DALLAS, Texas– Safety in air travel in question again after a fist fight broke out on a Southwest Airlines plane in Dallas, Texas on Monday. It marks the latest incident of unruly passenger behavior. Passengers were boarding a plane at Dallas Love Field Airport bound for Phoenix, Arizona, when one man confronted another and started
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(CNN) — After at least six incidents this year, the nation’s top aviation official says he does not know whether close calls involving airliners are on the rise, but says the issue and its causes will be examined at a safety conference next week. “It’s a good question,” Billy Nolen, acting head of the Federal
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(CNN) — The kidnapping and killing of US travelers this week in the Mexican city of Matamoros, just over the border from Brownsville, Texas, has put a glaring spotlight on violence in a country that millions of international visitors flock to each year. And as spring break gets under way in popular beach resorts hundreds
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(CNN) — The Justice Department issued a scathing critique Wednesday on the Louisville Metro Police Department after a nearly two-year review it launched into the force following the botched raid that killed Breonna Taylor. The review, looking at whether the Louisville Metro Police Department used excessive force, found that officers use unreasonable tactics including unjustified neck restraints, police dogs
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The small town of San Elizario is being recognized as the Best Historic Small Town in America by USA Today’s Readers’ Choice Awards for 2023. Last year, San Elizario took home the number three spot for the same category. San Elizario’s winning qualities are that it has maintained its historic integrity with the adobe construction
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Two Biden administration officials say the administration is considering reinstating the policy of detaining migrant families who cross the border illegally. President Biden ended the practice when he took office. It is one of several options administration officials are mulling as they prepare for the end of Title 42, the public health order that allows
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Facebook is revamping its “cross-check” moderation system. The program came under fire in November 2021 after a report from the Wall Street Journal indicated that the system shielded some VIP users, such as politicians and celebrities, from the company’s normal content moderation process. In some cases Facebook allowed these users to post rule-violating content without
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Former President Donald Trump is asking a federal court to block former Vice President Mike Pence from speaking to a grand jury examining efforts to overturn the 2020 Presidential election. Sources tell CNN Trump made the request in a new filing to the court on Friday. This comes after the Trump team had already indicated
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UPDATE: Alex Murdaugh has been sentenced to two consecutive life sentences in prison, for the murders of his wife, Maggie Murdaugh, and hiss son Paul Murdaugh. This comes after a South Carolina Jury has found the disgraced former attorney guilty of murdering his wife and son. Jurors took less than three hours of deliberations before
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(CNN) — Wayne Shorter, a Grammy-winning saxophonist and composer who helped shaped the sound of contemporary jazz, has died, according to his publicist. He was 89. Shorter died Thursday in Los Angeles, his publicist Cem Kurosman with Blue Note Records told CNN in an email. No cause of death was shared. Shorter was nominated for
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(CNN) — [Breaking news update, published at 7:08 p.m. ET] The jury in the double murder trial of Alex Murdaugh has found him guilty of murdering his wife and son, the grisliest and most severe of the allegations faced by the disgraced former South Carolina attorney. Prosecutors have indicated they will seek life in prison without
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The U.S. Senate has passed legislation that could reveal more information about the origins of Covid-19. Lawmakers passed the Covid Origins Act of 2023 by unanimous consent Wednesday night. The legislation would ask the government to declassify intelligence on the pandemic’s origins. That includes any information related to any potential links between the virus and
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The White House on Thursday released its national cybersecurity strategy, detailing an effort to increase regulation of critical industries by making them adopt basic cybersecurity practices The White House is calling for new regulations to force companies critical to economic and national security, to raise their cyber defenses. It’s part of President Biden’s new cybersecurity
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The United States Postal Service (USPS) says its revving up its plans to modernize the nation’s largest federal fleet of vehicles. Tuesday the USPS announced it has awarded new contracts to Ford to buy more than 92,000 commercial electric vehicles. The vehicles purchased are Ford E-Transit Battery Electric Vehicles (BEVs), which according to USPS are
Continue Reading Originally Published: 28 FEB 23 20:46 ETUpdated: 28 FEB 23 23:44 ETBy Hannah Rabinowitz, CNN (CNN) — FBI Director Christopher Wray on Tuesday acknowledged that the bureau believes the Covid-19 pandemic was likely the result of a lab accident in Wuhan, China.In his first public comments on the FBI’s investigation into the virus’ origins during an
Continue Reading (CNN) — Nissan is recalling more than 700,000 Rogue and Rogue Sport compact SUVs because they can be shut off accidentally while driving. Some model year 2016 through 2020 Nissan Rogue and 2017 through 2022 Rogue Sports, have jackknife-style keys — the type in which the metal blade of the key flips out from within
Continue Reading Originally Published: 28 FEB 23 19:45 ETBy Clare Foran, CNN (CNN) — Bipartisan lawmakers warned of the threat posed by the Chinese Communist Party on Thursday during the first hearing of the House select committee on China, a rare demonstration of unity across the aisle in a Congress increasingly divided along partisan lines.The panel’s chairman, Republican
Continue Reading (CNN) — A powerful House committee is set to vote Tuesday on a bill that would make it easier to ban TikTok from the United States and crack down on other China-related economic activity, amid vocal objections from civil liberties advocates who argue the proposal is unconstitutionally broad and threatens a wide range of online
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The Supreme Court on Tuesday will take up two challenges to President Joe Biden’s student loan forgiveness program. This program is an initiative aimed at providing targeted debt relief to millions of student-loan borrowers that has so far been stalled by legal challenges. Millions of student loan borrowers could see up to $20,000 of their debt canceled, depending on how the U.S.
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The Food and Drug Administration has approved an at-home test Friday, that can check for both Covid-19 and influenza. It’s made by California Biotech company Lucira Health. With a shallow nasal swab, the single-use kit can provide results within 30 minutes indicating whether a person is positive or negative for COVID, as well as influenza
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(CNN) — The Idaho house where four college students were murdered in November will be demolished as a “healing step,” the University of Idaho said in a statement Friday. Kaylee Goncalves, 21; Madison Mogen, 21; Xana Kernodle, 20; and Kernodle’s boyfriend, Ethan Chapin, 20 — were each stabbed multiple times in the early morning hours of November
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DEER PARK, Texas– The toxic chemicals from the train derailment in East Palestine, Ohio are heading to a Houston suburb for disposal. A county official in Texas says there are outstanding questions about the transportation and disposal of the material. According to Harris County Judge Lina Hidalgo, about half a million gallons of that liquid waste
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ABC News will present at 30-minute Special following the personal stories of four Ukrainians and the challenges they have faced since the Russian invasion.
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(CNN) — A Navy SEAL died over the weekend after taking part in a free-fall parachute training, according to a statement from Naval Special Warfare Command. Chief Special Warfare Operator Michael Ernst was participating in the training on Sunday in Arizona when the accident occurred. Ernst was taken to the hospital, where he was pronounced
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(CNN) — Federal investigators released a spate of new details Thursday about the fiery train derailment that spewed toxic chemicals and wreaked havoc in East Palestine, Ohio. The initial fire started February 3 when a Norfolk Southern rail car carrying plastic pellets was heated by a hot axle, said Jennifer Homendy, chair of the National Transportation Safety
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EAST PALESTINE, Ohio– Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg will visit the site of the train derailment in East Palestine, Ohio, on Thursday. The secretary has come under pressure from East Palestine residents and other critics to visit the town in the wake of the February 3 derailment of a Norfolk Southern train that released toxic chemicals. The disaster
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(CNN) — An Orlando television news employee was shot dead and another wounded Wednesday while covering an earlier shooting incident in Florida, Orange County Sheriff John Mina said. Mina told a news conference that the employees worked for Spectrum News 13. The Orange County Sheriff’s Office said earlier on Twitter that one person was in custody. The-CNN-Wire™
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Originally Published: 21 FEB 23 08:11 ETUpdated: 21 FEB 23 21:20 ETBy Rob Picheta, Anna Chernova, Nathan Hodge, Lauren Kent and Radina Gigova, CNN (CNN) — Russian President Vladimir Putin said he is suspending his country’s participation in the New START nuclear arms reduction treaty with the United States, imperiling the last remaining pact that regulates
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President Biden is set to speak from the royal castle in Warsaw, Poland today, after a secret visit to Kyiv on Monday. It is the latest symbolic clash with Russian president Vladimir Putin, who is also giving a speech in Moscow, tied to the first anniversary of the invasion of Ukraine. U.S. National Security Adviser
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More than 300,000 Starbucks vanilla Frappuccino bottles are being recalled because they might contain glass. The drinks are 13.7-ounce vanilla Frappuccinos with the expiration dates of March 8th, May 29th, June 4th and 10th. According to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, the voluntary recall, which was issued Jan. 28, covers 25,200 cases of the
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