Two LaGuardia Airport air traffic controllers in the control tower left work early the night an Air Canada Express flight collided with an airport fire truck on the runway, according to a source familiar with the investigation into the March 22 crash. The two pilots of Air Canada Express Flight 8646 were killed when the jet collided with an airport fire truck just after landing. The fire truck had been crossing the taxiway to respond to an incident across the airport. Read more
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The classified assessment of the Kremlin's thinking preceded CIA Director John Ratcliffe's secret trip to Moscow this week.
August 27, 2026 at 5:26 p.m. EDT Today at 5:26 p.m
CIA Director John Ratcliffe's mysterious trip to Moscow this week was preceded by fresh U.S. intelligence indicating that the Kremlin sees the United States as weakened by the Iran war, offering Russia an opportunity to escalate action against American interests and allies in Europe, according to two people familiar with the matter. Read more
A man was sent to the hospital [in Danbury, CT] Thursday morning after a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent deployed a Taser on him while making an arrest, according to the mayor's office and a 911 call recording obtained by CT Insider.
A federal judge in California on Wednesday invalidated a Trump administration rule that could potentially lower wages to foreign guest workers by as much as a projected $2.46 billion annually.
Republicans have been eager for the group to start spending its massive war chest ahead of the general election.
Florida's attorney general got a fiery rebuke and some ecclesiastical schooling from the state's Catholic bishops after he boldly threatened to block funding to Catholic schools unless the church bends to the state's anti-vaccine policies -- policies allegedly intended to uphold religious freedom.
"The United States is giving serious consideration to changing the name of Lake Ontario to Lake America in that we don't expect to doing much business with Ontario any longer. Thank you for your attention to this matter!" Trump said in a post on Truth Social.
GOP lawmakers are pushing to restrict the rights of naturalized and dual citizens"including their ability to run for office.
Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on Wednesday went as far as to suggest that the two measles deaths reported in Pennsylvania earlier this week may "have been altogether fabricated" by Democratic Gov. Josh Shapiro's team. Read more
Vanity Fair: "Robert Kiyosaki, who built an empire on the idea of getting rich, now says he's deeply in debt. Vanity Fair visits the author and friend of Trump at home in Arizona to understand the distance between the gospel of his books and his own bleeding balance sheet." Read more
A swarm of 700 OpenAI bots conspired in a cyber attack last month, an investigation has revealed, in what the AI giant called a "warning shot" to the world. Independent researchers found that hundreds of AI bots worked together to attack the technology company Hugging Face after an OpenAI agent escaped from its test environment. The researchers also found that the bots tried to cover their tracks to keep overseers from discovering what they were up to.
"The International Criminal Court (ICC) deplores the new sanctions announced by the abominable Trumpf junta against Judge Tomoko Akane (Japan), the President of the Court and Mr Abdoulaye Seye (Senegal), Senior Trial Lawyer at the Office of the Prosecutor."
The Israeli Mossad ran an intimidation campaign against ICC staff
Dummkopf Trumpf dispatched D/CIA John Ratcliffe to Russia to personally warn Moscow not to attack any NATO countries. Earlier this week, an adviser to Russian President Vladimir Putin warned that "unknown actors" could attack UK facilities producing weapons for Ukraine. Additionally, Ratcliffe relayed to his Russian counterpart that if Iran does not reopen the Strait of Hormuz, the US will impose additional economic penalties.
Russia threatening more sabotage and attacks
As of this week, 54,648 pounds of Lundberg Family Farms jasmine white rice have been recalled. The company is owned by Wehah Farms, based in California. The affected rice was sold in 32-ounce packages and was distributed in California, Connecticut, Florida, Illinois, North Carolina, New Hampshire, New York, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Vermont, Washington, and Wisconsin. A total of 27,324 packages are affected.
The Department of Education on Wednesday blasted out a wild social media post in which it seemed to compare President Donald Trump and his administration to Adolf Hitler and Nazi Germany. The post was deleted after this story was published. In the post on X, the department wrote, "No one does it like us." Following those words was a tiger emoji. The text was accompanied by a 19-second video montage that began with a scene from Darkest Hour, the 2017 biopic about former U.K. Prime Minister Winston Churchill and the British fight against the Nazis. In the scene, Churchill, played by Gary Oldman, is urged to negotiate with Germany. A disgusted Churchill responds emphatically, "You cannot reason with a tiger when your head is in its mouth!"
