An aircraft tug driver was hospitalized in critical condition on Saturday after an airplane wing collided with the tug vehicle at the O’Hare International Airport in Chicago. According to Fox 5, Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) officials confirmed that the United Airlines tug driver was injured in an incident with Air Wisconsin Flight 6181, an American…
The rise of bird flu across farms in California has raised questions about the virus and and its potential threat to humans. While the threat to humans is currently small, here is what you need to know about the state of bird flu. On Dec. 18, Gov. Gavin Newsom declared a state of emergency as the H5N1…
President Donald Trump confirmed on Monday that the United States “agreed to immediately pause the anticipated tariffs” against Mexico following Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum’s announcement that Mexico would be deploying 10,000 soldiers to the southern border between the two countries to stop fentanyl and illegal immigrants from pouring into the United States. In a Monday…
The United States Army identified the third soldier killed in last Wednesday’s collision between a Black Hawk helicopter and an American Airlines airplane near Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport in Washington, D.C., in a press release on Saturday. The third soldier has been identified as a former White House aide who served under former President…
Elon Musk said his “DOGE team” of government efficiency enforcers is shutting down payments to federal contractors, suggesting that the world’s richest man may have access to sensitive systems used at the U.S. Treasury Department. “The corruption and waste is being rooted out in real-time,” Musk posted on X on Sunday, saying officials reporting to his so-called Department…
Protesters have continued demonstrations throughout San Jose’s east side through the weekend, voicing opposition to recent ICE activity in the South Bay and greater Bay Area last week. At least 100 protesters gathered along King and Story roads Sunday afternoon, mirroring protests in several other major cities throughout the country, such as Los Angeles and Dallas, as…
New details have emerged in Sean “Diddy” Combs’ sex-trafficking and racketeering case, with the music mogul now accused of dangling a victim over an apartment balcony and coercing two more women into commercial sex acts, according to a superseding federal indictment filed Thursday. The superseding indictment doesn’t add any new charges against the music mogul, but…
The U.S. Army has identified Staff Sgt. Ryan Austin O’Hara as one of the pilots killed when a military helicopter crashed into a commercial airliner from Wichita Wednesday night. Military officials reported that O’Hara, 28, along with Chief Warrant Officer Andrew Loyd Eaves, 39, and Capt. Rebecca M. Lobach were aboard a UH-60 Black Hawk…
This article was originally published by Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty and is reprinted with permission. The Hybrid War Another undersea cable was severed in the Baltic Sea, this time between Latvia and Sweden, prompting Swedish authorities to board and seize the vessel that was sailing from Russia amid sabotage fears, as I reported here. This comes…
The minimum wage will increase in nearly half the states this year even as the federal wage floor remains stuck at $7.25 per hour. In many states, the minimum wage is automatically adjusted upward as inflation rises. But voters in several states, including deeply red ones such as Alaska and Missouri, chose in November to…
