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A Delta Air Lines plane is towed into position to prepare for takeoff at Reagan National Airport after an American Airlines plane crashed on approach to the airport, in Arlington, Virginia, on Jan. 30, 2025.Tasos Katopodis | Getty ImagesThe National Transportation Safety Board on Tuesday made an urgent call to permanently restrict helicopter flights in certain areas around Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport following January’s deadly collision of an airliner and an Army Black Hawk helicopter.The existing separation between helicopters operating near the airport and arriving aircraft on one of the runways, 33, poses “an intolerable risk to aviation safety by…

Search for missing surfer now a recovery operation after evidence of bite marks found on surf board.Australian police have confirmed that a surfer who went missing was “taken by a shark” after search and rescue teams recovered a surfboard scarred with “bite marks” from the area of the attack. The victim – identified by Australian media as 37-year-old Steven Payne – was mauled by a shark while surfing at Wharton beach in a remote area of Western Australia, police said late on Tuesday. It marks Australia’s fourth reported fatal shark attack in recent months. “I can confirm that our search…

What’s next after Ukraine agrees to U.S. proposal for ceasefire with Russia – CBS News Watch CBS News The pressure to end Russia’s war on Ukraine now shifts to Moscow, after the U.S. and a Ukrainian delegation agreed to a proposed ceasefire deal. Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced the framework of the 30-day pause after a more than 8-hour meeting in Saudi Arabia. Charles Kupchan, senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, joins to discuss. Be the first to know Get browser notifications for breaking news, live events, and exclusive reporting. Not Now Turn On

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) agents in New England executed a joint operation on Nantucket, Massachusetts, to arrest “illegal criminal aliens” on Tuesday.In a post on X, the DEA New England division said its agents assisted ICE and ICE Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) Boston with the arrests on the idyllic and posh summer vacation destination island situated 30 miles south of Cape Cod.The Nantucket Current reported that the DEA confirmed it had arrested a man previously charged with kidnapping and domestic assault and battery, as well as a woman. Authorities did not identify the…

Two months ago, a truck crashed into Players Choice Sports in Kelowna, B.C., leaving the store ransacked and the business in shambles. Katie Jenion, the owner, shared the emotional toll of the incident, sayin, “It definitely affected our entire family, and it was scary.”Despite the setback, the owners pressed on and celebrated the opening of their second location, Players Choice Toys, Cards & Games, just a block away. But with excitement comes the fear that theft issues could follow.“It is a fear. We stay up, we look at the cameras all the time. We’re always watching. It’s always in the…

MSCI’s broadest index of Asia-Pacific shares outside Japan was higher in morning trading on Wednesday.

PLEDGES FOR CLEAN AIR Efforts that tackle pollution’s effects, rather than its source, miss the point, said Ahmad Ali Gul at Lahore’s University of Management and Technology. “It’s like when you have a bathtub and it’s overflowing and it’s creating a huge mess, do you first grab a towel or do you first close the tap?” he said. “First, we need to focus on reducing the emissions and then we talk about how to protect ourselves from smog.” The government has blamed rival India, which borders Punjab province, for pollution blowing over into Lahore. But Pakistan has limited vehicle emissions…

The pre-dawn attack came hours before scheduled talks between high-level delegations from Ukraine and the United States in Saudi Arabia.

The fresh attacks President Trump aimed at Canada on Tuesday extended beyond imposing more tariffs on America’s neighbor and NATO ally, and laid out in the clearest terms yet his vision for annexing Canada and making it part of the United States.Mr. Trump has made repeated comments about Canada becoming America’s 51st state since winning the election in November, and last month specifically told the country’s departing prime minister, Justin Trudeau, that he did not believe that the border treaty between the two nations was valid, The New York Times reported last week.On Tuesday, as he announced his intention to…

A federal jury in Chicago awarded $120 million on Monday to two Illinois men who spent more than 16 years behind bars for a 2003 murder they did not commit.John Fulton and Anthony Mitchell were teenagers when they were convicted in 2006 for the murder of Christopher Collazo, whose body was found bound and partly burned in an alley on the South Side of Chicago in the early hours of March 10, 2003. Their convictions were vacated in 2019.Mr. Fulton and Mr. Mitchell each filed a federal lawsuit in 2020 against the City of Chicago, the Cook County State’s Attorney’s…