September 3, 2024 5:11 am
ULAANBAATAR, Mongolia (AP) — Russian President Vladimir Putin is visiting Mongolia with no sign that the host country will bow to calls to arrest him on an international warrant for alleged war crimes stemming from the invasion of Ukraine. The trip is Putin’s first to a member country of the International Criminal Court since it issued the warrant about 18 months ago. Ukraine has called on Mongolia to hand Putin over to the court, and the European Union has expressed concern that Mongolia might not execute the warrant. A spokesperson for Putin said that the Kremlin wasn’t worried.
September 3, 2024 5:09 am
LOS ANGELES (AP) — The teen idol who helped ignite the 1960s surfing craze as a handsome beach boy in the “Gidget” movies, James Darren has died at 88. In his long career, Darren acted, sang and built up a successful behind-the-scenes career as a television director, helming episodes of such well-known series as “Beverly Hills 90210” and “Melrose Place.” He both acted in and directed episodes of the 1980s cop show “T.J. Hooker.” But to movie fans, he was remembered best as Moondoggie, the surfer boy in the smash 1959 film “Gidget” and its two sequels. His son Jim Moret told news outlets he died in his sleep at a Los Angeles hospital on Monday.
September 2, 2024 11:35 am
WASHINGTON (AP) — Artificial intelligence is beginning to allow many employers to automate functions long performed by human workers. Yet the recent experiences of a number of companies suggests that AI may not prove to be the job killer that many people have feared. Instead, the technology might turn out to be more like major technological breakthroughs of the past — the steam engine, electricity, the Internet: That is, eliminate some jobs while creating others. And probably making workers more productive in general, to the eventual benefit of themselves, their employers and the economy.
September 2, 2024 11:32 am
WASHINGTON (AP) — Vice President Kamala Harris plans to use a joint campaign appearance in the industrial city of Pittsburgh with President Joe Biden to say that U.S. Steel should remain domestically owned — coinciding with the White House’s earlier opposition to the company’s planned sale to Nippon Steel of Japan. The two are both attending Pittsburgh’s Labor Day parade on Monday. It will be the first time the two have shared a speaking slot on the political stage together since the surprising election shakeup. Harris coinciding with Biden is little surprise, but marks her taking a major policy position when her nascent campaign has offered relatively few of them.
September 2, 2024 4:35 am
WASHINGTON (AP) — Worries of being uprooted from their jobs have returned for Laura Dodson and other federal workers, who have long been the economic backbone of the nation’s capital and its suburbs. Some federal workers already have experienced efforts to move federal workers to other parts of the country during former President Donald Trump’s administration. Now, with Trump proposing the relocation of up to 100,000 federal jobs, concerns about being abruptly moved are again dogging federal workers. Dodson, who is president of American Federation of Government Employees local 3403, says it’s causing a lot of anxiety and discomfort within the federal workforce.
September 2, 2024 4:33 am
BERLIN (AP) — The Alternative for Germany party’s success in two state elections has piled new pressure on Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s fractious government and left the country’s main opposition party facing political contortions to find a way to govern a pair of eastern regions without involving the far right party. Alternative for Germany, or AfD, became the first far-right party to win a state election in post-World War II Germany in Thuringia on Sunday. In neighboring Saxony, it finished only just behind the mainstream conservative Christian Democratic Union, which leads the national opposition. Voters punished the three parties in Scholz’s governing coalition, which took well under 15% of the vote between them.
September 2, 2024 4:29 am
TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — A rare call for a general strike in Israel to protest the failure to return hostages held in Gaza led to closures and other disruptions around the country, including at its main international airport. But Monday’s strike was ignored in some areas, reflecting deep political divisions. Hundreds of thousands of Israelis had poured into the streets late Sunday to vent grief and anger after six hostages were found dead in Gaza. The families and much of the public blamed Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, saying they could have been returned alive in a cease-fire deal with Hamas. But others support Netanyahu’s strategy of maintaining relentless military pressure on Hamas, whose Oct. 7 attack into Israel triggered the war.
September 2, 2024 4:08 am
The City of Washington Police Department reports that a suspicious object was the reason for the closure of the intersection of Jefferson Avenue and Wylie Avenue on Sunday afternoon. An officer arrived at the scene and found an object in the roadway that appeared to be a possible explosive device and immediately shut down the roads. The Allegheny County Bomb Squad was called to detonate the device. They determined that the device was not an explosive. They will attempt to determine exactly what the object was. Roads were closed for approximately three hours.
September 2, 2024 4:25 am
Washington County 9-1-1 confirmed a one vehicle accident in South Franklin Township Monday morning. A pick up truck rolled over on its side in the 800 block of Lagonda Road at approximately 3:45 a.m. The driver escaped the vehicle and was treated for minor injuries at the scene. Pennsylvania State Police handled the incident.
September 2, 2024 4:11 am
WASHINGTON (AP) — Vice President Kamala Harris and President Joe Biden are co-headlining a campaign event in Pennsylvania for Labor Day. The two will attend Pittsburgh’s Labor Day parade on Monday and offer some remarks. It will be the first time the two have shared a speaking slot on the political stage together since the surprising election shakeup that provided a fresh jolt of Democratic enthusiasm to the 2024 election. Harris’ campaign has said that Pennsylvania voters are newly energized since Harris moved to the top of the ticket and that tens of thousands of new volunteers have signed up to canvass for her with just over two months until Election Day.
