Capito reports progress on reversing NIOSH layoffs

April 30, 2025

CHARLESTON — After writing a letter to U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., U.S. Sen. Shelley Moore Capito said Tuesday that progress has been made in temporarily restoring some employees of the Morgantown NIOSH facility, though more work was needed. In a statement on social media Tuesday morning, Capito said some laid off employees at the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) facility in Morgantown would be returning to work on a temporary basis. “Based on conversations I’ve had with folks on the ground in ...

Things to know about the U.S. coal industry and proposed changes under the Trump administration

April 28, 2025

CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — President Donald Trump’s administration has proposed several changes that would affect the struggling U.S. coal industry. Trump issued executive orders this month to allow mining on federal land. He has used his emergency authority to allow some older coal-fired ...

Takeaways from Trump’s first 100 days: Steamrolling government, strong-arming allies

April 28, 2025

(AP) — In his first 100 days, President Donald Trump exerted his power in a sweep and scale that has no easy historical comparison. His actions target the architecture of the New Deal, the Great Society, and the Reagan Republican orthodoxy of free trade and strong international alliances. He has taken direct aim at law, media, public health and culture, attempting to bring all to heel. Here are some key takeaways from the most consequential start of a term of an American presidency since Franklin D. Roosevelt. Economy Trump has tried to bend the U.S. economy to his will. But ...

Republicans in the toughest swing districts become hard to find for those angry about Trump

April 28, 2025

MECHANICSBURG, Pa. (AP) — Many days over the past two weeks, no one answered the phone at any of U.S. Rep. Scott Perry’s four offices. Perry’s team did not share details about the Republican congressman’s public appearances until they were over. Even supporters who live in Perry’s ...

Terrorism ruled out after 11 killed as a vehicle plows into a Filipino street festival in Vancouver

April 28, 2025

VANCOUVER, British Columbia (AP) — Vancouver police ruled out terrorism in a car ramming attack that killed 11 people between the ages of 5 and 65 at a Filipino heritage festival in the Canadian city, saying the suspect has a history of mental health issues. Dozens of others were injured, some critically, as the tragedy shook the country before a federal election. Some of the injured were not immediately identified. A man driving a black Audi SUV entered the street just after 8 p.m. Saturday and struck people attending the Lapu Lapu Day festival. A Vancouver man was ...

Iran’s president visits those injured in port explosion that killed at least 40

April 28, 2025

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Iran’s president on Sunday visited those injured in a huge explosion that rocked one of the Islamic Republic’s main ports, a facility purportedly linked to an earlier delivery of a chemical ingredient used to make missile propellant. The visit by President Masoud Pezeshkian came as the toll from Saturday’s blast at the Shahid Rajaei port outside of Bandar Abbas in southern Iran’s Hormozgan province rose to 40 with about 1,000 others injured. While Iran’s military sought to deny the delivery of ammonium perchlorate from China, new videos ...