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Captain Steeeve breaks down the tragic runway collision at LaGuardia Airport involving an Air Canada Express CRJ-900 and an airport fire vehicle. Late Sunday night, an arriving regional jet collided with a fire truck that had been cleared to cross the runway — with ATC audio capturing last-second calls to stop just moments before impact. The result was catastrophic, claiming the lives of both pilots and injuring dozens more. In this episode, Captain Steeeve walks through what we know so far, including the sequence of events, how runway incursions happen, and the multiple layers of safety that are designed to...

Undocumented immigrants are increasingly forming Limited Liability Companies (LLCs) in Florida to create a legal mechanism for self-employment, allowing them to work and earn income while navigating stricter employment laws. Florida law allows anyone, regardless of citizenship status, to form an LLC, provided they have a registered agent and a physical address. Why Illegal Aliens are Forming LLCs in Florida: Work Authorization Loophole: Federal law prohibits employers from hiring undocumented individuals, but there is no specific law forbidding undocumented immigrants from creating their own company. Establishing an LLC allows individuals to operate as independent contractors. Response to E-Verify Laws: Following...

Comptroller Mark Levine said Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s plan to draw down $1.2 billion in reserves to balance the budget could make things even worse for taxpayers when it’s time to cook up next year’s spending plan. “You do not want to be draining the reserves when the economy is otherwise good,” Levine said Sunday on CBS 2 New York’s “The Point with Marcia Kramer.” Raiding $1.2 billion next year and $2.6 billion over the next two years as the Mamdani administration plans would leave the city flatfooted if the economy goes south. “It’s going to leave us more vulnerable next...

LaGuardia Airport has now experienced two deadly tragedies exactly 34 years apart. A passenger plane was involved in a deadly smash-up at the Queens airport Sunday — the same date in 1992 that a jet crashed, killing 27 souls, as it attempted to take off from travel hub in a snowstorm. On March 22, 1992, Cleveland-bound USAir Flt. 405 tumbled off the runway and spiraled into Flushing Bay, killing more than two dozen of the 51 people on board, including the pilot, the New York Times reported at the time. “Every night, I close my eyes, and I keep seeing...

Today we learned of the death of Kermit Gosnell, the Philadelphia abortion provider whose actions led to the deaths of babies born alive and of women entrusted to his care. As the CEO of The Abortion Survivors Network, and as a woman who survived an abortion procedure myself, I cannot ignore the profound human cost behind his name. For many, Gosnell’s clinic has long symbolized a house of horrors, but for us, it is more than a symbol. It represents real children whose lives were ended after first surviving the trauma of an abortion procedure, women who were impacted, and...

Judging by Donald Trump’s outbursts of late, he can’t seem to decide whether reopening the Strait of Hormuz is easy or hard. He also can’t seem to decide whether he needs international allies to help with this urgent task or not. Iran’s blockade on oil shipments exiting the strait—done in response to Trump’s attack—is causing worsening global consequences daily. So it would be useful for Trump to settle these arguments in his own mind already. But Trump’s incoherence on the Strait of Hormuz actually reveals something else, as well: a massive political weakness. .....

A Sacramento convenience store manager is fighting for thieves and disrupters to be held accountable after dozens of kids rushed Power Inn Chevron’s shop, along Folsom Boulevard, Thursday night.

We're working to learn more about a massive fire that destroyed a historic courthouse in Floyd County, Georgia Monday afternoon. Video captured at the scene shows flames ripping through the structure, which was built in 1892. The courthouse was undergoing renovations at the time of the fire

A Gen X woman has pushed back against the idea that women become "ugly" in mid-life, telling viewers online that embracing aging has been the most-liberating part of her life and rejecting the pressure to perform femininity as she gets older. Jennine Jacob, 51, from San Francisco, California, shared her perspective to Instagram after seeing a viral discussion about women’s looks in their 40s. In comments to Newsweek, Jacob said she wanted to offer an alternative view—one rooted in acceptance rather than anxiety. "I had seen a woman speak about how no one prepared her how ‘ugly’ she would be...

Too old to be hired, too young to retire: 11 ways to survive the midlife reinvention years (Article can only be linked to, per FR rules.)

One of Charlie Kirk’s key early mentors has died in a freak pickleball accident. Texas businessman Jeff Webb, described by Kirk’s Turning Point USA as a “visionary who helped shape generations of young leaders,” died Friday at the age of 76 — two weeks after suffering a serious head injury when he fell playing the popular sport, Cheer Daily reported. The conservative author — who was also widely dubbed the father of modern cheerleading — succumbed after two weeks on life support. TPUSA posted a nearly 10-minute tribute to him Friday, calling him “a dear friend to Turning Point USA...

HMS Dragon has arrived in the eastern Mediterranean, three weeks after an Iranian-made drone hit the British base of RAF Akrotiri, the defence secretary has said. The Type 45 destroyer will begin “operational integration into Cyprus’s defence” from Monday night, John Healey told MPs. The British government has faced criticism for the slowness to deploy a warship to the region, after moves by Greece and France to send extra naval support to Cyprus after the attack. The Cypriot government has also expressed concern that the drone was able to hit the base, suggesting that the presence of the British base...

A progressive Chicago alderwoman is being widely panned on social media over her response to a local college student being allegedly shot and killed by an alleged illegal immigrant over the weekend. Shortly after Sheridan Gorman, 18, of Westchester County, New York, was gunned down while taking a walk with friends around 1:30 a.m. Thursday along Chicago's lakefront, Alderwoman Maria Hadden posted a video suggesting Gorman was in the "wrong place at the wrong time" and that she may have "startled" the individual who shot and killed her. The comments quickly sparked outrage on social media from commenters making the...

On Sunday, I wrote about how Code Pink and a bunch of other worthless commies went to Cuba after they put together the "Nuestra América Convoy," which describes itself as a humanitarian group but is really just some sort of anti-Trump, pro-Cuban regime operation. Cuba's "president," Miguel Díaz-Canel, rolled out the red carpet at a convention center, and then the group stayed in a five-star well-lit hotel. I say "well-lit' because no one else on the island has power, yet oddly this hotel and convention center do. The convoy also threw themselves a little concert — again, with plenty of...

President Trump said he is “not a fan” of former National Counterterrorism Center Director Joe Kent following Kent’s resignation and reports that the FBI is investigating him over allegations of leaking classified information. Trump sharply criticized Kent in response to a question from The Daily Wire’s White House correspondent Mary Margaret Olohan, who is flying with him as part of the press pool, and portrayed him as ungrateful after being brought into the administration. “Look, I’m not a fan of the guy,” Trump said, adding that he felt bad for Kent after his wife’s death and losing two Congressional races....

A deal with France to pay for migrant beach patrols has been delayed because Shabana Mahmood wants stricter, payment-by-results terms, The Times has been told. The Home Office said it was trying to add “flexibility and innovation” to the agreement to base funding on the number of interceptions made by the French. British officials will go to Paris this week for another round of talks on the proposed three-year deal before the existing arrangement expires next Tuesday. There are concerns about a potential surge in Channel crossings if there is a gap between the deals. At present, Britain pays nearly...

Iran has launched missiles at Israel after it ominously warned Donald Trump that it has 'special plans' for him and the US's allies in the Gulf, following the American president's threat to attack the nation's power plants. A source told the state-run Fars News Agency: 'Tonight, special events are planned for Tel Aviv and some regional allies of the US and Israel that will completely remove the hope of negotiations from the minds of the aggressors.' Iran appears to have made good on the threat, firing missiles at Eilat area in southern Israel, as well as the cities of Dimona...

U.S. — The Transportation Security Administration announced this morning that it would be ending the practice of performing colonoscopies on travelers at airports around the country in an effort to speed up security lines amidst the ongoing partial government shutdown. A TSA press release said that eliminating the standard colonoscopy portion of the search was a risk the agency was willing to take to accommodate travelers. "Our checkpoints will now be slightly less invasive," TSA spokesman Robert Clarence told reporters after the announcement. "Having to prep a traveler for such a procedure takes time, and sometimes we even had to...

When an Irish Republican Army bomber came within a few feet of assassinating Margaret Thatcher in a hotel room in Brighton, England, in 1984, the terrorist group acknowledged the attempt with an official statement.“Today we were unlucky,” it said in a declaration addressed directly to the British prime minister. “But, remember, we only have to be lucky once. You have to be lucky every time.”Blood-chilling and callous as its language was (the bomb killed five members of the governing Conservative Party), the boast was a brutally accurate meditation on the nature of asymmetric warfare. In conflicts between two sides that...

It's not the story that Politico really wanted but unfortunately for them, it is the story they ended up with due to cold hard reality. The story in question by Erica Orden appeared on Sunday, "The Epstein files’ cottage industry."What is interesting is that none of the clients that the lawyers are representing is named Donald Trump despite the desperate Politico attempt in the summer of 2025 to link the President to Jeffrey Epstein culminating in SIX Epstein-Trump stories in a 24 hour period in July of that year.As you read the story about the new "cottage industry" for lawyers,...