Author: Associated Press

NTSB finds Army chopper in fatal midair crash with plane was above altitude limit

By JOSH FUNK AP Transportation Writer

WASHINGTON (AP) – Investigators probing the January midair collision of a passenger plane and an Army helicopter over Washington that killed 67 people found the chopper was flying higher than it should have been and its altitude readings were inaccurate. The details came out of the first day of National Transportation Safety Board hearings in Washington, where investigators aim to…

Family of Kentucky Airman fatally wounded by Sig Sauer P320 Military Variant urges …

Saltz Mongeluzzi Bendesky (GLOBE NEWSWIRE)

GREENVILLE, Ky. – Family members of beloved Air Force Airman Brayden T. Lovan, 21, who was fatally wounded in an inexplicable, unintended firing of a Sig Sauer P320-variant service pistol, are urging military service units, federal agents, and law enforcement departments to stop using all variations of the Sig Sauer P320. Brayden’s mother, Melinda Tucker, and family members are speaking…

Trump says he wants Netanyahu to ‘make sure they get the food’ in Gaza amid humanitarian crisis

By MICHELLE L. PRICE Associated Press

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump on Monday expressed concern over the worsening humanitarian situation in Gaza and urged Israel to get people food, seemingly recalibrating his stance on Gaza as images of emaciated children have sparked renewed worries about hunger in the war-torn territory. Trump, speaking in Scotland on Monday, said the U.S. and other nations are giving money…

Hulk Hogan, icon in professional wrestling, dies at age 71

By CURT ANDERSON Associated Press

CLEARWATER, Fla. (AP) — Hulk Hogan, the mustachioed, headscarf-wearing icon in the world of professional wrestling, has died at the age of 71, Florida police and WWE said Thursday. In Clearwater, Florida, authorities responded to a call Thursday morning about a cardiac arrest. Hogan was pronounced dead at a hospital, police said in a statement on Facebook. Hogan, whose real…

Ozzy Osbourne, who led Black Sabbath and became the godfather of heavy metal, dies at 76

By MARK KENNEDY AP Entertainment Writer

Ozzy Osbourne, the gloomy, demon-invoking lead singer of the pioneering band Black Sabbath who became the throaty, growling voice — and drug-and-alcohol ravaged id — of heavy metal, died Tuesday, just weeks after his farewell show. He was 76. “It is with more sadness than mere words can convey that we have to report that our beloved Ozzy Osbourne has…

Trump administration releases FBI records on MLK Jr. despite his family’s opposition

By BILL BARROW Associated Press

The Trump administration has released records of the FBI’s surveillance of Martin Luther King Jr., despite opposition from the slain Nobel laureate’s family and the civil rights group that he led until his 1968 assassination. The digital document dump includes more than 240,000 pages of records that had been under a court-imposed seal since 1977, when the FBI first gathered…

Justice Department asks court to unseal Epstein grand jury records

By ALANNA DURKIN RICHER and LARRY NEUMEISTER Associated Press

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department asked a federal court on Friday to unseal grand jury transcripts in Jeffrey Epstein’s case amid a firestorm over the Trump administration’s handling of records related to the wealthy financier. Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche filed motions urging the court to release the Epstein transcripts as well as those in the case against convicted…

Stephen Colbert’s ‘Late Show’ is canceled by CBS and will end in May 2026

By DAVID BAUDER, ALICIA RANCILIO and ANDREW DALTON Associated Press

CBS is canceling “The Late Show With Stephen Colbert” next May, shuttering a decades-old TV institution in a changing media landscape and removing from air one of President Donald Trump’s most prominent and persistent late-night critics. CBS said “Late Show” was canceled for financial reasons, not for content. But the timing — three days after Colbert criticized the settlement between…