Texas sends next busload of migrants to Philadelphia
AUSTIN, Texas — Texas Gov. Greg Abbott said Tuesday that Philadelphia will be the next destination for migrants the state is transporting from the U.S.-Mexico border by the thousands to Democratic-led locales, putting a new bus on the road a week after the Republican easily won reelection. He did not...
GOP Sen. Rick Scott mounts long-shot bid to unseat Mitch McConnellVideo
WASHINGTON — Florida Sen. Rick Scott is mounting a long-shot bid to unseat Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell, a rare challenge for the longtime GOP stalwart after his party failed to win back the majority in the midterm elections. Scott, the leader of the GOP’s Senate campaign efforts who has...
McCarthy clears first step to House speaker, but grind ahead
WASHINGTON — Republican leader Kevin McCarthy cleared the first major step Tuesday toward becoming House speaker, winning majority support from colleagues on a secret ballot. He now faces a weeks-long slog to quell objections from his right flank before a final vote. McCarthy has led House Republicans this far, and...
Studies find automatic braking can cut crashes over 40%
DETROIT — Two new U.S. studies show that automatic emergency braking can cut the number of rear-end automobile crashes in half, and reduce pickup truck crashes by more than 40%. The studies released Tuesday, one by a government-auto industry partnership and the other by the insurance industry, each used crash...
Virginia shooting suspect part of field trip, school confirms
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. — A University of Virginia student who went on a field trip to see a play with classmates is the one suspected of opening fire inside the bus they were riding in when the group returned to campus, a university spokesperson confirmed Tuesday. Spokesperson Brian Coy said the...
Feds: Cocaine worth $450,000 seized from wheelchair wheels
NEW YORK — Customs officers at New York’s Kennedy International Airport seized $450,000 worth of cocaine from a traveler who was smuggling the drugs in the wheels of her wheelchair, federal authorities announced. The bust happened Nov. 10 when Customs and Border Patrol officers stopped a woman traveling from Punta...
Poland: Russian-made missile fell on our country, killing 2Video
KYIV, Ukraine — Poland said early Wednesday that a Russian-made missile fell in the eastern part of the country, killing two people in a blast that Ukrainian President Volodymr Zelenskyy decried as “a very significant escalation” of the war. The exact circumstances of the fatal explosion were unclear, including who...
Stocks gain ground after wholesale inflation eases in U.S.
NEW YORK — Stocks rose broadly in morning trading on Wall Street Tuesday after the government reported another decline in the pace of wholesale price inflation last month, the latest glimpse of hope that inflationary pressures in the U.S. might be easing. The S&P 500 index rose 1.5% as of...
Trump seeks White House again amid GOP losses, legal probesVideo
PALM BEACH, Fla. — Former President Donald Trump said Tuesday that he will mount a third White House campaign, launching an early start to the 2024 contest. The announcement comes just a week after an underwhelming midterm showing for Republicans and will force the party to decide whether to embrace...
Amazon plans new virtual care offering based on messaging
Amazon is stepping back into virtual care with a new service that uses secure messaging to connect patients with doctors for help with nearly two dozen conditions. The retail giant said Tuesday it will launch “Amazon Clinic” in 32 states to provide medication refills and care for conditions like allergies,...
Zelenskyy: Battle for Kherson was D-Day-like watershed
KYIV, Ukraine — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Tuesday likened the recapture of the southern city of Kherson to the Allied landings in France on D-Day in World War II, saying both were watersheds on the road to eventual victory. Ukrainian police, meanwhile, announced plans to investigate alleged Russian torture...
Shapiro to take office with mandate from Pennsylvania voters
HARRISBURG — Josh Shapiro, the Democratic governor-elect of Pennsylvania, will take office with a decisive mandate from voters, who overwhelmingly rejected a Republican drive to pare back abortion rights and voting laws in the premier battleground state. Shapiro, the state’s two-term attorney general, scored a massive 14 percentage point win...
Walmart offers to pay $3.1 billion to settle opioid lawsuits
Retail giant Walmart on Tuesday become the latest major player in the drug industry to announce a plan to settle lawsuits filed by state and local governments over the toll of powerful prescription opioids sold at its pharmacies with state and local governments across the U.S. The $3.1 billion proposal...
Highmark CEO’s pay tops $8.64 million
Highmark President and CEO David Holmberg made $8.64 million in compensation in 2021, up 11% from $7.82 million the year before, according to financial papers from the health care giant. At Highmark Health, the organization’s parent company, Karen Hanlon, the company’s executive vice president and chief operating officer, made $3.95...
Kevin McCarthy makes case for House speaker, but right flank balks
WASHINGTON — With Republicans close to gaining control of the House, Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy maneuvered Monday to lock up support to become the next House speaker, pushing past the objections of his right flank and embarking on a bruising path to seize the gavel from Nancy Pelosi if Democrats...
Katie Hobbs wins Arizona governor’s race, flipping state for Dems
PHOENIX — Democrat Katie Hobbs was elected Arizona governor on Monday, defeating an ally of Donald Trump who falsely claimed the 2020 election was rigged and refused to say she would accept the results of her race this year. Hobbs, who is Arizona’s secretary of state, rose to prominence as...
Florida county puts damage from Nicole at $522 millionVideo
DAYTONA BEACH SHORES, Fla. — Damages are estimated at more than $522 million in a central Florida coastal county where homes collapsed into the Atlantic Ocean following Hurricane Nicole last week. The damages from the category 1 storm in Volusia County, home to Daytona Beach, exceeded those from the much...
Winter weather advisory issued for several central Pennsylvania counties
A winter weather advisory has been issued for several central Pennsylvania counties, beginning Tuesday afternoon and continuing into Wednesday. The National Weather Service says mixed precipitation is expected in Franklin, Perry, Cumberland and Adams counties, with the advisory beginning around 1 p.m. Tuesday. The advisory ends at 5 a.m. Wednesday....
‘Covid’s not done with us, and I’m not done with covid,’ Fauci says, as he prepares to step down from his post
WASHINGTON — Dr. Anthony Fauci knew he was being turned into a villain of the far-right early on in the coronavirus pandemic, when President Donald Trump’s administration stopped defending him. It was the result of a series of choices Fauci stands by to this day, despite all the grief it...
Prosecutors: No criminal charges expected from Rudy Giuliani raid
NEW YORK — Prosecutors in New York do not plan to criminally charge Rudy Giuliani in connection with a probe into his interactions with Ukrainian figures, they revealed in a letter to a judge Monday in what a lawyer for Giuliani declared a “total victory.” They said they made the...
David DePape’s dark journey from Obama backer to QAnon extremist accused in Pelosi attack
RICHMOND, Calif. — To co-workers who knew David DePape a few years ago, he was a gentle, quiet carpenter who liked to watch “Game of Thrones” and “Stranger Things” and brought sunflower seeds to his worksite to feed birds and squirrels. “Everybody liked him,” said Frank Ciccarelli, 76, a carpenter...
Mayor calls University of Idaho students’ deaths ‘senseless’
MOSCOW, Idaho — The mayor of the small town where four University of Idaho students were found dead on Sunday said the “senseless” event is a reminder that acts of violence can occur anywhere. The Moscow Police Department has released few details about the deaths, which have been labeled “homicides.”...
Appeals court ruling keeps Biden student debt plan on hold
ST. LOUIS — President Joe Biden’s plan to forgive student loan debt for millions of borrowers was handed another legal loss Monday when a federal appeals court panel agreed to a preliminary injunction halting the program while an appeal plays out. The ruling by the three-judge panel from the 8th...
Arizona county quick to bat down election misinformation
PHOENIX — When the Republican candidate for Arizona governor accused the state’s most populous county of “slow-rolling” the vote count to skew early election results, a local official fired back. “Quite frankly, it is offensive for Kari Lake to say that these people behind me are slow-rolling this, when they’re...
T-Rex skull could garner $20 million in auction, says report
Sotheby’s auction house in New York is reporting that a Tyrannosaurus rex skull is likely to sell for up to $20 million at auction next month, according to CNN. The skull weighs more than 200 pounds and is over 6 feet tall. Named Maximus, the skull is one of the...
