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Images show UPS flight’s engine detaching before Kentucky crash
Still images from airport surveillance video show the left engine of UPS flight 2976 separating from the wing during takeoff, preventing the jet from…
Nov 21 • 
Rob Beschizza
Transportation Secretary feels fashion and friendliness will improve holiday air travel
In a live demonstration of Parkinson’s law of triviality, Trump’s MTV reality-TV actor-turned-Transportation Secretary offers completely irrelevant…
Nov 21 • 
Jason Weisberger
Amtrak reports record ridership and revenue
If America’s trains are often the butt of jokes, Amtrak is laughing today: the national rail company is enjoying record ridership and revenue, according…
Nov 21 • 
Rob Beschizza
Perhaps don’t let the bear into the house
Two 87-year-olds on Nevada’s side of Lake Tahoe had a scary encounter with a black bear.
Nov 21 • 
Jason Weisberger
UK far-right politician jailed for 10 years and 6 months for taking Russian bribes
Nathan Gill, the former leader of the Reform party in Wales, was today sentenced to 10 years and 6 months imprisonment after accepting bribes from…
Nov 21 • 
Rob Beschizza
Put an anti-vaxxer in charge and you get an anti-vax CDC
Put a known science-denying anti-vaxxer in charge of the CDC, and surprise, you get a CDC that talks like an anti-vaxxer.
Nov 21 • 
Jason Weisberger
Border Patrol boss Gregory Bovino called out for lies and thuggery in brutal court ruling
Fascist cosplay enthusiast Gregory Bovino rolled into Chicago with a federal badge, a tear gas stash, and apparently zero concern for reality.
Nov 21 • 
Jason Weisberger
Karoline Leavitt: calling reporters pigs is just Trump’s refreshing honesty
This statement by Karoline “The Mouth of Moron” Leavitt once again demonstrates that she is clearly a horrible human being.
Nov 21 • 
Jason Weisberger
Deaf illustrator created beloved children’s classics
Leonard Leslie Brooke became one of England’s most celebrated children’s book illustrators despite a devastating setback: typhoid fever contracted while…
Nov 21 • 
Ellsworth Toohey
Librarian spent 5 years fighting Proctorio lawsuit for sharing public YouTube videos
A Canadian librarian spent five years fighting a lawsuit and burned through his life savings ten times over for doing something millions do every day…
Nov 21 • 
Ellsworth Toohey
Coast Guard reverses swastika policy after Washington Post expose
The Coast Guard scrambled to reverse a policy change that would have reclassified swastikas and nooses as merely “potentially divisive” rather than hate…
Nov 21 • 
Ellsworth Toohey
Airlines create permanent surveillance files on all travelers
Every time you book a flight, hotel, or rental car, a detailed digital dossier is created about you — and it never gets deleted.
Nov 21 • 
Ellsworth Toohey
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