What’s next in the impeachment inquiry as Congress returns
WASHINGTON — Congress is returning from a two-week recess on Tuesday, but some lawmakers barely left Washington. Three House committees investigating impeachment worked through the break, issuing multiple subpoenas and holding depositions with State Department officials relevant to the inquiry . Democrats are investigating President Donald Trump’s dealings with Ukraine...
Hunter Biden to step down from Chinese board
WASHINGTON — Hunter Biden announced on Sunday that he will step down from the board of directors of a Chinese-backed private equity firm at the end of the month as part of a pledge not to work on behalf of any foreign-owned companies should his father win the presidency. Biden,...
Defense Secretary Esper says Trump orders U.S. troops to leave northern Syria
WASHINGTON — Amid growing chaos in Syria, President Donald Trump has ordered all U.S. troops to withdraw from the country’s north to avoid a bloody conflict between Turkey and U.S.-backed Kurdish fighters that “gets worse by the hour,” Defense Secretary Mark Esper said Sunday. Esper, who spoke in two TV...
Will California’s planned power outage lead to a boom of ‘blackout babies’? Here’s what research shows
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Sooner or later, people will get around to asking: Will PG&E’s widespread Northern California power shutdown result in a baby boom next year? The phenomenon of “blackout babies” has held fascination for the American public since the Northeast blackout of 1965 when 80 million people lost power...
Louisiana’s Democratic governor forced into runoff
BATON ROUGE, La. — Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards’ quest for a second term as the Deep South’s only Democratic governor will stretch another month, as voters in his crimson state denied him a primary win Saturday and sent him to a runoff election. The Democratic incumbent was unable to...
Utility: All power has been restored to Northern California
Pacific Gas & Electric Co. says all power has been restored to the nearly 2 million Northern California residents who lost electricity when the state’s largest utility switched it off this week in an effort to prevent wildfires. The company announced on Twitter on Saturday night all of the estimated...
Mack Truck workers in Pa., 2 other states to strike
MACUNGIE — The union representing thousands of workers at Mack Truck plants in Pennsylvania and elsewhere has announced plans to go on strike this weekend. The United Automobile Workers Union Local 677 said on its website that the Mack Truck council voted Thursday night to begin a walkout at 11:59...
Authorities: 3 deaths tied to Southern California wildfires
LOS ANGELES — Three people have died at the scene of Southern California wildfires this week, authorities said Saturday, as firefighters aided by diminishing winds beat back a blaze on the edge of Los Angeles that damaged or destroyed more than 30 structures and sent a blanket of smoke across...
Iranian official says oil tanker attack won’t go unpunished
TEHRAN, Iran — A senior Iranian security official said Saturday that an attack on one of the country’s oil tankers won’t go unpunished, the official IRNA news agency reported. Ali Shamkhani, secretary of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council, said a day after two missiles struck the Iranian tanker Sabiti as...
Gunman opens fire at church wedding ceremony, 2 people shot
PELHAM, N.H. — A gunman opened fire at a wedding ceremony inside a New Hampshire church Saturday shooting two people before guests tackled the shooter and held him until police arrived, authorities said. Pelham’s Police Chief Joseph Roark said no fatalities were reported in the shooting at New England Pentecostal...
Boy, 2, wounded by gunfire when shots are fired into vehicle
BALTIMORE — An act of road rage left a 2-year-old boy with a gunshot wound in the stomach Saturday in Baltimore, a shooting emblematic of the city’s entrenched gun culture, which has already claimed more than 260 lives and left over 620 people injured this year. In a news conference...
Hotel under construction in New Orleans collapses, killing 1
A hotel under construction in New Orleans has reportedly collapsed, killng one person. Local news outlets have reported that construction workers had to run to safety Saturday morning as the Hard Rock Hotel came crashing down. The venue has been under construction for the last several months, according to The...
Andrew Johnson back in spotlight for 1868 impeachment brush
The president traveled the country, fanning racial animus. He viewed the Congress with disdain. He also tried to undo some of the most important achievements of his predecessor, using executive power. That was not Donald Trump, but another president who faced the ignominy of impeachment: Andrew Johnson. As the impeachment...
4 dead in shooting at illegal gambling site in Brooklyn
NEW YORK — Four people were killed and three others were wounded in an early Saturday shooting at an illegal gambling club in New York City, police said. The six men and one woman were shot just before 7 a.m. inside a building in the Crown Heights neighborhood of Brooklyn....
Trump gripes about impeachment, media at Louisiana rally
LAKE CHARLES, La. — President Donald Trump on Friday pressed his argument that the House impeachment inquiry is nothing more than an attempt to overturn his election. Trump found a sympathetic audience in Louisiana, where an arena packed with his supporters roared at his profane denunciations of the proceedings hundreds...
Fast-moving fire drives thousands from California homesVideo
LOS ANGELES — An aggressive wildfire in Southern California seared its way through dry vegetation Friday and spread quickly, destroying more than a dozen homes as tens of thousands of residents were ordered to get out of its way, authorities said. The blaze broke out Thursday evening in the San...
Trafford woman was a guardian angel at crosswalk to generations of children
Rose Ann Fullerton didn’t have a title, but children in Trafford knew that she was queen of the crossing guards, a guardian angel who saw them safely on and off the school bus. Every school day morning for 42 years, rain, snow or shine, Mrs. Fullerton was at the corner...
Southwestern Pennsylvania residents renew calls for research on possible health impact of frackingVideo
As calls for better science on the health impact of unconventional natural gas drilling grew last week, the Pennsylvania Department of Health revealed that a new study found a slight increase in the expected number of cases of Ewing sarcoma, a rare bone cancer, among girls in Fayette, Greene, Washington...
Pennsylvania hospitals struggle under demand for mental health beds
More than 300 Pennsylvanians a day were hospitalized for mental illness in 2018, leaving mental health professionals in many instances struggling to find beds for them in a system plagued by limited resources. The numbers, detailed in a new report by the Pennsylvania Health Care Cost Containment Council, found the...
California to require abortion medication at public colleges
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — California will be the first state to require abortion medication on college campuses under a law signed Friday by Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom. The law takes effect in 2023 and only applies to the 34 campuses in the University of California and California State University systems. But...
Man sentenced to death for Texas attack that killed 6
HOUSTON — A man who prosecutors say was driven by vengeance when he fatally shot six members of his ex-wife’s family in Texas, including four children, was sentenced Friday to death, a decision the lone survivor of the attack says will help her let go of “hurt and anger.” Jurors...
Pelosi calls Trump ‘potty-mouth’ after his remarks on Biden
WASHINGTON — Speaker Nancy Pelosi says President Donald Trump has become a “potty-mouth,” but that’s not why House Democrats are pursuing impeachment. In a conference call Friday, Pelosi told her House Democratic colleagues to stay focused on their “just the facts, ma’am,” impeachment probe. Trump “has become a potty-mouth and...
McAleenan, acting Homeland Security secretary, stepping down
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump said Friday that Kevin McAleenan was stepping down as the acting secretary of Homeland Security. Trump said McAleenan wanted to spend more time with his family and go to the private sector. “We have worked well together with Border Crossings being Way down,” Trump tweeted....
Boeing, FAA both faulted in certification of the 737 Max
A panel of international aviation regulators found that Boeing withheld key information about the 737 Max from pilots and regulators, and the Federal Aviation Administration lacked the expertise to understand an automated flight system implicated in two deadly crashes of Max jets. In its report issued Friday, the panel made...
Greta Thunberg tells Denver rally: ‘We are the change’
DENVER — Young people must be prepared to continue striking to call for action on climate change for a long time and not back down, Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg told a climate strike rally in Denver on Friday. Thunberg said she and fellow youth activists won’t beg those in...
