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A passenger with no flying experience safely landed a private plane in a Florida airport Tuesday afternoon

A passenger with no flying experience landed a plane at a Florida airport after the pilot became incapacitated

By Jamiel Lynch, Dakin Andone and Pete Muntean, CNN “I have no idea how to fly the airplane.” The pilot on his single-engine Cessna 208 had “gone incoherent,” the passenger was telling air traffic controllers Tuesday afternoon, according to audio from LiveATC.net. It was, he stressed, a “serious situation.” Air Traffic Controller Robert Morgan, a

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Chuck Grassley releases a report on US ambassador to India nominee Eric Garcetti

Grassley releases report on US ambassador to India nominee Eric Garcetti and says he will lift hold on nomination

By Maeve Reston and Alex Rogers, CNN GOP Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa released a staff report Tuesday concluding that Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti, the Biden administration’s nominee to be US ambassador to India, “likely knew, or should have known,” that his former political adviser Rick Jacobs “was sexually harassing multiple individuals and making

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This picture taken on March 7 shows the current condition of coral on the Great Barrier Reef

Great Barrier Reef suffers sixth mass bleaching event with 91% of reefs surveyed affected

By Hilary Whiteman, Hannah Ritchie and Helen Regan, CNN Warming waters from escalating climate change have caused coral bleaching in 91% of reefs surveyed along the Great Barrier Reef this year, according to new findings from an Australian government agency. Scientists from the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority (GBRMPA) confirmed in March this was

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World Health Organization Director-General Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus is being censored on China's internet after questioning the sustainability of the country's zero-Covid policy.

WHO chief censored on China’s internet after calling zero-Covid unsustainable

By Nectar Gan, CNN The head of the World Health Organization (WHO) is being censored on China’s internet after questioning the sustainability of the country’s zero-Covid policy. The censorship on Weibo and WeChat, China’s two largest social media platforms, targets WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus’ comments that expressed rare disagreement with Beijing’s policies. “When we

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Trump’s candidate will win in West Virginia House primary but fall short in Nebraska gubernatorial contest, CNN projects

By Maeve Reston, CNN Former President Donald Trump’s candidates had mixed success in Republican primaries in West Virginia and Nebraska Tuesday night, underscoring the complicated dynamics between the de facto leader of the GOP and voters who support him but don’t always back his candidates. West Virginia Rep. Alex Mooney, who made Trump’s endorsement the

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