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A Frontier Airlines Holdings Inc. flight leaving Denver International Airport struck and killed a person who stepped onto the runway after jumping a fence. The aircraft struck a pedestrian during takeoff at about 11:19 p.m. local time on Friday, sparking an engine fire, Denver International Airport said in a post on X. The Airbus A321 plane heading to Los Angeles International Airport was ...

Just two weeks ago, Democrats felt increasingly emboldened about taking control of the House in November after seeming to fight the redistricting wars to a draw.

Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy has been booked and busy.

MIAMI — More than 100 people aboard a cruise ship that departed from Fort Lauderdale last month have fallen ill from norovirus, according to the Centers for Disease Control. The Caribbean Princess, a Princes Cruises ship departed from Port Everglades on April 28 for an 11-day voyage, according to Cruise Mapper. But on Thursday, the CDC announced that 102 passengers and 13 crew members were ...

For a brief moment in American history, the rich didn’t control politics.

On a spring weekend in Boise, more than 100 people gathered at Ember Maucere’s home for a three-day party filled with live music, dancing, food and art.

LOS ANGELES — The Scientology “speed running” trend isn’t slowing down. Since the first incidents in Los Angeles in late March, large groups of people — some in costumes — have tried to race through buildings belonging to the church in New York, San Diego, San Francisco and countries outside the U.S., even as Scientology’s lawyers, law enforcement agencies and social media platforms have ...

WASHINGTON — A federal appeals court on Friday allowed members of Congress to continue to conduct oversight visits to immigration detention facilities without a seven-day notice, with one judge saying the Department of Homeland Security did not show the visits were anything more than an administrative inconvenience. A three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia ...

The Postal Service has proposed a new rule that would allow people to mail handguns, after the Justice Department under the Trump administration claimed this year that a century-old ban on the practice was unconstitutional.

Complaints about hospital food are certainly not new, and Jell-O and fruit juice are often the butt of related jokes. But the Trump administration has recently upped the ante.

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Despite his recent surge in polling and a shared coterie of campaign consultants, former California Attorney General Xavier Becerra has not received outgoing Gov. Gavin Newsom’s endorsement in the race to succeed him, nor has any other candidate. “I‘m focused on diapers,” Newsom told reporters on Friday when asked about Becerra’s recent emergence as a front-runner. The ...

A Utah judge on Friday rejected a request by Tyler Robinson, the man accused of killing conservative activist Charlie Kirk, to ban live TV and still photography from courtroom proceedings but accepted his motion to delay a key hearing.

Walt Disney Co.’s ABC is forcefully resisting Federal Communications Commission efforts to soften the network’s programming, accusing the federal agency of an overreach that violates 1st Amendment freedoms. Last week, the FCC took the unusual step of calling in the licenses of eight Disney-owned television stations for early review. The move — widely interpreted as an effort to chill the ...

PITTSBURGH — A potential 2028 presidential contender launched a Rust Belt tour in Pittsburgh on Thursday to pitch his vision for a massive, New Deal-style expansion of the federal workforce. To counter the coming social upheaval caused by the spread of artificial intelligence into a growing number of industries, U.S. Rep. Ro Khanna said the government should gear up to hire 1 million people as ...

WASHINGTON — Senate Democrats are preparing to challenge on procedural grounds a $1 billion provision in a GOP reconciliation bill that is connected to plans for a White House ballroom. Democrats say the provision is a “glaring” violation of the Senate’s Byrd rule, which restricts the type of material that can be considered in a reconciliation bill, according to sources familiar with their ...

The Trump administration on Friday appealed a court ruling that found a 10% global tariff imposed in February was not justified under a 1970s trade law.