It happened on I-81 northbound between the Lebanon and Pine Grove exits. Read moreMulti-vehicle crash on I-81 in Schuylkill ties up traffic

Recreational cannabis in Pennsylvania got mired in the weeds. Read moreCannabis talks up in smoke as adult-use legalization left off Pennsylvania budget?

State System of Higher Education announces Dr. Dan Greenstein's pending departure as chancellor effective in October. Read moreGreenstein ends PASSHE tenure on Oct. 11 to mixed reviews

Tesla’s second-quarter net income fell 45% compared with a year ago as the company’s global electric vehicle sales tumbled despite price cuts and low-interest financing. The Austin, Texas, company said Tuesday that it made $1.48 billion from April through June, less than the $2.7 billion it made in the same period of 2023. It was Tesla’s second-straight quarterly net income decline. Second quarter revenue rose 2% to $25.5 billion, beating Wall Street estimates of $24.54 billion, according to FactSet. Excluding one time items, Tesla made 52 cents per share, below analyst expectations of 61 cents. Earlier this month Tesla said it sold 443,956 vehicles from April through June, down 4.8% from 466,140 sold the same period a year ago. Read moreTesla's 2Q profit falls 45% to $1.48 billion as sales drop despite price cuts and low-interest loans

This week’s new streaming entertainment releases include the long-awaited debut album from Ice Spice, the movie “Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire” mixing new and old franchise stars and Kate Upton hosts the new competition series “Dress My Tour,” where fashion and music intersect. The biopic “Bob Marley: One Love” stars Kingsley Ben-Adir as the reggae legend and Wayne Brady allows cameras into his life for a new reality series. Guy Ritchie has an amped-up, action-movie set during World War II in “The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare” and fans of the original video game Legend of Zelda are sure to find Arranger: A Role-Puzzling Adventure cozily familiar. Read moreWhat to stream this week: Ice Spice, Ghostbusters, Bob Marley, Wayne Brady and new 'Futurama'

A roaring crowd of battleground state voters greeted Vice President Kamala Harris in Wisconsin as she opened her Democratic political case against Republican former President Donald Trump. In her first rally since locking up the presidential nomination, she said Tuesday that in the November election against Trump, “it's a choice between freedom and chaos.” In Washington, congressional Democratic leaders Charles Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries endorsed Vice President Harris, capping their party’s swift embrace of her 2024 candidacy. Two days after President Joe Biden dropped his reelection bid and as the Democratic Party coalesces around Harris, she traveled to Milwaukee on Tuesday. She has raised more than $100 million since Sunday afternoon. Read moreHarris tells roaring Wisconsin crowd November election is 'a choice between freedom and chaos'

Google’s corporate parent Alphabet Inc. delivered another quarter of steady growth amid an AI-driven shift in the ubiquitous search engine that is the foundation of its internet empire. The second-quarter report released Tuesday indicated Google is still reeling in advertisers. It comes on the heels of the May introduction of an artificial intelligence feature that produces conversational responses to people’s search queries while downplaying its traditional display of related links to other websites. Alphabet posted double-digit growth in both its revenue and profit during the April-June period, eclipsing analyst projections. The company's stock rose slightly in extended trading after the report came out. Read moreGoogle's corporate parent still prospering amid shift injecting more AI technology in search

U.S. stocks held steady in a calm day on Wall Street, as earnings reporting season ramped up for big companies. The S&P 500 fell 0.2% Tuesday. The Dow Jones Industrial Average slipped 0.1%, and the Nasdaq composite edged down 0.1%. Nvidia was the heaviest weight on the S&P 500, and UPS tumbled after delivering weaker profit for the spring than analysts expected. But the smaller stocks in the Russell 2000 index continued their big run and rose 1%. They’ve flipped the market’s leaderboard recently and zoomed higher amid hopes for coming cuts to interest rates. Read moreStock market today: A torrent of profit reports leaves Wall Street mixed as small stocks keep rising

While Steve Bannon is serving a four-month federal prison term, he's got another trial coming up. A New York state judge on Tuesday set a December trial date for the conservative strategist. He is charged in New York with scheming to con donors who gave money to build a border wall, and he has pleaded not guilty. Bannon, who's a longtime Donald Trump ally, wasn't in court Tuesday. He's in a federal penitentiary in Connecticut after being convicted of defying a congressional subpoena related to the attack on the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. Read moreSteve Bannon's trial in border wall fundraising case set for December, after his ongoing prison term

Georgia is refusing to provide state funding for the new Advanced Placement course in African American Studies. That's leading at least some school districts to cancel the classes. Advocates are complaining and citing similar attacks on learning about Black history in Florida, Arkansas and some other places. The decision was made by state Superintendent Richard Woods, an elected Republican. A spokesperson wouldn't say why he won’t recommend approval of the class to the state Board of Education. The course gained national attention last year when Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis said he would ban the course for pushing a political agenda. Read moreGeorgia denies state funding to teach AP Black studies classes

Protesters against the Gaza war have staged a sit-in at a congressional office building ahead of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s address to Congress, and Capitol Police have made multiple arrests. Netanyahu arrived in Washington Monday for a visit that includes meetings with President Joe Biden and a Wednesday speech before a joint session of Congress. On Tuesday afternoon, hundreds of demonstrators organized by Jewish Voice for Peace and wearing identical red T-shirts that read “Not In Our Name” took over the Rotunda of the Cannon Building, chanting “Let Gaza Live!” After about a half-hour of clapping and chanting, officers from the U.S. Capitol Police issued several warnings, then began arresting protestors. Read moreDemonstrators stage mass protest against Netanyahu visit and US military aid to Israel

An Oscar Mayer Wienermobile got into a pickle on a Chicago highway. Police say one of Oscar Mayer’s hot dog-shaped Wienermobiles ended up flipped onto its side after crashing on a suburban Chicago highway. Illinois State Police say the Wienermobile hit a car Monday morning along Interstate 294 and its driver lost control and overcorrected, causing the vehicle to roll onto its side near the Chicago suburb of Oak Brook. No injuries were reported. The Wienermobile was later hauled away on a flatbed truck. A spokesperson for the Oscar Mayer brand, which has several Wienermobiles, tells the Chicago Sun-Times it’s “grateful that everybody involved is safe and there were no injuries.” Read moreOscar Mayer Wienermobile flips onto its side after crash along suburban Chicago highway

U.S. airline regulators have opened an investigation into Delta Air Lines, which is still struggling to restore operations on Tuesday, more than four full days after a faulty software update caused technological havoc worldwide and disrupted global air travel. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg announced the Delta investigation on the X social media platform Tuesday morning “to ensure the airline is following the law and taking care of its passengers during continued widespread disruptions.” By midday Tuesday on the U.S. East Coast, Delta and its Delta Connection partners had canceled nearly 500 flights, or about two-thirds of all cancellations in the United States. Read moreUS is investigating Delta's flight cancellations and faltering response to global tech outage

For the second time in weeks, a Missouri prison has ignored a court order to release an inmate whose murder conviction was overturned. Just as in the case of Sandra Hemme, actions by the state’s attorney general are keeping Christopher Dunn locked up. St. Louis Circuit Judge Jason Sengheiser on Monday tossed out Dunn’s conviction for a 1990 killing. He has spent 33 years behind bars. Republican Attorney General Andrew Bailey appealed the judge’s ruling, and a corrections department spokeswoman says the agency is “awaiting the outcome of that legal action.” St. Louis Circuit Attorney Gabe Gore, who initiated the effort to overturn Dunn's conviction, says the judge made it “very clear” that Dunn should be released immediately. Read moreMissouri prison ignores court order to free wrongfully convicted inmate for second time in weeks

The San Francisco 49ers have no intention of granting star receiver Brandon Aiyuk his trade request and remain committed to getting a long-term extension done with one of their most important offensive players. General manager John Lynch says there are no absolutes but that the 49ers expect Aiyuk to be an “integral part of our team.” The 49ers arrived at training camp and Lynch said he expected Aiyuk to report despite skipping the entire offseason program, including a mandatory minicamp. Aiyuk still could follow the path of teammate Deebo Samuel, who skipped the first four training camp practices in 2022 while negotiating for a long-term extension. Read more49ers have no intention of dealing Brandon Aiyuk despite his trade request

The Treasury Department is ordering the nation’s banking industry to start disclosing its holdings of Russian assets, with the goal of eventually seizing those billions of dollars in assets and selling them to aid the devastated Ukrainian economy. The disclosure is required under a new law passed by Congress earlier this year known as the REPO Act, which gives the U.S. government the authority to seize Russian state assets held by U.S. banks, with the goal of eventually selling them and giving those funds to Ukraine. It's estimated that the U.S. banking system holds as much as $6 billion in Russian assets in trust. Read moreUS banks to begin reporting Russian assets for eventual forfeiture under new law

The WNBA All-Star Game drew a record number of viewers with 3.44 million people watching the contest in Phoenix on Saturday night. The game, which saw the WNBA All-Stars beat the U.S. Olympic team 117-109, easily topped the 1.44 million that viewed the 2003 contest. Saturday’s game peaked with more than 4 million viewers. It was the third most viewed WNBA event ever and the largest audience for the league since its first two nationally televised games in 1997. Last year’s game, which was also on prime time TV, drew 850,000 viewers. Read moreWNBA All-Star Game has record 3.44 million viewers, the league's 3rd most watched event ever

The director of the Secret Service has resigned in the aftermath of the assassination attempt against former President Donald Trump. The shooting unleashed an outcry about how the agency failed in its core mission to protect current and former presidents. Kimberly Cheatle, who had served as Secret Service director since August 2022, faced growing calls to resign and several investigations into how a gunman was able to get so close to Trump at an outdoor campaign rally in Pennsylvania. Her departure is unlikely to end the scrutiny of the long-troubled agency after the failures of July 13. Cheatle's deputy director was appointed as acting director. Read moreSecret Service director steps down after assassination attempt against ex-President Trump at rally