October 6, 2024 6:12 am
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — The leaders of North Korea and China have marked the 75th anniversary of their diplomatic relations by exchanging messages that expressed hopes for stronger ties, as outsiders raised questions about their relationship. Sunday’s message exchange between North Korea’s Kim Jong Un and China’s Xi Jinping came as North Korea and Russia have been sharply expanding their cooperation while China apparently keeps its distance. Experts say that the level of exchanges and commemorative programs between North Korea and China in coming months will provide a clue to the exact status of their ties.
October 6, 2024 6:08 am
DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — Palestinian officials say an Israeli strike on a mosque in the Gaza Strip has killed at least 19 people. Israel meanwhile intensified its bombardment of northern Gaza and southern Beirut on Sunday in its widening war on Iran-allied militant groups across the region. Israel is still battling Hamas in Gaza nearly a year after its Oct. 7 attack, and has opened a new front against Hezbollah in Lebanon, which has been trading fire with Israel along the border since the war in Gaza began. Israel has also vowed to strike Iran itself after it launched a ballistic missile attack on the country last week.
October 6, 2024 5:48 am
BUTLER, Pa. (AP) — Donald Trump rallied supporters at the same Pennsylvania grounds where a gunman tried to assassinate him in July, setting aside near-constant worries for his physical safety. He urged a large crowd to deliver an Election Day victory that he tied to his survival of the shooting. The Republican presidential nominee returned to the site on Saturday joined by running mate JD Vance, billionaire Elon Musk and others on the grounds of the Butler Farm Show. The Trump campaign wanted to maximize the event’s headline-grabbing potential with just 30 days to go in his race against his Democratic opponent Vice President Kamala Harris.
October 6, 2024 1:14 am
Two local churches are hoping to make a difference in the lives of victims of Hurricane Helene in North Carolina. Reverend Clayton LaPosta, the pastor at North Buffalo Presbyterian and Taylorstown Presbyterian churches says they are hoping to fill a truck with disaster relief buckets that will then be taken to North Carolina at the end of the month and deposited in a warehouse that is being used for relief supplies. Reverend LaPosta says they’ve only just begun collecting the items and are overwhelmed with the generosity shown by Washington County. Reverend LaPosta says they are looking mainly for cleaning supplies and personal hygiene products. He suggests filling a five-gallon bucket with items like sponges; scrub brushes; liquid detergent, dish soap and liquid household cleaners. If you’re not able to fill a bucket, Reverend LaPosta says you can drop off individual items to the North Buffalo Presbyterian Church. All donations must be dropped off by October 28th, when they will be loaded onto a box truck and driven to North Carolina. If you have questions, you can call Reverend Clayton LaPosta at 724-420-7299. (Photo: AP)
October 6, 2024 6:02 am
PennDot is announcing overnight single lane restrictions on Interstate 70. The restrictions will occur in both directions between Exit 18 (North Junction-Pittsburgh) and Exit 20 (Beau Street). They will begin on Monday October 7 and run through Thursday October 10. The single lane restrictions will be as follows:
October 7 from midnight to 8:00 AM westbound.
October 8 from midnight to 8:00 AM eastbound.
October 9 from midnight to 8:00 AM eastbound.
October 10 from midnight to 8:00 AM eastbound.
Motorists are cautioned to stay alert, use caution and follow signage while driving through the construction zone.
October 5, 2024 4:33 am
REDFORD TOWNSHIP, Mich. (AP) — The International Association of Firefighters has declined to endorse Vice President Kamala Harris, meaning her trip to Michigan on Friday came without the national group’s official backing. Harris and Donald Trump are trying to get the upper hand with working-class voters in the closing weeks of the presidential campaign. Harris visited a firehouse outside Detroit. Organized labor has been a bedrock of Democratic support, but Trump is eager to make inroads with unions in the election and visited Michigan on Thursday. He appeared Friday in Georgia with Gov. Brian Kemp and near a military base in North Carolina.
October 5, 2024 4:30 am
EVANS, Ga. (AP) — After making up privately, former President Donald Trump and Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp used the aftermath of Hurricane Helene to put their detente on public display with a month to go before Election Day. Trump is the 2024 Republican presidential nominee. Kemp is a popular second-term governor. They appeared together Friday afternoon outside Augusta, Georgia, to tout recovery efforts after Helene made landfall in Florida and wrought widespread damage as it moved inland through Georgia and other states. The appearance was the latest turn in their contentious relationship that traces back to Kemp refusing to help Trump overturn Democrat Joe Biden’s victory in the 2020 presidential election.
October 5, 2024 4:27 am
ASHEVILLE, N.C. (AP) — Hurricane Helene severely damaged drinking water utilities in the Southeast. Western North Carolina was especially hard hit. Flooding tore through the city of Asheville’s water system, destroying so much infrastructure that officials said repairs could take weeks. The Environmental Protection Agency said that, as of Thursday, about 136,000 people in the Southeast were served by a nonoperational water provider and more than 1.8 million were living under a boil water advisory. Officials in North Carolina are facing a difficult rebuilding task made harder by the steep, narrow valleys of the Blue Ridge Mountains that during a more typical October would attract throngs of fall tourists.
October 5, 2024 4:23 am
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Iran is under suspicion of trying to hack figures associated with the upcoming U.S. presidential election and plotting the assassination of former President Donald Trump. The claims come after decades of cyberwarfare both attributed to and targeting the Islamic Republic, as well as other campaigns abroad targeting opponents of its theocracy. Starting with the Stuxnet virus believed to have been deployed by Israel and the United States to destroy uranium-enriching centrifuges in Iran’s nuclear program, Tehran has seen both the value and the danger of hacking. Meanwhile, Iran has carried out assassinations abroad targeting its perceived enemies in the years since the 1979 Islamic Revolution, and it has abducted others to bring back to Tehran.
October 5, 2024 4:21 am
Hamas official Saeed Atallah Ali has been killed in an Israeli airstrike on a refugee camp in Lebanon. The early morning strike came a day after another attack cut off a main highway linking Lebanon with Syria. Israel has launched a ground incursion into Lebanon against the Hezbollah militant group. Israel and Hezbollah have traded fire across the Lebanon border almost daily since the day after Hamas’ cross-border attack on Oct. 7, 2023, which killed 1,200 Israelis and took 250 others hostage. As the war in Gaza reaches the one-year mark, more than 41,000 Palestinians have been killed in Gaza.
