• Arson attack on Pennsylvania governor’s home evokes trauma for state’s Jews
    HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — A year ago, Carole Zawatsky was invited by Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro to a Passover Seder, held in the same room at the governor’s official residence that was devastated by an arsonist just hours after Shapiro hosted this year’s Jewish holiday feast. Now, as she looks at photos of the destruction, […]
  • Former Pentagon spokesman tied to online DEI purge asked to resign, official says
    WASHINGTON (AP) — Former Pentagon spokesman John Ullyot was asked to resign this week following a contentious start for Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s communications office, a senior defense official told The Associated Press on Thursday. Ullyot was one of Hegseth’s initial communications office hires and oversaw some of its most highly visible but controversial moves, […]
  • Dozens more possible jurors are screened in Weinstein retrial
    NEW YORK (AP) — Dozens more people are undergoing screening Thursday as potential jurors for Harvey Weinstein’s New York rape retrial. The panel started taking shape Wednesday, when five women and four men were picked for the redo of the landmark #MeToo-era trial. They were chosen after several stages of screening and questioning, a multistep […]
  • US airlines struggle to forecast their business in worsening economic fog
    By Rajesh Kumar Singh CHICAGO (Reuters) – President Donald Trump’s trade war has created the biggest uncertainty for U.S. airlines since the COVID pandemic. With little clarity on how consumers will behave in the face of a potentially worsening economy, carriers are struggling to accurately forecast their business. While Delta Air Lines and Frontier have […]
  • Ex-Harvard morgue manager charged with selling stolen body parts to plead guilty
    By Nate Raymond BOSTON (Reuters) – A former Harvard Medical School morgue manager accused of stealing and selling organs and other parts of cadavers donated to the school for medical research and education has agreed to plead guilty. Cedric Lodge, who managed Harvard’s morgue for more than two decades before his 2023 arrest, has agreed […]