Indiana County woman charged in fatal stabbing
An Indiana County woman who state police said is responsible for a fatal stabbing was charged Sunday with criminal homicide and aggravated assault. Jessica Lynn Morelli, 36, of Burrell Township is accused of stabbing a 66-year-old man, who Morelli lived with, multiple times Sunday, according to state police. Troopers and...
Federal shutdown enters 6th day as threat of layoffs looms
WASHINGTON - The U.S. government shutdown entered its sixth day on Monday, with President Donald Trump’s Republicans and congressional Democrats still at an impasse and the White House threatening to ramp up pressure by ordering mass layoffs of federal workers. The Republican-led Senate was slated to vote again on dueling...
Democrats want to reach young male voters. How to get them is up for debate
NEW YORK -The Democratic Party has made no secret of the need to reconnect with young male voters, a demographic that drifted toward Republican Donald Trump in the last presidential election and will be key in the 2026 midterms. But a year before the elections that will determine who controls...
Brunkow, Ramsdell and Sakaguchi win Nobel medicine prize for immune discoveries
STOCKHOLM — American scientists Mary Brunkow, Fred Ramsdell and Shimon Sakaguchi from Japan won the 2025 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine on Monday for their discoveries in peripheral immune tolerance, creating openings for possible new autoimmune disease and cancer treatments. This year’s prize “relates to how we keep our...
Trump says U.S. hit another boat off Venezuela coastVideo
NORFOLK, Va. — U.S. forces hit another vessel allegedly carrying illegal drugs off the coast of Venezuela on Saturday evening, U.S. President Donald Trump said on Sunday, adding that the U.S. would also start looking at drug trafficking occurring on land. Trump made the comment during a speech at Naval...
Trump warns of ‘complete obliteration’ if Hamas remains in power in GazaVideo
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump warned of “complete obliteration” if Hamas insists on staying in power in Gaza, as negotiations to end the bloody war between Israel and the Palestinian militant group are set for this week. Hamas said on Friday it had agreed to release all Israeli hostages, alive...
Shootings at South Carolina State University leave 1 dead, another injured
A pair of shootings on the campus of South Carolina State University left one person dead and another wounded as the institution was hosting homecoming celebrations over the weekend, according to state officials. The South Carolina Law Enforcement Division (SLED) said both shootings occurred on Saturday evening, triggering a campus-wide...
Gov. Newsom says he’ll sue Trump for deploying 300 California National Guard troops to Oregon
WASHINGTON — California Gov. Gavin Newsom said he’s suing President Donald Trump, claiming the commander in chief deployed 300 California National Guard troops to Oregon. “After a federal court blocked his attempt to federalize the Oregon National Guard, Donald Trump is deploying 300 California National Guard personnel into Oregon. They...
Shooting in Montgomery, Alabama, leaves 2 dead, 12 injured, police say
MONTGOMERY, Ala. — Multiple gunmen opened fire in a large crowd in downtown Montgomery, Alabama, leaving at two people dead, including a teenage boy, and wounding a dozen others, authorities said. Montgomery Police Chief James Graboys said gunfire erupted around 11:30 p.m. Saturday in the city’s nightlife district. Police believe...
Pentagon reassigning 200 California National Guard members to Portland
WASHINGTON — The U.S. military has reassigned about 200 members of the California National Guard from Los Angeles to Portland, Ore., in an effort to fulfill President Donald Trump’s plan. “At the direction of the President, approximately 200 federalized members of the California National Guard are being reassigned from duty...
White House: Mass layoffs will start if shutdown talks ‘going nowhere’Video
WASHINGTON — The Trump administration will start mass layoffs of federal workers if President Donald Trump decides negotiations with congressional Democrats to end a partial government shutdown are “absolutely going nowhere,” a senior White House official said on Sunday. As the shutdown entered its fifth day, White House National Economic...
An inside look at Pittsburgh’s tunnels and team that keeps them runningVideo
Todd Caddy is the man behind the mirrored glass at Pittsburgh’s front door. His job: tunnel manager for PennDOT. From his office on a recent weekday morning on the south face of Mt. Washington, Caddy watched as two lanes of cars and trucks approached, slowing as they descended Green Tree...
Border Patrol agents shoot woman in Chicago as protesters confront immigration personnel
CHICAGO — U.S. Border Patrol personnel shot an armed woman in Chicago on Saturday, the Department of Homeland Security said, as scores of protesters faced off against federal immigration agents on the city’s southwest side. No law enforcement officers were seriously injured in the incident in which a group that...
FBI agent relieved of duty over refusing Comey perp walk, 4 people familiar say
WASHINGTON — An FBI agent was relieved of duty for declining to arrange a “perp walk” of the bureau’s former director, James Comey, in front of news media cameras after Comey was federally charged last month, four people briefed on the matter said on Friday. Comey was charged on Sept....
London police arrest dozens at protest against ban on Palestine Action
LONDON — London police arrested dozens of protesters for supporting a banned pro-Palestinian group at a demonstration on Saturday that went ahead despite requests to call it off after a deadly attack at a synagogue in Manchester. Two people were killed in the attack in the northwestern English city on...
Did Trump’s crime crackdown in Washington work? It’s complicated
WASHINGTON — After mobilizing hundreds of federal agents and thousands of soldiers to the nation’s capital, President Donald Trump has declared victory over what he called a “crisis” of crime in Washington, and floated the idea of using such deployments to U.S. cities as training grounds for the military. “We...
Russian strike hits train station in Ukraine, killing 1 and injuring 30
KYIV — Two Russian drones struck trains at a station in Ukraine’s northern Sumy region, killing one person and injuring about 30 others, officials said on Saturday, with Ukraine’s foreign minister accusing Moscow of deliberately hitting passenger trains. “A brutal Russian drone strike on the railway station in Shostka, Sumy region,”...
U.S. Border Patrol raid sweeps in citizens, families as Chicago crackdown intensifies
CHICAGO — U.S. Border Patrol agents deployed to Chicago led a late-night raid on an apartment building this week, rappelling from helicopters onto rooftops and breaking down doors in an operation authorities said targeted gang members but which swept up U.S. citizens and families. The show of force highlighted President Donald...
Israel scales back Gaza assault after Trump demands halt to bombing
CAIRO/GAZA — Israel slowed its Gaza offensive on Saturday after President Donald Trump demanded it stop bombing in response to a declaration by Hamas that it was ready to free hostages under his plan to end the two-year-old war. Despite a relatively quieter start to the day compared to recent weeks,...
Multiple drone sightings reported in Germany in past three days, Bild says
MUNICH — Drones have been spotted at airports and military installations across Germany over the past two days, Bild newspaper quoted a confidential police report as saying, suggesting sightings this week at Munich Airport were the tip of the iceberg. Dozens of flights were diverted or canceled at Munich Airport...
U.S. unveils draft design for $1 Trump coin to mark 250th independence celebrations
WASHINGTON — The U.S. Treasury on Friday released a draft design for a $1 coin featuring President Donald Trump to commemorate 250 years since the declaration of American independence in 2026. The front of the potential design showed Trump in profile with the word “liberty” above him and “1776-2026” below, according...
Pennsylvania apple growers more concerned with weather than tariffs
Thousands of people are descending on the Delmont area this weekend for the annual Apple ’n Arts Festival, drinking cider, eating apple pie or just enjoying the crispy crunch of a fresh apple in autumn. And while there is no shortage of apples to go around, the larger industry has...
Apple removes ICE tracking apps after pressure by Trump administration
WASHINGTON — Apple said Thursday it removed ICEBlock and other similar ICE-tracking apps from its App Store after it was contacted by President Donald Trump’s administration, in a rare instance of apps being taken down due to a U.S. federal government demand. Alphabet’s Google also removed similar apps Thursday for...
Government shutdown will crash into the weekend as Senate votes fail
WASHINGTON ‒ The government will remain closed for the weekend after the Senate failed to reach the 60 votes needed on competing Republican and Democratic plans to fund the government. Two Democrats and an independent voted for a GOP measure to end the shutdown, but the 54-44 vote left Republicans...
Another U.S. appeals court rejects Trump’s order curtailing birthright citizenship
President Donald Trump’s effort to curtail birthright citizenship was declared unconstitutional by a second U.S. appeals court Friday, handing him another defeat on a core piece of his hardline immigration agenda whose ultimate fate might lie with the U.S. Supreme Court. A three-judge panel of the Boston-based 1st U.S. Circuit...
