Chesley Sullenberger, 75, safely landed a US Airways flight carrying 155 people in New York’s Hudson river in 2009 Chesley “Sully” Sullenberger – the pilot known for the “Miracle on the Hudson” after safely landing a US Airways flight in New York City’s Hudson river during a 2009 emergency – announced on Tuesday that he … Read more
The reported infections are the latest in a series of health concerns at the federal immigration jail in Aurora At least 12 people detained at a federal immigration jail in Colorado have contracted tuberculosis in recent days, according to testimony from inside the facility where dozens of others have reportedly been placed in quarantine. Those … Read more
E. Jean Carroll has collected her $5 million judgment against President Donald Trump, more than three years after a jury found him liable for sexually abusing and defaming her, court records show.
US government says it wants to ‘systematically disable’ The Hague-based international criminal court A spokesperson for the EU has pushed back against the Trump administration’s assertion that the international criminal court poses a threat to US sovereignty, a day after the US government said it would work to “systematically disable” a global tribunal that seeks … Read more
Witnesses and officials have offered differing accounts of the shooting as questions remain The man killed by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents in Maine on Monday has been identified as Joan Sebastian Guerrero, according to local news outlets. An immigration agent shot and killed the 26-year-old Colombian man on Monday morning in Biddeford, Maine. … Read more
St Louis Cardinal homers on final six swings 24-year-old outfielder wins $1m and title Schwarber, Contreras finish second and third Jordan Walker silenced Philadelphia’s boo birds by homering on his last six swings, chasing down Phillies slugger Kyle Schwarber in the final round and becoming the first St Louis Cardinal to win the Home Run … Read more
Aid worker flown to Berlin as Trump administration bars Americans from traveling to US on commercial flights A US national who contracted Ebola in the Democratic Republic of the Congo has arrived in Germany for treatment, the health ministry in Berlin said on Monday, weeks after another American infected with Ebola in the DRC was … Read more
Recent strikes have sent oil prices climbing again, with average gas price per gallon up by 70 cents on last year Inflation cooled to an annual rate of 3.5% in June as the brief US-Iran ceasefire, which has since ended, brought energy prices down, according to new data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. The … Read more
Monday’s ICE-involved killing in Maine is at least the seventh instance of a person shot dead during immigration enforcement operations since January 2025 ‘Misuse’ of crowd control weapons on ICE protesters led to blindings and traumatic brain injuries, report finds Sign up for the Breaking News US email Inflation dropped by 0.4 % in June, … Read more
Federal agents showed up at reporters’ homes, targeting journalists for doing exactly what the first amendment protects To non-journalists, receiving a government subpoena is a serious thing but probably not a violation of basic rights. To journalists, it’s quite a different matter – an attack on a foundational right to gather information in the public … Read more
