Focus Turns to Helicopter’s Altitude After Deadly Midair Collision

The helicopter’s maximum allowed altitude for its flight path was 200 feet, according to the Army aviation chief of staff. Attention has now turned to the flight altitude of the Army Black Hawk helicopter that collided with an American Airlines jet near Ronald Reagan National Airport on Wednesday night. The accident—the deadliest U.S. plane crash

Tulsi Gabbard Walks Back Foreign Surveillance Criticism But Defends Snowden in Testy Confirmation Hearing

Tulsi Gabbard, President Donald Trump’s intelligence director nominee, walked back some of her past defenses of foreign adversaries and criticism of U.S. government surveillance but repeatedly refused to call CIA leaker Edward Snowden a “traitor” in a combative confirmation hearing on Thursday. Gabbard, a former Democratic congresswoman who became a Trump ally in recent years,

RFK Jr., Sanders Engage in Fiery Exchange Over Drug Companies’ Donations

Kennedy appeared before a Senate committee for the second consecutive day regarding his nomination for secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services. In a fiery exchange with Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) on Jan. 30, President Donald Trump’s secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services nominee Robert F. Kennedy Jr. chastised the

Panama and China’s Partnership Highlights Years of Strategic Investment

Experts say China has spent years laying the groundwork for its current influence near the Panama Canal. President Donald Trump’s promise to take back control of the Panama Canal has put a spotlight on the expanding relationship between China and the Central American nation. Security analysts say U.S. officials are right to be concerned about

WATCH: Jim Acosta’s New Show on Substack Is Even Worse Than Expected

Former CNN host promises to ‘bro out’ in premiere episode plagued by charmless banter, technical difficulties Jim Acosta, the widely despised journalist, resigned from CNN this week and followed in the footsteps of another obnoxious journalist, former Washington Post columnist Jennifer Rubin, by launching a new website on Substack to defend democracy or whatever. He

New FCC Chair Turns the Spotlight on Publicly Funded NPR, PBS

Investigation comes a year after NPR editor resigned over outlet’s ‘devastating’ bias Brendan Carr (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images), NPR station (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images), former PBS building (Thomson200/Wikimedia Commons) The Federal Communications Commission is investigating NPR and PBS over whether their member stations are airing sponsorships that violate federal rules against commercial advertising on public broadcasters. NPR