Alex Wong/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) — Sixty-seven people are dead after a regional jet collided with an Army Black Hawk helicopter Wednesday night over Washington, D.C., officials said, the nation’s first major commercial airline crash since 2009.The aircraft went down in the frigid Potomac River, breaking into multiple pieces. There were no survivors.There were 64 passengers aboard the plane and three…… read more »
Photo by ROBERTO SCHMIDT/AFP via Getty Images(NEW ORLEANS, La.) — Nearly a month after a terrorist drove a truck down Bourbon Street, killing 14 people, New Orleans is set to host Super Bowl 59.At a press briefing Monday, officials said there were no credible threats to the game, or its many surrounding events.”Right now we have…… read more »
Matthew Hatcher/Getty Images(PHILADELPHIA) — The black box from the medical transport jet that crashed in Philadelphia Friday evening is on its way to Washington, D.C., where the National Transportation Safety Board will try to extricate any information, Philadelphia Mayor Cherelle Parker said during a press conference Monday.The jet, which was carrying a child and her…… read more »
Mandel Ngan/AFP via Getty Images(WASHINGTON) — President Donald Trump’s executive order seeking to end birthright citizenship will face its next legal hurdle this week when three separate federal judges hold hearings to consider whether to block the order.Ahead of the hearings, lawyers with the Department of Justice argued in legal filings that birthright citizenship creates…… read more »
Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images/Bloomberg via Getty Images(WASHINGTON) — Staff with the U.S. Agency for International Development were told overnight that the agency’s Washington headquarters will be closed Monday, according to an email obtained by ABC News from multiple sources.”Agency personnel normally assigned to work at USAID headquarters will work remote tomorrow, with the exception of personnel…… read more »
George Rose/Getty Images(ZION NATIONAL PARK, Utah) — A 37-year-old man fell to his death while hiking at Zion National Park in Utah, authorities confirmed.The hiker was found dead Sunday morning on the Canyon Overlook Trail, a mile-long trail that runs along the east side of the park, according to the National Park Service.Authorities received a call at…… read more »
Petty Officer 1st Class Brandon Giles/ U.S. Coast Guard via Getty Images(WASHINGTON) — Hundreds of families are in mourning after an American Airlines regional jet collided with a U.S. Army Black Hawk helicopter on Wednesday night, with both aircraft plunging into the Potomac River near Washington, D.C.’s Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport.No one survived.Sixty-four people…… read more »
The Warren County Sheriff’s Office have been identified as the remains of missing person Dana Leigh Mustian in North Carolina. (Warren County Sheriff’s Office)(VANCE COUNTY, NC) — The remains of a North Carolina woman who had been missing for over a year have been found by a dive team, officials said.A dive team discovered human…… read more »
John McDonnell/ for The Washington Post via Getty Images(WASHINGTON) — Family members of the victims of the plane crash in Washington, D.C., visited the crash site on Sunday morning.Dozens of the victims’ loved ones could be seen gathered by the Potomac River to commemorate the 67 people killed in the deadly midair collision last week.An…… read more »
Passenger captures the moment an United Airlines plane gets filled with smoke after engine issue and the following evacuation on slides at Houston airport, Feb. 2, 2025. (Ashlyn Sharp)(HOUSTON) — Passengers on a United Airlines flight from Houston to New York were evacuated before takeoff on Sunday due to engine issues, according to the Federal…… read more »
