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New details emerge on piece of Alaska Airlines plane that blew off midflight as investigators probe ‘explosive decompression’

By Paradise Afshar, Elizabeth Wolfe, Gregory Wallace and Pete Muntean, CNN (CNN) — Federal officials examining the horrifying midflight blowout of part of an Alaska Airlines aircraft’s fuselage are testing the detached piece for clues on what led up to the plane’s “explosive decompression” after the missing piece was discovered in an Oregon backyard. New

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High school basketball coach and player dismissed after their team allegedly hurled antisemitic rhetoric against opponent

By Samantha Beech and Maria Sole Campinoti, CNN (CNN) — A girls’ public high school basketball coach and one of the team’s players have been dismissed after antisemitic comments were made to the opposing private Jewish school team during a game last week, according to a statement from the school system and the mayor of

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