Category: Everydaynews


  • CBS to Hand Over Transcript of Kamala Harris’s ‘60 Minutes’ Interview to FCC

    CBS News plans to comply with a request from the Federal Communications Commission for the unedited transcript of a “60 Minutes” interview with Kamala Harris that aired last year and became the subject of a lawsuit brought against the network by President Trump. The network’s news division received a letter of inquiry from the F.C.C.,…

  • Federal Judge Orders White House to Keep Money Flowing to 22 States

    Judge McConnell’s Friday order does not block the Trump administration from continuing its review, only from defunding those programs that fail its tests in the states that sued — New York, California, Illinois, Rhode Island, New Jersey, Massachusetts, Arizona, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Hawaii, Maine, Maryland, Michigan, Minnesota, Nevada, North Carolina, New Mexico, Oregon, Vermont, Washington…

  • Trump Plans Steep Tariffs on Canada, Mexico and China

    President Trump is set to impose tariffs on imports from America’s three largest trading partners: Goods from Mexico and Canada will be subject to 25 percent tariffs and those from China will be hit by a 10 percent fee. The White House said that the tariffs will go into effect tomorrow. The president, who on…

  • How Trump’s Tariffs Could Affect Americans

    President Trump relies on tariffs to address trade, immigration and drug issues. Ana Swanson, who covers trade and international economics for The New York Times, explains their potential impact on everyday Americans. Source link

  • How the D.C. Plane Crash Shattered Wichita’s Big Dreams of Skating and Flight

    Wichita might be the country’s smallest big city. Or perhaps the country’s largest town. It is both big, with nearly 400,000 residents, and 550,000 in the larger metro area; and small, the type of place where you know your banker and bump into a friend while running errands. In recent years, Wichita has dreamed of…

  • Trump Raises New Threat to Sanctuary Cities: Blocking Transportation Dollars

    The new U.S. Department of Transportation secretary, Sean Duffy, issued an order this week that threatened to shift federal transportation funding away from local governments that don’t cooperate with federal immigration enforcement. The order revives an unsettled legal fight from the first Trump term over whether the federal government can withhold funds from “sanctuary cities.”…

  • Small Plane With 2 Aboard Crashes Near Philadelphia Mall

    A Learjet with two people aboard crashed near a shopping center in Northeast Philadelphia after departing the Northeast Philadelphia Airport on Friday night, a spokesman for the Federal Aviation Administration said. The plane was en route to Springfield-Branson National Airport in Missouri when it crashed at about 6:30 p.m. near Cottman and Bustleton Avenues in…

  • Deadly Crash Focuses Attention on Helicopter Traffic at Reagan Airport

    The flight path that an Army Black Hawk helicopter took before its fatal collision with an American Airlines regional jet, long a concern to aviation officials, was closed to most helicopters after the deadliest aviation accident in the United States in nearly a quarter of a century. The Federal Aviation Administration restricted two commonly used…

  • 285 of 313 Air Traffic Control Facilities Are Understaffed

    More than 90 percent of the country’s 313 air traffic control facilities operate below the Federal Aviation Administration’s recommended staffing levels, according to an analysis of staffing data from the union representing controllers obtained by The New York Times. As of earlier this month, 285 facilities — which include traffic control towers and other locations…

  • New York Doctor Indicted in Louisiana for Sending Abortion Pills There

    A state grand jury in Louisiana has indicted a New York doctor for providing abortion pills to a Louisiana resident. The case appears to be the first time criminal charges have been filed against an abortion provider for sending pills into a state with an abortion ban. The charges mark a new chapter in an…