Sheetz offers free meal, car wash on Veterans Day
In honor of those who have served and are currently serving our country, Sheetz wants to pay its respect. On Wednesday — Veterans Day — all Sheetz locations will offer a free meal and car wash to veterans and active duty military personnel. “Sheetz, a family owned and operated restaurant...
Female banded mongooses lead battle for chance to find mates
When families of banded mongooses prepare to fight, they form battle lines. Each clan of about 20 animals stands nose to nose, their ears flattened back, as they stare down the enemy. A patch of scrubby savannah separates them, until the first animals run forward. “Then they bunch up into...
Cat at Northeast’s highest peak dies after 12 years on duty
NORTH CONWAY, N.H. — A cat who patrolled the highest peak in the northeast U.S. for a dozen years as its weather observatory’s mascot has died. Marty, a black Maine coon cat, succumbed to “an unforeseen illness,” Mount Washington Summit Operations Manager Rebecca Scholand said in a news release Monday....
EU files antitrust charges against Amazon over use of data
LONDON — European Union regulators filed antitrust charges Tuesday against Amazon, accusing the e-commerce giant of using its access to data to gain an unfair advantage over merchants using its platform. The EU’s executive Commission, the bloc’s top antitrust enforcer, issued the charges after it started looking into the company...
Halted Brazil trials of Chinese-made vaccine cause surprise
SAO PAULO — Brazil’s health regulator has halted clinical trials of the potential coronavirus vaccine CoronaVac, citing an “adverse, serious event.” The decision posted on Anvisa’s website Monday night elicited immediate surprise from parties involved in producing the vaccine. The potential vaccine is being developed by Chinese biopharmaceutical firm Sinovac...
Vatican faults many for McCarrick’s rise but spares pope
ROME — A Vatican investigation into ex-Cardinal Theodore McCarrick has found that a series of bishops, cardinals and popes downplayed or dismissed reports that he slept with seminarians, and determined that Pope Francis merely continued his predecessors’ naive handling of the predator until a former altar boy alleged abuse. The...
GOP backs Trump as he fights election results, transition
WASHINGTON — The Trump administration threw the presidential transition into tumult, with President Donald Trump blocking government officials from cooperating with President-elect Joe Biden’s team and Attorney General William Barr authorizing the Justice Department to probe unsubstantiated allegations of voter fraud. Some Republicans, including Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, rallied...
Biden’s new coronavirus advisers debate mandating masks across the countryVideo
WASHINGTON — Joe Biden’s first act as president-elect was to urge all Americans to wear masks, announcing Monday the formation of a new coronavirus advisory board that will consider a national mask mandate amid rising cases and deaths. “It doesn’t matter your party, your point of view,” Biden said after...
Agriculture secretary: Pa. industry will need 75,000 skilled jobs in the next decade
Someday, Logan McCabe would like to manage and, eventually, own a farm. The Delaware native was able to get a jump on that goal through an agricultural apprenticeship at Fullers Overlook Farm in northeast Pennsylvania, where he spent two farming seasons training for an industry that state officials say will...
U.S. allows 1st emergency use of a covid-19 antibody drugVideo
WASHINGTON — U.S. health officials have allowed emergency use of the first antibody drug to help the immune system fight covid-19, an experimental approach against the virus that has killed more than 238,000 Americans. The Food and Drug Administration on Monday cleared the experimental drug from Eli Lilly for people...
AG William Barr OKs election probes despite little evidence of fraud
WASHINGTON — Attorney General William Barr has authorized federal prosecutors across the U.S. to pursue “substantial allegations” of voting irregularities, if they exist, before the 2020 presidential election is certified, despite no evidence of widespread fraud. Barr’s action comes days after Democrat Joe Biden defeated President Donald Trump and raises...
Lawsuits’ threat looms as Pennsylvania vote count grinds on
HARRISBURG — President Donald Trump’s campaign launched a lawsuit to stop the certification of the election results in Pennsylvania, suing Monday as counties continued to sort through provisional ballots and late-arriving mail-in ballots nearly a week after the election. The Associated Press on Saturday called the presidential contest for former...
Do Trump’s legal challenges have any hope of changing Pa.’s election results? A look at the lawsuits
PHILADELPHIA — Even before Election Day, President Donald Trump had been vowing to swarm Pennsylvania, and its largest city, with lawyers to contest the results in a state that has proven decisive to the outcome of the election. Those threats have only been amplified in the days since the president’s...
Reports: Trump adviser named to oversee campaign legal challenges gets coronavirus
An adviser to President Donald Trump who was named to oversee the campaign’s legal challenges contesting the outcome of last week’s election has tested positive for coronovirus, multiple outlets have reported. Bloomberg News first reported the diagnosis of David Bossie, 55, followed by NBC News and CNN. Bossie, president of...
After Biden win, McConnell says Trump OK to fight election
WASHINGTON — Despite President-elect Joe Biden’s victory, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell says President Donald Trump is “100% within his rights” to question election results and consider legal options. The Republican leader said Monday the process will play out and “reach its conclusion.” Trump has declined to concede the presidential...
Pa. Health Secretary: Fall coronavirus surge likely is not over
Covid-19 continues to surge across Pennsylvania and the United States as a whole, with the percent positivity rate rising along with the case count. The state’s top health officials said Monday the fall resurgence likely isn’t over. “I don’t think we have peaked,” said Secretary of Health Dr. Rachel Levine....
Notre Dame mandates virus testing after football celebration
INDIANAPOLIS — University of Notre Dame students are now subject to mandatory coronavirus testing and face strict penalties if they leave town before getting their test results after thousands of fans stormed the football field and threw parties to celebrate a double-overtime upset over Clemson. The mass of students, players...
U.K., EU make one more push for elusive Brexit trade deal
LONDON — Negotiators from Britain and the European Union met Monday to seek a breakthrough in gridlocked trade talks, with just days until a deadline to strike a post-Brexit deal. As EU chief negotiator Michel Barnier met his British counterpart, David Frost, in London, members of Britain’s House of Lords...
In abrupt move, Trump fires Defense Secretary Mark Esper
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump fired Defense Secretary Mark Esper on Monday, an unprecedented move by a president struggling to accept election defeat and angry at a Pentagon leader he believes wasn’t loyal enough. The decision, which could unsettle international allies and Pentagon leadership, injects another element of uncertainty to...
Trump’s election night party adds to virus scrutiny as HUD Secretary Ben Carson tests positive for covid
WASHINGTON — It was supposed to be a scene of celebration. Instead, the Trump campaign’s election night watch party in the White House East Room — with few masks and no social distancing — is being eyed as a potential coronavirus super-spreading event and yet another symbol of President Donald...
Kremlin: Putin won’t congratulate Biden until challenges end
MOSCOW — Russian President Vladimir Putin won’t congratulate President-elect Joe Biden until legal challenges to the U.S. election are resolved and the result is official, the Kremlin announced Monday. Putin is one of a handful of world leaders who have not commented on Biden’s victory, which was called by major...
Russian military helicopter shot down in Armenia, 2 killed
YEREVAN, Armenia — Russia said Monday that one of its military helicopters was shot down in Armenia, near the border with Azerbaijan, killing two servicemen. The incident occurred near the border with the Azerbaijan exclave of Nakhchivan. Armenian and Azerbaijani forces have been fighting for six weeks over the region...
Pennsylvania adds over 6,300 new covid cases in 2 days
Since Saturday, Pennsylvania has added more than 6,300 new cases of coronavirus, the state’s Department of Health said Monday. On Sunday and Monday, there were 6,311 new cases of covid-19 — 2,909 on Sunday, 3,402 on Monday — making for 22,300 new cases in the past week. Since the beginning...
Vice President Mike Pence heading to Florida vacation island
WASHINGTON — One week after Election Day, Vice President Mike Pence appears ready to take some time off. According to the Federal Aviation Administration, Pence is scheduled to travel to Sanibel, Fla., from Tuesday through Saturday. Pence has vacationed on the island along Florida’s Gulf Coast several times previously. Pence’s...
Utah governor issues statewide mask mandate amid virus surge
SALT LAKE CITY — Utah Gov. Gary Herbert declared a state of emergency and ordered a statewide mask mandate in an attempt to stem a surge in coronavirus patient hospitalizations that is testing the state’s hospital capacity. Herbert and the Utah Department of Health late Sunday issued executive and public...
