A small plane with five people aboard crashed on Sunday into the parking lot of a retirement community in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, authorities said. There was no immediate word on deaths or injuries. Images shown on local TV stations showed the plane in flames atop parked vehicles with at least three cars on fire. A spokesperson for the Lancaster Police Department confirmed the plane crashed shortly after taking off from the city's airport. First responders were still working the scene and trying to determine how many people were killed or injured. The Federal Aviation Administration said in a statement that five people had been aboard the Beechcraft Bonanza plane. The incident comes at a time of heightened scrutiny of U.S. air safety.
Israel announced Sunday it is cutting off its electricity supply to Gaza. The full effects were not immediately clear, but the arid territory's desalination plants receive power for producing drinking water.
Israel last week cut off all supplies of goods to the territory of over 2 million people, in an echo of the siege it imposed in the earliest days of its war with Hamas. It seeks to press the militant group to accept an extension of the first phase of their ceasefire. That phase ended last weekend. Israel wants Hamas to release half of the remaining hostages in return for a promise to negotiate a lasting truce.
Hamas instead wants to start negotiations on the ceasefire's more difficult second phase, which would see the release of remaining hostages from Gaza, the withdrawal of Israeli forces and a lasting peace. Hamas is believed to have 24 living hostages and the bodies of 35 others.
People experiencing homelessness in San Jose who refuse offers of interim shelter will be issued written warnings and will face arrest for repeated refusals under a proposal unveiled Thursday by Mayor Matt Mahan. The new policy seeks to hold unhoused residents accountable for coming indoors, with the Mayor's Office saying one in three homeless residents refuse offers of housing with private rooms, bathrooms, and doors that lock. Roughly 200 unhoused residents die outdoors each year in Santa Clara County, the office said. "Responsibility to Shelter" plan would allow for the arrest of individuals after three refusals to come indoors.
The U.S. continued to generate jobs at a steady pace in February, offering reassurances that the labor market has remained relatively stable since President Trump took office. The U.S. added a seasonally adjusted 151,000 jobs in February, the Labor Department reported Friday, slightly below the gain of 170,000 jobs economists polled by The Wall Street Journal expected to see. That was better than the 125,000 jobs added in January. The unemployment rate, which is based on a separate survey from the jobs figures, rose to 4.1% from 4%. Economists believe that the cuts to federal government jobs that have come since Trump took office came too late to be captured in the February figures. But the report did show a loss of 10,000 federal government jobs over the month, unusual both because it is a decline and because it is such a large one.
Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Bonsall, Tuesday nominated President Donald Trump for the Nobel Peace Prize, considered one of the most prestigious awards in the world. The honor, awarded almost every year with a few exceptions, is given to people who have "done the most or the best work for fraternity between nations, for the abolition or reduction of standing armies and for the holding and promotion of peace congresses," according to the Norwegian Nobel Institute. "Not since Ronald Reagan has an American president better represented the national resolve of peace through strength or the fundamental case for a world without war," wrote Issa, vice chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee and senior member of the Judiciary Committee. "Remarkably, it was the 2024 election of Donald Trump -- more than 10 weeks before his swearing in - - that tangibly kickstarted the cause of peace in numerous regions of the world, and we are already seeing the benefits.
And my favorite for the sheep: "The crowd screams in delight when he tells them that a combined total of 9,000 people had shown up for the rally."