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NEW DELHI: Thick plumes of smoke towered above India’s Ahmedabad airport on Thursday (Jun 12) after a London-bound passenger jet with 242 people aboard crashed shortly after take-off. More than 290 people were killed while at least one person is known to have survived.  Casualties on the ground include students from a medical hostel. Catch up on the developments:

An Air India plane carrying 242 passengers and crew members crashed in Ahmedabad, India, shortly after taking off for London Gatwick Airport on Thursday, the airline said. Sources: Aerial image by Airbus via Google Earth; Flight data by Flightradar24 Note: All times shown are local. The plane crashed into the campus of a medical college, killing at least five students, according to Minakshi Parikh, the college’s dean. It damaged multiple dormitories and a dining hall. The plane’s tail was lodged in the dining hall building, where many students had fled, some leaving their meals behind. Sources: Aerial image by Airbus…

The looming federal funding cuts to public television and radio would overwhelmingly gut outlets in states won by President Trump in 2024, according to a new congressional report. Approximately 60% of the hundreds of radio and television stations that could suffer funding cuts are in Trump-won states, according to a congressional report obtained by CBS News from Senate Democrats.The organizations that would be affected include public media outlets in cities as large as Houston and Miami, as well as smaller stations in tiny communities like Douglas, Wyoming, which has a population of 6,000 and hosts the Wyoming State Fair.The widespread cuts…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Authorities believe they are closing in on the father accused of killing his three daughters and escaping into the Washington wilderness as local police assure the public they are ramping up their urgent search for the triple-homicide suspect. ​​”You will see a change in our tactics as we proceed forward,” Chelan County Sheriff Mike Morrison said in a news conference Wednesday. “All we need is one mistake and one day to go in our favor and he’s going to be in our custody.”The comments come after the U.S. Marshals Service deployed its Rapidly…

Police have made several arrests across Quebec in a major operation targeting organized crime, part of an ongoing crackdown on violence and illicit networks in the province. A joint press conference held by provincial police (SQ) and the Montreal police (SPVM) Thursday morning revealed about 150 police officers were deployed across the province earlier in the day as part of the sting operation. Get daily National news Get the day’s top news, political, economic, and current affairs headlines, delivered to your inbox once a day. Officers were deployed in Montreal, Laval, Blainville, Shefford, St-Lazare, Repentigny, Quebec City and Rosemère.Police say…

A Gamestop store is seen in Union Square on April 4, 2025 in New York City. Michael M. Santiago | Getty ImagesGameStop shares slid Thursday after the video game retailer and meme stock announced plans for a $1.75 billion convertible notes offering to potentially fund its new bitcoin purchase strategy.The company said it intends to use the net proceeds from the offering for general corporate purposes, “including making investments in a manner consistent with GameStop’s Investment Policy and potential acquisitions.”Part of the investment policy is to add cryptocurrencies to its balance sheet. Last month, GameStop bought 4,710 bitcoins, worth more than half a…

The man who shot dead 10 people at an Austrian school was introverted and played violent video games, police say.

AHMEDABAD: An Air India passenger plane crashed in the Indian city of Ahmedabad on Thursday (Jun 12), with all 242 people on board believed to be killed. Flight 171, a Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner which was bound for London Gatwick, smashed into buildings housing doctors and their families. “It appears there are no survivors in the plane crash,” Police Commissioner GS Malik told The Associated Press. As the plane went down in a residential area near the airport, casualties on the ground are expected, he added. “The building on which it has crashed is a doctors’ hostel … we have cleared almost 70 per…

Protests against Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) raids, which began on June 6 in Los Angeles, have spread beyond the California city, across the United States. This comes days before a military parade scheduled on Saturday in Washington, DC, which marks the US Army’s 250th anniversary. More protests across the US are scheduled on Saturday. Here is what we know about what is happening and where. Why are there protests in LA? On June 6, ICE carried out immigration enforcement raids in LA, in which uniformed ICE agents arrived at various sites in LA in groups of unmarked vehicles, arresting…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! The fate of President Donald Trump’s $9.4 billion spending cuts request could rest on the shoulders of a handful of moderate House Republicans.The House of Representatives is set to consider the measure on Thursday afternoon, which cuts $8.3 billion in funds to the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) and just over $1 billion from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, which routes federal funds to NPR and PBS.But at least four GOP lawmakers are known to have expressed at least some concerns about various aspects of the package. House Republican leaders have a…