
Key takeaways from a report into the deadly plane crash at LaGuardia Airport
Federal investigators on Thursday detailed a series of issues and failures that led up to last month's deadly collision between a regional jet and a fire truck at New York's LaGuardia Airport. According to a preliminary report from the National Transportation Safety Board, the truck drove through the airport's version of a stop light and the vehicle lacked a transponder, hampering a crash warning system. There was also extra heavy air traffic and an emergency involving another plane at the Air...
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- Key takeaways from a report into the deadly plane crash at LaGuardia Airport
- Firefighter heard stop, stop before LaGuardia jet crash, but didnt know who it was for, NTSB says
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- Trump considers a taxpayer takeover of Spirit Airlines and would aim to resell carrier
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US soldier charged with using classified intel to win $400K Polymarket bet on Maduro raid
WASHINGTON (AP) — A U. S. special forces soldier involved in the military operation to capture Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro has been charged with using classified information about the mission to win more than $400,000 in an online betting market, federal officials announced Thursday. Gannon Ken Van Dyke was part of the operation to capture Maduro in January and used his access to classified information to make money on the prediction market site Polymarket, the federal prosecutor’s...
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- US soldier charged with using classified intel to win $400K Polymarket bet on Maduro raid
- Two ways of calculating: Trump defends his mathematically impossible calculations on drug prices
- Trump considers a taxpayer takeover of Spirit Airlines and would aim to resell carrier
- Trump administration vows crackdown on Chinese companies exploiting AI models made in US
- Trumps gold card visa starting at $1 million granted to just 1 person so far, Lutnick says
A massive kraken-like octopus may have prowled the seas during the age of dinosaurs
NEW YORK (AP) — The top predator prowling the seas during the age of the dinosaurs 100 million years ago may have been the octopus. New analyses of fossilized jaws reveal that massive, kraken-like octopuses once hunted alongside other marine predators. They boasted eight arms and long bodies that extended more than 60 feet (18 meters), rivaling other carnivorous marine reptiles. “These krakens must have been a fearsome sight to behold,” University of Alabama paleontologist Adiel said in...
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- A massive kraken-like octopus may have prowled the seas during the age of dinosaurs
- Archaeological digs in Amazon provide clues about Indigenous inhabitants before colonization
- Scientists trace latest interstellar comets home to a cold, isolated corner of the Milky Way
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