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The US Department of Defense has announced the suspension of military helicopter flights near Reagan National Airport (DCA) in Arlington, Virginia. Activities in the area were put on hold due to an incident involving a US Army UH-60 Black Hawk maneuver that caused two commercial planes arriving at the airport to abort their landings. The […]
The Department of Defense is suspending helicopter training flights in the Washington, D.C., region, specifically near the Pentagon. This change comes just days after the Army resumed training flights in the area following January’s deadly midair collision between a Black Hawk and American Eagle CRJ-700. On Thursday, two separate commercial flights—operated by Republic Airways and […]
President Trump has said that the global tariffs he plans to announce this week will correct decades of unfair relationships and stop other countries from ripping off the United States. But whether the president’s so-called reciprocal tariffs will result in higher levies on other nations or lower ones remains unclear. The president has described his […]
Venezuelan migrants deported by the U.S. disembark from a plane at Simon Bolivar International Airport in La Guaira, Venezuela on Feb. 20. Javier Campos/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Javier Campos/Getty Images Venezuela has announced that it will resume accepting flights of its citizens who are deported by U.S. immigration authorities. Jorge Rodríguez, the president […]
Trump could be eyeing Canada’s water for California A river that runs between the U.S. and Canada has now run itself right into the middle of the fight between the two allies. President Donald Trump’s administration has now stopped negotiations to re-up a decades-old U.S.-Canada treaty that controls the flow of the Columbia River between […]
MIAMI (AP) — Franco Caraballo called his wife Friday night, crying and panicked. Hours earlier, the 26-year-old barber and dozens of other Venezuelan migrants at a federal detention facility in Texas were dressed in white clothes, handcuffed and taken onto a plane. He had no idea where he was going. Twenty-four hours later, Caraballo’s name […]
CNN — The US military has significantly increased its surveillance of Mexican drug cartels over the past two weeks, with sophisticated spy planes flying at least 18 missions over the southwestern US and in international airspace around the Baja peninsula, according to open-source data and three US officials familiar with the missions.
A CRUCIAL safety system was turned off on the military helicopter that smashed into an American Airlines passenger plane and killed 67 people last week, Senator Ted Cruz has said. The Black Hawk had its automatic dependent surveillance broadcast turned off during the horrific midair collision, Cruz, the chair of the Senate Commerce Committee, said. […]
Gunfights on Monday shook a Mexican border city plagued by drug cartel-related violence, forcing the suspension of flights at the local airport, authorities said. The violence in Nuevo Laredo, just south of Texas, followed the arrest of an alleged local cartel leader, Ricardo Gonzalez, alias “El Ricky.” The U.S. consulate in Nuevo Laredo issued a […]
GUATEMALA CITY (AP) — Margarita Raymundo walked down the ramp of the U.S. Air Force cargo jet and onto the tarmac of Guatemala City’s airport, barely three days after a U.S. Border Patrol agent had apprehended her, along with three other migrants. The swift deportation Monday was disorienting for her and the 63 other migrants […]