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

Photo caption: Henning Andreasen Telephone (model F78), ca. 1977, manufactured by GNT Automatic A/S, Soeborg, Denmark The New York State Public Service Commission on Thursday approved the petition by the North American Numbering Plan Administrator to implement a new area

Today, January 27, is International Holocaust Memorial Day, or Holocaust-Gedenktag, as it is referred to in German. This year marks the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz, is associated with the pledge “Nie wieder,” or “Never again.” A special

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The relationship between Earth’s sole Moon and mankind has been the stuff that ballads are made of, not to mention poems, piano sonatas, and symphonies. Astronomy, the science that studies celestial objects and the phenomena that occur in the cosmos,

At a sermon given at Washington National Cathedral, Rev. Mariann Budde challenged many of the executive orders issued by Trump on his first day in office as well as the ideas behind the orders. She asked him to “have mercy”

Bourbon Street in New Orleans at night before the attack in New Orleans A deadly winter storm stretching at least 1,500 miles (2,414 km) and is blanketing the South in snow from Texas to Florida has killed at least ten

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An empty Louis Armstrong International Airport in New Orlenas A deadly winter storm stretching at least 1,500 miles (2,414 km) and is blanketing the South in snow from Texas to Florida has killed at least ten people. The storm is

An America Airlines Boeing 737 in Miami An interracial newlywed  couple said in a federal lawsuit filed last week in the Southern District of Florida that American Airlines personnel accused the black husband of trafficking his white wife. The incident,

Just hours after taking the oath of office, in a flurry of activity, President Donald Trump signed hundreds of executive orders and proclamations, including some on matters that over which he has no legal authority. In January, at a press

An American Airlines A321 at JFK during an earlier storm Most of the United States will be assailed with various combinations of extreme winter weather this week and flight delays and cancellations as a result of snow, ice, and crippling