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Nancy Run Fire Company/Facebook (BETHLEHEM, Pa.) — The National Transportation Safety Board is investigating a collision and derailment involving three Norfolk Southern trains on Saturday, the agency said in a post on X. The derailment occurred in Lower Saucon Township, Pennsylvania, Norfolk Southern said. There is “no threat to the public, no hazardous material concerns […]
Peter Zay/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images (NEW YORK) — The FBI will examine what may be debris from a balloon found by fishermen off the coast of Alaska, multiple sources familiar with the matter said Friday. The fishing vessel carrying the debris is expected to return to shore sometime this weekend, sources said, at which […]
Stefania Pelfini, La Waziya Photography/Getty Images/STOCK (GRAND RAPIDS, Mich.) — Though Republicans held a presidential primary election in Michigan on Tuesday, their delegates to the Republican National Convention will officially be allocated on Saturday at a state convention. Former President Donald Trump is running against former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley for the delegates, though […]
Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — The New York Attorney General’s Office sent a cease-and-desist letter to Nassau County over its recent anti-transgender sports ban. “The Order’s immediate effect is to force sports leagues to make an impossible choice: discriminate against transgender women and girls, in violation of New York law, or find somewhere […]
Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — President Joe Biden on Friday said the U.S. would carry out airdrops of humanitarian aid into Gaza in the coming days. Speaking in an Oval Office meeting with Italy’s Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, he referred to what he called the “tragic and alarming event” in North Gaza on Thursday in […]
ABC News (NEW YORK) — A blizzard warning is in effect in California’s Sierra Nevada mountains as a dangerous snowstorm slams the region. Travel in the Sierras “will be extremely dangerous to impossible” this weekend, the National Weather Service warned. The blizzard began Thursday and will continue off and on through this weekend. The heaviest […]
Alexander Welscher/picture alliance via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The Pentagon is expected to lift its flight ban on V-22 Osprey as early as next week, clearing the way for the services to fly the tilt-rotor aircraft once again after nearly three months after it was grounded. The decision was briefed to Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin […]
Philip Arroyo Law (ST. AUGUSTINE, Fla.) — The case has been dismissed against a teen migrant from Guatemala almost a year after he was arrested following the death of a Florida police officer, according to Jose Baez, the teen’s lawyer. Virgilio Aguilar Mendez, a 19-year-old migrant, was arrested in May 2023 after Sgt. Michael Kunovich, […]
Rick Ulreich/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images (GAINESVILLE, Fla.) — The University of Florida has eliminated all diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) positions at the university, according to an administrative memo that was released Friday. The memo cites a recent state ban on the use of public funds for diversity, equity and inclusion programs, activities and […]
Win McNamee/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Attorneys for former President Donald Trump and special counsel Jack Smith argued Friday over moving the May 20 trial date in Trump’s federal classified documents case, but the judge in the hearing concluded the proceedings without making an immediate ruling or determination about the when trial will begin. U.S. District […]
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