WASHINGTON (AP) — Chinese President Xi Jinping arrived in Washington on Wednesday, where he was met with a rare planeside greeting from President Donald Trump, who was there to welcome his counterpart instead of waiting for him to drive up to the White House. Trump’s decision to greet Xi ...
POLAND TOWNSHIP — Trustees at a special meeting Tuesday gave their approval to sell a 2025 Chevrolet Tahoe, originally purchased for the police department, to the Mahoning County Emergency Management Agency as a way to ease the township’s financial strain. “With the current financial situation, the board decided to accept the deal the county presented to purchase the vehicle from us for full price,” Poland trustee Eric Ungaro said. “So we are thankful EMA approached us.” He said the price tag of the Tahoe was approximately $55,000. It had not yet been outfitted with the ...
NEW YORK (AP) — The U.S.-backed Board of Peace is proposing a six-month, $2.45 billion plan to begin reconstruction and governance in Gaza as President Donald Trump's ceasefire plan struggles to stay afloat. At a meeting of the group's board in New York on the sidelines of the U.N. General Assembly on Wednesday, the governors unveiled a 66-project blueprint to get things started while acknowledging enormous hurdles that must still be overcome. The projects include ambitious infrastructure, education and health initiatives that are designed to support Trump's 20-point plan to end the ...
COLUMBUS — Billionaire Les Wexner has long been a magnet for political campaigns seeking contributions — especially in his native Ohio, where the retail tycoon directed a generous portion of his giving to candidates from both parties. Then came the Epstein files. Jeffrey Epstein, the ...
YOUNGSTOWN — A Youngstown woman faces a likely prison stint after pleading guilty Monday to sex offenses involving a 3-year-old child. A news release from the Mahoning County Prosecutor’s Office states that Tekia Huggins, 34, pleaded guilty in Mahoning County Common Pleas Court to charges including gross sexual imposition, a third-degree felony; pandering sexually oriented matter, a second-degree felony; and attempted use of a minor in nudity-oriented material, a fourth-degree felony. Her plea averted a trial scheduled to begin this week in a case where her alleged co-defendant is ...
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The heads of major artificial intelligence firms pleaded with the United Nations on Wednesday to save the world or at least its people — in the form of somehow regulating the burgeoning technology that they have been designing. “If managed poorly, I even believe AI could be a risk to humanity as a whole,” said Dario Amodei, chief executive officer of Anthropic. And from his competitor Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, came this assessment: “We could lose control of the future to AI.” Both said the countries of the world, through the U.N. Security Council, ...
