The air traffic controller repeated the warnings to the pilot more than a half-dozen times. Stop drifting, keep on course and a chilling, urgent plea: “Low altitude alert, climb immediately, climb the airplane.” Instead, the twin-engine plane plowed into a San Diego suburb, killing the pilot and a delivery driver on the ground and burning […]
A California woman who recently called a reptile rescue team about snakes under her home learned that a den of more than 90 rattlesnakes had set up camp there. Sonoma County Reptile Rescue shared photos earlier this month of tangled masses of rattlesnakes of all sizes. “This last week I got a call from a […]
Tom Brady. Greg M. Cooper-USA TODAY Sports Tom Brady nearly left the Patriots training camp in 2019 over his contract, according to a new book. Brady wanted a two-year contract to take him to 45, but Bill Belichick refused. He played out the season with the Patriots, then left to join the Bucs. Tom Brady […]
The Wyoming medical examiner who performed the autopsy on Gabby Petito said Tuesday that the 22-year-old’s death was caused by strangulation. Teton County Coroner Dr. Brent Blue made the announcement during a virtual news conference. “After a detailed investigation by our forensic pathologist, our anthropologist and local law enforcement, with assistance from the FBI, the […]
Two top Republican officials are urging the GOP’s base to vote for Democrats, because “rational Republicans are losing the GOP civil war.” (AP Photo/Evan Vucci) Two GOP officials urged voters to make sure “rational Republicans” don’t lose the “GOP civil war.” The op-ed was written by Miles Taylor, a Trump-era Department of Homeland Security chief […]
Tik Tok sleuths think Brian Laundrie may be hiding in an underground bunker beneath his parents’ flower bed based on drone video footage that some say shows a hand sticking out of the soil. The footage shows Roberta and Chris Laundrie working in their garden at their Florida home before moving inside as soon as […]
MIAMI (AP) — Miami officials have decided to fire the city’s new police chief six months into his stormy tenure, after he was lambasted by city commissioners who he accused of meddling in the police department and internal affairs investigations. Miami City Manager Art Noriega said in a statement Monday that he suspended Chief Art […]
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un attends a plenary meeting of the Workers’ Party of Korea central committee in Pyongyang, North Korea on February 10, 2021. KCNA/Reuters In North Korea, an act of terrorism is considered a political gift for the supreme leader, said one former top spy in an exclusive BBC interview on Sunday. […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — Vladimir Putin paid scant attention to Fiona Hill, a preeminent U.S. expert on Russia, when she was seated next to him at dinners. Putin’s people placed her there by design, choosing a “nondescript woman,” as she put it, so the Russian president would have no competition for attention. Fluent in Russian, she […]
Ivanka Trump Alex Edelman/AFP/Getty Images You may not remember who former President Donald Trump picked to lead the World Bank when its director unexpectedly stepped down in January 2019 — it’s David Malpass — but you almost certainly would recall the name of the world’s leading development bank’s director if Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin hadn’t […]