Justice Department says it may drop criminal prosecution of Boeing over Max crashes
The Justice Department may drop its criminal prosecution of Boeing for allegedly misleading U.S. regulators about the 737 Max jetliner before two of the planes crashed and killed 346 people, according to a weekend court filing. The department said in a Saturday status report that two representatives had met with...
Residents dig out from tornado damage after storms kill 28 in Kentucky, Missouri and VirginiaVideo
LONDON, Ky. — Residents in Kentucky and Missouri sifted through damage in tornado-stricken neighborhoods and remained on edge Sunday for more severe weather ahead after storms swept through parts of the Midwest and South, killing more than two dozen people. Kentucky was hardest hit as a devastating tornado damaged hundreds...
Joe Biden has been diagnosed with aggressive prostate cancer
WASHINGTON — Former President Joe Biden has been diagnosed with prostate cancer, his office said Sunday. The finding came after the 82-year-old reported urinary symptoms, which led doctors to discover a nodule on his prostate. He was diagnosed with prostate cancer on Friday, with the cancer cells having spread to...
Authorities say suspect in California fertility clinic bombing left behind ‘anti-pro-life’ writings
A 25-year-old man the FBI believes was responsible for an explosion that ripped through a Southern California fertility clinic left behind “anti-pro-life” writings before carrying out an attack investigators are calling an act of terrorism, authorities said Sunday. Guy Edward Bartkus of Twentynine Palms, California, was identified by the FBI...
Trump’s tariffs may mean Walmart shoppers pay more, his treasury chief acknowledgesVideo
WASHINGTON — Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent acknowledged Sunday that Walmart, the largest U.S. retailer, may pass along some of the costs from President Donald Trump’s tariffs to its shoppers through higher prices. Bessent described his call with the company’s CEO a day after Trump warned Walmart to avoid raising prices...
Israel says it will allow ‘basic’ aid into Gaza after nearly 3 months of blockade
DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip — Israel announced Sunday it will allow a limited amount of humanitarian aid into Gaza after a nearly three-month blockade, days after global experts on food security warned of famine. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said a “starvation crisis” would jeopardize Israel’s new military offensive in Gaza,...
Trump’s clash with the courts raises prospect of showdown over separation of powers
DENVER — Tucked deep in the thousand-plus pages of the multitrillion-dollar budget bill making its way through the Republican-controlled U.S. House is a paragraph curtailing a court’s greatest tool for forcing the government to obey its rulings: the power to enforce contempt findings. It’s unclear whether the bill can pass...
The future of history: Trump could leave less documentation behind than any previous U.S. president
WASHINGTON — For generations, official American documents have been meticulously preserved and protected, from the era of quills and parchment to boxes of paper to the cloud, safeguarding snapshots of the government and the nation for posterity. Now, the Trump administration is scrubbing thousands of government websites of history, legal...
Derry Area principal tapped to fill administrative vacancy at Greensburg Salem
Derry Area High School Principal Kara Gardner will serve as Greensburg Salem’s first assistant superintendent, filling a gap left by the resignation of the district’s human resources director earlier this year. Gardner, 36, of New Alexandria, began her career in education at Homer-Center Elementary in Center Township. She worked as...
Federal officials launch investigation into Mexican tall ship that struck Brooklyn BridgeVideo
NEW YORK — Federal transportation officials have launched an investigation into why a Mexican navy tall ship hit the Brooklyn Bridge in a collision that snapped the vessel’s three masts, killed two crew members and left some sailors dangling from harnesses high in the air. The ship known as the...
FBI investigating explosion at California fertility clinic as act of terrorism
The person believed responsible for an attack targeting a Southern California fertility clinic Saturday posted rambling online writings before an explosion that investigators are treating as an act of terrorism, according to a law enforcement official. The suspect, who died in the explosion that tore through the clinic and rattled...
Police and firefighters respond to an explosion rocking the California city of Palm Springs
Police and firefighters responded to an explosion Saturday that rocked a neighborhood and damaged a fertility clinic in the tony California city of Palm Springs. The act was being investigated as a possible car explosion, said two law enforcement officials briefed on the matter who insisted on anonymity to discuss...
Justice Department deal ends a ban on an aftermarket trigger. Gun control advocates are alarmed
WASHINGTON — The Trump administration will allow the sale of forced-reset triggers, which make semiautomatic rifles fire more rapidly, with the federal government ending a ban as part of a settlement that also requires it to return seized devices. The agreement announced Friday by the Justice Department resolves a series...
Still finding trouble in the woods: ‘Blair Witch Project’ star at center of Maine road dispute
FREEDOM, Maine — Heather Donahue is walking through the woods once again. The star of the successful low-budget horror movie ” The Blair Witch Project ” has an on-screen history of getting into scary situations in a forest. But this time she is merely picking up an old soda can...
Republicans forge their tax bill in Trump’s image, with ‘MAGA accounts’ and more
WASHINGTON — Days before Republicans unveiled their sweeping tax cut plan, the chairman of the powerful Ways and Means Committee had one last person to consult. He went to the White House, where he and President Donald Trump went over the legislation “line by line.” “He was very happy with...
Easily distracted? How to improve your attention span
MILWAUKEE — Feel like you can’t focus? Like you’ll never finish a book again? Like the only way to keep your mind and hands busy is to scroll on social media for hours? You’re far from alone. One body of decades-long research found the average person’s attention span for a...
Severe weather leaves at least 27 dead, including 18 in Kentucky
LONDON, Ky. — At least 27 people have been killed by storms systems that swept across part of the U.S. Midwest and South, with Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear announcing Saturday that 18 of the deaths came in his state and 10 others were hospitalized in critical condition. A devastating tornado...
Comey interviewed by the Secret Service over ’86 47′ social media post
WASHINGTON — Former FBI Director James Comey was interviewed by the Secret Service on Friday about a social media post that Republicans insisted was a call for violence against President Donald Trump. The interview was part of an ongoing Trump administration investigation and was expected to help authorities assess the...
Trump warns Walmart: Don’t raise prices due to my tariffs but do eat the costs from those taxes
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump on Saturday ripped into Walmart, saying on social media that the retail giant should eat the additional costs created by his tariffs. As Trump has jacked up import taxes, he has tried to assure a skeptical public that foreign producers would pay for those taxes...
At least 4 dead after tornado and severe storm batters St. Louis, mayor says
ST. LOUIS — At least four people died and authorities were searching from building to building for people who were trapped or hurt after severe storms including a possible tornado swept through St. Louis. The storms Friday afternoon tore roofs off buildings, ripped bricks off of siding and downed trees...
10 escape from New Orleans jail through hole in cell wall while lone guard left to get food
NEW ORLEANS — Ten men broke out of a New Orleans jail Friday in an audacious overnight escape by fleeing through a hole behind a toilet and scaling a wall while the lone guard assigned to their cell pod was away getting food, authorities said. Nine of the escapees, which...
Two dead and others injured in Las Vegas gym shooting, police say
LAS VEGAS — There was a shooting Friday afternoon inside a gym, killing two people, with multiple people injured, Las Vegas police said. One person died as gunfire erupted at the Las Vegas Athletic Club on the city’s west side, Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Undersheriff Andrew Walsh said. There is...
FDA clears first blood test to diagnose Alzheimer’s disease
U.S. regulators have approved the first blood test to help diagnose Alzheimer’s disease, potentially making it easier to find and treat patients with the mind-robbing disease that affects nearly 7 million Americans. The test made by Fujirebio Diagnostics Inc., a unit of Japan’s H.U. Group Holdings Inc., was cleared for...
‘Medical aid in dying’ bill fails in Nevada Legislature
A proposal to give some terminally ill patients in Nevada access to life-ending medications failed to move forward in the Legislature on Friday. Assembly Bill 346 — which would have set up a legal framework for competent and willing terminally ill patients to self-administer life-ending drugs — has had an...
Angler fishing in Lake Michigan fog discovers remains of abandoned tugboat J.C. Ames
MADISON, Wis. — A Wisconsin angler fishing in the fog this week discovered the wreck of an abandoned tugboat submerged in the waters of Lake Michigan for more than a century, state officials announced Friday. Wisconsin Historical Society Maritime Archaeologist Tamara Thomsen said that the society confirmed that Christopher Thuss...
