Drivers in Pennsylvania may have to get a new license that is in accordance with the REAL ID regulations coming next year. Those without the REAL ID or an applicable form of federal identification will not be able to travel by air beginning in October 2020.
Beaver County Radio News Intern, Christina Sainovich, has more on the story…
RIDGECREST, Calif. (AP) — Large back-to-back earthquakes rattled some remote desert communities and put the rest of California on notice to be ready for a massive jolt in a big city. Scientists say a similar-sized quake in a major city like San Francisco or Los Angeles could collapse bridges, buildings and freeways, as well as spark devastating fires fueled by ruptured gas lines. No one was seriously injured in the quakes Thursday and Friday, which authorities attributed to the remote location in the Mojave Desert.
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department has replaced the legal team charged with finding a legal path forward for including a citizenship question as part of a the 2020 Census. The department announced late Sunday that it’s shaking up the existing legal team. An administration official said the new team might find it easier to argue the Trump administration’s position. Trump is pushing for such a question on the census, despite the fact the Supreme Court has barred the question for now.
NEW YORK (AP) — Prosecutors say Jeffrey Epstein kept perhaps thousands of sexually suggestive photographs at his Manhattan mansion. Officials say in court papers Monday that the pictures included some on CDs with handwritten labels including “Misc nudes 1,” “Girl pics nude” and the names of specific young women. The wealthy financier is accused of creating and maintaining a network that allowed him to sexually exploit and abuse dozens of girls. His lawyer didn’t immediately comment.
UNDATED (AP) — Navigating airports can be tricky. They’re loud, crowded and not always laid out in an intuitive way. They’re even more challenging for visually impaired people. A blind professor at Carnegie Mellon University’s Robotics Institute has come up with a solution. This spring researchers launched a navigation app for Pittsburgh International Airport that provides turn-by-turn audio instructions to users on how to get to their destination.
Environmentalist Tom Steyer, whose fortune tips the scales at well over $1 billion, has changed his mind and now plans to join the Democratic Party field in the race for president.
Politico reported Monday that Steyer has indicated to people close to him that he has changed his mind about 2020 and will run for the White House.
Steyer has spent millions of dollars over the years supporting Democrats running for office. A resident of San Francisco, Steyer is worth an estimated $1.6 billion, according to Forbes.
Steyer has been highly critical of President Donald Trump and has contemplated running for president during the current campaign cycle, but in January he ruled it out.
It’s not clear what prompted Steyer’s change of heart on running.
SYLVANIA, Ohio (AP) — Ohio’s John and Phyllis Cook are living proof love is ageless.
WNWO-TV reports the couple living at retirement facility in Sylvania went to get their marriage license at the county courthouse in Toledo late last month and decided to tie the knot there and then. John just turned 100. Phyllis will be 103 in August.
The couple’s relationship after dating a year had grown to the point where Phyllis thought it best they get married. She says it might seem “far-fetched” at their age, “but we fell in love with each other.”
Both were married twice previously to spouses who died. They spend lots of time together, but have decided to maintain their own apartments.
Asked what their favorite activity is, John replied: “Well, I probably shouldn’t talk about that.”
LUFKIN, Texas (AP) — Police in East Texas say a teenager from San Antonio is suspected of taking a tub of ice cream from a Walmart freezer, removing the top to lick the ice cream and then returning it to the freezer.
Blue Bell Creameries said in a statement that it determined a Walmart store in Lufkin was where “the malicious act of food tampering took place.”
A short video posted to social media last week shows the teenage girl laughing as she places the top back on the half-gallon container and returning it to the freezer.
Blue Bell says the container that was “compromised” was found and removed.
The company says “food tampering is not a joke.”
Lufkin police said Friday that they don’t intend to charge the teen with tampering with a consumer product.
It’s not clear if juvenile justice authorities may charge her.
Congressman Justin Amash of Michigan, who has left the Republican Party, said Sunday he’s still got the support of voters back home — and hasn’t ruled out a run for president. In an interview on CNN’s “State of the Union,” Amash said he’s “had concerns with the Republican Party for several years,” and “this was the term that really broke it for me.” Asked if he would run again — and win — as an independent, Amash said “yes”. And then asked about the possibility of running for president as a Libertarian or on another ticket, he declared.” I still wouldn’t rule anything like that out.” He also stood by his contention that President Donald Trump should be impeached.
Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, only the second woman in history to be added to the high court, praised newly-confirmed Justice Brett Kavanaugh for appointing an all-female staff of law clerks. Ginbsurg said last Tuesday during a sit-down at Georgetown Law School…“There is a very important first on the Supreme Court this term and it’s thanks to our new justice, Justice Kavanaugh. Justice Kavanaugh made history by bringing on board an all-female law clerk crew. Thanks to his selections, the court has this term, for the first time ever, more women than men serving as law clerks.” Kavanaugh, whose contentious confirmation hearing last summer was marked by allegations of sexual assault – touted his record on sending female law clerks to clerk on the Supreme Court. He also promised to hire an all-female law clerk team.