Drinkers want fizz, low carbs, and Super Bowl ads reflect it
By DEE-ANN DURBIN AP Business Writer
When Americans crack open a cold one during Sunday’s Super Bowl, it may not be a traditional domestic beer. U.S. sales of classic beers like Bud Light have been dropping for a decade as new choices hit the shelves. First it was craft beer, now there are fizzy, fruit-flavored hard seltzers and canned cocktails. Baby Boomers are drinking less and younger drinkers want drinks with fewer carbs and calories. This year’s Super Bowl beer ads reflect the trend, with Anheuser-Busch promoting its new Bud Light Seltzer as well as its low-calorie Michelob Ultra.

NEW YORK (AP) — Lawyers for a woman who says President Donald Trump raped her in the 1990s are asking for a sample of his DNA. The attorneys for advice columnist E. Jean Carroll say they want to determine whether Trump’s genetic material is on a dress she says she wore during the encounter. They served a legal notice Thursday to one of Trump’s lawyers demanding the sample. Carroll filed a defamation suit against Trump in November after the president said she was lying about the alleged attack. The Associated Press sent a message to Trump’s attorney seeking comment.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Retired professor Alan Dershowitz, a member of President Donald Trump’s impeachment defense team, is now saying his sweeping argument against conviction in the trial was misunderstood. Even some of Trump’s Republican supporters have been backing away from the argument _ basically that a president cannot be impeached from actions that would help him win rerelection if he believes his reelection would be in the public interest. Dershowitz says that’s not what he meant and not what he said.

NEW YORK (AP) — Health officials are reporting the first U.S. case of person-to-person spread of the new virus from China. The latest patient is the husband of the Chicago woman who got sick after she returned from a trip to China. The new case announced Thursday is the sixth in the United States. The other five were travelers who fell ill after returning from China. Experts have said they have expected additional cases in the U.S., and that at least some limited spread of the disease in the country was likely.

NEW YORK (AP) — A witness testified that his ex-girlfriend came home “pretty shocked, upset, angry” and “kind of overall appalled” after a hotel room meeting where she says Harvey Weinstein offered her movie roles in exchange for three-way sex. Lincoln Davies’ testimony came Thursday at Weinstein’s New York City rape trial. Dawn Dunning’s experience is not part of the underlying criminal charges against Weinstein, but her testimony could be a factor in whether he goes to prison at the end of his landmark #MeToo-era trial. Weinstein is charged with forcibly performing oral sex on a woman in 2006 and raping another in 2013. Weinstein has insisted any sexual encounters were consensual.

WASHINGTON (AP) — As the Senate is immersed in impeachment, the House is focusing its debate on matters of war and peace. The Democratic-controlled House has approved measures intended to reassert congressional authority over war powers. The House has approved a proposal to repeal the 2002 congressional authorization for the war in Iraq. And the House voted to prevent tax dollars from being used to take military action against Iran without congressional approval. The actions follow a Jan. 9 vote by the House asserting that President Donald Trump must seek approval from Congress before engaging in further military action against Iran.

Delta Air Lines is changing its uniforms for flight attendants and some customer service agents…after several flight attendants complained that the attire made them ill. Delta’s announcement comes after months of lawsuits from employees who complained about respiratory illnesses, rashes, boils, hives and more from their current Lands’ End uniforms. Following complaints, some employees were allowed to wear something else, as long as they had a doctor’s note. Delta said it is targeting late 2021 for the new uniform launch.

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Aliquippa’s Mayor is working with the Trump administration to move the city forward as it emerges from Act 47. Beaver County Radio News Correspondent Sandy Giordano has more. Click on ‘play’ to hear Sandy’s report…

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HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Pennsylvania wants to be a player in the presidential primary, instead of an afterthought. The state Senate on Wednesday approved a bill that would move up Pennsylvania’s presidential primary elections by five weeks, starting in 2024. That would make it the third Tuesday in March, rather than what current law dictates, the fourth Tuesday in April. The bill goes to the state House of Representatives. Critics say Pennsylvania’s presidential primary clout is often diminished by its relatively late vote. This year, Pennsylvania’s primary election is April 28, among the last states, despite Pennsylvania’s having the fifth-most pledged delegates in the competitive Democratic presidential nomination contest.

HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — A group of state judges will decide whether a victims’ rights amendment that voters apparently supported overwhelmingly in November will become part of the Pennsylvania Constitution. Commonwealth Court this week said a full panel of the court will hear oral argument in March about the so-called Marsy’s Law ballot question. It would enshrine into the state constitution rights for crime victims that include notifications about the case and being allowed to attend and weigh in during plea hearings, sentencings and parole proceedings. The state Supreme Court ruled on the eve of balloting that officials could not tabulate or certify the votes while litigation continued. Unofficial tallies indicated the ballot question passed by a three-to-one margin.