The wing tip of an American Airlines plane strikes another aircraft at a DC airport
The wing tip of an American Airlines plane struck another plane from the same airline on a taxiway of the Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport on Thursday, authorities said. No injuries were reported. The wing tip of
A history of helicopter accidents in New York City
NEW YORK (AP) — At least 38 people have died in helicopter accidents in New York City since 1977, when an accident on a skyscraper landing pad led the city to start putting restrictions on where choppers
Gambian torture victims testify in US against a member of former dictator’s military
DENVER (AP) — Suspected of backing a coup plot against the longtime dictator of Gambia nearly 20 years ago, Pharing Sanyang described Thursday how he was beaten with pipes and palm tree branches, pistol-whipped and hit in
DeSantis defends $10 million donation from state agency settlement to charity linked to his wife
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) — Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis on Thursday defended a state agency’s involvement with a $10 million donation to a charity founded by his wife as a “cherry on top” deal using funds
US lawmakers wants to stop clock switching. But what time?
By David Shepardson WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. lawmakers held their first hearing Thursday in more than three years on a long-running debate to end the practice of switching clocks twice a year. The Senate Commerce Committee heard
National intelligence head says MLK and RFK assassination records will soon be public
WASHINGTON (AP) — Documents related to the 1968 assassinations of civil rights icon Martin Luther King Jr. and Sen. Robert F. Kennedy will soon be made public as more than 100 people have been working “around the
Trump administration task force to consider declassifying COVID-19 origins materials
WASHINGTON (AP) — A new government task force will consider big changes to America’s intelligence community and examine whether material about the origins of COVID-19 and other topics of public interest should be declassified, Director of National
Judge halts Trump administration from ending humanitarian parole for people from four countries
BOSTON (AP) — A federal judge on Thursday said she will halt the Trump administration from ending a program that allowed hundreds of thousands of Cubans, Haitians, Nicaraguans and Venezuelans to temporarily live in the United States.
Judge allows requirement that everyone in the US illegally must register to move forward
WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal judge is allowing the Trump administration to move forward with a requirement that everyone in the U.S. illegally must register with the federal government, in a move that could have far-reaching repercussions
Six people have died in a helicopter crash in the Hudson River in New York City, an AP source says
NEW YORK (AP) — A helicopter broke apart in midair and crashed upside-down into the Hudson River between Manhattan and the New Jersey waterfront Thursday, killing six people in the latest high-profile aviation disaster in the U.S.,
