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Air traffic controllers lose radar and radio contact with planes approaching and departing Newark for 90 seconds – again

WCBS, CNN By Pete Muntean, CNN Washington (CNN) — Air traffic controllers handling flights approaching and departing Newark Liberty International Airport experienced another outage early Friday morning. The blackout included losing radar for about 90 seconds at 3:55 a.m. local time, the Federal Aviation Administration said in a statement. “There was a telecommunications outage that

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Rumeysa Ozturk in a photograph provided by her family.

Tufts University student Rümeysa Öztürk arrives back home after spending six weeks at a Louisiana detention center

By Gloria Pazmino, Rebekah Riess, Dalia Faheid, CNN Tufts University doctoral student Rümeysa Öztürk on Saturday arrived in her home state of Massachusetts after she was snatched by masked federal agents near her home and spent six weeks in ICE detention as part of the Trump administration’s effort to deport noncitizens who have spoken out

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Air traffic controllers lose radar and radio contact with planes approaching and departing Newark for 90 seconds – again

By Pete Muntean, CNN Washington (CNN) — Air traffic controllers handling flights approaching and departing Newark Liberty International Airport experienced another outage early Friday morning. The blackout included losing radar for about 90 seconds at 3:55 a.m. local time, the Federal Aviation Administration said in a statement. “There was a telecommunications outage that impacted communications

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How Bryan Kohberger could get the death penalty off the table before his trial even starts

By Jean Casarez, CNN (CNN) — Bushy eyebrows. DNA on a knife sheath. Amazon purchase records. The evidence that Judge Steven Hippler is allowing prosecutors to admit in the death penalty trial of Brian Kohberger is substantial. Defendants in other high-profile death penalty cases have been down Kohberger’s road, faced with potentially making a life-or-death

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Planes parked at Terminal C at Newark Liberty International Airport

United Airlines CEO says problems are ‘inevitable’ unless control system is fixed, but he is optimistic

By Alexandra Skores, CNN Washington (CNN) — United Airlines CEO Scott Kirby told CNN Thursday air travel remains safe, even at Newark Liberty International Airport, where delays have played out for more than a week as air traffic controllers took trauma leave after a critical technology outage. “It was inevitable at some point that this

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