Investigators used a drone over the Potomac River to survey the wreckage from the midair collision involving a Black Hawk military helicopter and an American Airlines passenger plane in Washington DC. Part of the wreckage has since been recovered.
When Donald Trump reassumed the presidency of the United States of America in January, eternal New York Times foreign affairs columnist and Orientalist extraordinaire Thomas Friedman took to the pages of the US newspaper of record with some advice: “President Trump, You Can Remake the Middle East if You Dare.” And while punitive imperial makeovers…
By Al Jazeera Staff Published On 18 Feb 202518 Feb 2025 | Updated: 9 hours ago
Updates: Israel keeps up West Bank raids; 3 Gaza children freeze to death
Supporters of United States President Donald Trump and his “Make America Great Again” movement have latched onto a spike in the popularity of Google searches for “criminal defense lawyer” and other crime-related terms in Washington, DC. MAGA followers have claimed that the Google data shows that a corrupt elite in the US capital are afraid…
Published On 1 Jan 20251 Jan 2025
Outgoing President Joe Biden has awarded the Presidential Citizens Medal, the second-highest civilian honour in the United States, to members of a congressional committee that investigated the attack on the Capitol on January 6, 2021. A total of 20 honourees were recognised in a ceremony at the White House on Thursday. Among them were an…
