A civil rights attorney and incoming Howard University law professor is among the dead after a midair collision between a passenger jet with a military helicopter killed 67 people on Wednesday evening. Kiah Duggins, 30, was aboard the American Airlines flight, which carried 60 passengers and four crew members, that crashed with a Black Hawk just minutes before scheduled to land…
Last week, “Emilia Pérez” star Karla Sofía Gascón made history as the first openly transgender actress to receive an Oscar nomination for her role in the Netflix film. Today, she’s apologizing for resurfaced social media posts expressing controversial views on Muslims, George Floyd and diversity at the Academy Awards. “I want to acknowledge the conversation around my past social media posts that have caused hurt,”…
Jan. 31 marks the anniversary of “Ham” the chimpanzee’s controversial space flight, which happened on Jan. 31, 1961. Though not the first animal sent to space, Ham was the first hominid – any species including humans in the great ape category – to make it there. A Mercury-Redstone launch from Cape Canaveral carried the chimpanzee over…
Twenty minutes before 26-year-old Asra Hussain-Raza and the other 63 people aboard American Eagle Flight 5342 were supposed to land at Reagan National Airport on Wednesday night, she texted her husband for what would be the final time. “We’re landing in 20,” Hussain-Raza texted her husband, Hamaad Raza, per multiple reports. Hussain-Raza would become one of the 64 people who…
DAYTONA BEACH — Jonathan Jay Campos of Ormond Beach was one of the American Airlines pilots in the Washington, D.C., crash over the Potomac River Wednesday night. Campos was the captain of American Airlines Flight 5342, which went down in a tragic midair collision with a military helicopter about 400 feet above the river near Reagan Washington National Airport….
TV and radio personality Matt Pinfield was hospitalized earlier this month after suffering a medical crisis. The former MTV VJ, 63, suffered a “massive stroke” on Jan. 6, according to court documents obtained Thursday by USA TODAY. Pinfield’s daughter, Jessica Pinfield, filed a petition Monday in Los Angeles County Superior Court to place her father under a temporary…
Married figure skating champions. A student returning to college after attending a funeral. A lawyer heading home from a work trip on her birthday. Members of a steamfitters union. A 28-year-old airline officer engaged to be married in the fall. Three members of a military helicopter crew. Wednesday night’s crash between American Airlines Flight 5342 and a U.S. Army…
With her eyes fixed straight ahead, first lady Melania Trump leans forward onto an impossibly reflective surface — is it a desk, a mirror, a cool surface of water? — as her perfectly manicured fingertips hold her balance. It’s the kind of power stance you’d expect from a particularly confident contestant on “The Apprentice.” Instead,…
A proposed ballot measure would require law enforcement in Colorado to cooperate with federal immigration detainer requests. The measure, filed by the conservative advocacy group Advance Colorado, is in response to Colorado’s so-called “Sanctuary State” status protecting illegal immigrants. “State and local law enforcement must cooperate with federal requests to notify the Department of Homeland…
Housing and land use experts say a Los Angeles city law could require the Pacific Palisades to include “affordable” housing to replace older buildings, and for new buildings where owners cannot definitively prove that their rental apartments had no low-income renters in the past five years. The new Resident Protections Ordinance taking effect soon requires that “In Higher…