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Month: January 2025

Local pilots, Congressman react to crash at Reagan National Airport

67 people are presumed dead after an air crash between an American Airlines passenger plane and a Black Hawk military helicopter near Reagan National Airport on Wednesday night.

The same model of airplane involved in that horrific incident, CRJ 700s, fly in and out of the Columbia Regional Airport. American Airlines CRJ 700 planes are used for some flights by Skywest between Columbia, Missouri and Dallas, Texas.

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FBI Director Christopher Wray speaks to journalists at the Omaha FBI office on Wednesday

Trump’s Cabinet nominees face sharpest bipartisan grilling to date and other takeaways from Thursday’s confirmation hearings

CNN By Jeremy Herb, Katie Bo Lillis, Annie Grayer and Lauren Fox, CNN Washington (CNN) — Three of President Donald Trump’s most controversial nominees faced sharp questions in the Senate during hearings Thursday from Democrats as well as several Republican senators in what amounted to the most direct skepticism from GOP senators over Trump’s nominees

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Gabbard’s dodges on whether she thinks Snowden is a traitor exacerbate questions about her confirmation chances

CNN By Katie Bo Lillis, CNN (CNN) — In 2020, then-Democratic congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard introduced legislation calling on the federal government to drop all charges against Edward Snowden, the National Security Agency contractor who in 2013 revealed the existence of the bulk collection of American phone records by the NSA before fleeing to Russia. On

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Hawley supports penalties for companies hiring undocumented workers as Missouri leaders push immigration enforcement

COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) says he supports penalties for corporations that hire undocumented immigrants for cheap labor, as state leaders prepare to assist the federal government in immigration enforcement. “They shouldn’t do that. I mean, why would places like Tyson Foods have taken away jobs in the state of Missouri from Missouri

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Maxim Naumov competes in the 2025 US figure skating championships. His parents were his longtime coaches.

Plane crash kills world champion figure skaters and the ‘future’ of the sport in a tragic case of déjà vu

WJAR, CNN By Holly Yan, CNN (CNN) — Once again, figure skaters representing the past, present and future of the sport perished in a catastrophic plane crash – devastating a global community far too familiar with tragedy. No one survived the midair collision between an American Airlines passenger jet and a Black Hawk military helicopter

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Baltimore Ravens’ Justin Tucker denies accusations of sexual misconduct, as NFL says league ‘will look into the matter’

By David Close, CNN (CNN) — Following an investigative report by the Baltimore Banner that detailed allegations of sexual misconduct by Baltimore Ravens’ Justin Tucker by six unnamed massage therapists, the NFL kicker issued a lengthy denial of the claims, calling them “unequivocally false.” The Banner said it spoke with the therapists who claimed Tucker

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El bitcoin ya no es obligatorio en El Salvador tras reformas aprobadas por la Asamblea Legislativa

Merlin Delcid, CNN Español El uso del bitcoin ya no será obligatorio, luego de que este martes y a petición del Ejecutivo, la Asamblea Legislativa, de mayoría oficialista, reformara la ley que ordenaba a los negocios aceptar pagos con la criptomoneda. Las reformas aprobadas con 55 votos de 60, también eliminan la participación del Estado

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Pilots had reported near-misses with helicopters at Reagan National Airport in the years before the deadly crash

By Casey Tolan, Majlie de Puy Kamp, Curt Devine, Haley Britzky and Oren Liebermann, CNN (CNN) — In the three years before the deadly collision between an Army helicopter and an American Airlines flight near Reagan National Airport, at least two other pilots reported near-misses with helicopters while landing at the airport, a CNN review

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Un número creciente de combatientes estadounidenses están muriendo en Ucrania. Repatriar sus cuerpos es una tarea compleja

Por Nick Paton Walsh, Daria Tarasova-Markina, Rebecca Wright y Victoria Butenko, CNN Más de 20 estadounidenses están desaparecidos en combate en el frente de Ucrania, con un aumento de las bajas en los últimos seis meses a medida que extranjeros cubren urgentes carencias de las asediadas defensas del país, según una investigación de CNN. Los

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¿Quién es favorito para ganar las elecciones presidenciales en Ecuador 2025? Esto dicen las encuestas

Por Sebastian Jimenez, CNN en Español Las elecciones generales de Ecuador 2025 se llevarán a cabo este 9 de noviembre y la atención está puesta en la contienda presidencial, una votación que corresponde al ciclo electoral regular, después de la elección en 2023 que ganara Daniel Noboa tras la llamada “muerte cruzada” en ese año

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