Bushy Run to temporarily close museum while searching for new manager
Bushy Run Battlefield in Penn Township will temporarily close its museum while its board searches for a new manager. Museum manager Matt Adams will leave his post Sunday after about three years at the Penn Township historical site, which commemorates the 1763 clash between the British and Native Americans during...
Luigi Mangione’s murder trial to start Sept. 8, judge says
NEW YORK — A U.S. judge said the federal murder trial of Luigi Mangione over the killing of UnitedHealth Group Inc. executive Brian Thompson will start Sept. 8 with jury selection. U.S. District Court Judge Margaret Garnett said the timing after jury selection will depend on whether she lets prosecutors...
Ukraine, Russia, U.S. discuss fraught issue of territorial concessions in Abu Dhabi
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said the future of Ukraine’s eastern Donbas region would be a key focus as negotiators from Ukraine, Russia and the United States meet in Abu Dhabi for talks to end Russia’s nearly four-year full-scale invasion. The UAE’s foreign ministry said the talks, which commenced Friday and...
What Trump officials and immigration lawyers say about ICE detaining a 5-year-old
MINNEAPOLIS — The detention of a 5-year-old Ecuadorian boy with his father outside their home in Minnesota has become the latest lightning rod for America’s divisions on immigration under the Trump administration. Versions offered by government officials and the family’s attorney and neighbors offer contradictory versions of whether the parents...
ICE investigates after Colorado group says agents left ‘death cards’ in arrested immigrants’ cars
DENVER — Immigration agents operating near Vail placed branded ace of spades playing cards — similar to “death cards” left on corpses by U.S. forces during the Vietnam War — in cars left behind after immigrants’ arrests this week, an advocacy group alleged. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement is investigating,...
U.S. carries out 1st known strike on alleged drug boat since Maduro’s capture
WASHINGTON — The U.S. military said Friday it has carried out a deadly strike on a vessel accused of trafficking drugs in the eastern Pacific Ocean, the first known attack since the raid that captured Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro this month. U.S. Southern Command said on social media the boat...
Hospitals, ambulance services brace for snow set to blanket Western Pa.
When a massive snowstorm descended on Erie late last year, it threatened to snarl operations at Allegheny Health Network’s Saint Vincent Hospital. The Great Lakes city is no stranger to harsh winter weather. But 5 feet of snow between Black Friday and the following Sunday was extreme, even for Erie....
Review confirms journalist Hunter S. Thompson’s 2005 death was a suicide
DENVER — A review of the 2005 shooting death of journalist Hunter S. Thompson has confirmed authorities’ original finding that his death was a suicide, Colorado investigators said Friday. The review by the Colorado Bureau of Investigation was announced in September after Thompson’s wife, Anita Thompson, contacted authorities with “new...
Vance touts Trump administration’s record against abortion at Washington rally
Vice President JD Vance on Friday encouraged anti-abortion activists to “take heart in how far we’ve come” on the quest to limit the practice, listing the Trump administration’s accomplishments including an expansion of a ban on U.S. foreign aid for groups supporting abortion services. “There is still much road ahead...
Lee, Deluzio oppose funding for ICE
Southwestern Pennsylvania’s two Democratic members of Congress voted against a spending bill that includes funding for the Department of Homeland Security, citing its concerns over President Donald Trump’s mass deportation efforts. The Republican-controlled House managed to pass the spending bill Thursday despite objections from Democrats, 220 votes to 207. “My...
Philadelphia sues over removal of slavery exhibit at Independence National Historical Park
PHILADELPHIA — Outraged critics accused President Donald Trump of “whitewashing history” on Friday after the National Park Service removed an exhibit on slavery at Philadelphia’s Independence National Historical Park in response to his executive order “restoring truth and sanity to American history” at the nation’s museums, parks and landmarks. Empty...
Icebreakers, the key tech to unlock Greenland, are only made by either U.S. allies or adversaries
BRUSSELS — The cold, hard reality facing any U.S., NATO or European plans for Greenland is the ice. It chokes harbors, entombs minerals and freezes shorelines into minefields of white and blue shards that threaten ships all year. And the only way to break through all that is, well, with...
Why freezing rain has millions at risk of losing power — and heat
ATLANTA — Every morning this week, Newberry Electric Cooperative CEO Keith Avery walks into his office and turns on The Weather Channel. Then he starts making calls, lining up crews and equipment to respond to outages if a forecasted ice storm cripples power across South Carolina. Avery has dealt with...
Immigrants often don’t open the door to ICE, but that may no longer stop officers
SAN DIEGO — Since coming to the United States 30 years ago from Mexico, Fernando Perez said U.S. immigration officers have stopped by his home numerous times, but he has never once answered the door. “There are rules and I know them,” said Perez, speaking in a mix of English...
Canada’s Carney fires back at Trump after Davos speech
TORONTO — Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney responded to U.S. President Donald Trump comment that “Canada lives because of the United States” on Thursday by saying Canada thrives because of Canadian values. Carney said Canada can show the world that the future doesn’t have to be autocratic after returning from...
Iranian prosecutor denies Trump’s claim 800 prisoners were spared execution
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — Iran’s top prosecutor on Friday called U.S. President Donald Trump’s repeated claims that he halted the hangings of 800 detained protesters there “completely false.” Meanwhile, the overall death toll from a bloody crackdown on nationwide demonstrations rose to at least 5,032, activists said. Activists fear...
After 15 days, county medical examiner classifies Renee Good’s death as homicide
More than two weeks after she was shot and killed by a federal immigration agent, the Hennepin County Medical Examiner’s Office ruled the death of Renee Good a homicide. The office released the information on Jan. 22 in a form that was posted to its public data portal. The disclosure...
Anti-ICE protest at Minnesota church leads to arrests but no charges for journalist Don LemonVideo
MINNEAPOLIS — A prominent civil rights attorney and at least two other people involved in an anti-immigration enforcement protest that disrupted a service at a Minnesota church have been arrested, Trump administration officials said Thursday, even as a judge rebuffed related charges against journalist Don Lemon. Vice President JD Vance,...
Trump administration scraps multimillion-dollar solar projects in Puerto Rico as grid crumbles
SAN JUAN — The administration of President Donald Trump has canceled solar projects in Puerto Rico worth millions of dollars, as the island struggles with chronic power outages and a crumbling electric grid. The projects were aimed at helping 30,000 low-income families in rural areas across the U.S. territory as...
Jury finds Chicago man not guilty of circulating $10K bounty on life of top Border Patrol leader
CHICAGO — A man accused of offering a $10,000 bounty over Snapchat for the life of a top Border Patrol leader was found not guilty on Thursday in the first criminal trial stemming from the Chicago-area immigration crackdown that started last year. Jurors deliberated less than 4 hours before returning...
House Republicans barely defeat war powers resolution to check Trump’s military action in Venezuela
WASHINGTON — The House rejected a Democratic-backed resolution Thursday that would have prevented President Donald Trump from sending U.S. military forces to Venezuela after a tied vote on the legislation fell just short of the majority needed for passage. The tied vote was the latest sign of Republican House Speaker...
Federal officers detain 5-year-old boy who school official says was used as ‘bait’
MINNEAPOLIS — A 5-year-old boy arriving home from preschool in Minnesota was taken by federal agents along with his father to a detention facility in Texas, school officials and the family’s lawyer said, making him the fourth student from his Minneapolis suburb to be detained by immigration officers in recent...
Man flown to hospital following apparent explosion at Delmont apartmentVideo
Ed Smith bolted out of his house in Delmont when he heard a loud explosion, followed shortly by a second blast on Thursday afternoon. “I found a gentleman (lying) in the snow outside the garage with no clothes. Half his clothes were burnt,” Smith said. “The second explosion blew the...
Huge winter storm to bring crippling snow, sleet and ice from Texas to BostonVideo
ATLANTA — Bread was flying off the shelves, salt was being loaded into trucks and utility workers were nervously watching forecasts Thursday as a huge winter storm that could bring catastrophic damage, widespread power outages and bitterly cold weather was barreling toward the eastern two-thirds of the U.S. The massive...
Millions of Americans prepare for potentially catastrophic ice storm. Here’s what the numbers show
ATLANTA — Millions of Americans from New Mexico to the Carolinas are bracing for a potentially catastrophic ice storm that could crush trees and power lines and knock out power for days, while Washington, D.C., Philadelphia, New York City and Boston could see enough snow to make travel very difficult...
