When aircraft volume goes down, a supervisor can make the decision to combine two controller positions into one position. This happens routinely, and on Wednesday at Reagan Airport, it happened 40 minutes earlier than it normally does because the supervisor determined that the traffic was low enough to combine, according to a source with direct … Read more
The Senate confirmed Doug Burgum to serve as secretary of the interior by a vote of 79-18.It is now teeing up final votes for Chris Wright’s nomination to be secretary of energy and Doug Collins’ nomination to be secretary of veterans affairs. If both of those nominations clear procedural votes tonight, they’ll get a final … Read more
Pitching a monumental and potentially controversial proposal to his Republican allies, President Donald Trump is seemingly floating the idea of scrapping federal income taxes altogether. “We had no income tax. The income tax came in…1913. As I said in my speech last week, instead of taxing our citizens to enrich foreign nations, we should be tariffing and … Read more
Mexico’s President Claudia Sheinbaum sent a letter to Google contesting the tech giant’s decision to comply with US President Donald Trump’s order to rename the Gulf of Mexico as the Gulf of America. President Sheinbaum showed the letter to reporters Thursday saying, “In the case of Mexico, where are we completely sovereign? In the area … Read more
Details are beginning to trickle in as we learn more about the horrific air disaster that saw a commercial plane collide with a helicopter. Authorities fear that more than 60 people have died after an American Airlines plane crashed into a Black Hawk helicopter over Washington DC on January 29…..
Hamaad Raza shared his heartbreak over his wife’s final texts before the tragic crash of American Airlines Flight 5342. She had messaged him that the plane would land in 20 minutes, but his replies were never delivered. Raza, desperate for news, prayed for her safety as emergency crews searched the icy Potomac River. His wife, … Read more
Trump said Pete Buttigieg, the transportation secretary in the Biden administration, “just got a good line of bulls—” and said he had “run [the Department of Transportation] right into the ground with his diversity.” “Despicable. As families grieve, Trump should be leading, not lying,” Buttigieg responded in a statement on X. “We put safety first, drove … Read more
Sen. Ron Johnson is taking swift action now that Republicans have regained control of the Senate. The Wisconsin senator, who chairs the Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, has officially subpoenaed the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) for key documents regarding vaccine safety, including emails from Dr. Anthony Fauci. This move, as reported by The … Read more
WASHINGTON — Figure skaters and coaches returning from the recent U.S. national championships were aboard the American Airlines flight that collided with a Black Hawk helicopter near Reagan National Airport on Wednesday, officials said. No survivors were expected in the crash, officials said Thursday. There were 64 people aboard the plane and three in the … Read more
White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt dismissed claims that the Trump administration’s federal worker buyout offer is a tactic to purge critics from the government. The offer, sent to federal employees this week, allows them to resign by February 6 with continued pay and benefits until September. Leavitt defended the program, calling it “overwhelmingly popular” … Read more
