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(Corrects to add dropped word “least” in headline) BOGOTA, March 23 (Reuters) – At least thirty-four people were killed on Monday when a Colombian Air Force plane carrying 125 people crashed just after takeoff, the governor of Colombia’s Putumayo department said. (Reporting by Luis Jaime Acosta and Brendan O’Boyle; Editing by Daina Beth Solomon) Copyright …
By David Shepardson, Allison Lampert and Dan Catchpole NEW YORK/MONTREAL, March 23 (Reuters) – Investigators probing the deadly collision of an Air Canada Express jet with a fire truck at New York’s LaGuardia airport said on Monday they wanted to interview an air traffic controller who was juggling another emergency in the run-up to the …
STORRS, Conn. (AP) — Azzi Fudd’s final home game after five years with the UConn women’s basketball program was one for the ages. Fudd matched her career high with 34 points and eight 3-pointers to lead UConn to a 98-45 victory over Syracuse in the second round of the women’s NCAA Tournament to send the …
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has pledged to irreversibly cement his country’s status as a nuclear power while maintaining a hard-line stance toward South Korea, which he called the “most hostile” state, state media said Tuesday. In a speech Monday to Pyongyang’s rubber-stamp parliament, Kim accused the United States …
MEMPHIS, March 23 (Reuters) – President Donald Trump has met royalty throughout the world, but in Memphis, Tennessee on Monday, he was wistful about one he never got to know: Elvis Presley, the King of Rock and Roll. “I knew Frank Sinatra, I knew most of them,” Trump said while touring Presley’s estate, Graceland. “Unfortunately, …
A professional cornhole player and quadruple amputee was arrested and charged with murder in Maryland, authorities said. Dayton James Webber, 27, was located in Virginia after a man had been found shot to death in Charles County, Maryland, on Sunday, the Charles County Sheriff’s Office said. Bradrick Michael Wells, 27, of Waldorf, was found dead …
DALLAS (AP) — Stephen Curry will be available for the play-in tournament if his ailing right knee allows as Golden State coach Steve Kerr dismissed the notion that the Warriors would sit their superstar without a guaranteed spot in the playoffs. Kerr said before Golden State’s game at Dallas on Monday night that Curry’s planned …
By Ted Hesson and Richard Cowan WASHINGTON, March 23(Reuters) – The U.S. Senate confirmed President Donald Trump’s nominee for Homeland Security secretary, Markwayne Mullin, to replace outgoing Kristi Noem, heralding a shift in leadership as public support for Trump’s immigration crackdown has fallen. The vote count was 54-45. Mullin, a businessman and former mixed-martial arts …
MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — The European Union and Australia on Tuesday agreed on the final text of a free trade agreement, two years after negotiations broke down over Australian demands for more red meat market access and complaints about Australian products labeled with traditionally European names such as prosecco. European Commission President Ursula von der …
Japan’s benchmark Nikkei 225 added 1.1% in morning trading to 52,093.02, recovering some of the losses it suffered the previous day. Toyota Motor Corp.’s stock price gained 1.1% in morning trading after it announced overnight that it was investing $1 billion in its Kentucky and Indiana auto plants. That’s part of a plan to invest …