WASHINGTON (AP) — Reacting to Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell’s speech in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, President Donald Trump, who has relentlessly attacked Powell and the Fed for its rate policies, kept up his verbal assaults on Twitter: “As usual, the Fed did NOTHING!” Trump tweeted. “It is incredible that they can ‘speak’ without knowing or asking what I am doing.”

WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. Chamber of Commerce is urging the Trump administration and Beijing to return to the negotiating table with trade tensions escalating rapidly. China on Friday said that it was putting into place tariffs on $75 billion in U.S. products in retaliation for the Trump administration’s latest planned tariff hikes. President Donald Trump lashed out, urging U.S. companies to stop doing business in China.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Secretary of State Mike Pompeo says he was saddened to hear of the death of billionaire industrialist David H. Koch. Pompeo said in a tweet Friday that Koch was “a compassionate philanthropist, successful businessman, and a proud American.” David Koch and his brother Charles Koch were major donors to conservative causes and educational groups. David Koch died Friday at age 79.

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Lawyers for men suing Ohio State University over decades-old alleged sexual misconduct by a team doctor say the number of accusers has topped 300. Totals confirmed to The Associated Press put the group’s size in the same ballpark as the initial wave of plaintiffs who got $425 million from Michigan State University to settle claims about sexual misconduct by another sports doctor, Larry Nassar. Unlike Nassar, former Ohio State doctor Richard Strauss can’t be prosecuted. Strauss died in 2005.

Democratic presidential hopeful Beto O’Rourke said he would institute a “mandatory buyback of every assault weapon in America.” O’Rourke made his comments in a column posted Thursday night by USA Today. He said some of the doctors treating the El Paso victims said they had not seen such “horrific wounds since they were deployed abroad in our armed forces.” O’Rourke acknowledged some believe the nation is too divided to bring about that change.

An Ambridge couple is facing more than 400 charges stemming from the seizure of dozens of cats from their home. Beaver County Radio News Correspondent Sandy Giordano has details. Click on ‘play’ to hear Sandy’s report…

THE PENNSYLVANIA DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION HAS ISSUED A 22-PAGE REPORT ON WHY IT IS TERMINATING THE DELEGATED PERMITTING AND INSPECTION AUTHORITY OF THE BEAVER COUNTY CONSERVATION DISTRICT. BEAVER COUNTY RADIO NEWS CORRESPONDENT SANDY GIORDANO HAS MORE. Click on ‘play’ to hear Sandy’s report…