Bomb at seminary in Pakistan kills 8 students, wounds 136
PESHAWAR, Pakistan — A powerful bomb blast ripped through an Islamic seminary on the outskirts of the northwest Pakistani city of Peshawar on Tuesday morning, killing at least eight students and wounding 136 others, police and a hospital spokesman said. The bombing happened as a prominent religious scholar during a...
Biden goes on offense in Georgia while Trump targets Midwest
WASHINGTON — One week until Election Day, Joe Biden is going on offense, heading Tuesday to Georgia — which hasn’t backed a Democrat for president since 1992 — and pushing into other territory where President Donald Trump was once expected to easily repeat his wins from four years ago. The...
Worst place, worst time: Trump faces coronavirus spike in Midwest
OSHKOSH, Wis. — Gabe Loiacono is the kind of voter President Donald Trump can ill afford to lose. He lives in a pivotal county of a swing state that is among a handful that will decide the presidency. A college history professor who last cast a ballot for a Democrat...
Gulf Coast braces, again, for hurricane as Zeta takes aimVideo
NEW ORLEANS — Residents of the storm-pummeled Gulf Coast steeled themselves for yet another tropical weather strike Tuesday as Tropical Storm Zeta took aim at southeast Louisiana, fraying the nerves of evacuees from earlier storms and raising concerns in New Orleans about the low-lying city’s antiquated drainage pump system. Zeta,...
Hong Kong arrests 3 activists under national security law
HONG KONG — Three members of a former student group advocating independence for Hong Kong were arrested Tuesday under the city’s new national security law on suspicion of publishing content inciting secession on social media platforms. The three include former Studentlocalism leader Tony Chung and former members William Chan and...
Supreme Court won’t extend Wisconsin’s absentee ballot deadline
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court is siding with Republicans to prevent Wisconsin from counting mailed ballots that are received after Election Day. In a 5-3 order, the justices on Monday refused to reinstate a lower court order that called for mailed ballots to be counted if they are received up...
Philadelphia police shooting of Black man sparks unrestVideo
PHILADELPHIA —Police shot and killed a 27-year-old Black man on a Philadelphia street after yelling at him to drop his knife, sparking violent protests that police said injured 30 officers and led to dozens of arrests. The shooting occurred before 4 p.m. Monday as officers responded to a report of...
100,000 in Southern California to evacuate as blaze growsVideo
LOS ANGELES — Fast-moving wildfires forced evacuation orders for more than 100,000 people and seriously injured two firefighters in Southern California on Monday as powerful wind across the state prompted power to be cut to hundreds of thousands to prevent utility equipment from sparking new blazes. A smoky fire exploded...
Wolf’s office responds to Trump jabs at Lehigh Valley rally: ‘What the president said is inaccurate’Video
After President Trump stood before a cheering crowd Monday in Northampton County and blasted Gov. Tom Wolf repeatedly, a Wolf spokeswoman fired back, countering the Trump claims and calling one alleging interference in Trump rally planning “inaccurate.” Trump, speaking at a campaign rally outside HoverTech International in Hanover Township, several...
Scientists remove 98 ‘murder hornets’ in Washington state
SPOKANE, Wash. — Workers from the state Department of Agriculture managed to destroy the first nest of so-called murder hornets discovered in the United States without suffering any stings or other injuries, the agency said Monday. The nest, located in Whatcom County near the Canadian border, created concern because the...
Super supporters: These voters go above and beyond in their adoration for Trump, Biden
As the 2020 general election looms, all eyes are on Pennsylvania. As a key battleground state with 20 Electoral College votes, Pennsylvania is viewed as a linchpin in the candidates’ hopes to win the presidency. Here are eight Southwestern Pennsylvania voters who have gone above and beyond in their support...
Prosecutors say they discovered bomb materials connected with Whitmer kidnap plot
LANSING, Mich. — Federal prosecutors have asked for more time to hand down grand jury indictments in their kidnapping conspiracy case involving Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, saying the recent discovery of bomb components could lead to new charges, including terror-related charges. In a court filing Monday, prosecutors asked for a 40-day...
Man charged in burning of ballot drop box in Boston
BOSTON — A man was charged with setting a Boston ballot drop box on fire and damaging dozens of ballots, police said Monday. Worldy Armand, a 39-year-old Boston resident, was taken into custody late Sunday, hours after he started a fire inside a drop box outside the Boston Public Library...
Vote-by-mail window may be closed with Postal Service still slow
WASHINGTON — Delivery by the U.S. Postal Service remains slow despite the intervention of federal judges and some voting advocates say ballots not in the mail now may not arrive in time to be counted and should instead be dropped off at voting facilities. The persistent delays include poor on-time...
Video of fatal Waukegan, Ill., police shooting will be released, mayor says
WAUKEGAN, Ill. — Police videos showing a suburban Chicago police officer fatally shooting a Black man and wounding a Black woman are expected to be released once relatives have seen the footage, the city’s mayor has said. Waukegan Mayor Sam Cunningham said Sunday during a prayer vigil for Marcellis Stinnette,...
Zeta becomes a hurricane as it nears Yucatan, heading for United StatesVideo
CANCUN, Mexico — Zeta strengthened to a hurricane Monday afternoon as it continued on a track for Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula resorts and then likely move on for a possible landfall on the central U.S. Gulf Coast at midweek. Zeta — the earliest ever 27th named storm of the Atlantic season...
Muslims call for French goods boycott to protest caricatures, Macron’s commentsVideo
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — Muslims in the Middle East and beyond on Monday broadened their calls for boycotts of French products and protests, as a clash over depictions of the Prophet Muhammad and the limits of free speech intensified. Kuwaiti stores pulled French yogurts and bottles of sparkling water...
Jared Kushner says African Americans must ‘want to be successful’Video
WASHINGTON — Jared Kushner, President Donald Trump’s son-in-law and senior adviser, said Black people must “want to be successful” in order for his father-in-law’s policies to help them. “One thing we’ve seen in a lot of the Black community, which is mostly Democrat, is that President Trump’s policies are the...
Coronavirus deaths are rising again in the U.S., as fearedVideo
BOISE, Idaho — Deaths per day from the coronavirus in the United States are on the rise again, just as health experts had feared, and cases are climbing in nearly every state, despite assurances from President Donald Trump over the weekend that “we’re rounding the turn, we’re doing great.” With...
Pa. health secretary Levine says covid can be contained through masking and other efforts
The Pennsylvania Secretary of Health on Monday had a pointed response to a political declaration that “we’re not going to control the pandemic” as Pennsylvania and most other states see surges in coronavirus cases and hospitalizations. “Despite what has been reported in the last day or so, we can control...
NYPD sued over alleged aggressive tactics against Floyd protesters
NEW YORK — Two civil rights organizations are suing the New York Police Department on behalf of protesters who say they were roughed up by officers because they expressed anti-police views during nightly demonstrations in the spring in the wake of George Floyd’s killing. The lawsuit, filed Monday in federal...
It’s a (big) boy: White rhino born at Disney World
ORLANDO, Fla. — It’s a boy — a big boy. A 150-pound white rhinoceros was born at Disney’s Animal Kingdom theme park at Walt Disney World in Florida over the weekend. The as-yet-named rhino was born to Kendi, who was the first white rhinoceros born at the animal theme park...
French doctor warns his country has ‘lost control’ of coronavirus
PARIS — A French doctor warned Monday that his country has “lost control of the epidemic,” a day after health authorities reported more than 52,000 new coronavirus cases as nations across Europe enact more sweeping restrictions to try to slow surging infection rates. Spain — the first European country to...
Pennsylvania adds over 3,000 covid cases in past 2 days
Pennsylvania has seen more than 3,000 new cases of the coronavirus in the past two days, according to a report from the state Department of Health. In the report released Monday, health officials said 1,407 new cases were added Monday and 1,666 cases on Sunday. Among Monday’s cases, 1,310 were...
60,000 in Southern California to evacuate after wildfire grows
LOS ANGELES —A fast-moving wildfire forced evacuations for 60,000 people in Southern California on Monday as powerful winds across the state prompted power to be cut to hundreds of thousands to prevent utility equipment from sparking new blazes. The smoky fire exploded in size to 2,000 acres within a few...
