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ISTANBUL — White House national security adviser John Bolton traveled to Turkey this week to talk with Turkish officials about working together on President Trump’s plan to quickly withdraw U.S. troops from Syria. Instead, he got an earful. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who declined to meet with Bolton, scolded...

Fighting for advantage in the government shutdown battle, President Trump aims to use a prime-time address Tuesday night to convince Americans he needs billions of dollars from Congress for his long-promised border wall to resolve security and humanitarian problems he contends have reached a crisis pitch. His remarks were to...

SEATTLE — Washington’s governor and New York City’s mayor unveiled major initiatives Tuesday to expand health insurance coverage, the latest moves by key Democratic leaders to address Trump administration health policies they say are keeping people from getting the care they need. Washington Gov. Jay Inslee, a likely presidential candidate,...

Rite Aid will close its pharmacy and store on Main Street in Irwin early next month, a decision made after an evaluation of its business, the Camp Hill-based pharmacy chain said. Rite Aid’s last day of normal operations in Irwin is expected to be Feb. 4, at which time the...

Tarentum Council is looking to fill an empty seat. In an email Tuesday afternoon, Councilwoman Rhonda Dzugan informed the borough she would be resigning from the seven-member council because she is unable to fulfill her duties. Council will vote to accept her resignation during its meeting starting at 6 p.m....

The canopy over gas pumps at a Sunoco gas station along Haymaker Road in Monroeville toppled over Tuesday evening, trapping two vehicles but injuring no one. Both vehicles under the canopy, a car and a pickup truck, were empty during the collapse that occurred about 5:30 p.m., according to Monroeville...

A Squirrel Hill man created a Facebook page centered on Monday’s armed gun rally outside Pittsburgh City Hall and raised nearly $3,000 in donations for anti-gun groups. Ron Gaydos, who lives three blocks from the Tree of Life synagogue in Squirrel Hill, where a mass shooting occurred in October, said...

A Tarentum man is accused of leading police on a chase through Arnold and New Kensington last year before crashing his SUV into another vehicle and injuring three people. Jaquay Karohn Primus, 22, was arraigned Tuesday on felony charges of aggravated assault, drug possession, receiving stolen property and illegally possessing...

A restored Air Force P-40 Warhawk fighter plane will join the high-flying spectacle May 25-26 at Arnold Palmer Regional Airport in Unity. The World War II-era aircraft will be featured in the “Tora! Tora! Tora!” program during the 2019 Shop ‘n Save Westmoreland County Airshow. The plane and the program...

Pittsburgh Mayor Bill Peduto said he wasn’t offended by insults directed at him Monday by gun-rights activists rallying outside City Hall, including claims that he is a “traitor” and “commie” for pushing for tighter gun regulations. Peduto on Tuesday said he purposely avoided the building during the rally on the...

WASHINGTON — Seven new Democratic chairmen of House committees demanded Tuesday that Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin hold off on the planned easing of sanctions against three companies tied to Russian billionaire Oleg Deripaska. “As the chairs of committees with oversight jurisdiction over the U.S. response to Russia’s attempts to interfere...

WASHINGTON — The Trump White House and CNN did battle again on Tuesday, with Kellyanne Conway calling reporter Jim Acosta a swear word during a sharp exchange outside the West Wing. The exchange began when the network’s chief White House correspondent asked the longtime confidant and adviser to Donald Trump...

Families in a South Union neighborhood awoke Tuesday to sirens and flashing lights as fire trucks and ambulances responded to a house fire that killed a young brother and sister. RyLeigh, 7, and Gunner Weasenforth, 5, were pronounced dead at the South Mt. Vernon Avenue home, Fayette County Coroner Phillip...

Confronted by a gun-wielding masked man, Daniel McNerny took it upon himself to put a stop to what appeared to be an armed robbery in front of a Latrobe home nearly two years ago, an eyewitness testified Tuesday. McNerny, who had been visiting friends when he was alerted to the...

ORLANDO — The normally humdrum bureaucracy of registering to vote brought tears to the eyes of some Floridians on Tuesday when most felons regained their right to vote under a state constitutional amendment. “I’ll be a human being again. I’ll be an American citizen again,” Robert Eckford said, choking up...

The handwritten sign attached to the front doors of Nied’s Hotel on Butler Street in Lawrenceville reads “Closed for repairs” in stocky black letters. But Nied’s is indeed closed for good, owner Jim Nied told the Tribune-Review on Tuesday. The Pittsburgh institution closed its doors for the last time Dec....

WASHINGTON — Paul Manafort, President Trump’s former campaign chairman, apparently shared polling data during the 2016 presidential campaign with Konstantin Kilimnik, a business partner in Ukraine who allegedly has ties to Russian intelligence, according to a court filing released Tuesday. It’s unclear whether the information involved internal campaign data or...

Add Saint Vincent College to the growing list of Westmoreland County institutions hosting undergraduate nursing degree programs. Saint Vincent, which offers a master’s and doctorate program for nurse anesthetists in conjunction with Excela Health System, will partner with Carlow University beginning this fall to offer a bachelor of science in...

The nation’s airports continue to operate, even as parts of the government remain shut down: air traffic control workers and airport security officers remain on the job. But as the shutdown moves into its third week, some fear it’s only a matter of time before the nation’s air traffic system...

A Murrysville dive team recovered the body of a Confluence man who was submerged in an icy Henry Clay Township pond Monday near his pickup truck, authorities said. Patrick Keating, 30, was found in the pond along Sickle Ridge Road about 45 feet from where his truck was pulled from...

Pittsburgh plans to rename the North Side portion of the Three Rivers Heritage Tail in honor of former Mayor Tom Murphy, who led efforts during the 1990s to create riverfront parks and trails. City Council on Tuesday introduced a resolution for renaming the trail, running from the former SCI Pittsburgh...

Ads for prescription drugs appeared 5 million times in just one year, capping a recent surge in U.S. medical marketing, a new analysis found. The advertisements for various medicines showed up on TV, newspapers, online sites and elsewhere in 2016. Their numbers soared over 20 years as part of broad...

LONDON — London’s Heathrow Airport briefly halted departing flights on Tuesday after a reported drone sighting — a development that came just three weeks after multiple reports of drone sightings caused travel chaos at nearby Gatwick Airport. The suspension of takeoffs from Heathrow, one of the world’s busiest airports, was...

On Jan. 10, 2018, Gov. Tom Wolf dusted off the state’s disaster declaration manual, usually reserved for marshaling government resources for a natural calamity, to tackle a man-made crisis: opioid addiction, overdoses and deaths. On Monday, members of the Democratic governor’s administration gathered at the Harrisburg headquarters of the Pennsylvania...