Little Rock. Meteorologists say the weather is stuck in a pattern that makes this one-two-three punch of storms more likely.
March 29, 2023 4:45 pm
NEW YORK (AP) — Apple is getting into the buy now, pay later space with a few tweaks to the existing model, including no option to pay with a credit card. The company will roll out the product to some consumers this spring, and will begin reporting the loans to credit bureaus in the fall. Since the start of the pandemic, the option to “buy now, pay later” has skyrocketed in popularity, especially among young and low-income consumers who may not have ready access to traditional credit.
March 29, 2023 4:41 pm
VATICAN CITY (AP) — The Vatican says Pope Francis will be hospitalized for several days for treatment of a respiratory infection after experiencing difficulty breathing in recent days. Vatican spokesman Matteo Bruni says Francis, 86, does not have COVID-19, but requires several days of therapy. He said Wednesday that Francis had been suffering some breathing trouble in recent days and went to the Gemelli hospital for tests. “The tests showed a respiratory infection (COVID-19 infection excluded) that will require some days of medical therapy,” Bruni’s statement said. Francis had part of one lung removed when he was a young man due to a respiratory infection, and he often speaks in a whisper.
