September 4, 2024 5:00 am
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — An official says Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba has resigned. Speaker of parliament Ruslan Stefanchuk said on his Facebook page that Kuleba’s resignation request on Wednesday will be discussed by lawmakers at their next plenary meeting. The foreign minister’s resignation came as at least seven people were killed and 35 injured in an overnight strike on Lviv. Mayor Andrii Sadovyi says a child and a medical worker were among the dead and others are in critical condition.
September 4, 2024 5:04 am
HONG KONG (AP) — Asian stocks are tumbling after Wall Street had its worst day since early August, as a week full of economic updates got off to a weak start. Japan’s benchmark Nikkei lost over 4%. U.S. futures were lower. Rising oil supply was driving down prices, as Libya moved closer to resolving a conflict over control of the country’s oil revenue that meant its oil production may soon increase. The S&P 500’s heaviest weight, Nvidia, fell 9.5% and led to a decline in global semiconductor-related stocks on Wednesday. The S&P 500 slumped 2.1% Tuesday after a report showed U.S. manufacturing shrank again in August, weighed down by high interest rates. The Dow Jones Industrial Average dropped 1.5%. The Nasdaq composite fell 3.3%.
September 3, 2024 5:44 pm
NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. stocks tumbled to their worst day since an early August sell-off after another report raised worries about the economy’s health. The S&P 500 slumped 2.1% Tuesday after a report showed U.S. manufacturing shrank again in August, weighed down by high interest rates. The Dow Jones Industrial Average dropped 1.5% from its record set before Monday’s Labor Day holiday. The Nasdaq composite fell 3.3% as Nvidia and other Big Tech stocks led the way lower. Treasury yields also sank in the bond market. The worse-than-expected manufacturing data raised worries about the slowing U.S. economy and upped the stakes for the all-important jobs report looming on Friday.
September 3, 2024 5:13 am
LA CROSSE, Wis. (AP) — After a summer of historic tumult, the path to the presidency for both Kamala Harris and Donald Trump this fall is becoming much clearer. The Democratic vice president and the Republican former president will focus almost all of their remaining time and resources on a small collection of undecided voters in just seven states. And they will try to train their message on three familiar issues above all: the economy, immigration and abortion — even as heated debates over character, culture and democracy rage in the background. Meanwhile, a sense of anxious uncertainty has begun to creep into both campaigns as an eight-week sprint to Election Day begins. (Photo: AP)
September 3, 2024 5:41 pm
NEW YORK (AP) — A federal judge has rejected Donald Trump’s request to intervene in his New York hush money criminal case, thwarting the former president’s latest bid to overturn his felony conviction and delay his sentencing. U.S. District Judge Alvin Hellerstein ruled Tuesday that Trump had not satisfied the burden of proof required for a federal court to take control of the case from the state court where it was tried. Hellerstein’s ruling came hours after Manhattan prosecutors raised objections to Trump’s effort to delay post-trial decisions in the case while he sought to have the federal court step in.
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 11:42 am
(WPXI) – A Pittsburgh woman is facing charges in the death of her granddaughter found on Pittsburgh’s North Side. Pittsburgh police said emergency crews were called to the 200 block of East Ohio Street in Allegheny Center at 11:30 a.m. on Sunday for an unconscious, not breathing and obviously deceased female. According to the criminal complaint, Ayla Miller, 3, was found to be cold to the touch, had an injury to the right side of the neck and her hip, significant bruising to both sides of the face, a scratch or scar in the area of the sternum, bruising on her arm, and blood on the bed she was lying in. The injuries to her face appeared to be dark bruising near the right eye with some sort of impact point in the center of the bruise. She also had an infected wound and a mark consistent with a cigarette burn on her ankle. Ayla’s mother said the toddler had been in the custody of her grandmother, Denise Johnson, for a month and a half at the time of her death, the complaint said. According to court documents, police spoke with someone who had a nine-minute conversation with Johnson a few hours after Ayla was found dead. Johnson immediately said she was sorry and that two days prior, she had punched Ayla in the face which caused her to fall backwards and hit her head off a coffee table. She then put Ayla in the bed for the next few days until she died. Johnson further told police that she was sorry and admitted in a lengthy text that she “beat her butt for not listening,” the complaint said. Another witness told police that they saw Johnson beat Ayla with a large wood stick alongside several other implements like a belt. They said Ayla could not move anymore because of the beating and they saw blood on her head and nose. Police recovered evidence consistent with the statements from the witness regarding the beating, the complaint said. Johnson, 56, is facing charges connected to the death, including criminal homicide, aggravated assault, endangering the welfare of children and abuse of a corpse. Johnson was arrested and is being held in the Allegheny County Jail.
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 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 5:13 am
TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is pushing back against a new wave of pressure to reach a cease-fire deal in Gaza after hundreds of thousands of Israelis protested and went on strike. U.S. President Joe Biden says Netanyahu needs to do more after nearly 11 months of fighting. In his first public address since Sunday’s mass protests over the discovery of six more dead hostages, the prime minister said he will continue to insist on a demand that has emerged as a major sticking point in talks. He also declared that no one will preach to me.”
