A person riding an electric bicycle has died after being hit by a car that fled the scene on Tuesday night. The fatal accident took place at the corner of Guy Park Avenue and Wall Street in Amsterdam.

A federal appeals court ruling restricting access to the abortion pill mifepristone has thrust abortion back into the national political spotlight, potentially reigniting an issue that energized Democratvoters after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in 2022.

Vice President JD Vance said the anti-fraud task force he's leading has found 186,000 dead people collecting Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits. "We've got 186,000 dead people getting SNAP benefits...

Chinese companies are increasingly supplying drone-related components to Russia and Iran despite U.S. sanctions, complicating Washington's efforts to curb the flow of dual-use goods used in warfare, according to former officials, weapons analysts, and Chinese customs data.

TOKYO — Global shares mostly gained on Wednesday and oil prices fell as hopes rose for progress in ending the war with Iran.

MELBOURNE, Australia — An Iranian man who murdered his wife has lost his landmark court bid to prevent Australia from deporting him to the tiny Pacific island of Nauru.

There is a simple question at the center of the Blackthorne Estates situation (“Club at Blackthorne no longer facing legal challenges,” April 14, TribLive): Are the rules optional?

LONDON — Owners of some iPhones are in line to get cash payments of up to $95 from Apple after the company on Tuesday reached a $250 million settlement in a class-action lawsuit for false advertising of its artificial intelligence capabilities.

Here are some of the latest news items from this morning, Wednesday, May 6:

LOS ANGELES — Shula Jassell is insecure about the size of her chin and has periodically considered getting filler to make it bigger.

GENEVA — The cruise ship at the center of a deadly hantavirus outbreak and which is stuck off the coast of Cape Verde with nearly 150 people on board was waiting Wednesday to head to Spain’s Canary Islands. Meanwhile, health authorities in South Africa and Switzerland identified a strain of the virus that can be transmitted between humans in rare cases.

WASHINGTON — Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick is appearing Wednesday before a House committee investigating sex offender Jeffrey Epstein as lawmakers seek answers for Lutnick’s contact with him in the years after Epstein’s 2008 conviction for soliciting prostitution from an underage girl.

Sen. John Fetterman, Sen. Dave McCormick, Sen. Kim Ward, Rep. Guy Reschenthaler, Westmoreland County commissioners … and on and on. I’m concerned: Which of these leaders is going to lead and take action on the impact of the Iran war?

I don’t know how the Pirates should proceed with Bubba Chandler, but I know this: If he cannot control the strike zone — and, in a related matter, his emotions — he might need to spend time away from the rotation.

Penguins president of hockey operations Kyle Dubas wasn’t necessarily optimistic about what forward Egor Chinakhov could do with the Penguins after he was acquired in a trade with the Columbus Blue Jackets on Dec. 29.

Property owners in Upper St. Clair could see a 3% increase in school taxes.

KYIV, Ukraine — Russia fired dozens of drones at Ukraine in nighttime attacks, Ukrainian officials said Wednesday, disregarding a unilateral ceasefire announced by Kyiv that began at midnight.

Pittsburgh Pirates pitcher Bubba Chandler had a tough assignment upon entering Major League Baseball last year. He was tagged as “the next big thing” in the franchise’s starting rotation.

New refreshers and crafted sodas launch at McDonald’s starting Wednesday.

ATLANTA — Ted Turner, a brash and outspoken television pioneer who raced yachts, owned huge chunks of the American West and transformed the news business by launching CNN in 1980, has died at age 87.

People of a certain age will recall a lyric from the Tennessee Ernie Ford song “Sixteen Tons”: “Another day older and deeper in debt.”

Hempfield’s winning tradition is certainly not lost on coach Tina Madison or her players.

A Sheetz in South Greensburg sold a $350,000 jackpot-winning ticket, according to the Pennsylvania Lottery.

An almost century-old Vandergrift building that once served youth sports groups has been transformed into a community event space, breathing fresh life into a structure long tied to the borough’s history.

A Carnegie resident and new father, who has been in federal immigration custody since January, was granted a $15,000 bond in immigration court Wednesday.