(CNN)President Donald Trump launched an immediate attempt to dominate his Democratic rival Joe Biden in their crucial first debate on Tuesday, seeming to try and turn the debate into a campaign rally by talking over Biden and rarely allowing questions to be asked.
Trump constantly attacked Biden and interrupted him during his answers, and sparred with moderator Chris Wallace as early exchanges over health care tipped out of control
The rivals quickly diverted into sharp exchange over health care in a diversion from their first question on Trump’s Supreme Court pick, Judge Amy Coney Barrett.
“Donald, would you just be quiet for a minute,” Biden said, after the President monopolized the stage and kept interrupting him during his answers.
Mail-in and absentee ballots are expected to be sent out to Westmoreland County voters no later than Saturday.
The state’s late certification of ballots two weeks ago delayed the process and final reviews were not completed until this week, said JoAnn Sebastiani, director of the county’s elections bureau. Pending any last-minute issues, the nearly 50,000 voters and counting who requested mail-in ballots should receive them next week.
“We’re doing the final testing of the ballots to make sure they can be read,” Sebastiani said.
The county bought four digital scanners, two more than were on hand for the June primary, to count mail-in ballots cast during the November election.
Sebastiani said requests continue to flow in to the elections bureau in large numbers and as many as 100,000 voters could skip voting in person at the county’s 307 precincts in favor of casting ballots by mail.
A Westmoreland County grocery store sold one of three winning Pennsylvania Lottery tickets drawn over the weekend, according to lottery officials.
The Treasure Hunt ticket with a jackpot totaling about $190,000 was sold at Shop ‘n Save along East Pittsburgh Street in Greensburg. The winner, who was not identified, will split the jackpot with two other people who purchased winning tickets in Delaware and Philadelphia counties. Each person will receive more than $63,330, officials said.
More than 53,300 people won prizes from Treasure Hunt tickets in the drawing. Treasure Hunt debuted in 2007 and requires players to select five numbers between one and 30. To win, all five numbers must match those drawn. Prizes are also given for matching two, three or four numbers.
The jackpot winners matched the numbers 09-15-17-22-30.
The Director of National Intelligence (DNI) declassified information indicating that former President Obama’s administration knew of allegations that former Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton was attempting to tie Trump to the Russia and distract from her email scandal before the 2016 presidential election.
DNI John Ratcliffe informed the Senate Judiciary Committee on Tuesday that the prior administration obtained Russian intelligence in July of 2016 with allegations against Clinton, but cautioned that the intelligence community (IC) “does not know the accuracy of this allegation or the extent to which the Russian intelligence analysis may reflect exaggeration or fabrication.”
Ratcliffe’s letter doesn’t offer specifics on the intelligence but does reveal that former CIA Director John Brennan’s handwritten notes show that he briefed Obama on the information. According to his letter, the intelligence included the “alleged approval by Hillary Clinton on July 26, 2016 of a proposal from one of her foreign policy advisors to vilify Donald Trump by stirring up a scandal claiming interference by Russian security services.”
In a statement on the letter, Ratcliffe pushed back on the idea he was advancing “Russian disinformation.” “To be clear, this is not Russian disinformation and has not been assessed as such by the Intelligence Community. I’ll be briefing Congress on the sensitive sources and methods by which it was obtained in the coming days.”
Stops in Pittsburgh, Latrobe, Greensburg and Johnstown will highlight Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden’s tour — by train — of Western Pennsylvania on Wednesday.
Multiple people were shot and killed on Monday after police responded to a “possible hostage situation” at a house in Oregon’s capital of Salem, the Marion County Sheriff’s Office said in a statement.
The department issued a press release on Monday saying that officers arrived at a house in the early afternoon with a “trained negotiator” from the sheriff’s department.
Police added that after arriving, “shots were fired,” resulting in “multiple fatalities during this incident, including that of the suspect.” The statement said that no deputies were injured in the confrontation.
Trump 2020 communications director Tim Murtaugh issued a statement ahead of Tuesday’s debate suggesting that the Trump campaign asked to inspect the former vice president for electronic earpieces before the candidates take the stage.
Disney’s parks closed last spring as the pandemic started spreading in the U.S. The Florida parks reopened this summer, but the California parks have yet to reopen as the company awaits guidance from the state of California.
The former vice president and his wife, Jill, reported $944,737 in taxable income last year and paid $299,346, or a 31% tax rate, in federal income taxes.
Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden and his running mate, California Sen. Kamala Harris just released their 2019 tax returns.
Biden’s return shows that he and his wife, Jill, made $944,737 in taxable income last year and paid $299,346, or a 31% tax rate, in federal income taxes.
The release came less than 48 hours after The New York Times published an investigation based on more than a decade’s worth of Trump’s tax returns showing that the president paid no federal income taxes for 10 of the past 15 years.
New preventative nasal spray treatment that could protect people from COVID-19 infection and prevent transmission announced
Novel therapy developed by Australian biotech company, Ena Respiratory, shown to significantly reduce COVID-19 virus levels in the nose and throat, in a gold-standard animal study
Reduced COVID-19 replication by up to 96%, study performed by Public Health England (PHE) scientists
Mode of action complementary to COVID-19 vaccines, with easy nasal administration, delivered once or twice a week
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Ready to progress to human clinical trials within four months
Company has raised AU$11.7m and is seeking additional investment
Computer systems for Universal Health Services, which has more than 400 locations, primarily in the U.S., began to fail over the weekend, and some hospitals have had to resort to filing patient information with pen and paper, according to multiple people familiar with the situation.
The Minneapolis Police Department is investigating claims by right-wing activist group Project Veritas that individuals tied to Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., engaged in illegal ballot harvesting before the election.
“We are in the process of looking into the validity of those statements,” a department statement read on Monday. “No further information is available at this time on this.”
Project Veritas’ latest video lit up social media as it came just weeks before a presidential election that is expected to see a surge in absentee or mail-in voting. In Minnesota, the issue has come under judicial scrutiny as Republicans and Democrats battled over a measure that would limit the number of ballots a third party could hold for others.
The Glass Fire in northern California’s Sonoma County and Napa Valley wine country that burned down the Chateau Boswell more than quadrupled in size overnight to 11,000 acres on Monday.
Chateau Boswell in St. Helena Napa Valley was destroyed Sunday in the Glass Fire
It’s one of only a handful of family-run wineries in the famous California wine region and opened in 1979
Fire has also ravaged the likes of Castello di Amorosa and Venge, plus Merus Wines and Davis Estates were under imminent threat
Officials said 64 other wineries were within the evacuation or evacuation warning areas
The Black Rock Inn bed and breakfast was also up in flames as 1,000 firefighters struggled to contain the blaze
Around 2,000 people have been told to leave their homes, and a further 3,000 to prepare to do so as the wildfires ripped into Santa Rosa and St. Helena
California wildfires have scorched more than 3.7 million acres so far in 2020, far exceeding any single year
Joe Biden wants us to believe he’s so close to his son.
When then-Vice President Joe Biden took an official trip to China in 2013, he brought along his son, Hunter Biden. Ten days after the trip, Hunter’s small investment firm partnered with the state-owned Bank of China to establish Bohai Harvest RST (BHR), a private equity fund. The new company ended up raking in some $1.5 billion from the deal.
Curiously, Hunter had no background in private equity and no relevant expertise. Moreover, Hunter had no serious experience in China. We now know from newly released travel records that Hunter traveled to China five times between 2009 and 2014, but that’s it.
Hunter did have one important qualification, though: He was the son of a sitting vice president. Even more striking, then-President Obama had effectively made Biden the administration’s point man for dealing with China. It would be willful blindness to ignore this fact.
Experts say over the decade, over 150,000 people have left the state and that number is expected to climb as remote working options increase during the coronavirus pandemic.
Yom Kippur begins at sundown, with services marking the holiest and most somber day on the Jewish calendar altered because of the coronavirus pandemic. With indoor religious services in Los Angeles County prohibited under public health orders, synagogues and other Jewish organizations will hold services outdoors and online, just like for Rosh Hashana, the Jewish new year, Sept. 18-20. “This Yom Kippur will be different from past ones as we miss being able to gather with family, friends and community members in our indoor sanctuaries, singing together and greeting friends with hugs,” said Rabbi Ilana Grinblat, the vice president of community engagement for the Southern California Board of Rabbis.
GREENSBURG, Pa. — The Pennsylvania National Guard arrived at a Westmoreland County nursing home Sunday morning to help control an outbreak of COVID-19.
Around 18 townhouse units in an apartment complex along Summit Avenue in Canonsburg were damaged after a large fire broke out Sunday afternoon.
First responders arrived at the scene of the apartment complex building for reports of a fire around 1 p.m. Sunday, according to Washington County dispatch. Around 10 fire departments responded to the scene, dispatch said.
TURTLE CREEK, Pa. (AP) — Authorities are investigating the shooting death of a man near Pittsburgh by a woman after a domestic altercation that lasted for hours.
Allegheny County police said officers and paramedics in the borough of Turtle Creek were called to the home shortly after 5 a.m. Saturday and found the man shot multiple times. He was pronounced dead at the scene. The county medical examiner’s office identified him as 24-year-old Nigel Broadus.
Police said the 28-year-old woman told them the man refused to leave her home at about 2 a.m. Saturday and she was repeatedly assaulted and held against her will for about three hours. Police said he threatened to kill her and began looking for her firearm, but she was able to retrieve the weapon and fired as he came toward her.
WPXI’s RIck Earle began a one-on-one interview by asking Pennsylvania Secretary of the Commonwealth Kathy Boockvar if she feels an added pressure because of the importance Pennsylvania will likely play in deciding the Presidency?
“It’s a critical state for either candidate. Do you feel added pressure?” Earle asked.
“I don’t have a low stress job, but I have the best team in the world,” Boockvar said. “They are working around the clock to make sure every Pennsylvanian gets to vote in a safe secure and accessible election.”
Boockvar is gearing up for the Nov. 3 general election and for an unprecedented number of mail-in ballots because of health concerns due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
“We had almost 1.5 million ballots cast by mail in the primary, and a little over I think over 1.3 million in person. So that was the first time ever that more voters chose to vote by mail than in person, which is great. Allegheny County was one of the top, I think the top county in the state in terms of mail-ins, so we might see 3 million Pennsylvanians take advantage of it in the general election,” Boockvar said.
Former NFL Player Herschel Walker on Monday claimed that money from China is supposedly funding the Black Lives Matter organization and that money is then donated to the Democratic Party.
The director of news service for Delaware State, Carlos Holmes, said that the former vice president was never a student, though he has made appearances on campus twice before for commencement speeches at the university in Dover.
A group of Black Lives Matter protesters were filmed in a tense confrontation with a Louisville storeowner after they pressed him to voice his support for the movement on Friday.
President Donald Trump on Saturday said he is nominating Amy Coney Barrett, a conservative federal appeals court judge, to succeed the late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg on the US Supreme Court.
DeAnna Lorraine is a political correspondent for right-wing outlet Newsmax. (Twitter / @DeAnna4Congress)
A conservative pundit thinks she’s uncovered a conspiracy involving “The Masked Singer.”
A conservative activist is bizarrely speculating that the celebrity song show “The Masked Singer” could be a “demonic” effort to force the American public to wear face masks during the coronavirus pandemic.
DeAnna Lorraine, a political correspondent for right-wing outlet Newsmax, on Friday offered the conspiracy-themed tweet about a show in which singing celebs don head-to-toe crazy costumes, including full-face coverings.
The FBI has arrested the founder of a Black Lives Matter group in Atlanta on fraud and money laundering charges.
Sir Maejor Page, 32, was accused Friday of misappropriating $200,000 in donations he solicited through Facebook on behalf of Black Lives Matter of Greater Atlanta, Fox 5 Atlanta reported Friday.
Page was released on bond after appearing before a judge via video. He did not immediately return messages Saturday from Fox News.
Oregon Gov. Kate Brown declared a state of emergency in Portland as authorities anticipate violent clashes between opposing groups over the weekend during a scheduled rally being held by a right-wing group.
(CNN)President Donald Trump launched an immediate attempt to dominate his Democratic rival Joe Biden in their crucial first debate on Tuesday, seeming to try and turn the debate into a campaign rally by talking over Biden and rarely allowing questions to be asked.
Trump constantly attacked Biden and interrupted him during his answers, and sparred with moderator Chris Wallace as early exchanges over health care tipped out of controlThe rivals quickly diverted into sharp exchange over health care in a diversion from their first question on Trump’s Supreme Court pick, Judge Amy Coney Barrett.“Donald, would you just be quiet for a minute,” Biden said, after the President monopolized the stage and kept interrupting him during his answers.
Mail-in and absentee ballots are expected to be sent out to Westmoreland County voters no later than Saturday.
A Westmoreland County grocery store sold one of three winning Pennsylvania Lottery tickets drawn over the weekend, according to lottery officials.
A man who was just released from the Allegheny County Jail this morning is in custody after allegedly leading police on a chase through three states.
Stops in Pittsburgh, Latrobe, Greensburg and Johnstown will highlight Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden’s tour — by train — of Western Pennsylvania on Wednesday.
Trump 2020 communications director Tim Murtaugh issued a statement ahead of Tuesday’s debate suggesting that the Trump campaign asked to inspect the former vice president for electronic earpieces before the candidates take the stage.
Disney’s parks closed last spring as the pandemic started spreading in the U.S. The Florida parks reopened this summer, but the California parks have yet to reopen as the company awaits guidance from the state of California.
The former vice president and his wife, Jill, reported $944,737 in taxable income last year and paid $299,346, or a 31% tax rate, in federal income taxes.
The Glass Fire in northern California’s Sonoma County and Napa Valley wine country that burned down the Chateau Boswell more than quadrupled in size overnight to 11,000 acres on Monday.
Joe Biden wants us to believe he’s so close to his son.
Experts say over the decade, over 150,000 people have left the state and that number is expected to climb as remote working options increase during the coronavirus pandemic.
Yom Kippur begins at sundown, with services marking the holiest and most somber day on the Jewish calendar altered because of the coronavirus pandemic. With indoor religious services in Los Angeles County prohibited under public health orders, synagogues and other Jewish organizations will hold services outdoors and online, just like for Rosh Hashana, the Jewish new year, Sept. 18-20. “This Yom Kippur will be different from past ones as we miss being able to gather with family, friends and community members in our indoor sanctuaries, singing together and greeting friends with hugs,” said Rabbi Ilana Grinblat, the vice president of community engagement for the Southern California Board of Rabbis.
Former NFL Player Herschel Walker on Monday claimed that money from China is supposedly funding the Black Lives Matter organization and that money is then donated to the Democratic Party.
A group of Black Lives Matter protesters were filmed in a tense confrontation with a Louisville storeowner after they pressed him to voice his support for the movement on Friday.
President Donald Trump on Saturday said he is nominating Amy Coney Barrett, a conservative federal appeals court judge, to succeed the late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg on the US Supreme Court.
Pittsburgh Public Schools and the Pittsburgh Federation of Teachers announced that remote teaching will continue for an additional five weeks.
Oregon Gov. Kate Brown declared a state of emergency in Portland as authorities anticipate violent clashes between opposing groups over the weekend during a scheduled rally being held by a right-wing group.
