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Flight delays continue at MIA as investigation into Amazon crash continues

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MIAMI — Congestion at Miami International Airport on Friday was easing even as many travelers were still experiencing delays five days after a deadly cargo-plane crash.

The Federal Aviation Administration maintained its ground delay advisory for MIA, saying there was an average delay of 1 hour and 56 minutes “due to disabled aircraft on ...Read more

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Freed artist accepts democracy award on behalf of imprisoned dissidents in Cuba

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To the rhythm of the song “Patria y Vida” — "Homeland and Life" — three Cuban dissidents were honored on the grounds of George Washington’s estate in Virginia on Thursday evening for their work to uphold democratic values under authoritarian rule, an honor that two of the three could not accept because they are still in Cuban prisons. ...Read more

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California farm recalls eggs because of possible salmonella

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SACRAMENTO, Calif. — There have been a growing number of food recalls across California.

A California farm just recalled several lots of organic shell eggs amid a salmonella outbreak in San Diego County, according to the California Department of Public Health.

The recalled eggs were distributed throughout California, including to food ...Read more

FBI busts Chinese national in latest Detroit counterintelligence case

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DETROIT — Federal prosecutors in Detroit charged a Chinese national Friday who is portrayed as working for her government's spy agency while meeting with current and former U.S. government officials, the latest in a series of counterintelligence cases that have raised national security concerns.

Di Jin, 41, a resident of Tianjin Municipality ...Read more

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Is Operation Midway Blitz still ongoing? DHS lawyer had judge doing double take on bodycams

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CHICAGO — A lawyer for the Department of Homeland Security had people scratching their heads in a Chicago federal court hearing Friday after telling the judge in an ongoing immigration lawsuit that some 16 body-worn camera videos from agents on the ground this year have been identified as part of “Operation Midway Blitz.”

U.S. District ...Read more

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'Racist': DHS posted an AI image of a Sikh man. Backlash ensued

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WASHINGTON — The Department of Homeland Security drew backlash over an AI-generated social media post featuring a Sikh man facing off against a character made to look like Optimus Prime from the movie “Transformers.” The agency later deleted the image.

Posted Wednesday to the official X account for DHS, the image created by artificial ...Read more

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Will Hayden Panettiere's death uncover a supplier like Matthew Perry's 'Ketamine queen'?

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LOS ANGELES — Federal authorities probing the death of actress Hayden Panettiere are focusing on where the drugs and medications that played a role in her death came from, echoing similar probes that resulted in charges for suppliers in the deaths of Matthew Perry and Mac Miller.

Drug Enforcement Administration agents and local investigators ...Read more

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Pennsylvania reports measles cases in 4 vaccinated residents. These rare cases account for less than 1% of the spreading outbreak

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PHILADELPHIA — Four Pennsylvanians who were vaccinated against measles have contracted the highly contagious illness, state officials announced Friday.

Called “breakthrough cases,” such infections in vaccinated people are rare, but sometimes occur if someone’s immune system “did not respond as well” as most patients’ to the ...Read more

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Mixed-status immigrant households expected to lose benefits under new public charge rule

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New rules going into effect next week allow immigrants’ enrollment in safety net resources to be taken into account for lawful immigration status applications, the latest in the Trump administration’s immigration overhaul.

The rules will have wide implications for mixed-status households, as people without lawful status may forgo enrollment...Read more

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Denver school board members call for independent investigation into allegations of antisemitism, failure to fulfill duties

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DENVER — Denver school board members Monica Hunter and Donald “D.J.” Torres on Friday requested an independent investigation into allegations levied against them by the board’s president — including the accusation that Hunter made an antisemitic comment about a colleague, according to an email obtained by The Denver Post.

The request ...Read more

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Trump administration takes Sigal Chattah appointment fight to Supreme Court

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LAS VEGAS — The Trump administration has taken the case of whether Sigal Chattah can legally serve as Nevada’s top federal prosecutor to the U.S. Supreme Court.

A federal appellate court in August ruled that Chattah’s appointment to the position was illegal. The Trump administration appealed that ruling in a filing with the nation’s ...Read more

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Frustrations, remorse and pain surface on 25th anniversary of Sept. 11 attacks

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Powerful U.S. officials past and present faced families, survivors and first responders Friday at ceremonies to honor the 25th anniversary of the day 2,977 Americans died in terrorist attacks in Virginia, New York and Pennsylvania.

At the Pentagon, Condoleezza Rice, who was serving at the time under President George W. Bush as national security...Read more

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California's biggest lake is in crisis. Now tribes are coming back to save its sacred fish

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Jose “Moke” Simon III recalls as a child in the ‘70s watching the creeks that flow into Clear Lake in Northern California turn black with fish — a fish found only in these waters — as they made their springtime run.

Someone would call from the neighboring reservation with the news: “The hitch are running!” Everybody would grab ...Read more

Florida has 600 overdue immigration bills. It just got millions to pay them

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TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — The administration of Gov. Ron DeSantis on Friday submitted a long-delayed report explaining how it’s been spending disaster money, turning in the document less than an hour before lawmakers were set to decide whether the agency should get another $250 million as Florida tries to pay off mounting debt for its state-run ...Read more

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'Nowhere for him to go,' 'No time to escape': Van survivor sues 21 Air, Amazon

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MIAMI — Roosevelt Sebastian Perdomo Torres saw the Amazon Prime Boeing 767-300 barreling toward him last Sunday as it overshot the runway at Miami International Airport.

Perdomo Torres, 27, was one of seven people in a van owned by Professional Ocean Service Corp, a company that cleans planes. The jet, operated by North Carolina-based air-...Read more

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9/11 observed with somber remembrance on 25th anniversary

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A quarter-century after the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks, families returned to the World Trade Center site Friday to read aloud the names of the dead, marking a milestone anniversary of a tragedy that reshaped America.

Mourners and survivors gathered around the twin waterfall pools that mark the footprints of the two towers in Lower Manhattan...Read more

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Las Vegas events honor victims, fallen heroes on 25th anniversary of 9/11

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LAS VEGAS — Twenty-five years after one of the most harrowing days in modern American history, several events in the Las Vegas Valley paid homage Friday to the first responders and thousands of people who were killed in the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.

A large crowd turned out for the annual Tolling of the Bells took place at 6:45 a.m. ...Read more

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Philly 9/11 responders inhaled a 'witch's brew' of toxic dust. Now they're sick with deadly diseases

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PHILADELPHIA — Retired Philadelphia Police Capt. Mark Fisher gets winded and lightheaded while emptying the dishwasher or pushing his gas-powered lawnmower, his lungs forever scarred by the ankle-deep ash that he trudged through at ground zero.

When Fisher arrived at the nation’s worst crime scene, two days after the Sept. 11, 2001, ...Read more

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Teaching 9/11 to a generation that didn't live through it: 'We just heard tales of it'

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LOS ANGELES — Trent Nettles was a toddler on Sept. 11, 2001.

Now 27, Nettles is an 11th-grade Advanced Placement U.S. history teacher — too young to remember the day but responsible for teaching it to students who weren’t yet born when it happened. His challenge was to make this lesson more than just another unit on the syllabus.

Nettles...Read more

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9/11 observed with somber remembrance on 25th anniversary

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A quarter-century after the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks, families returned to the World Trade Center site Friday to read aloud the names of the dead, marking a milestone anniversary of a tragedy that reshaped America.

Mourners and survivors gathered around the twin waterfall pools that mark the footprints of the two towers in Lower Manhattan...Read more