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I’ve been an air traffic controller since I was 18, and as a flier, I would avoid Newark. Lately, I’ve been flying out of JFK or LaGuardia, because it’s safer, and there’ve been some crazy-ass delays at Newark. I started telling family and friends last summer to avoid Newark like the plague, because we knew it was going to be bad, we just didn’t think it was going to be this bad with all of the technological issues. This is a busy area, with the three major airports and all these satellite airports — it’s like a bee’s nest. Back...

Customers rejected Smartmatic for reasons unrelated to Fox. For example, the filing said, Smartmatic’s equipment was not certified.. Both Fox News and Smartmatic, the voting software company, filed lengthy briefs Thursday arguing about Smartmatic’s past and predicted financial health. Fox’s filing reveals how Smartmatic was massively losing business long before Fox began reporting on it in 2020. Smartmatic’s filing, which includes many fully redacted pages, says that before the 2020 election, Smartmatic’s CEO believed the company to be “strategically positioned for multi-billion-dollar growth, given its global footprint, its track record,” and its breaking into the U.S. market with a contract...

Minnesota Democrats are doubling down on their radical agenda, pledging to “fight until the very end” to provide free health care to illegal immigrants, on the backs of hardworking taxpayers. As everyday Minnesotans struggle with rising premiums, longer wait times, and an overstretched health care system, progressive lawmakers are prioritizing illegal immigrants over legal residents. Dozens of Democrats from Minnesota’s Democratic–Farmer–Labor Party (DFL) rallied outside the state House chamber on Friday to oppose a new policy that would end free health care for undocumented adult immigrants by year’s end, while still allowing coverage for children to continue. Protesters held signs...

For 90 terrifying seconds, air traffic controllers responsible for guiding aircraft into Newark Liberty International Airport could do nothing more than pray. A 'fried' piece of copper wiring momentarily wiped out their radar and radio feeds on May 9 - leaving planes flying blind into one of the world's busiest airports. FAA planners dismissed the doomsday scenario as an 'extremely remote' possibility when they relocated controllers to a new site in Philadelphia last year. But an internal report leaked to DailyMail.com suggests senior officials had ample warning that the regulator's antiquated communications system was on the brink of collapse. The...

Newsom locked up Californians and freed criminals to terrorize, rape and kill them.On a warm spring night in ‘21, Tonya Molina was found strangled to death in a motel room. Molina, a 43-year-old mother, had been on vacation. She met Santiago Contreras, a transgender criminal who had been serving time for stalking and assault, before being released by Gov. Gavin Newsom with nothing but an ankle monitor. Contreras, a man who had told prison officials that he was struggling as a transgender woman, cut off the monitor and killed Tonya.Tonya Molina was one of 30 people killed by Gov. Gavin...

A car has exploded in front of a fertility clinic near Desert Regional Medical Center in Palm Springs, California, causing significant damage, according to witnesses and local officials. Only few details are currently available."

Yesterday, James Comey caused quite the stir when he went on Instagram and posted a picture of a shell formation on the beach — obviously one he made — that spelled out “86 47,” which many interpreted as a threat on President Trump’s life. Since then, everyone’s been arguing over the definition of “86.” As slang goes, it has a wide variety of uses, some of which are more innocent, such as when you run out of a menu item at a restaurant you “86” it or when you get kicked out of a bar for being too drunk or...

The prospect of former FBI Director James Comey being prosecuted for a social media post that some have alleged was a threat against President Donald Trump is quite low, multiple legal experts tell Newsweek.Why It MattersComey on Thursday posted an Instagram photo of shells on a beach that were aligned to read "8647," which Trump and other conservatives have surmised is an assassination threat against the president.What To KnowComey issued a follow-up post after the fact, saying that he saw the shells and "assumed" they were "a political message. I didn't realize some folks associate those numbers with violence."Trump and...

U.S. President Donald J. Trump said that he will speak to Russian leader Vladimir Putin in a phone call on Monday aimed at bringing an end to the war in Ukraine. In a post on Truth Social on Saturday, President Trump said that he will speak with Putin at 10 am on Monday morning, following the first round of direct talks between Russia and Ukraine in Istanbul since the early aftermath of the 2022 invasion. “The subjects of the call will be stopping the ‘bloodbath’ that is killing, on average, more than 5000 Russian and Ukrainian soldiers a week, and...

SummaryRussian drone kills nine civilians in Ukraine Zelenskiy calls for more sanctions on Russia Drone attack comes hours after peace talks in Istanbul Kremlin says 'agreements' needed before Putin, Zelenskiy meet Macron accuses Putin of 'cynicism' KYIV, May 17 (Reuters) - Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy called on Saturday for stronger sanctions on Moscow after a Russian drone killed nine bus passengers in northeastern Ukraine just hours after the two countries held their first peace talks in three years of war.The meeting of Russian and Ukrainian officials in Turkey on Friday failed to broker a temporary ceasefire. It was the first...

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Quentin Palmer was on his way to work last Saturday afternoon when he detoured to drop off flowers he bought from a roadside stand for Mother’s Day. He delivered them to his son’s mother in Beltsville, Maryland, and only briefly spoke to the teenager, Derrick Palmer, who had two friends visiting that day. --SNIP-- Officers recovered two 9mm Glock handguns, one of which had an “obliterated serial number,” and a 9mm Polymer 80 “ghost gun” handgun with a 30-round extended magazine and machine gun conversion switch, according to the charging documents. The documents note the guns were found in the...

When Los Angeles City Council members took up a plan to hike the wages of tourism workers this week, they received some carefully worded advice from city lawyers: Don’t vote on this yet.Senior Assistant City Atty. Michael J. Dundas advised them on Wednesday — deep into their meeting — that his office had not yet conducted a final legal review of the flurry of last-minute changes they requested earlier in the day.Dundas recommended that the council delay its vote for two days to comply with the Ralph M. Brown Act, the state’s open meeting law.“We advise that the posted agenda...

At the National Institutes of Health, six directors — from institutes focused on infectious disease, child health, nursing research and the human genome — are leaving or being forced out. At the Federal Aviation Administration, nearly a dozen top leaders, including the chief air traffic officer, are retiring early. And at the Treasury Department, more than 200 experienced managers and highly skilled technical experts who help run the government’s financial systems chose to accept the Trump administration’s resignation offer earlier this year, according to a staffer and documents obtained by The Washington Post. Across the federal government, a push for...

A résumé of deep religious education, frontline pastoral experience, parish management and Vatican governance — along with a nudge from Pope Francis — put Robert Prevost on the fast track.Father Robert Prevost told the Peruvian soldiers to back off. It was the mid-1990s, and the troops, armed to the teeth, had stopped and boarded a minibus carrying the American priest and a group of young Peruvian seminarians. The soldiers tried to forcibly recruit the men. Citing a law that exempted clerics from military service, Father Prevost told the soldiers, “No, these young men are going to be priests, they cannot...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Days before Republicans unveiled their sweeping tax cut plan, the chairman of the powerful Ways and Means Committee had one last person to consult. He went to the White House, where he and President Donald Trump went over the legislation “line by line.”“He was very happy with what we’re delivering,” said Rep. Jason Smith, a Republican from Missouri.Trump had every reason to be pleased. His imprint is all over on the bill making its way through the House, starting with its title — the “ One Big Beautiful Bill Act.” The legislation realizes many of Trump’s campaign...

WASHINGTON, May 17 (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump said on Saturday he will speak with Russian President Vladimir Putin on Monday to discuss stopping the war in Ukraine, days after the first face-to-face talks in three years between Russia and Ukraine took place in Istanbul.Trump had offered to travel to Turkey for the talks while in the Gulf last week if Putin would also attend, but Putin declined to take him up on the offer.The Reuters Tariff Watch newsletter is your daily guide to the latest global trade and tariff news. Sign up here.The president has been pressuring Putin...

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) said this week that she has not gotten a response from the Department of Justice (DOJ) on the potential investigation into her over a migrant webinar she held in February. “I asked them; they haven’t responded to me, but, you know, once again, I’m fully using the First Amendment to inform people of their constitutional rights. They say a lot of things, but I’ve written a formal letter, and they won’t respond,” Ocasio-Cortez told Fox News Digital on Tuesday. She set the deadline for the DOJ to respond by March 5. The New York Democrat said...

Ed Martin, the incoming Department of Justice pardon attorney and director of the DOJ's Weaponization Working Group, announced Tuesday that he will review the rash of questionable "autopen" pardons issued in the final days of the Biden White House, noting that they "need some scrutiny." "They need scrutiny because we want pardons to matter, and to be accepted, and to be something that's used correctly. So I do think we're going to take a hard look at how they went and what they did," Martin told reporters. The Justice Department's probe could spell trouble for controversial Biden pardonees such as...

Illinois Republicans say there is more than $1 billion of Illinois taxpayer funds going to non-government organizations with little oversight and accountability. Among the spending some members of the Illinois House Republicans highlighted was more than $14 million going to the Indo American Center. State Rep. Brad Halbrook, R-Shelbyville, said that’s just a drop in the bucket. “Today, we’re turning our attention to a staggering amount of taxpayer money, over $1 billion that’s been funneled into politically connected non-government organizations, or NGOs,” Halbrook said during a news conference in Springfield Tuesday. State Rep. Chris Miller, R-Oakland, said hundreds of millions...