Investigators in the United States have located the black boxes from the American Airlines jet that crashed into a US Army helicopter near Washington, DC, killing all 67 people on board. The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) on Friday said it recovered the flight data and cockpit voice recorders from the Bombardier CRJ700 jet that…
Kashyap “Kash” Patel, President Donald Trump’s pick to lead the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), has spent his first confirmation hearing before the United States Senate trying to dodge accusations that he would use the domestic security agency for political gain. Patel’s appearance was one of three contentious hearings unfolding on Thursday, as Trump’s nominees…
Washington, DC – Tulsi Gabbard, President Donald Trump’s nominee for director of national intelligence, has faced tough questions from United States lawmakers over her past positions, including her support for whistleblower Edward Snowden. At a confirmation hearing on Thursday, senators also grilled Gabbard over a 2017 visit to Syria, where she met with then-President Bashar…
United States President Donald Trump has seemingly formed an alliance with some of the country’s most notable tech billionaires. Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg, Jeff Bezos and Google CEO Sundar Pichai are some of the tech tycoons who attended his inauguration. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has jumped on the bandwagon, praising him in a recent post following…
These days there is a sense that Washington, DC, along with most of the Western world, has transported back to the 1930s, when fascism was openly on the march. And the latest executive order from President Donald Trump vowing to send 30,000 “illegal immigrants” to Guantanamo Bay, Cuba is certainly adding to this vibe. When…
Panamanian President Jose Raul Mulino has ruled out discussing control of the Panama Canal with top United States diplomat Marco Rubio, who is set to visit the Central American country. Mulino also reiterated on Thursday his rejection of US President Donald Trump’s accusation that the canal — which links the Caribbean Sea with the Pacific…
Montreal, Canada – Canada has failed to take meaningful action to address systemic abuses in a decades-old foreign worker programme, subjecting thousands of labourers to an “inherently exploitative” system, Amnesty International says. In a 71-page report released on Thursday, the rights group outlined a wide range of abuses linked to the Temporary Foreign Worker Program…
Egypt and Jordan have both rejected the suggestion by US President Donald Trump that Gaza should be “cleaned out” and what remains of its pre-war population of 2.3 million moved to the two neighbouring countries. Trump, who first mooted the idea on Sunday, repeated it on Monday while on board Air Force One as he…
United States President Donald Trump has boasted that his administration had stopped $50m in bomb-making condoms from being sent to Gaza. Trump provided no evidence for his claims – that condoms were being sent to Gaza or that Hamas is using contraceptives to make bombs – and left many people wondering what the US president…
The United States figure skating body has confirmed that several skaters were on an American Airlines regional passenger plane that crashed near Reagan Washington National Airport, located just outside Washington, DC in Virginia. The plane, with 64 passengers and crew, was en route to Washington, DC, from Wichita, Kansas, when it collided midair with a…
