Trump threatens to fire Fauci in rift with disease expert
OPA-LOCKA, Fla. — President Donald Trump is suggesting that he will fire Dr. Anthony Fauci after Tuesday’s election, as his rift with the nation’s top infectious disease expert widens while the nation sees its most alarming outbreak of the coronavirus since the spring. Speaking at a campaign rally in Opa-locka,...
Top Trump coronavirus adviser Scott Atlas apologizes for appearing on Russian state TV
Scott Atlas, the controversial Trump coronavirus adviser, apologized Sunday after appearing on Russian state TV. Atlas appeared on RT, formerly known as Russia Today, which the U.S. government designates as a propaganda outlet. “I recently did an interview with RT and was unaware they are a registered foreign agent,” Atlas...
2 dead, 5 injured in crash at northern West Virginia college
PHILIPPI, W.Va. — A single-vehicle accident Sunday on the campus of Alderson Broaddus University in northern West Virginia left two people dead and five others injured, university officials said. The accident involving seven people in a vehicle was reported shortly after midnight on the campus in Philippi. The small, private...
Trump administration funds plasma company based in owner’s condo
WASHINGTON — An obscure South Carolina company may be in line for millions of dollars in government funding to produce a coronavirus treatment after a former Republican senator with a financial stake in the business lobbied senior government officials. Plasma Technologies LLC has received seed money to test a possible...
Trump decries FBI probe of supporters surrounding Biden busVideo
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump on Sunday suggested the FBI should stop investigating an incident in which his supporters were seen surrounding a Biden campaign bus in Texas, which led Democrats to cancel an event there. The president’s tweet came hours after the FBI confirmed that it was “aware of...
Texas high court denies GOP effort to reject Houston votesVideo
DALLAS — The Texas Supreme Court on Sunday denied a Republican-led petition to toss nearly 127,000 ballots cast at drive-thru voting places in the Houston area. The state’s all-Republican high court rejected the request from GOP activists and candidates without explaining its decision. The effort to have the Harris County...
England coronavirus lockdown may be extended beyond DecemberVideo
A four-week virus lockdown for England set to start on Thursday may have to be extended, a government minister warned on Sunday. “It will get reviewed on Dec. 2, but we’re always driven by what the data show,” Cabinet Office Minister Michael Gove said in a Sky News interview. “We...
New coronavirus cases in Ohio top 3,000 on Sunday
COLUMBUS — New coronavirus cases in Ohio continue to be reported by the thousands each day. Sunday marked the 17th day in a row that cases surpassed 2,000 as the Ohio Department of Health reported that another 3,300 Ohioans have tested positive for covid-19. That figure, which brings the statewide...
Sword-wielding man arrested after Halloween deaths in QuebecVideo
QUEBEC CITY — A man dressed in medieval clothing and armed with a Japanese sword was arrested Sunday on suspicion of killing two people and injuring five others on Halloween near the historic Château Frontenac hotel in Quebec City. Quebec police said their initial information indicates the suspect’s motive was...
North Carolina rally organizer plans Election Day marchVideo
GRAHAM, N.C. — The organizer of a get-out-the-vote rally in North Carolina that ended with police pepper-spraying and arresting participants is planning another march on Election Day. The Rev. Greg Drumwright said Sunday at a news conference that he’s planning a large demonstration for Election Day and condemned how police...
UK says 4-week coronavirus lockdown may have to last longer
LONDON — A new national lockdown in England may have to last longer than the planned four weeks if coronavirus infection rates don’t fall quickly enough, a senior government minister said Sunday. The lockdown announced Saturday by Prime Minister Boris Johnson is to run from Thursday until Dec. 2. Johnson...
70-year-old pulled out alive in Turkey as earthquake toll hits 66
IZMIR, Turkey — Rescue workers in western Turkey extricated a 70-year-old man from a collapsed building Sunday, some 34 hours after a strong earthquake in the Aegean Sea struck Turkey and Greece, killing at least 66 people and injuring more than 900. The man was pulled out of the rubble...
Salt Life founder facing manslaughter charge in teen’s death
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — A founder of the Salt Life clothing brand is facing a manslaughter charge in the death of an 18-year-old woman at a Florida hotel. Michael Troy Hutto, 54, was being held without bond Sunday at the Duval County jail in Jacksonville following his arrest in connection with...
Beaver County’s role in presidential race attracts attentionVideo
Beaver County’s role in the presidential election and the political transformation of the former Democratic stronghold are explored in a WPXI Now streaming special featuring Tribune-Review senior news editor Tom Fontaine. WPXI-TV investigative reporter Aaron Martin hosted the special, which also featured NBC News reporter Dasha Burns. “It’s hard to...
Judge orders U.S. Postal Service to take extraordinary measures
SALEM, Ore. — A federal judge has ordered the U.S. Postal Service to take “extraordinary measures” to deliver ballots in time to be counted in Wisconsin and around Detroit, including using a priority mail service. Chief U.S. District Judge Stanley Bastian in Yakima, Wash., issued the order Friday after being...
U.S. priest who founded Knights of Columbus is beatified
HARTFORD, Conn. — The late Connecticut priest who founded the Knights of Columbus moved a step closer to possible sainthood with his beatification Saturday, as authorized by Pope Francis. The celebration for the Rev. Michael McGivney at the Cathedral of St. Joseph in Hartford included the reading of a letter...
Super typhoon slams into the eastern Philippines
MANILA, Philippines — A super typhoon slammed into the eastern Philippines with “catastrophic violent winds” early Sunday and about a million people have been evacuated in its projected path, including in the capital where the main international airport has been ordered closed, officials said. Typhoon Goni hit the coast of...
Halloween in the pandemic: Costumes and candy, at a distance
Ghosts, skeletons, princesses and black cats roamed the streets as usual this Halloween, but they kept their distance, wore face coverings and carried hand sanitizer in their quest for treats. Like with everything else this year, the pandemic also left its mark on Halloween. Parades, parties and haunted houses were...
North Carolina voter rally ends with pepper spray, arrests
GRAHAM, N.C. — A get-out-the vote rally Saturday in swing state North Carolina ended with police using pepper spray on some participants and making several arrests. Multiple people were arrested outside Alamance County’s courthouse and police used pepper spray to disperse the crowd, news outlets reported. Lindsay Ayling, a graduate...
Abortion rights protest held for 10th day in Poland
WARSAW, Poland — Demonstrators held anti-government protests across Poland for the 10th straight day Saturday in response to the tightening of one of Europe’s strictest abortion laws. The latest protests, though smaller than in previous days, showed the determination and discontent of thousands of Poles after five years under the...
Ivory Coast opposition asserts 12 dead in election violence
ABIDJAN, Ivory Coast — Ivory Coast’s main opposition parties boycotting the presidential vote asserted Saturday that at least a dozen people had died in election day clashes as incumbent leader Alassane Ouattara sought a controversial third term. The election has revived painful memories of the West African nation’s crisis nearly...
Orthodox priest shot at church in France; attacker at large
LYON, France — A Greek Orthodox priest was shot Saturday while he was closing his church in the French city of Lyon, and authorities locked down part of the city to hunt for the assailant, authorities said. The priest, a Greek citizen, is in a local hospital with life-threatening injuries...
Mystery surrounds former Marine’s imprisonment in Venezuela
MEDELLIN, Colombia — “Don’t WORRY!,” reads the cryptic note scribbled on a scrap of perforated paper smuggled out of a dank, basement cellblock. “Han Solo always wins!” The weeks-old message is all the family of Matthew Heath has to pin its hopes on since the former U.S. Marine corporal was...
Philadelphia convenience store cash machine blast probed
PHILADELPHIA — Police were called to an explosion at a cash machine at a closed convenience store in northeast Philadelphia, the latest in a rash of such blasts amid civil unrest in the city over the past week. WPVI reports that the blast was reported at the automated teller machine...
Pennsylvania reports 2,510 new covid-19 cases, 28 deaths
Pennsylvania on Saturday reported 2,510 new coronavirus cases, the fifth consecutive day and eighth day of the month that the state has posted more than 2,000 cases. The state Department of Health reported 28 new deaths attributed to the coronavirus after posting 22 Friday. The week’s high was 44 on...
