The Federal Aviation Administration is investigating after a Southwest Airlines flight reportedly plunged to “within 400ft” of the Pacific Ocean during a flight.
A memo distributed to Southwest pilots, obtained by Bloomberg, said that the Boeing 737 Max 8 plunged at a rate of 4,000ft a minute off the coast of Hawaii, coming within hundreds of feet of the ocean before climbing to safety.
News of the incident comes as investigators said a Southwest-operated Boeing 737 Max 8 sustained significant damage after it did a “Dutch roll” during a flight from Phoenix to Oakland in May.
A construction crew began to demolish the three-story southeast Florida school building where an expelled student fatally shot 17 victims six years ago, a Thursday livestream from The Associated Press (AP) showed.
The video showed the hydraulic pincers of a claw excavator beginning by tearing into the top-floor classroom of the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School building in Parkland, northern Broward County, where Nikolas Cruz, then 19, fatally shot the 14 students and three staff Feb. 14, 2018. Some victims’ families watched the demolition.
An illegal alien from El Salvador has been arrested on charges of raping and murdering a Maryland mother of five.
Victor Antonio Martinez-Hernandez, 23, crossed the U.S. southern border illegally in February 2023, according to Harford County Sheriff Jeffrey Gahler. Six months later, in August 2023, Hernandez is suspected of attacking, raping, and killing Rachel Morin while she exercised on the MA & PA Heritage Trail in Bel Air, Maryland, about 30 miles northeast of Baltimore.
“We are 1,800 miles away from the southern border and the American citizens are not safe because of failed immigration policies,” Gahler said during a press conference Saturday, directing this remark specifically to “1600 Pennsylvania Ave and to every member of both chambers of Congress.”
“This is the second time, in just two years, that an innocent Harford County woman has lost her life to a criminal in our country illegally,” the sheriff said.
The convergence of artificial intelligence (AI) and high-performance cloud computing is dramatically reshaping the landscape of scientific research and discovery. Scientific breakthroughs that once took years to achieve are emerging in weeks, presenting new and powerful solutions to address complex global challenges.
However, the accelerating rate of innovation also raises critical strategic questions for government and public policy institutions and whether they are prepared for the surge, suggests a new report.
AI’s emerging impact in the laboratory has made one thing clear: The scientific and research community is at the cusp of a new era when AI-propelled science will move at unprecedented speed and likely reshape priorities for government agencies responsible for agriculture, environmental protection, health, national security and other domains.
JACKSON, Miss. (WLBT/Gray News) – A man facing charges in the abduction of two Louisiana children and killing one says he’s admitted to his crimes to authorities and deserves death.
Daniel Callihan is being charged with capital murder and sexual battery, a day after he was arrested for abducting two girls from Louisiana and bringing them across state lines into Mississippi.
An alleged accomplice in Thursday’s killings, Victoria Cox, was also arrested, according to Mississippi police.
Callihan was led out of Jackson police headquarters on Friday and answered questions from reporters while he was being taken to a police car.
Police say a man has been arrested in connection to the death of an 11-year-old boy during a sleepover where he reportedly participated in a dangerous TikTok challenge, according to his family.
Tommy-lee Gracie Billington lost consciousness after inhaling toxic substances and was transported to a hospital, where he later died in March.
‘It is beyond me why anyone would even try this. It’s so dangerous.’
Three months later, Lancashire Police announced that they had arrested a 25-year-old man on from Lancaster suspicion of a slew of charges.
Billington was believed to have died as a result of participating in a TikTok challenge known as “chroming” during which children are encouraged to inhale toxic chemicals in order to create a high comparable to drunkenness. The chemicals used include solvents, aerosols, paint, or cleaning products.
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Almost all U.S. hospitals were hurt financially by the cyberattack on United Health Group’s Change Healthcare unit earlier this year, according to a survey from the American Hospital Association (AHA).
The AHA said that 94% of hospitals reported damage to cash flow and more than half reported significant or serious financial damage due to Change’s inability to process claims.
“While this event had disparate impacts on providers, all communities felt the effects in some way,” the AHA wrote in a letter to leadership of the U.S. Senate Finance and House Energy and Commerce committees.
The association, which represents almost 5,000 hospitals and healthcare systems in the United States, sent the letter on Monday ahead of Wednesday’s Congressional hearings on cybersecurity vulnerabilities in the healthcare sector.
A teenage neo-Nazi, who began plotting a suicide bomb attack on his local synagogue during lockdown, vowing to “make Jews scared again”, has been jailed for eight years.
Mason Reynolds, 19, who was described as a “violent anti-Semite”, built up an extensive collection of terrorist material and developed plans to target the Jewish community in his home town of Brighton.
When he was arrested, he was found with diagrams for a synagogue in Hove and had even identified one entrance that he believed would be “good for surprise attack”.
Residents of a flood-hit neighbourhood in Chile are living in fear of their homes collapsing at any moment because of a sinkhole caused by heavy rain.
Terrifying footage shows the building complex in Viña del Mar at risk of giving in as it stands precariously above a massive cavity caused by the storms blighting Chile over the past week.
Pictures show the damage caused by the sinkhole as sand swept through people’s homes and car parks.
HELSINKI (AP) — The World War II mystery of what happened to a Finnish passenger plane after it was shot down over the Baltic Sea by Soviet bombers appears to finally be solved more than eight decades later.
The plane was carrying American and French diplomatic couriers in June 1940 when it was downed just days before Moscow annexed the Baltic states. All nine people on board the plane were killed, including the two-member Finnish crew and the seven passengers — an American diplomat, two French, two Germans, a Swede and a dual Estonian-Finnish national.
A diving and salvage team in Estonia said this week that it had located well-preserved parts and debris from the Junkers Ju 52 plane operated by Finnish airline Aero, which is now Finnair. It was found off the tiny island of Keri near Estonia’s capital, Tallinn, at a depth of around 70 meters (230 feet).
A ruling is pending from the United States Supreme Court, after the justices heard arguments in, what may be, the most significant case regarding the rights of homeless people.
The ruling will decide whether cities are allowed to criminalize people for sleeping outside, even if they don’t have access to shelter.
A thousand days have passed since girls in Afghanistan were banned from attending secondary schools, according to the U.N. children’s agency, which said Thursday that “no country can move forward when half its population is left behind.”
UNICEF Executive Director Catherine Russell in a statement urged Taliban authorities to allow all children to resume learning immediately, and called on the international community to support Afghan girls, who she said need it more than ever. The agency estimates that more than 1 million girls are affected.
The U.N. has warned that the ban on girls’ education remains the Taliban’s biggest obstacle to gaining recognition as the legitimate rulers of Afghanistan.
The suspect, Raymond Mario Jimenez, 27, is seen in a booking photo from the Santa Ana Police Department.
The Orange County District Attorney’s Office is filing several charges against a man who allegedly opened fire on teenage boys, killing one of them and injuring another.
For those not yet in the know, here’s a quick recap: Furlow-Smiles held prominent DEI roles at Nike and Facebook (now Meta) and was allegedly in the running for a role at Pixar before news broke that she’d been accused of stealing $5 million to fund a high-priced luxury lifestyle. In May, a judge sentenced her to five years in prison and ordered her to return the stolen funds.
At first glance, this seems like any other white-collar scheme. But in a deeply riveting and colorfully written feature, my colleague Lila MacLellan uncovers the humanity behind the crime and explores what led someone who, by many accounts, seemed to live comfortably—and made her name in a field that’s perceived as more values-driven and moralistic than others—to steal millions of dollars earmarked for underrepresented people.
Amman, June 16 Jordan on Sunday confirmed the deaths of 14 citizens and the missing of 17 others who were performing Haj rituals in Saudi Arabia.
Sufian Qudah, the spokesperson for the Jordanian Foreign Ministry, said in a statement that the Jordanian side is following up with concerned Saudi authorities on burials or home returns of the deceased at their families’ request, Xinhua news agency reported.
The Saudi authorities were also continuing the search for the 17 missing pilgrims, according to the statement.
The statement did not detail further nor disclose the cause of the tragedy, but the Jordanian Foreign Ministry reported a day earlier that six Jordanians had died of heat stroke during the Haj pilgrimage.
NAY PYI TAW, Myanmar, June 13 (Xinhua) — The Chinese government-aided Myanmar National Center for Disease Control (CDC) and Medical Training Center was officially handed over to Myanmar on Thursday.
Speaking at a handover ceremony in Nay Pyi Taw, Chinese Ambassador to Myanmar Chen Hai congratulated the completion and handover of the project, saying that the China-aided Myanmar National Center for Disease Control is a landmark project of China-Myanmar friendly cooperation and the largest aid project from China to Myanmar in recent years.
Noting that China and Myanmar have always understood and respected each other, Chen said China adheres to the people-centered development concept and will continue to adhere to the friendly policy towards Myanmar for all the Myanmar people, strengthen political mutual trust with Myanmar and deepen practical cooperation to ensure that friendly cooperation between the two countries further benefits the two peoples.
On behalf of the Myanmar government, Secretary of the State Administration Council Lt-Gen Aung Lin Dwe thanked China for the CDC project.
The United Nations says that one year after fighting erupted between rival armed factions in Sudan, the country is still plunged into a devastating war, which has claimed nearly 15,000 lives and left 8 million civilians displaced.
On Thursday, June 13, 2024, the Rapid Support Forces (RSF), under the command of General Mohamed Hamdan Doglo, known as Hemedti, announced via their X account handle that they had shot down a Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) warplane.
According to the publication read out to APA, the RSF “succeeded in shooting down a warplane belonging to the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and their extremist allies linked to the former regime.”
The RSF said that the aircraft was engaged in barrel bombing of innocent civilians in various towns across Sudan and wreckage from the burning aircraft was found scattered east of the town of El Fasher.
1 / 7Cockroaches are notorious for spreading diseases throughout homes, particularly thriving in bathroom areas under sinks and around toilets. Accumulation of food particles and crumbs provides ideal conditions for cockroach infestations, leading them to crawl over utensils and contaminate food, posing serious health risks if inadvertently consumed.
2 / 7Taking prompt action where cockroaches are spotted prevents serious issues. The presence of cockroaches can unsettle children, but simple home remedies can effectively eliminate them.3 / 7Baking soda can be effectively used to combat cockroaches. Simply sprinkle it in areas where cockroaches are present or mix it with water in a spray bottle for targeted application.4 / 7When encountering cockroaches at home, employing radish leaves boiled in water can encourage them to vacate the premises rather than killing them outright. Additionally, applying tamarind powder in cockroach-infested areas effectively eliminates these pests.
5 / 7Utilizing neem oil by diluting it with water and applying it with a spray bottle in areas frequented by cockroaches proves effective. Alternatively, neem leaves can be powdered and strategically used to deter cockroaches from infesting your home.6 / 7Creating a paste with mint (Pudhina) and water and sprinkling it around your home serves as a potent method to deter cockroaches effectively.7 / 7Avoiding food spills and maintaining overall cleanliness is crucial as cockroaches are commonly found in unkempt areas of the house.
It appears that global warming experts have some major explaining to do.
The state of Montana is expected to get 12 inches of snow next week as a cold front is expected to hit the state.
The National Weather Service in Montana has warned residents in higher elevations near the Continental Divide are expecting snowfall on Monday that will last until Thursday.
The NWS warned, “Travel could be difficult, especially on backcountry roads. Those in the backcountry should ensure they have appropriate knowledge and gear and may want to consider alternate plans.”
Elon Musk’s brain-implant startup Neuralink Corp. forced an employee to work with monkeys that carried the Herpes B virus in conditions in which the animals scratched her bare skin, according to a complaint filed Friday in state court in California.
The employee, Lindsay Short, said that once she transferred to the company’s Fremont, California, site in August 2022, she encountered “a work environment fraught with blame, shame, and impossible deadlines.” She said she was later fired after telling her supervisors that she was pregnant.
Short sued the company for retaliation, wrongful termination and discrimination based on her gender among other issues.
Neuralink didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment on the suit.
A family of six, including three children, were killed Friday by gunmen in the southern Mexico border state of Chiapas in a town marred by cartel-backed militia violence.
Julio Pérez, the mayor of the Chiapas town of Pantelho, said the killings happened there Friday, and called it “a massacre.” Two warring militia groups suspected of being backed by drug cartels have been battling for control of the town.
In a brief statement, the state prosecutor’s office said three suspects were arrested but neither the victims nor the detainees have been identified.
It was the latest in a string of mass killings in which hitmen have wiped out entire families in Mexico.
An Arizona man who planned to commit a mass shooting at an Atlanta rap concert as a way of inciting a “race war” has been indicted by a federal grand jury on hate crime and firearm charges.
The man, Mark Adams Prieto, hatched a plan in several discussions with two people working with the F.B.I. who posed as racist extremists to carry out a mass shooting targeting Black people and other people of color at a concert in Atlanta on May 14 and May 15, the Justice Department said on Tuesday.
Mr. Prieto intended for the shooting to incite a “race war” before the presidential election, prosecutors said in a news release.
Mr. Prieto, 58, was reported to the authorities last year by an acquaintance who said he had made concerning comments calling for mass shootings targeting Black people and others, according to officials.
If you have things like truth, facts, and logic on your side then letting someone speak who disagrees with you should be no problem. But the rainbow mob only has lies and ad hominem attacks on their side, which is why they freak out the moment someone contradicts their truth.
A school district in Manhattan was holding a meeting to discuss a measure that requires schools to hold a public hearing over their policy about trans sports.
Since the measure was passed, trans advocates have shown up at each school board meeting to protest even discussing the possibility of moving forward with the review, which is what happened Wednesday night when anyone with an opposing view attempted to speak.
One video of the bizarre humming and howling performance given by the trans advocates – many of whom were in matching jeans and white t-shirts – showed that the woman whose voice they were drowning out is Amaya Perez, a black, bisexual woman who leads the NYC chapter of Gays Against Groomers.
An illegal alien killed Kate Steinle during the Obama presidency. Then, Laken Riley fell victim to the same criminal scum who illegally entered the United States. There are dozens more victims of illegal aliens who have come here to rape, murder, steal, and run amok in our streets. These aren’t asylum seekers, though that process has also been manipulated. In Harford County, Maryland, we have a new name to add to this tragic list: Rachel Morin, a mother of five, who was raped and murdered by an illegal alien from El Salvador (via Baltimore Sun):
A suspect in the killing of Bel Air mother Rachel Morin is in custody in Tulsa, Oklahoma, pending extradition to Maryland, Harford County Sheriff Jeffrey Gahler said at a news conference Saturday.
“Rachel’s murderer is no longer a free man and, hopefully, he will never have the opportunity to walk free again,” Gahler said.
Tulsa Police and federal authorities found Victor Antonio Martinez-Hernandez, 23, on Friday night and took him into custody for allegedly trespassing, Gahler said. The El Salvador native is being held without bond at a Tulsa County jail, accused of being a fugitive from justice, along with a hold from Maryland to face charges in Morin’s homicide and a detainer from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
Martinez-Hernandez is charged with first-degree murder and first-degree rape in Morin’s death.
The number of Kenyans relocating to the US grew at the fastest pace in a decade in 2022, signalling growing opportunities for skilled and semi-skilled labour in the world’s largest economy.
Data from the American liberal think-tank Migration Policy Institute (MPI) indicates that Kenyan immigrants to the US in 2022 stood at 168,915, a 9.6 percent jump from the 154,062 recorded in 2021 when global economies were recovering from the Covid-19 pandemic.
The jump was the highest since the 15.9 percent recorded in 2011 when the number stood at 102,561 up from the 88,519 that had relocated in 2010.
The drift also comes as a result of a shrinking job market in the local economy, which has compelled labour providers to seek openings abroad.