November 11, 2022 4:24 am
WASHINGTON (AP) – President Joe Biden is heading to a global climate meeting with a giant domestic investment in tow. He’s likely to face questions about how far the U.S. will go to pull other large greenhouse gas emitters along. His attendance Friday at the U.N. climate conference in Egypt is the first stop on an around-the-world trip that will also take him to a meeting of Southeast Asian leaders in Cambodia and a Group of 20 summit meeting for leaders of the world’s largest economies in Bali, Indonesia. Biden boarded Air Force One on Thursday evening buoyed by a stronger-than-expected showing by his party in Tuesday’s midterm elections and congressional passage this year of the largest climate investment in U.S. history.
November 11, 2022 4:22 am
NEW YORK (AP) – Kevin Conroy has died at 66. The prolific voice actor’s gravely delivery on the “Batman: The Animated Series” was for many Batman fans the definitive sound of the Caped Crusader. Warner Bros. announced Friday that Conroy died Thursday after a battle with cancer. Conroy was the voice of Batman on the acclaimed animated series that ran from 1992-1996, often acting opposite Mark Hamill’s Joker. Conroy continued on as the almost exclusive animated voice of Batman, including some 15 films, 400 episodes of television and two dozen video games. In the eight-decade history of Batman, no one played the Dark Knight more. (Photo: ABC News)
November 11, 2022 4:21 am
A U.S. judge in Texas has blocked President Joe Biden’s plan to provide millions of borrowers with up to $20,000 apiece in federal student-loan forgiveness. The program was already on hold while a federal appeals court in St. Louis considers a separate lawsuit by a half-dozen states challenging it. District Court Judge Mark Pittman said Thursday that the program usurped Congress’ power to make laws. Pittman is an appointee of former President Donald Trump based in Fort Worth. The debt forgiveness plan would cancel $10,000 in student loan debt for those making less than $125,000 or households with less than $250,000 in income. Pell Grant recipients would get an additional $10,000 in debt forgiven.
November 11, 2022 4:19 am
PHOENIX (AP) – Democrats have padded their narrow leads in key Arizona contests, but the races for U.S. Senate and governor are still too early to call. About a fifth of the total ballots are left to be counted. Democratic Sen. Mark Kelly led Republican Blake Masters by 5.6 percentage points late Thursday, while Democrat Katie Hobbs was 1.4 points ahead of Republican Kari Lake in the governor’s race. Election officials in populous Maricopa County expected to begin reporting results Friday from nearly 300,000 mail ballots that were returned on Election Day. That crucial group of ballots will provide clues about how remaining votes will fall.
November 11, 2022 4:14 am
PITTSBURGH — (WPXI) – Pittsburgh Career Institute is closing its doors in two weeks. The news came as a shock to students. “I went into school today expecting to take a physics exam. I walked in and it was a paper saying, ‘we’re closing down, sorry,’” one student told us. She has been a student at PCI since May. On its website, the school said officials learned of an issue with accreditation in August. Another student says she received text messages from classmates that the school was shutting down. “You give a two-week notice to a job when you’re quitting, not when you’re closing a whole institution,” she said. WPXI reached out to PCI and received this statement:
“A number of factors outside the school’s control have led to closing. … Staff educators are working hard to find each and every one of our students an option to continue and complete their education at PCI or another institution without interruption.”
The students are waiting to find out if their credits will transfer. PCI is planning to keep representatives on campus until Dec. 31 so students can complete their clinicals and get help transferring.
November 11, 2022 4:09 am
NORTH HUNTINGDON TOWNSHIP, Pa. — (WPXI) – Six people were taken to the hospital by ambulance after a crash on Route 30 in North Huntingdon on Thursday evening. According to Westmoreland County 911, the crash happened at 6:54 p.m. Two vehicles were involved in the crash. Our news partners at WPXI say one vehicle remained on Route 30, the other wound up on the property of a nearby Sunoco gas station from the impact of the crash. The cause of the crash has not been released.
November 10, 2022 5:38 pm
ROCHESTER, N.Y. (AP) – The spinning top, whose origins can be traced to ancient times, has a permanent new place in the National Toy Hall of Fame. The top was inducted into the hall of fame on Thursday, along with Lite-Brite and Masters of the Universe action figures. The trio of honorees was chosen from a field of 12 finalists that also included bingo, Breyer Horses, Catan, Nerf, piñata, Phase 10, Pound Puppies, Rack-O, and Spirograph. The hall of fame in Rochester, New York, recognizes toys that have inspired creativity and endured over time. Anyone can nominate a toy. A panel of experts votes on the winners. (Photo: AP)
November 10, 2022 8:44 am
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) – Russia says its troops began pulling out of a strategic Ukrainian city on. That would represent a humiliating defeat in the grinding war. Ukrainian officials acknowledged Moscow’s forces had no choice but to flee but stopped short of declaring victory in Kherson. It was difficult to know what was happening in the port city. Some Western observers said they believed the Kremlin’s forces have been forced to pull out – though a full withdrawal could take some time. Ukrainian officials have warned for weeks that any announcement of a Russian retreat should be treated skeptically. But on Thursday, Ukraine’s armed forces commander-in-chief said that “the enemy had no other choice but to resort to fleeing.”
November 10, 2022 8:41 am
WASHINGTON (AP) – Price increases moderated in the United States last month in the latest sign that the inflation pressures that have gripped the nation might be easing as the economy slows and consumers grow more cautious. Consumer inflation reached 7.7% in October from a year earlier and 0.4% from September. The year-over-year gain was the smallest since January. Excluding volatile food and energy prices, “core” inflation rose 6.3% in the past 12 months and 0.3% from September. The numbers were all lower than economists had expected. Even with last month’s tentative easing of inflation, the Federal Reserve is widely expected to keep raising interest rates to try to stem persistently high price increases.
November 10, 2022 4:18 am
WILBUR-BY-THE-SEA, Fla. (AP) – Tropical Storm Nicole has sent multiple homes collapsing into the Atlantic Ocean. Nicole made landfall as a hurricane early Thursday near Vero Beach, Florida, but the brunt of the damage was along the East Coast well north of there, in the Daytona Beach area. Its damaging coastal surge was hitting beachfront properties in Daytona Beach Shores that lost their last protections during Hurricane Ian. Nicole is expected to dump lots of rain over a large area of the southeastern United States, with up to six inches falling over the Blue Ridge Mountains. (Photo: ABC News)
