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<p>TYLER, Texas (AP) — Five people were shot and injured early Sunday during an outdoor event in East Texas that featured a trail ride, according to authorities.</p><p>The Smith County Sheriff’s Office said it received a call at 12:35 a.m. Sunday about multiple gunshot victims in a large pasture area in the eastern part of the county. People were taking part in an annual trail ride sponsored by Unified Elite Riderzz from nearby Marshall, Texas.</p>

mid a spike in traffic accident deaths, Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg said his department is planning on a number of strategies to make roads safer. U.S. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg announced the department's new National Roadway Safety Strategy to curb a recent spike in traffic deaths. Above, Buttigieg speaks to the media after touring the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach on Jan. 11 in Long Beach, California. U.S. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg announced the department's new National Roadway Safety Strategy to curb a recent spike in traffic deaths. Above, Buttigieg speaks to the media after touring the ports...

<p>AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — The second debate between Democratic U.S. Rep. Beto O'Rourke and Republican Sen. Ted Cruz has been postponed because the Senate may be in session this weekend to vote on Brett Kavanaugh's confirmation to the Supreme Court. Organizers announced Friday that Sunday night's event at the University of Houston was off while they work with both sides to possibly reschedule. O'Rourke and Cruz debated last week in Dallas and had been set to meet a third time in San Antonio on Oct. 16. O'Rourke is giving up his El Paso-based House seat to challenge Cruz. He's used monster fundraising and an energetic campaign to attract national attention. Most polls have him within striking distance of Cruz , though a Democrat hasn't won statewide office in Texas since 1994.</p>

The pilot of a World War II-era P-51C Mustang is OK after making an emergency belly landing at Dallas Executive Airport Wednesday morning. Dallas-Fire Rescue confirms the plane landed at about 10:30 a.m. with its gears retracted. The fighter plane's prop detached as it left the runway and came to rest in a grassy area off a taxiway. The plane is a single-seat aircraft with room only for a pilot. No injuries were reported, though the vintage aircraft suffered extensive damage, officials said. Lynn Lunsford, with the Federal Aviation Administration, said the aircraft belongs to a local flying museum. FAA...

<p>MOJAVE, Calif. (AP) — Virgin Galactic has reported an unspecified problem during a test flight of its SpaceShipTwo space tourism rocket.</p> <p>The company tweeted Friday morning that SpaceShipTwo was flying under rocket power and then tweeted that it had "experienced an in-flight anomaly." The tweet said more information would be forthcoming.</p>

A family of General Electric engines widely used on Boeing Co. commercial jetliners and some Airbus planes should be inspected more than twice as often as federal regulators are requiring, the National Transportation Safety Board said Monday. The warning comes only a week after the Federal Aviation Administration ordered U.S. airlines to inspect the engines more frequently after one exploded on an American Airlines jet that was on the ground in June, sending a 50-pound piece of metal more than a half mile across Los Angeles International Airport. Had that engine explosion occurred in flight, the NTSB said, the plane...

General Electric is investigating the cause of an apparent uncontained engine failure which caused extensive damage to an American Airlines Boeing 767-200 at Los Angeles on Friday. The aircraft (N330AA) was undergoing a ground run-up of the (left) No.1 engine when the problem occurred. The CF6-80A was being tested after the crew bringing the aircraft in from the New York reported abnormal power response from the engine during the flight. Reports say the engine was at more than 90% power when the failure occurred, either in the shaft or the high pressure turbine (HPT) area. Judging by images of the...

"Touching or kissing a kid may be something natural in Latin America. Here in the States, it can be seen as sexual abuse," said Alison Renteln, author of The Cultural Defence.Her book recounts hundred of stories of immigrants who violated US laws by practicing their own customs. "For many immigrants, living in America is a cultural balancing act," the associate professor of political science at the University of Southern California told AFP. "Touching or kissing a kid may be something natural in Latin America. Here in the States it can be seen as sexual abuse" Alison Renteln,author  "They struggle to...

No Flight Controls In a situation reminiscent of the United Airlines DC-10 landing without hydraulics in Iowa in 1989, the crew of a DHL A300 hit by a missile relied solely on engine power without flight controls to land at Baghdad. Pierre Ghyoot, secretary general of the Belgian Cockpit Assn. (BeCA), told Aviation Week & Space Technology that the pilots were able to guide the aircraft to a safe landing on Nov. 22 using only engine power settings. The aircraft lost all three hydraulic systems and all flight controls. Ghyoot said his organization is already planning to give the crew...