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By Blake Ellis, Melanie Hicken, CNN (CNN) — Pilots have raised concerns about miscommunication, air traffic control missteps and other hazards at LaGuardia Airport, according to a CNN review of government records for the past two years. “Please do something,” a pilot wrote last summer in one of at least a dozen reports about LaGuardia

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By Sharif Paget, Aaron Cooper, Soph Warnes, Alex Leeds Matthews, Gillian Roberts, Curt Merrill, Byron Manley, CNN NEW YORK CITY (CNN) — American and Canadian investigators have launched an investigation at New York’s LaGuardia Airport after an Air Canada plane collided with a firetruck just after landing Sunday night. The pilot and copilot were killed,

By Alexandra Banner, CNN ICE agents will deploy to some airports today to assist with crowd management and support TSA operations, President Donald Trump said. This comes as many travelers are facing long, winding security lines across the US during the partial government shutdown. Here’s what else you need to know to get up to

CNN By Karina Tsui, Martin Goillandeau, Lex Harvey, Shimon Prokupecz, Gloria Pazmino, Aaron Cooper, CNN (CNN) — An Air Canada plane collided with a fire truck while landing at New York’s LaGuardia Airport Sunday, killing the flight’s pilot and copilot, injuring dozens and temporarily shutting down the the New York area’s third-busiest airport, officials said.

By Gloria Pazmino, CNN New York (CNN) — The illustration took City Hall by surprise. Rama Duwaji’s artwork depicted the face of a woman drawn in black and white, her eyebrows full and scrunched above a sharp nose, and her almond-shaped eyes sitting above a pair of hands reaching outward. The image was published in

CNN, POOL, WESH, SENATE TV, RYAN RICHTER, KARIM PINE, KYLE AUFFREY, TREY HOFFMAN, ATL.COM By Rebekah Riess, CNN (CNN) — As many travelers face long, winding security lines across the US during the partial government shutdown, many may not realize the complicated path money takes to reach Transportation Security Administration officers’ paychecks. There are about

By Rebekah Riess, CNN (CNN) — As many travelers face long, winding security lines across the US during the partial government shutdown, many may not realize the complicated path money takes to reach Transportation Security Administration officers’ paychecks. There are about 61,000 TSA employees currently caught in the middle as Congress remains locked in a

By Karina Tsui, Martin Goillandeau, Lex Harvey, Shimon Prokupecz, Gloria Pazmino, Aaron Cooper, CNN (CNN) — An Air Canada plane collided with a fire truck while landing at New York’s LaGuardia Airport Sunday, killing the flight’s pilot and copilot, injuring dozens and temporarily shutting down the the New York area’s third-busiest airport, officials said. Around

CNN By Danya Gainor, CNN (CNN) — As a shrinking number of Transportation Security Administration agents work to keep hourslong security lines moving despite not being paid, President Donald Trump stepped into the fray Saturday, announcing he will send Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers to airports by Monday if Congress doesn’t agree to a plan

By Eric Levenson, CNN (CNN) — The 18-year-old from Pennsylvania had just been arrested for allegedly attempting to detonate two bombs at a New York City protest when he arrived to the NYPD precinct on March 7. As laid out in a criminal complaint, Emir Balat waived his Miranda rights, took paper and pen, and

By Danya Gainor, CNN (CNN) — As a shrinking number of Transportation Security Administration agents work to keep hourslong security lines moving despite not being paid, President Donald Trump stepped into the fray Saturday, announcing he will send Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers to airports by Monday if Congress doesn’t agree to a plan to

By Alexandra Skores, CNN Washington, DC (CNN) — At 20 airports in the United States, security screening is handled not by the Transportation Security Administration, but by private companies — and their checkpoints aren’t seeing long lines. Airports like San Francisco International, Kansas City International, Orlando Sanford, and 17 smaller facilities participate in TSA’s Screening

By Eric Levenson, Jeff Winter, CNN (CNN) — Shortly after a man attacked a synagogue in West Bloomfield, Michigan, earlier this month, William Weimer received a call from employees at a Phantom Fireworks store in nearby Livonia. Agents at the store told Weimer, Phantom’s vice president and general counsel for over three decades, they had

By Chelsea Bailey, Stephanie Elam, Norma Galeana, CNN (CNN) — Days before The New York Times published bombshell allegations of sexual abuse that would upend the legacy of famed labor rights leader Cesar Chavez, Delia Garcia answered a phone call from her longtime friend, Dolores Huerta. “She said, ‘Let’s have a conversation, and I need

By Alaa Elassar, CNN (CNN) — Unpaid Transportation Security Administration workers are struggling to stay afloat — and on the job — amid a partial government shutdown that has frustrated travelers inching through security lines that have sometimes stretched for hours, with unpredictable wait times expected to continue this weekend. “I feel bad for everyone

By Harmeet Kaur, CNN (CNN) — One day in early 1971, a young woman in glasses showed up at a regional office of the Federal Bureau of Investigations in Media, Pennsylvania, about 15 miles outside of Philadelphia. She had made an appointment with the head of the office, introducing herself as a Swarthmore College student

By Alexandra Banner, CNN In an awkward moment on Thursday, President Donald Trump made a joke about the attack on Pearl Harbor while sitting beside Japan’s prime minister in the Oval Office. It was the latest in a string of uncomfortable exchanges with world leaders in the West Wing. Here’s what else you need to

By Katherine Koretski, CNN (CNN) — The offices of the New York Taxi Workers Alliance had people of all ages on Wednesday night waiting for the end of the nightly Ramadan fast, from children sitting at tables doing math homework to cab drivers just getting off their shifts. Just before it was time to pray

By Elizabeth Wolfe, CNN (CNN) — Those who last saw James “Jimmy” Gracey at a Barcelona nightclub may recall a young American man whose curls were backlit by the crimson glow of the dance floor, or the strobe lights glinting off the rhinestone cross he wore around his neck. Gracey parted ways with friends while

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By Andy Rose, CNN (CNN) — A blanketed figure stood Wednesday in the Peace Garden of California’s Fresno State University like a shadowy ghost. The large black sheet awkwardly held taut with plastic binder clips hid the statue of Cesar Chavez, who spent decades in the spotlight as an icon of labor power and Latino

CNN By Chris Boyette, Pau Mosquera Barcelona, Spain (CNN) — James “Jimmy” Gracey, an American college student reported missing in Spain earlier this week, has been found dead, a spokesperson for the Barcelona police told CNN. “Everything points to it being an accident, not a criminal act,” the spokesperson said. The 20-year-old junior of Elmhurst,

CNN By Alexandra Banner, CNN Could your airport shut down if TSA screeners don’t show up to work? Experts explain which airports could be at risk of closure as staffing shortages worsen. Here’s what else you need to know to get up to speed and on with your day. 1️⃣ Nancy Guthrie More than six

CNN By Alexandra Banner, CNN Could your airport shut down if TSA screeners don’t show up to work? Experts explain which airports could be at risk of closure as staffing shortages worsen. Here’s what else you need to know to get up to speed and on with your day. 1️⃣ Nancy Guthrie More than six

By Alexandra Banner, CNN Could your airport shut down if TSA screeners don’t show up to work? Experts explain which airports could be at risk of closure as staffing shortages worsen. Here’s what else you need to know to get up to speed and on with your day. 1️⃣ Nancy Guthrie More than six weeks