Lake County Record-Bee

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... By ROB GILLIES TORONTO (AP) — Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney accused the U.S. owner of steelmaker Stelco, a subsidiary of Cleveland-Cliffs, of betraying Canadian workers Tuesday after it announced layoffs it attributed in part to U.S. President Donald Trump’s tariffs — tariffs Cleveland-Cliffs’ chief executive has publicly championed. Carney singled out Cleveland-Cliffs CEO Lourenco Goncalves, noting that he had applauded Trump’s steel tariffs.

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... By TED SHAFFREY and PHILIP MARCELO NORTH BERGEN, N.J. (AP) — Powerful cutters have whirred to life on a giant drill that will begin boring a new train tunnel under the Hudson River connecting Manhattan to New Jersey. Officials gathered in North Bergen, New Jersey, on Monday to ceremonially flip the switch on the Gateway tunnel, one of the largest U.S. mass transit projects in generations.

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... DALLAS – In an arena far more intimate than Ballhalla, the Golden State Valkyries were all smiles on Tuesday. Up 1-0 and a win away from sweeping their first-round playoff series with the Dallas Wings, the Valkyries engaged in a light-hearted practice in the empty 7,000-seat UT Arlington arena.

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... By CLAUDIA LAUER and DAVID A. LIEB A woman’s account of being sexually assaulted at a Cornell University fraternity house has advocates and lawmakers renewing their criticism of a New York law that makes it more difficult to prosecute people who have taken advantage of others too intoxicated to consent to sex.

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... By THOMAS BEAUMONT In Sen. Eric Schmitt’s effort to trip up former Trump prosecutor Jack Smith on Tuesday, the Missouri Republican seemed to mistake basketball teams playing about 650 miles apart. Schmitt accused Smith of perjuring himself during a Senate hearing after repeatedly prodding him about whether he’d attended an NBA game in Atlanta on the evening of Feb. 3, 2024. The hometown Hawks were playing the Golden State Warriors.

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... By Thomas Fitzgerald, The Philadelphia Inquirer Consumer Reports said it no longer recommends any brand of e-scooter, citing higher top speeds for the popular vehicles and a sharp nationwide increase in rider injuries. In 2017, about 10,500 people were injured on e-scooters, and by 2024 there were nearly 80,000 injuries — a jump of 662%, according to the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission.

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... By MIKE CORDER THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — Dutch police said Tuesday that they have arrested a suspected member of the ShinyHunters hacker group that has been held responsible for a string of serious data breaches, and accused the man of trying to arrange two murders. Police said they arrested a 24-year-old man from Amsterdam on Sept. 15 who is “suspected of playing a role in the hacker group ShinyHunters.

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... By ANTHONY IZAGUIRRE NEW YORK (AP) — New York City’s tax on luxury second homes has its latest moneyed opposition: casino mogul Steve Wynn and former Trump administration secretary Wilbur Ross. The pair of wealthy part-time New Yorkers sued the state on Monday over the so-called pied-à-terre tax, arguing the surcharge is unconstitutional because it discriminates against people who don’t primarily live in the state.

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... A man walking with a cane as he exited a Brooklyn subway was dragged to his death after witnesses said his plastic shopping bag got caught in the train door, police said Tuesday. Yaw Adu Boahene, 57, was getting off a rush-hour A train at the Utica Ave. station in Bedford-Stuyvesant when his blue plastic bag seemed to get caught between the closing doors, cops said.

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Marking a novel development in his years-long legal battle with E. Jean Carroll, President Trump formally accepted defeat on Tuesday, withdrawing a failed effort to claw back some $5 million from the writer whom he was held liable for sexually abusing.