Part of our “News That Matters“ Series, “Weekend Update” is a weekly feature that offers brief overviews of important news that might have been overlooked in the course of a busy weekend. Here’s what you may have missed in the

Punxsutawney Phil, the prodigious forecaster of Pennsylvania, saw his shadow early Sunday morning on Groundhog Day 2025. He therefore predicted that there will be six more weeks of a long cold and icy winter. This year is Phil’s 139th year

A bronze statue of William Penn, the founder of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, located atop the Philadelphia City Hall A Med Jets business jet with six people on board crashed in a neighborhood in northeast Philadelphia during the night of

On February 15, 1961, Sabena Flight 548, a Boeing 707, crashed on approach to Brussels’ Zaventem Airport on its way from New York City. All 72 passengers, as well as one person on the ground, perished in the crash. Among

February is the second month of the year in both the Julian and Gregorian calendars. The month has 28 days in common years – that is years with 365 days – and 29 days in leap years, such as last

Wednesday’s crash of an American Airlines jet on final approach to Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport was the deadliest U.S. air disaster in decades. Here are some of the people we lost in the crash plus the latest information on

Staffing at the air-traffic control tower at Ronald Reagan National Airport was “not normal for the time of day and volume of traffic” when an American Airlines regional jet and a Black Hawk helicopter collided in mid-air, an internal preliminary

American Airlines aircraft at the gate at LaGuardia Airport The CEO of American Airlines, Robert Isom released a statement hours after an American Airlines plane and a military helicopter collided mid-air. Both crashed into the Potomac River Wednesday night and

The Potomac River, as viewed from The Wharf No survivors are expected to be found following the Wednesday night midair collision between an American Airlines regional jet flying from Wichita, Kansas, and a military helicopter near Ronald Reagan Washington National

Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport at night The deadly crash of American Airlines Flight 5342 over the Potomac River near Washington, D.C. resulted in the cancellation of flights to and from Ronald Reagan National Airport overnight and the closure of the

Connecting an iPhone to a satellite for emergency communications T-Mobile said that it has begun opening up Starlink beta access to users of compatible Apple iPhones with the launch of Apple iOS 18.3. Compatible iPhones include the iPhone 14, iPhone

An American Airlines regional jet with 64 people on board collided in midair with a helicopter near Reagan Washington National Airport, the Federal Aviation Administration said. The aircraft that was struck is a Bombardier CRJ700. It has nine seats in the