“Tower, Southwest 2504, how’d that happen?” Video shows the moment a Southwest Airlines jet aborted its landing at Chicago’s Midway International Airport as a smaller jet crosses the runway in front of it. The FAA says it is investigating the “go-around.”
Mexico has handed over 29 drug cartel figures to the United States, including one of the FBI’s most wanted, Rafael Caro Quintero, in what observers say is a “show of compliance” by Mexican authorities. The handover comes just days before 25 percent tariffs on Mexican imports by US President Donald Trump are due to come…
The wildfires raging in the city of Los Angeles in the United States have killed at least 24 people, officials said, as firefighters raced to put out the blazes before the return of strong winds that could fuel the flames again. The blazes burned for a sixth straight day on Sunday, reducing whole neighbourhoods to…
The Department of Government Efficiency – the Trump administration’s cost-cutting agency, headed by billionaire business owner Elon Musk – has put hundreds of federal officials on leave, gained access to sensitive federal payment systems and led the charge to shutter federal agencies. The pushback against DOGE, as it is called, has been swift, as legislators…
Residents of a senior centre are evacuated as fire approaches in Altadena, California, US. [Ethan Swope/AP Photo]
Police in New York City have arrested a man they suspect set a woman on fire while she appeared to be asleep on the subway train, killing her. The woman, who has not been identified, sat motionlessly on board a stationary F train at the Coney Island-Stillwell Avenue subway station in Brooklyn at about 7:30am…
Faced with an icy polar vortex, United States President-elect Donald Trump has announced plans to move his upcoming inauguration ceremony indoors. Traditionally, the ceremony has taken place outdoors, most commonly on the marble steps of the Capitol in Washington, DC. But with meteorologists predicting one of the coldest inauguration days in recent history, Trump decided…
