By BBC The black boxes for a commercial flight that crashed into a military helicopter in Washington DC have been located, as questions mount about staffing and other close calls at the airport where the plane was landing. Normally two people manage air traffic control for helicopters and airplanes flying in the area – one…
The scene where a US passenger plane carrying 64 people crashed into the river after colliding midair with a military helicopter on a nighttime training exercise Wednesday. Photo/By BBC BY AFP At least 18 bodies have been pulled from Washington DC’s chilly Potomac River so far, where search and rescue teams are scouring the waters in…
By AFP A US passenger plane carrying 64 people crashed into Washington DC’s chilly Potomac River after colliding midair with a military helicopter on a nighttime training exercise Wednesday, prompting a major emergency response and the grounding of all flights. The plane had been about to land at nearby Reagan National Airport after flying from…
Claudia Sheinbaum says US government does not have right to change name of Gulf of Mexico to Gulf of America The Guardian Mexico will send a letter to Google to question its decision to change the name of the Gulf of Mexico for users of Google Maps in the US. In a press conference on Wednesday, Mexico’s…
By BBC A nationwide immigration crackdown on Sunday resulted in the arrest of 956 people, the most since Donald Trump returned to power, according to Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). A number of federal agencies with newly expanded detention powers were involved in the raids in a number of cities including Chicago, Newark and Miami….
By BBC /Catherine Heathwood The 15-year-old star of a film about a schoolgirl forced to marry an older man is evangelical about her role – despite the fact that her community in north-western Kenya might see it as a betrayal and treat her as an outcast. “I want the movie to spark conversations about this…
By BBC President Donald Trump travelled to California on Friday to survey the destruction from deadly wildfires that devastated several communities in the Los Angeles area earlier this month. The visit, coming at the end of Trump’s first week back in office, took place as he continued to denounce the state emergency response being led…
President Donald Trump has ordered a crackdown on illegal immigration. The lawmakers green-lit a bill to expand pretrial incarceration for foreign criminal suspects. he Laken Riley Act — which mandates the detention of undocumented immigrants charged with theft-related crimes — is named for a 22-year-old student murdered by a Venezuelan man with no papers who…
By BBC Donald Trump has warned he will impose high tariffs and further sanctions on Russia if Vladimir Putin fails to end the war in Ukraine. Writing on his social media platform Truth Social, he said that by pushing to settle the war he was doing Russia and its president a “very big favour”. Trump…
Elon Musk has caused outrage over a one-armed gesture he gave during a speech celebrating the inauguration of Donald Trump. Musk thanked the crowd for “making it happen”, before placing his right hand over his heart and then thrusting the same arm out into air straight ahead of him. He then turned and repeated the…
