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National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) Chairwoman Jennifer Homendy, accompanied by investigator in charge Brice Banning, left, speaks about the recent mid-air collision of an American Airlines flight and a Black Hawk helicopter near Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport, at a news conference in Washington, Tuesday, March 11, 2025. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)

NTSB urges ban on some helicopter flights at Washington airport where 67 people died in midair crash

Federal investigators looking for the cause of the January collision between a passenger jet and an Army helicopter near Washington, D.C., that killed 67 people are recommending a ban on some helicopter flights.
 
Salvage crews work on recovering wreckage near the site in the Potomac River of a mid-air collision between an American Airlines jet and a Black Hawk helicopter at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport, Thursday, Feb. 6, 2025, in Arlington, Va. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)

What is known about the deadly January air crash between a passenger jet and US Army helicopter

 
Members of the Columbia University Apartheid Divest group, including Sueda Polat, second from left, and Mahmoud Khalil, center, are surrounded by members of the media outside the Columbia University campus, Tuesday, April 30, 2024, in New York. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer, File)

Mahmoud Khalil didn’t wear a mask. He’s now the face of Trump’s crackdown on campus protests

 
Protesters march on campus against the arrest of Mahmoud Khalil at UC Berkeley on Tuesday, March 11, 2025, in Berkeley, Calif. (Santiago Mejia/San Francisco Chronicle via AP)

White House pressures Columbia University as it seeks to deport pro-Palestinian activists

 
Elon Musk speaks during an event with President Donald Trump in the Oval Office at the White House, Feb. 11, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Most AAPI adults don’t support cutting agencies and want a focus on costs: AP-NORC/AAPI Data poll

 

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Abortion

This combination of file photos shows Brad Schimel, former Republican attorney general Brad Schimel, in Madison, Wis., Jan. 5, 2015, and Susan Crawford in June 2024. (AP Photo/Andy Manis, Susan Crawford for Wisconsin, File)

Wisconsin Supreme Court candidates to square off in their only debate in the hotly contested race

 

  1. States should scale back abortion reporting demands, advocacy group says

  2. Louisiana woman pleads not guilty to a felony in historic abortion case

  3. Activists open abortion center in front of Polish parliament on Women’s Day

LGBTQ+

The Supreme Court is seen on Capitol Hill in Washington, Dec. 17, 2024. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

Supreme Court will take up state bans on conversion therapy for LGBTQ+ children, in a Colorado case

 

  1. Japan’s refusal to recognize same-sex marriage in law is unconstitutional, a court finds

  2. California’s Gavin Newsom opposes trans athletes in women’s sports, splitting with progressives

  3. Judge orders longer-term nationwide block on Trump orders on transgender youth health care

Shootings

This undated handout photo issued on Wednesday March 6, 2025 by the Hertfordshire Police shows Kyle Clifford who has been found guilty at Cambridge Crown Court of raping his ex-partner Louise Hunt in an attack which saw him murder her and her sister with a crossbow and their mother with a butcher's knife. (Hertfordshire Police via AP)

Court orders crossbow killer who murdered 3 women never to be released from prison

 

  1. The body of a Kenyan officer who died in Haiti arrives home for burial

  2. Statements man charged in Atlanta spa killings made post-arrest can be used at trial, judge rules

  3. The case of a California judge charged with murder in his wife’s death has ended in a mistrial

Immigration

Student negotiator Mahmoud Khalil is on the Columbia University campus in New York at a pro-Palestinian protest encampment on April 29, 2024. (AP Photo/Ted Shaffrey, file)

Federal court hearing set in Columbia student’s detainment over pro-Palestinian protests

 

  1. Appeals court won’t lift block on Trump’s executive order attempting to end birthright citizenship

  2. What to know about Mahmoud Khalil, the Columbia protester arrested by ICE and facing deportation

  3. The EU wants to increase deportations and supports ‘return hubs’ in third countries

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FILE - Notre Dame takes on Chaminade during the first half of an NCAA college basketball game, Nov. 20, 2017, in Lahaina, Hawaii. (AP Photo/Marco Garcia, File)

From Maui to the Caribbean, college hoops’ Thanksgiving tournaments a beloved part of the sport

 

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