The co-pilot who assaulted the commanding captain on the FlyDubai flight en route to Tel Aviv from Dubai previously flew aircraft for Oman Air before he was dismissed for engaging with what were considered radical views, according to people familiar with the situation.

Hamam al-Hammami, 29, had initially been identified by the Israeli ...Read more

PITTSBURGH — Looking out at the green Tepper Quad on Carnegie Mellon University’s Oakland campus, Benjamin McHale pondered what might be next for the elite institution after the announcement of a $3 billion gift.

It’s a number that broke records nationwide.

Citadel CEO and billionaire Ken Griffin’s gift to the university is the largest...Read more

BALTIMORE — President Donald Trump is scheduled to visit Tradepoint Atlantic in Sparrows Point on Tuesday to deliver remarks at an event hosted by defense technology company Anduril Industries, bringing the president to one of the largest industrial redevelopment projects in the Baltimore region, a White House spokesperson confirmed to The ...Read more

Latvian Prime Minister Andris Kulbergs’ party was on course to win the largest share of votes in an election on Saturday amid growing security threats from Russia, putting him in a strong position ahead of coalition talks to form the next government.

The United List secured 35.6% of the vote, according to an exit poll released by LTV public ...Read more

Nicolás Maduro is not entitled to immunity from criminal charges, U.S. prosecutors said, countering the former Venezuelan president’s bid to toss the U.S.’s narco-terrorism case against him.

Maduro and Cilia Flores — Maduro’s wife who also faces charges — are “former rogue officials of a formerly rogue state with no entitlement to ...Read more

Hours after Haitian President Jovenel Moïse was shot to death inside his bedroom in the hills above Port-au-Prince, one of the Haitian Americans involved in the plot to oust him from power was desperate.

“I’m in real danger, very bad,” James Solages, a Broward county handyman who had accompanied a group of Colombian former military ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — All three victims of the deadly medical helicopter crash off Catalina Island have been publicly identified.

Killed in the crash were Steven "Steve" Robinson, the pilot, and Jessica deVries, who worked as a nurse, according to REACH Air Medical Services, the company that owned the craft.

According to records from the Los Angeles...Read more

LOS ANGELES — When Catalina Romero arrived at Catalina Island’s tiny emergency room this week with a severe allergic reaction, officials decided she needed medical attention on the mainland.

So they called a medical evacuation helicopter out of Oceanside. For residents of Avalon and the other Catalina communities, helicopters are part of ...Read more

U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent criticized prominent artificial intelligence figures’ warnings about existential risks posed by the technology as alarmist and unhelpful, calling on the industry to police itself and produce solutions.

“I believe that we have to be prepared for every occasion, but on the other side, this alarmism ...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — More than 1,000 Somali asylum-seekers have been ordered deported since February, reflecting the Trump administration’s continued follow-through on last winter’s federal enforcement action in Minnesota.

More than half the deportation orders involve Somalis living in Minnesota, a nearly tenfold increase from 2025, according to...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump said his administration would soon send checks of “nearly $100” to more than 20 million older Americans to “help pay for their Medicare Part B premiums.”

The president, who made the announcement in a post on Truth Social late Friday, said the money would come from the Medicare Improvement Fund, ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — A traveling nurse who slammed her Mercedes into a crowded South L.A. intersection at 131 mph was convicted of murder on Friday afternoon after jurors rejected an argument that she had a seizure behind the wheel.

Several gasps and sobs erupted from some of the victims’ relatives as the verdict was read, and they later shared ...Read more

Iceland plans to discuss closer cooperation with the U.S., including on defense, as Secretary of State Marco Rubio arrives for a visit next week.

That’s after the U.S. struck a security deal over neighboring Greenland just last month.

“There are threats out there which make it important that we strengthen our solidarity,” Foreign ...Read more

The U.S. Coast Guard said Friday it intercepted a cargo ship in the Caribbean last month that was carrying fuel bound for Cuba, the latest move in a Trump administration campaign to cut off oil supplies to the Cuban government.

The Coast Guard did not say where the fuel aboard the container ship Grace was loaded or disclose the amount or type ...Read more

A threat at California’s state Capitol forced construction workers and legislative staff to evacuate for much of Friday, but the building will reopen for normal hours on Monday, officials said.

At around 5 p.m. Friday, the California Highway Patrol announced it had finished sweeping the construction site and the Capitol building in Sacramento...Read more

WASHINGTON — The Trump administration is now facing a bevy of federal lawsuits over its effort to claw back about $810 million in federal funding without Congress’ approval.

The administration announced the cancellation last week, through a maneuver known as a “pocket rescission,” days before the funding expired at the end of the fiscal...Read more

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed legislation mandating the state look into whether electrical utility companies can be pushed to pay more money to victims of destructive wildfires caused by Pacific Gas & Electric Co. before the company declared bankruptcy in 2019.

Victims of those fires, which included the Camp fire ...Read more