The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has formed a panel aimed at improving the safety and reliability of the nation's air traffic system after several close calls on airport runways during takeoffs and landings.
“We are committed to maintaining the safest period in U.S. aviation history,” Acting Administrator Billy Nolen said. “This team will strengthen our ongoing safety efforts and identify specific investments we can make to bolster the National Airspace System.”
The FAA National Airspace System Safety Review will produce concrete recommendations to improve safety. The agency has already taken some actions, including rules aimed at making sure supervisors have their full attention devoted to airfield operations during peak hours.
Former President Donald Trump appears in court for his arraignment in a criminal case over fraudulent business records, April 4, 2023, in New York.
The suit argues that the state's planned takeover of policing and some courts in Mississippi's capital takes democratic power from its residents, of whom 83% are Black.
Foreign governments evacuated diplomats, staff and others trapped in Sudan as rival generals battled for a ninth day. While world powers like the U.S. and Britain airlifted their diplomats from the capital of Khartoum, Sudanese desperately sought to flee the chaos.
The Supreme Court on Friday preserved women’s access to a drug used in the most common method of abortion, rejecting lower-court restrictions while a lawsuit continues.
It's Cherry Blossom season here on the East Coast, and one of the most beautiful places to see the trees in flower is also a cemetery. Cheddar News correspondent Shannon LaNier visited Green-Wood Cemetery in Brooklyn to see them firsthand and learn about the historic graveyard.
It's Cherry Blossom season here on the East Coast, and one of the most beautiful places to see the trees in flower is also a cemetery. Cheddar News correspondent Shannon LaNier visited Green-Wood Cemetery in Brooklyn to see them firsthand and learn about the historic graveyard.
The longstanding racial gap in U.S. stroke death rates widened dramatically during the COVID-19 pandemic, government researchers said Thursday.
The U.S. Coast Guard on Thursday was searching for four missing fishermen in the waters off of Cape Ann in Massachusetts.
Authorities are searching for a man accused of shooting and wounding a 6-year-old North Carolina girl and her parents.
The Pentagon has confirmed that the U.S. government is tracking hundreds of cases of UFO sightings.
