Wednesday’s crash of an American Airlines jet on final approach to Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport was the deadliest U.S. air disaster in decades. Here are some of the people we lost in the crash plus the latest information on what might have caused the crash.
The Washington, D.C. area’s jam-packed airspace has led to warnings for years and air-traffic controllers are among the federal employees that the Trump administration has …
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Apple Musical Classical Now Works with Apple CarPlay, Siri, and on the Web
Apple quietly added the Apple Music Classical app to Apple CarPlay late last year, integrating it with the Siri voice assistant, a change that allows the driver or passenger to ask Siri to play a selection from the app.
Apple Music Classical, or in German, “Klassik,” is the app the company designed specifically for classical music, removing the limitations with which listeners had previously had to contend when using streaming services …
Weekend Update – News That Matters: Deadly Weather Kills at Least 42 in 8 States; High Winds Topple Tractor Trailers; Judge Blocks 1798 Alien Enemies Act; Nita Lowey, Dogged N.Y. Pol, Dies at 87
Part of our “News That Matters” Series, “Weekend Update” is a weekly feature that offers brief overviews of important news that you may have overlooked in the course of a busy weekend. Here’s what you may have missed in the period March 15 through March 17, 2025, and Happy Saint Patrick’s Day, a celebration of Irish culture.
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@PRESS TIME Breaking News
@WEATHER Forecast for Major U.S. and European Cities
@IN BRIEF Tornadoes …
Friday Update – News That Matters: 19 Dead as Tornadoes Strike Deep South, Government Shutdown Averted, Rare ‘Blood Moon,’ Chef André Soltner Dies, ‘Bags (Don’t) Fly for Free’
Part of our “News That Matters” Series, “Friday Update” is a weekly feature that offers brief overviews of important news that you may have overlooked in the course of a busy weekend. Here’s what you may have missed in the period March 13 through March 15, 2025.
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@PRESS TIME Breaking News
@WEATHER Forecast for Major U.S. and European Cities
@IN BRIEF Tornadoes in Deep South, Group of 7 priorities
@TRAVEL Southwest to Drop ‘Bags …
Whither the Electric Vehicle as the Trump White House Begins to Roll Back Emission Standards?
The Trump administration’s announcement Wednesday that it plans to repeal dozens of the nation’s most significant environmental regulations, including limits on tailpipe and smokestack emissions, will likely play an outsized role in the direction that the burgeoning electric-vehicle market takes in the coming four years, but the damage that will be created by this week’s news will likely have repercussions for generations to come.
A little less than one year ago, …
Mid-Week Update – News That Matters: ‘Blood Moon’ Total Lunar Eclipse,’ Government Shutdown, Major Storm Moves Across U.S., Toxins in Girl Scout Cookies, Consumers Cut Back on Spending
Part of our “News That Matters” Series, “Midweek Update” is a weekly feature that offers brief overviews of important news that you may have overlooked in the course of a busy week. Here’s what you may have missed in the period March 10 through March 13, 2025.
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@PRESS TIME Breaking News
@ENVIRONMENT White House Rolls Back Rules Protecting Nation’s Air and Water
@WEATHER Forecast for Major U.S. and European Cities
@PASSINGS Street photographer …
Apple Releases iOS 18.3.2 and macOS 15.3.2 Updates to Fix Important WebKit Vulnerability
Apple released an updated version of its mobile operating system, iOS 18.3.2 as well as macOS 15.3.2, to address a WebKit vulnerability that may have been actively exploited.
WebKit is the web browser engine used by Safari, Mail, App Store, and many other apps on macOS, iOS, and Linux.
According to Apple, maliciously crafted web content could break out of the Web Content sandbox.
The issue was first and largely addressed with iOS …
Five Years Ago Today Was the Beginning of the End: The Pandemic Shuttered Broadway. The Rest of the World Followed
The events of five years ago today are indelibly engraved in my memory like almost no other, except perhaps where I was when the space shuttle exploded, where I was on the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway en route to Brooklyn or when I woke up in a hotel room in San Francisco on September 11, 2001, and the aftermath of the terror attacks of that day were being recapped on television.
And …
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It Was a Bad Week to Be Ed Bastian. His Airline Has Been Melting Down. There’s No End in Sight, and Customers Are Abandoning Ship.
“I should probably have stayed in bed that morning.”
That’s probably what Delta Air Lines CEO Ed Bastian is thinking, reflecting on his appearance on a news segment on the television program “CBS Mornings” before the Fourth of July.
The hostess, Gayle King, began by asking: “Is Delta ready, how do you know you’re prepared?” referencing the summer travel season, adding “this is the part where you say, ‘no Gayle, we not …
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Why You May Die in a Plane Crash
In the moments following the all-too-recent crash of a Delta Airlines Bombardier CRJ-900 regional jet last week in Toronto, all 80 people who had been on board – a figure that included 4 crewmembers – made it out of the upside-down burning aircraft. Only two passengers appear to have suffered severe injuries, while 19 were treated at a hospital and released.
Deborah Flint, CEO of the Toronto Pearson International Airport applauded …
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It Was a Bad Week to Be Ed Bastian. His Airline Has Been Melting Down. There’s No End in Sight, and Customers Are Abandoning Ship.
“I should probably have stayed in bed that morning.”
That’s probably what Delta Air Lines CEO Ed Bastian is thinking, reflecting on his appearance on a news segment on the television program “CBS Mornings” before the Fourth of July.
The hostess, Gayle King, began by asking: “Is Delta ready, how do you know you’re prepared?” referencing the summer travel season, adding “this is the part where you say, ‘no Gayle, we not …
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Why You May Die in a Plane Crash
In the moments following the all-too-recent crash of a Delta Airlines Bombardier CRJ-900 regional jet last week in Toronto, all 80 people who had been on board – a figure that included 4 crewmembers – made it out of the upside-down burning aircraft. Only two passengers appear to have suffered severe injuries, while 19 were treated at a hospital and released.
Deborah Flint, CEO of the Toronto Pearson International Airport applauded …
